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posted: 5/15/2008 at 2:29 AM |
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~ Dave ~
www.daddyo.ca
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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posted: 5/15/2008 at 12:53 PM
modified: 5/15/2008 at 10:27 PM |
I decided I will probably go down saturday and take a tour...
Thurs of race week
Sleep: 7.5 hours.
Mood: Good, centered, calm
Excercise: Rest!
started reading eat pray love last night... seams to go well with my mood. folks were right... reading Once a Runner was not the book to help taper... ;) but it was a good read...
Breakfast
Steal Cut Oatmeal (crockpot over night...) w/ raisins, a bit of real maple syrup, and cinnamon
oj
1/3 bannana (shared with little people)
1 hour later... coffee
------- work is fairly stressful this week but I am fairly relaxed and able to focus today ----
lunch
2 sweet and sour meatballs
cup activa plain yogurt with 1/2 bannana and tablespoon of ground flax.
cup of optimum rebound cereal with milk
yerba mate
-- I am doing fine but work is out of control... I need to relax and take a few minutes to be quiet
snack
1 Trisket
raisins & nuts
1 piece dark chocholate...
a couple more raisins...
Dinner
1/2 large chicken breast grilled
large serving of quinoa
large serving of steamed cabbage with tiny bit of butter
sauted artichokes approx 5
1 bite sized snickers.
Aches and pains
left leg feeling way better... I think it is at 90%... that massage really busted up whatever was bugging me... my right hamstring feels good. I may do some light stretching tonight. My arms are tired out... perhaps too many pushups in the past few days... I will be doing no more of those between now and marathon day...
I feel energized. I feel strong. I am ready. Nervous but ready.
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Reach Goals:
- Win my age group at 1/2 marathon
- Go sub 1:31:45
- Super Reach: 2000 mile for the year
50k of Thankfulness
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Mr Inertia view logHeck of a Guy |
posted: 5/15/2008 at 4:15 PM |
Steel cut oats are awesome! Did you make them with cloves, cherries and cinamon?
Hang in there, race day is coming soon! |
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posted: 5/15/2008 at 11:52 PM |
| Quote from jsobo119 on 5/15/2008 at 12:53 PM: I decided I will probably go down saturday and take a tour...
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Quote from jsobo119 on 5/15/2008 at 12:53 PM:
snack
1 Trisket
raisins & nuts
1 piece dark chocholate...
a couple more raisins...
Dude...details please. A couple more raisins? How many exactly? Come on.
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~ Dave ~
www.daddyo.ca
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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posted: 5/16/2008 at 2:00 AM
modified: 5/16/2008 at 2:03 AM |
funny.... nice... 35 raisins... is that better...
it seams as if I had all these racing thoughts alot of ideas swirling around I thought I would have more to write. I am finding I had a harder time dealing with not running as I was weaning... now that I am in total rest mode... I am ok... I want to run but the rest today seams natural. Like it is what I am suppose to do.
I am not that excited for tomorrow... I will go downtown and pick up my race packet. eat a burrito...
tour the expo... I am sure that will get me pumped up...
My body feels good...
I like Daddyo's signature... the part about the race being the victory lap... I have been saying to friends that the race is the icing on the cake... that I enjoyed the training so much that I would train for another even if I didn't run another... which I would because why not enjoy the race if you trained for it... but I like the victory lap imagery... I am going to use that as part of my reflection and meditation tonight... I am going to think back over (Once a runner slipping into my mind)... my miles of trials... and remember the difficulty of my first 20 miler... the way I glided from 15-20 on my last 22 miler... the running with ice forming on my now shaven beard. I will remember fall of 2006 and my first 9 mile run how hard it was. I'll remember how running one lap around the 3 mile loop by the lake was so very hard the first time I did it.
I'll remember how strong I was at the youngstown 1/2. My long runs with Cathy! My first 4 mile run with Allen.
I'll think of the beutiful sunsets. The amazing sunrises. The sun shining through the clouds onto the rushing Rocky River. The purple skies with pink clouds at hinckley lake running with Allen. Running alone on my mid week 12's in Iowa not know how far or where I was going the first day but just enjoying the feeling of moving through space.
I will remember the last blood pressure pill I took. (summer of 07)
Sunday I run my victory lap. Breaking 4 hours is a goal. Hopefully something which adds some excitement to the day for me. One more thing I am not really sure I can do but am willing to strive for. But 4 hours is not what Sunday will be about. It is neither the end or the beginning of a story. It is simply the final period of a really nice paragraph.
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Reach Goals:
- Win my age group at 1/2 marathon
- Go sub 1:31:45
- Super Reach: 2000 mile for the year
50k of Thankfulness
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posted: 5/16/2008 at 11:16 AM
modified: 5/17/2008 at 1:55 PM |
t-2d
sleep 6 hours
mood: level
aches... left leg tight a bit of walking today should loosen it up
morning weight: 146.8 ??? (down roughly 2 lbs since monday??? figure it is mostly water as my ankles and lower legs feel like swelling has gone down... I didn't even realize their was inflamation there... )
Breakfast
Kashi golean & milk & raisins (forgot to count them)
grapenuts trial mix crunch & milk
oj
1/2 banana
--- work is going to be crazy this morning... a mad rush to get stuff done by a 10:00 AM meeting... so here I go... race... race... race.... ---
lunch
One of my favorite places... sweet mango in strongsville OH. Excellent Thai food. I normally get a curry dish but being that I am planning rice for tomorrow I went with spicy country style pad thai.
Dinner
Had planned to go to the expo and catch dinner with a friend but something came up and the friend backed out. I half expected that as he is always a bit unpredictable.
Had large bowl of Quinoa and bit of cabbage with chineese chili sauce. 1 large carrot raw. Raisins... love those raisins. some grapenuts tail mix crunch. piece of dark chocholate. Decaf coffee.
Another piece of dark chocholate later...
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Reach Goals:
- Win my age group at 1/2 marathon
- Go sub 1:31:45
- Super Reach: 2000 mile for the year
50k of Thankfulness
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posted: 5/16/2008 at 1:57 PM |
John, all jokes aside, you are doing awesome. training is done and you are ready. The victory lap will be the easiest part! Even the last part of the race, if it's hard, is somewhat euphorically enjoyable (us massochists!)
Good luck - and Have fun! Do I even need to say I hope you write up a full race report? |
~ Dave ~
www.daddyo.ca
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Mr Inertia view logHeck of a Guy |
posted: 5/16/2008 at 3:25 PM |
Looking forward to your RR. You've trained well and are going to rock this race!
Being vocal about your pre race jitters has been great. We've all been there and it's awesome to watch someone go through it for the first time.
If you're going to the expo tonight, keep in mind the Cavs have a playoff game and parking's going to be tough. I'd highly reccomend public transportation if it's at all possible. |
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posted: 5/16/2008 at 3:42 PM |
| I have a feeling his race report is gonna be novel length... |
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posted: 5/16/2008 at 4:05 PM |
| Quote from mb197314 on 5/16/2008 at 3:42 PM: I have a feeling his race report is gonna be novel length...
I've booked Monday off so I will have time to read it. |
~ Dave ~
www.daddyo.ca
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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posted: 5/16/2008 at 4:07 PM |
| You only get one first, so be sure you enjoy it. Best of luck John! |
Ed
Bib #10 at the Tuesday night Good Times 5K series in Lowell, MA (so sad it's over, mark your calendar for opening night on 4/2/09)
2008 goal: HTFU and BQ at BayState Marathon
Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy. |
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posted: 5/17/2008 at 1:54 AM |
| Quote from BadDawg on 5/16/2008 at 4:07 PM: You only get one first, so be sure you enjoy it. Best of luck John!
Ah.... I remember my first..... she was..... oh wait ! your talking about running aren't you? - sorry- wrong web site
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Goal:weight to healthy range 220>>172 now (work in progress)
5K 27:14 June 28,2008- first race (3rd in age group)
5K NEW PR:25:30 - Aug 16, 2008
10K PR:56:53 Labor Day 2008 (First 10K race)
HM PR: just a fleeting thought right now
26.2 PR: maybe in 2 years? |
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posted: 5/17/2008 at 1:13 PM
modified: 5/17/2008 at 1:13 PM |
| Quote from slaptear2 on 5/17/2008 at 1:54 AM: Ah.... I remember my first..... she was..... oh wait ! your talking about running aren't you? - sorry- wrong web site
You remember your first what? You have a Gollum avatar, so I am lost here.
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~ Dave ~
www.daddyo.ca
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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posted: 5/17/2008 at 2:00 PM |
Thanks all for the encouragement.
Expo
Saw Bill Rodgers and Bart Yasso. I was just lurking by the table and saw what a character Mr. Rodgers is. There was a woman and her kid talking to him. She had just started running recently and clearly had no clue who he was or what he accomplished in his life. The kindness in his eyes and the way he put his arm around the child as he autographed a photo, really demonstrated how truly humble and generous this man is. That was my first impression. I also noticed he deflected all talk away from him and enjoyed hearing about others. I spoke a couple words to him but didn't ask him for an autographed photo.
I really just wanted to hear him speak. Nobody at the expo had a clue what the speaker schedule was I really wanted to hear him speak but the lack of organization is to be expected or at least thats what folks say about the people running the cleveland marathon.
The expo wasn't that impressive. The Grandma's Marathon expo put it to shame! It was pretty bad. Come on Duluth Minesota can put on a better expo? I have to say that this town does a pretty bad job of promoting this marathon and the expo was second class. Really when I was in Duluth everybody I saw asked if I was in town for the Marathon (just happened to be there that weekend)? Most folks don't even know the event is going on in cleveland. The Grandma's Marathon expo felt like you walked into the Detroit auto show except that it was all runner stuff. Clevelands was like you walked into a garage sale.
I got the one thing I wanted to get which was a white visor for the rain and a pair of cheapo throw away gardening type gloves that I can chuck... I guess that is 2 things... but the visor really the goal.
I did try on some AdiZero RC DC. Definite Go FAST shoe... I think I am going to go that route... or less cushioning in the future. That shoe fit really well as well if not better than my pearl izumi. I tried on another more cushoined Adidas with the usual that doesn't fit my foot feeling.
I think the only other shoe folks where Saucony and Brooks?
It was all centered around the major sponsor doing free BP and glucose screening.
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Reach Goals:
- Win my age group at 1/2 marathon
- Go sub 1:31:45
- Super Reach: 2000 mile for the year
50k of Thankfulness
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posted: 5/17/2008 at 7:02 PM
modified: 5/17/2008 at 11:37 PM |
update... : saturday afternoon and my mood is just foul... I am about as irritable as I have been in I don't know how long... trying to stay away from my kids so I don't yell at them... Wife is being awesome... realizes I am not quite present...
breakfast... large bowl of a combo of 3 cereals... optimum power, kashi go lean, grapenuts trail mix crunch...
raisins
coffee (kenyan lol)
oj
lunch
quinoa, crust of 4 peices of bread (from kids sandwiches)
a mango
1/3 of a banana
no raisins???
3 rosmary and olive oil triskets
3 fig newtons
milk
--- Did my 1 mile run... I feel ready to go... rans slow and got the blood flowing... picked up to marathon pace once and glided back to slow... did one more pickup to marathon pace at the end... then slow jog... then walk...
hopefully tomorrow I will remember marathon pace and not go running mile one in 7:45 or something stupid like that...
Cookies (4 chocholate chip) and a doughnut (mini pounder variety)... and a few grapes and a piece of cantelope... at a little reception. (no raisins... going to go eat dinner where I will take care of my raisin craving).
Ok... dinner I just ate a load of brown rice... about 3/4 of what I cooked which was a cup dry... plus 1/2 can of black beans... bit of salsa... franks red hot... 1/2 banana... and a packet of sport beans (wanted to try the orange)...
------ My mood is not good... I am realy cranky.. more angry than anything... better than this morning was I was cranky and just in a bad mood... there is alot of energy ready to rip loose... my concerns at the moment are...
1.) BM... I'm concerned I will have to poop during the race... hopefully not...
2.) getting to sleep...
3.) waking up.
Which shoes to wear... got about 300 on my saucony, and 200 on my pearl izumi... I'm doing the pearl izumi's because they make me feel faster... :) I-Zumi-Zumi
I am confident that I will bust the 1/2 half in about 1:54:00... but no faster than 1:51... my goal would be 1:55:00 first half ... 1:51 second half...
My relaxed not slow pace lately has been around 8:45 so I am sure with race adrenaline 8:30 is going to feel easy the key I think for the first half is to hold back a bit... stay away from that edge (LT)...
My goal is to somehow warm up gently on my way to the start... such that my hr doesn't spike in that first mile like it has been in my last trianing runs... |
Reach Goals:
- Win my age group at 1/2 marathon
- Go sub 1:31:45
- Super Reach: 2000 mile for the year
50k of Thankfulness
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