New Orleans Marathon - 2/24/2013 4:16:32
Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon - 4/27/2013 4:09:56 PR!
Honolulu Marathon - 12/8/2013
Recalculating...
Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done.
Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.
Dog-Love
Had a very fast 7-miler (for me) only 2 short walk breaks Ifelt exhausted afterwards (fell asleep at my desk) but slept like a baby. Today's short and easy hopefully will feel just that.
Dutchie?.
Hi guys, little late to the party And thanks for asking about my race.
Well, I packed my bag on Sat. Double checked Sunday morning. Took the dogs out for their early morning walk and it snowed, not much but it did snow! And it was cold. Really cold. I came home, looked at my bag and I was like, no no no, I don't want to do this. No no no. And I didn't go ..... sorry guys. I was very disappointed with myself but I just really didn't feel like driving for 90 minutes, go through the hassle of getting on a bus to get to the starting line and run in the cold and snow. I actually didn't run at all that day, sigh.
But I did do an easy 8.8K yesterday morning, in the drizzling rain and milder temps, 3C no less. Today was a 7.5K hill workout on the TM. They say tomorrow it will be 7C. Of course not early morning when I'm running.
BTW, I cooked dinner last night and it was disgusting. At least I thought so. My boys liked it. I'm afraid my cooking has ruined their taste buds
MTA: how do I do the strike through thingy to strike out the race I didn't run?
DutchieRun the day, or the day runs you.
No need to apologize for not racing. I don't blame you for not going through the hassle if you didn't feel like you were going to be at your best. Now, not running at all that day, well...that's a little less acceptable
The way I got the strikethrough to work in my signature was to, in Options/My Forum Preferences, check the Signature contains HTML checkbox, then put <strike> before and </strike> after the text I wanted stricken. Unfortunately, you'll need to put in <br/> wherever you'd like a line break or everything gets merged into one line. The strikethrough made my text black, rather than gray, which I'd love to fix.
This morning was a 5.5 kilometer interval on the TM:
10 min warm up @ 9.0K
Very tight calfs in the beginning. Needed to stretch them after about 5 min. But they loosened up and it was a really fun run.
Added on a 30min LB w/o.
DrPhibes: going slow can be very difficult to do
Just a dude.
I had to go to another town to watch my kids do a concert... I thought I'd do a run afterwards, and found a 6 miler that was almost perfectly flat. It think it had like 80 feet of elevation change total. Simple course. Go out a road, turn right, go down a road to a cemetery, hit a dirt road that loops back around, and come back to the start.
Well, I hit the wrong dirt road, and ended up on an access road for an irrigation canal.
It was muddy...
It was very muddy... with the kind of mud that sticks to yer shoes and just keeps getting thicker and thicker...
I was too stubborn/stupid to turn around... Instead, I took this access road probably over a mile. In many places, it was hardly wider than a single track trail.
So, even tho the course was flat, I found a way to make it feel like hills...
Oh well...
Toying with the idea of doing a 5k time trial Friday. Just to get an idea of where I am at.
-Kelly
Getting back in shape... Just need it to be a skinnier shape...
All right, I'm going to go on record (since you are the closest I have to an accountability group) and say I'm going to run a 4:22 on Sunday. Any pace equal to or under 9:59.999999 will be acceptable. Can I do it? Who knows. I've been flip-flopping about every thirty seconds. My last 20 miler three weeks ago was at 10:30 on flat ground and I was struggling for the last 7 when I pushed it up to 10:00. But that was at the end of a 50 mile week. A half-marathon at 9:20 (if you take off the sprint to the finish) on a hilly course makes 10:00 look reasonable. But it took a lot more out of me then I expected. The big question: I've never had to push myself to maintain a pace in the latter stages since I've always run so conservatively so how will I respond mentally?
KellyDodge: way to persevere even in the face of common sense. You are a true 1243.
Well you know we'll be rooting for you, Brian! Good luck!!
Imminent Catastrophe
MTA: I had a nice easy run going on a golf course, until it was interrupted by stupid golfers. What were they doing there? They should get a life.
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
"To obtain the air that angels breathe you must come to Tahoe"--Mark Twain
"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
√ Javelina Jundred Jalloween 2015
Cruel Jewel 50 mile May 2016
Western States 100 June 2016
Well I could crack an inapproprate Tiger Woods joke but I'll just play on here.....I had my first run over 7 miles today and I have to admit it was fairly fast except for a couple of walking breaks (I begged to stop butmy young running buds just laughed).
Anyway I am feeling stronger and get to have a massage on Sunday