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Marjorie
Monday rest day
happy Memorial Day
5 miles early. This time, rather than 4:1, I walked the first two minutes of each mile, then finished the mile running. So far, so good.
20,000 miles behind me, the world still to see.
Have a good Memorial Day, everyone! My day off was last Monday (Queen Victoria's birthday for the rest of Canada. Fete des Patriotes in Quebec), so today I have to work.
Rest day today. I may start on a new core work program this evening. I feel I badly need it. Unfortunately, though I always have good intentions, my laziness usually wins when it comes to core work. :-(
PRs: Boston Marathon, 3:27, April 15th 2013
Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013
18 marathons, 18 BQs since 2010
Morning. Happy Memorial Day.
I have Pilates in a few and 6 miles tonight.
Damaris
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Morning everyone! 7.1 easy for me - no time constraints, no plan to follow for training, just running what I feel like
Good morning, I hope people are enjoying the long weekend.
The plan is for a short 1:1 run:walk this afternoon and hope the foot cooperates. This morning I need to pick the broccoli rabe which is shooting up in the warmer weather. We had a bunch on a pizza last night and it was delicious, but I don't want it getting any more bitter. It freezes well, so I'm going be socking most of it away.
Life is good.
delicate flower
'Morning. I just got back from my run. 8.4 miles at 8:37 pace. Tired and sore legs and no energy. Still beats workin'. Easy bike ride with the wife later.
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'Sup crew!
I ran a 5k this morning, my first since December. It was not a PR attempt, an all out effort or even a race in the general sense of the word. I basically just wanted to put in something at a sustained hardish effort, which I did on a course with rolling hills.
I finished with a time of 20:41 and mile splits of 6:34, 6:43 and 6:49.
I ran it blind (without looking at my Garmin and no sound alerts from it) just focusing on keeping my cadence consistent up the hills and down them.
I obviously could have run a similar time or better on my own, but felt it important to get out in the race atmosphere and despite the $27 bucks it cost me I am glad I did.
I also got to see D Pizzle fo Shizzle, who is continuing his assault on his new age group. He can tell you about that.
Nice going LRB!
+1!
And I thought you had decided not to race...
+1! And I thought you had decided not to race...
I said I would not be racing the mile, which I am in no condition to do.
By the way, I have not been in your chaffing thread, am I missing anything?
When something says warning, discretion is advised, graphic or disgusting, I take heed to that shit. lol
Kindly tell him to get his fat ass in here and report on said race.
Fat ass arrived. Unexpected FE with LRB - did not think he was showing up to this one. Good times.
This same race last year was my first 10k - ran 45:46
My next 10k was ~3 weeks ago, on 5/2 - ran 45:17
I was pretty sure I could beat that today, since I was still sort of in comeback mode then, and training has been going pretty well lately. Shooting for 44:30, and thought maybe if things were going amazingly, I'd have a chance to push 44:00.
Result: 43:53. 2nd AG.
Splits: 6:58, 7:06, 7:08, 7:04, 7:18, 7:06, final 0.2 at 6:08
(on 5/2: 7:13, 7:25, 7:18, 7:24, 7:15, 6:58, final 0.2 at 6:12)
I thought I was a bit too reluctant to push hard early in the last race, and ended up still having a lot left at the end. Today I wanted to go out strong, knowing I needed a 7:06 avg for 44:00, & see if I could hold it. If I blew up so be it. Clearly fell off a bit in mile 5, and thought I might have a heart attack, but managed to pull it together for the last 1.2. Very happy with the outcome.
I think I am done with 10k's for now; plan to target 5k's next.
Happy Memorial Day everyone.
Dave