Sun 8th Aug

Salisbury 50k Trail Race

Salisbury, England

 

Goal:  Long training run, train through and run  <4:20  (fairly hilly course I think)

 

First running of this event, so I have no CR or previous results to gauge how tough it is.

Sunday, August 8th.

Race for the Cure 5k, Kansas City

 

I'd like to PR (20:36), but apparently the registration goal was 28,000 participants. I'm hoping most of those were walkers.  Yikes.

Track 5K, unless I chicken out. Goal = PR (18:10 or better).

(Also will do 4x200 as a 2 person relay as striders, not racing)

 

Mandy: Congrats on a BIG PR.

 

(re: 28,000 participants -- I hope you manage to get close enough to see the starting line before the gun fires)

 

After this I am done with track racing, and want to try to run like Quint for a bit.

Tulsa Quarter Marathon and 5k. 38 min and 17:07? I could be way off, but I the fitness has improved and weight is down many pounds since last I ran.

And I will stick with an 8 min goal for the stupid-mile.

 oh, my. I was thinking 8 min would be good.

 

Go big or puke trying.

 

I may be very aggressive.  I have yet to run on the track and verify the speed of the questionable section in turn 4.  Apparently it is bad to leave a 3-yr-old and 7-mo-old alone while you go running outside.

Name	Distance	Race	Location	Goal	Result
Run to Win	10k	Beach to Beacon 10k	Cape Elizabeth, ME	Sub-36:00
Run to Win	9 Miles	Bradbury Mountain Breaker 9 Mile Trail Race	Pownal, ME	Sub-75:00

 

 Two races this weekend, Saturday & Sunday.

The Beach to Beacon is first. I missed the race last year for the first time since moving up here because I broke my foot the week before the race.  This year I got invited back with a local elite number, though, so I'll be running it.  I think that I'm in 36 minute shape right now, but I'd like to go sub-36 (5:48/mile pace).  I did actually get out to the course once this Summer...for a few years I used to do hill repeats on the climb from mile 5 to about 5.7, and that became one of the strong parts of my race.  Then I moved out of Portland and only got there during the race, but thankfully the hill remembered me.  Since I didn't run last year, I'm hoping that one moderately hard effort up it will be enough for it to treat me well on Saturday.

The second race is the Bradbury Mountain Breaker, a 2 loop 9 mile trail race that I haven't run yet.  The first year I had another race I was aiming for so I volunteered instead, and last year I had that pesky broken foot.  My wife has run it both years though.  Each loop basically brings you around to the back side of Bradbury Mountain, where you climb about 3/4 of the way up before going straight to the bottom and then straight to the summit.  From the summit, you go about 2/3 of the way down, back up to about 3/4 of the way up, and then straight to the bottom.  Repeat.  So, you summit twice, and run almost all the way up another 4 times. Not that Bradbury Mountain is all that big (~400 feet I think) but it's pretty steep and the single track is very gnarly with lots of rocks and roots.  It'll be a lot drier this year than in year's past though.  Hopefully the gigantic wasp nest in the middle of the trail has been taken care of by now, I didn't make it out to the park last weekend to run the course.  No idea what I'm capable of running on this course, my training runs have been around 43-45 minutes per loop so I think that a 75 minute race is possible.  We'll see how wiped I am from the road 10k the day before.

Circle the City 10k - Aug 7 - Indianapolis - Sub 36 seems feasible for early Aug...would prefer sub 35 (A goal)

 

Spaniel Farms Beer Mile - Aug 8 - Lizton, IN - just hoping I can make it in time for this.  If I do, sub 10.

The last time I even drank 4 beers in a full day was a month ago, I fear I'm quite under-trained for this.