My next race is actually on my birthday. Not a goal race, though, but still. First one on my new age group.
Damaris
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They do say everyone has a doppelgänger!
Mine is probably the CEO of a fortune 500 company somewhere. Meanwhile, my sorry ass just switched to Geico in an attempt to save 5 stinking bucks a month FFS.
I ran 6. Didn't feel terrible, considering.
I did a goal HM for my 50th. And I drove 10 hrs each way to do it. It was actually the day after my b'day, but it was about 20 minutes from where i grew up. Had to do the 50th in the old stomping grounds!
My 220 sold for $143.50, I paid $199.00 for the stupid thing. I suppose I should be happy enough that I didn't take it any worse despite only using it for three weeks.
Having run with the 620 for a couple of weeks now, it has become clear that it wasn't the watch at all, just my failing fitness. Hopefully I can regain what was lost but if not I gave it hell and can live with whatever happens next....
which will be the purchase of some new running shoes as soon as that money clears my PayPal account.
There is a New Years Eve run here that is really popular (two actually). I did one of them once.
That's my birthday, but my happy rear end would be sleeping in.
PRs:
5k - 20:51 - 9/5/15
10k - 47:00 - 5/25/15
15k - 1:10:19 - 11/21/15
13.1 - 1:42:25- 4/25/15
26.2 - TBD (someday)
The bigger one is at 4:30 PM, and serves beer afterwards. It's pretty cool, and some years pretty cold. lol
Hip Redux
You guys made me look - my birthday next year actually falls on a saturday. And new age group! But I am not going to search or sign up for any races because I do not want to start the 40s off with a DNS.
Super B****
The next time my birthday is on Sunday is, I believe, in 2020.
chasing the impossible
because i never shut up ... i blog
2018 (Saturday) for me. And no.
Mine was Saturday last year. There's a HM I want to do, and it's that weekend. Always on Saturday.
Just try it FFS
Runs4Sanity
Couldn't help myself, took the dogs out on the trails for a run. We ran 4 miles, didn't really feel pain but what I did notice was that what ache or pain I did feel was directly underneath my worst poison ivy, which I think is actually sumac or oak, and the soreness actually started around the same time that this crap came on....
I can't even do bicycle crunches because the pain right where my thigh meets my pelvis with each "pedal".
*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)
My birthday was on a Saturday this year, and I did run a little tiny local 5k with DS, but I had only been back to "running" for three weeks, so it was just a nice spring morning run with a couple dozen "friends." Followed by a big breakfast.
20,000 miles behind me, the world still to see.
Are we there, yet?
I had to check my race log, too. I could find only 2 years when I ran a race on my birthday. The first was on my 35th and was my one and only college xc 5M race when I went back to school again. I finished 75th of 150 runners in 29:01. Most of the runners were barely more than half my age, mostly 18 and 19 year olds. The other was a hilly 10K on my 52nd birthday when I ran 42:48 to finish 18th of 80+ runners and won my AG. If I can find a Saturday race this year I could race on my BD, otherwise I have to wait until 2020 for another Saturday race or 2021 for a Sunday race.
2024 Races:
03/09 - Livingston Oval Ultra 6-Hour, 22.88 miles
05/11 - D3 50K 05/25 - What the Duck 12-Hour
06/17 - 6 Days in the Dome 12-Hour.