Listening to a podcast in which the "subject" is a local 2:33 female marathoner, who is also a full time nurse. In a time of covid, what her life is like and how she manages to train. Very interesting person.
Link?
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/different-kind-marathon-melanie-myrand-elite-runner/id1224828899?i=1000474828960&utm_source=Canadian%20Running%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=25870000a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_23_02_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c31dda00d9-25870000a6-72228473&fbclid=IwAR3kMEE8oVq4Gl-CzPRqzRIYETY3S_gk9lr2ha_ktQyBtT1TTf5R5pjNsrQ
The fact that she is local and I've seen her run on a couple of occasions helps, maybe.
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Looks like no run tonight... damn DH is such a fucking gossip girl, he's been on the phone downstairs for 2 hours with I guess one of the guys in his circle...
Hopefully I can wake up at 4 AM and feel up to running, I wanna kick him in the fucking balls.
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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)
Andrea, that is wild to me that they are still holding the race. how the heck are they going to guarantee that everyone passes each other with at least 10ft of distance??
At some point, people are also responsible for themselves. We are in unprecedented times and no one in power actually knows what to do right now. And many people are horrible at following directions/rules/laws. So if you decide to race now or whenever in the future, you have to take some ownership, that you view that as a worthwhile risk. Obviously, a RD saying "stay 10 ft apart" cannot guarantee your safety. Maybe the race is small and super spread out, no one is sick and all is fine. But maybe not.
I agree. It's like the RD is saying: here's a plan that will make for a safe (enough) environment to hold a race, and I'm putting it together. But there's no way the RD can make sure everyone follows the plan. If people were smart (and there's the catch), they would follow the plan, everything would probably go well, and more nice things could happen
I agree. People need to take some responsibility themselves too and not expect businesses or RDs to necessarily do it for them. I heard Disney came out and basically said “if you come and get covid don’t blame us”
Looks like no run tonight... damn DH is such a fucking gossip girl, he's been on the phone downstairs for 2 hours with I guess one of the guys in his circle... Hopefully I can wake up at 4 AM and feel up to running, I wanna kick him in the fucking balls.
I laugh every time I read someone actually using the phone to make a phone call.
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So, here you go. We enter Stage 3 Friday, the first race is Monday. This is fucking crazy.
Andrea, see these conditions. 100 runners TOTAL.
LRB (royal brain fart when I called you Phil before 🤦🏼♀️ that's awesome you'll be able to get the antibody test. When does that happen?
He's much better looking (actually I didn't see it).
Tuesday. I am very intrigued about the test and process, as the earliest confirmed cases in the US only go back to February. I would've gotten it in January on a jobsite where "flu" ran rampant that month. If all of that is true, then WTF?
Stay tuned...
This is what will keep me from doing races for some time. Before all this, people couldn't follow simple instructions at racecs (for example, walkers start in the back). Or races make a big show of how they will enforce certain rules (done a few that state no headphones are allowed). Do they do anything about the headphones, nope.
People can't seem to follow one way arrows in the grocecrry store now, so I have little faith that they will read, much less follow, a set of new rules for racecs.
That said, this totally sucks because I actually feel like my fitness is pretty good right now. Of course, there would have to be races, and Baltimore City has pretty much squashed any events through August 31, I epxect my county to follow, so it would all depend if the county north of me, which has opened, actually holds races that are scheduled.