'Morning!! Back in the salt mines after a nice three day weekend, and looking at a very busy workday. I got some extra sleep this morning thanks to TAPER, but do have a short tempo run to do tonight. I am furiously stalking my race day weather, and while not ideal, I've marathoned in worse. ETA: Monday Night Football went exactly as I expected.
'Morning!! Back in the salt mines after a nice three day weekend, and looking at a very busy workday. I got some extra sleep this morning thanks to TAPER, but do have a short tempo run to do tonight. I am furiously stalking my race day weather, and while not ideal, I've marathoned in worse.
ETA: Monday Night Football went exactly as I expected.
It was a great game from the Raven's standpoint. I watched it deep into the 4th quarter, something I never do. Top to bottom, that team is on a different level. I love watching them.
Runs4Sanity
Got up at 2, went to the gym. Then got in a 5.3 mile run.
*Do It For Yourself, Do It Because They Said It Was Impossible, Do It Because They Said You Were Incapable*
PRs
5k - 24:15 (7:49 min/mile pace)
10k - 51:47 (8:16 min/mile pace)
15k -1:18:09 (8:24 min/mile pace)
13.1 - 1:53:12 (8:39 min/mile pace)
26:2 - 4:14:55 (9:44 min/mile)
Super B****
I definitely agree. I have so many nice watches that now just sit collecting dust because I can't fathom taking my Garmin off. If I need to, I dress the Garmin up with nicer leather bands, so even looking too casual isn't really an excuse for taking it off.
Before I started wearing this all the time, I always had small watches with tiny faces (because I have a tiny wrist). It would look ridiculous on me, but the Garmin I have is available with a titanium band, and it would make a very nice dress watch. If you have a bigger wrist, anyway!
chasing the impossible
because i never shut up ... i blog
Oh and to those who encouraged me to go for a PR this Saturday....
The rain has begun..... today and will be continued all the way to Monday. If this HM was a road race, then yeah I'd aim for a PR but being that it is a trail race..... looks like I'll just be having fun and getting muddy...
Former Bad Ass
Oh and to those who encouraged me to go for a PR this Saturday.... The rain has begun..... today and will be continued all the way to Monday. If this HM was a road race, then yeah I'd aim for a PR but being that it is a trail race..... looks like I'll just be having fun and getting muddy...
My Saturday races are trail and there is a 90% chance of rain. Dirt, grass, etc., not a PR attempt either. Thinking it will be muddy.
Damaris
Muddy trail runs can be a blast as long as one isn't/wasn't banking on a PR that day lol, which I wasn't really. There's no possible way I could beat my current HM of 1:53:12, especially not on trails and I can't honestly remember what my trail half PR is lol
I have a watch fetish like a mother effer. I still have my first dress watch from over 30 years ago. Of course since then I've accrued a really unique collection of fine timepieces. What the smartwatch has done is simply extend the life and look of those watches. Win, win.
This is unacceptable. Please rectify it before toeing the line this weekend!
Go figure
Any kind of trail PR is pretty variable too. Since no two trail races are the same, the closest thing I bother paying attention to with trails is course PRs. I guess it's fun to know the fastest I've gone at the different ultra distances, but I definitely don't compare those times to folks that have their PRs on different courses.
Oh, and have fun on the mud Those kind of conditions always seem to make all the little muscles ache like crazy afterward, but it sure is fun while you're out there!
Trying to find some more hay to restock the barn
Question: Do you guys know there's an alarm on your Garmin, and do you use it? I just found it the other day! I've started to use it instead of my phone to wake up in the morning, and I think it's kinda great. I haven't trusted it enough to not set a backup alarm yet, but I'm pretty sure I could tomorrow.
There is an alarm on my Garmin, and I have used it in the past. Here's my experience with it:
Since the Forerunner *30 series and the Fenix 3, the volume level of the alarms on Garmin watches is much weaker than before, therefore:
- If you wear the Garmin during your sleep and your arm is under thick layers of sheets, you probably won't hear the alarm
- If your arm is over the sheets, or if your watch sits on a desk besides you, you'll probably hear it, and it will wake you up if you're a light sleeper like me. If you're the kind of person that has a tendency to sleep through old fashioned alarm clocks, forget the Garmin
I have the Titanium band on my F3HR, and it looks nice as a dress watch, if you like BIG watches (I do). That is the reason I bought a Fenix: I thought the Forerunners looked like plastic toy watches, and I wanted a nice Garmin watch I could wear all the time.
Lol... even if I do... I still ain't going to try and PR it damn it
Any kind of trail PR is pretty variable too. Since no two trail races are the same, the closest thing I bother paying attention to with trails is course PRs. I guess it's fun to know the fastest I've gone at the different ultra distances, but I definitely don't compare those times to folks that have their PRs on different courses. Oh, and have fun on the mud Those kind of conditions always seem to make all the little muscles ache like crazy afterward, but it sure is fun while you're out there!
Well, my fastest trail PR would be on these particular trails so I just gotta look at the finish times of my best one in order to appease LBR, fun fun Lol
Yeah, that's pretty similar to how the Descent looks... except it's darker. I love it, I just can't wear it. I guess it saved me a few hundred bucks.
I have a history of almost missing races because of issues with alarm clocks, so when I really need to wake up, I'll set everything I can find to wake me up - watch, phone, and travel alarm, plus calls from the front desk at hotels. Between the four, I am safe, as long as I actually figure out the right time to set everything.
FS - I am so slow on trails, I wouldn't ever attempt a PR, unless it was a course PR. Given that you are only as fast as the people ahead of you if you're running single track, it is hard to get a good speed unless you're in front, which I would never be. Trail races are just for fun and the experience of it, for most non-elites.
I have a history of almost missing races because of issues with alarm clocks, so when I really need to wake up, I'll set everything I can find to wake me up - watch, phone, and travel alarm, plus calls from the front desk at hotels. Between the four, I am safe, as long as I actually figure out the right time to set everything. FS - I am so slow on trails, I wouldn't ever attempt a PR, unless it was a course PR. Given that you are only as fast as the people ahead of you if you're running single track, it is hard to get a good speed unless you're in front, which I would never be. Trail races are just for fun and the experience of it, for most non-elites.
Unfortunately I'm so damn competitive... But luckily this race starts in a field for about .1 miles before getting onto some double track for about.... .3 miles before reaching a levee which is extremely wide cutting through the woods before reaching the single track so I normally try to pass as many people as I can before the single track.