WCR thanks, still afraid to sign up for anything...but hey one race that got cancelled made me take the refund on cash app so i bought bitcoin (satoshis) with it and made some profit!

the GVrat is finished but they didnt update the data today which is weird because they had been updating the totals every day for four months. is this like a drumroll or something? i think everyone will lose interest if they wait another day. oh well. anyway here's my comment on the last day

https://fnkyhd.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/gvrat-rat-bat-is-this-it/

about 400M in August

results are in but i cant seem to put images in here anymore my browser doesnt support clipboard access

#164 BAT finish 86 days 3x status 90.20% 6th in my state of WA. total miles 1717.6

i never thought i'd get that far and learned a lot and know for sure now it is speed that causes injury for me, not long miles. i kinda knew that anyway

not sure if ill do anything like this again. maybe if i didnt have a stupid pandemic to deal with...oh wait it wouldnt have happened without the stupid pandemic. in a way it was a dream race though because i did not have to travel and got to sleep in my own bed! ...plus i didnt have to deal with bad food and a lot of overly enthusiastic poorly mannered young people playing cowbells and whooping and hooting for no apparent reason 

Time to start running again this month. My shed project is almost done, and cooler weather is here, so I'll start hitting the trails and elevation gain more for my upcoming race. I just need to find the headlamps and charge them up, where did I put those things?

must be a nice shed! did you do a slab? plumbing?

Goal = 400 trail miles for the month.

Impressive goal. I'm not sure I've even run 100 ROAD miles for a month. I might could do this if the trails were flat and smooth like a road.

Finished August with about 193 miles, just under 15,000' vert.  I should probably start running more this month too.  Like nOOky, I've got a 50k in October.  Unlike nOOky, I don't have a shed to justify my slacking.

 

10 miles with tempo intervals today.

I'm building a small 10 x 12 x 8 foot garden shed. I did not pour a slab, it's too hard to find someone to pour a 12 x 14 slab right now, so I excavated dirt and built a gravel base. That took two days because I work with shovels and a wagon behind the riding mower etc.

The shed is taking longer than I anticipated, I built a garage about 35 years ago, but it's taking longer than I thought. I built a 2 x 6 floor, the walls, roofed it, and am in the process of priming the outside. That grooved pine plywood is a beotch to prime, it sucks up paint like crazy, and those 3/8" wide cracks suck to paint.

It has 3 windows and a small door and a double door, all built by me and not store bought. In the end I will have a very sturdy shed for about $800 less than I could have bought one, but my time is likely going to be more than that anyway lol. I still have to dig and bury power wire 24" deep from the garage, and I'm making a work bench and built in storage in it. 10 x 12 x 8 seems roomy until you put the lawn mowers and gardening tools in it. We just built a 3 car garage and I don't actually need the room, but I have always wanted one. Now the wife is eyeing it up for something else anyway, so who knows.

 

nOOky isn't slaking. nOOky is cross training...

 

:-)

Very true!

only about 40M this week. resting a recurring where inner leg attaches to hip issue that happens when i go too fast too often. yesterday thought trying for 3650 this year is a bad idea so as of now i have no goals except to get relative rest for a while and maybe work other parts long neglected...and look for a job! kinda need some income