old woman w/hobby
Damn. That sucks. Get healthy dude.
Yes, this. Sorry, spaniel.
steph
Feeling the growl again
Thanks. I was moving along pretty evenly at 6:45 until they turned us onto a loose dirt trail for a mile...things went badly very quickly from that and did not clear up once we were back on the pavement.
I did get to see WG before the start, so there's that.
BTW, whoever decided to advertise this as "fast and flat" needs their head examined. I am sure there are much hillier ones, but this was the hilliest road marathon I have actually run.
Well, at least I quit before I tore myself up bad so I can jump right into training for Carmel coming up in April.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
Thanks. I was moving along pretty evenly at 6:45 until they turned us onto a loose dirt trail for a mile...things went badly very quickly from that and did not clear up once we were back on the pavement. I did get to see WG before the start, so there's that. BTW, whoever decided to advertise this as "fast and flat" needs their head examined. I am sure there are much hillier ones, but this was the hilliest road marathon I have actually run. Well, at least I quit before I tore myself up bad so I can jump right into training for Carmel coming up in April.
Well, that sucks. At least you won't have any regrets about what could have been. If your body isn't recovered and ready for the distance there isn't much you can do about it.
+1, but I have to ride myself, so now I've been wondering if I'd just done it in trainers if that would have put it off.
Off to noodle on what I am going to do to train/rehab this.
an amazing likeness
MilkTruck, Sept 8, Applecrest Half, 13.1 mi, Hampton NH, 1:43:59
Nope. Posted a 1:44:37. I'm getting steadily slower at every race distance....hmm...age? Poor training regime? Don't know.
Beautiful course. Steady hills the whole way. Delicious apple pie and ice cream at finish. You MA folks ought to put this one on your list..it's only about 10 minutes from the Hampton tolls on I95 in NH.
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
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Not to kick a guy when he's down, but you do have another marathon to worry about before Carmel.
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Fuck. Well, at least I don't have to bother training for that one, since I can't and all.
2:58:37 at Lehigh Valley. Obviously very happy. It was a good day.
Come all you no-hopers, you jokers and roguesWe're on the road to nowhere, let's find out where it goes
Congratulations, GK!
Awesome! First of many sub 3's to come
Superior trail 50 (52 according to the race site) - 10:07:31 and 3rd OA official results. That was tough but good training for my 100 miler in October.
Congratulations Kevin and flatfooter. Solid performances out there today.
... and for the fails ..
Biggest fail - me with a really dumb race to come in 1:04:12 and 4th in my AG. It was hot/humid this morning and I went out at PR pace and paid the price, f'ing stupid. I faded pretty good, by mile 5 I knew I had made a mistake in trying to go close to PR pace in the morning's weather. Gotta learn to take what is given and not run stupidly. 1st in AG was 1:00:25 (I wasn't beating him) but 2,3 & 4 (me) in my AG finished 19,20 & 21 overall. I didn't even know I was that close to those guys. They finished 15 and 32 sec ahead of me. I sure wish we had some way of knowing who our competition is, if I'da known could I have gone a little faster to catch and stay with em? Who knows?
Spaniel, hell man nothing to say except you gotta get that hip ready to go. Sorry it acted up on you again.
Milktruck - I've posted some clunkers lately and at mile 8 of today's race I was sure questioning what the hell I've been doing all summer! "Maybe I'm just getting too old", etc. After thinking some more, today was just one of those bad-pacing decision days. I wasn't going to approach my PR no matter what I did today, the best I could have done was pace a little smarter and I probably could have gotten 2nd in my AG. I ain't giving up yet! Gotta keep plugging. Oh, and apple pie and ice cream would have hit the spot for me today. Sounds like a good race there.
Hold the Mayo
Run For The Woods 10K - 1:10:48 - Way more technical than I've ever done before. About a mile on gravel covered dirt roads, then the rest was single track through the woods, up and down steep climbs, and even including a scramble up a rock ledge at one point. Really a fun race, though.
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A good day indeed. Nice run!
Holy cow, that's impressive. Nice work Kevin!