HCK, sorry it didn't go your way.

Baboon, pretty impossible to quantify bad conditions' real time cost. In good conditions, race for time. In bad conditions, race for position. Congrats on placing so good.

I ran 8 in heavy slush. Got to try out my Gore-Tex shoes I bought for this weather. They work!... for a while. Today's slush and water was just too intense for anything but high rubber boots, so I finished with wet feet.

I wanted to run some miles at HMP today, but nah. Maybe tomorrow if weather permits. Big wet flurries are still coming down though, so I'm not too confident about tomorrow.

1:35:20 HM.  The hills, and mostly the wind, chewed my ass up and spit me out.  I wish I could quantify how much the wind cost me but it had to be a few minutes.  Just relentless.  #excuses

 

But I tell ya hwhut (propane), I'm pretty stoked about my 11 OA finish...my highest placement yet in a HM.  2 AG won me a pint glass.  YAY STUFF!

I LOVE STUFF! Good work Boon! It was not great out there this morning.

Lol the friendly local running publication posted an article for April Fools. It is gold. My converted New Bedford HM time is 1:35:01. I WAS IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE, I TELL YA!

Glad I shifted my long run to tomorrow. 6 today actually was pretty nice once I got moving. Little warm with a windbreaker on, but I was thoroughly soaked and not frozen by the end, so that's a win. And seeing that this is day 3 of easy miles, I almost had my normal legs back after I warmed up. Nice to know they're still there!

 

lol

 

Are you running with an audio book today or to the serene sounds of nature? I had taken to running long with music beginning last fall, but somewhere along the line it screwed up my breathing rhythm, so now I run to the sounds of nature. Yay.

Yep - if my book is good that gives me an added incentive to get a run in.

Currently on the 4th book in the John Puller series by David Baldacci;  No Man's Land.

1:35:20 HM.  The hills, and mostly the wind, chewed my ass up and spit me out.  I wish I could quantify how much the wind cost me but it had to be a few minutes.  Just relentless.  #excuses

 

But I tell ya hwhut (propane), I'm pretty stoked about my 11 OA finish...my highest placement yet in a HM.  2 AG won me a pint glass.  YAY STUFF!

Phil, Yes - in many road races the variables of weather and terrain can really throw time for a loop - but placement is all about your time compared to the others there.  Congrats on the high place finish.

2:09 and change. The running gods gave me a nice big fuck you with a headwind in the last part. Guess I reversed the trend, but still not what I want to see.

HCK - same here - wind can be even as much a barrier as hills and heat.

 

This running calculator gives at least as estimate of how much a headwind slows you down. See options at the bottom.

I've played with this before, last year after the Gale warning that was the AC half marathon. I don't know that I put a lot of stock in the numbers. For a 10mm (pretty sure that was my pace when going directly into the wind), it gave me an adjusted pace of 8:24. LOL. I've been struggling to even hit that in a 5k, so no way in heck would I be doing that in a half.

Pretty sure this is the calculator that made me feel crappy about my half PR. I had plugged in my prior PR (2:10) from a very hilly course and it said predicted time on a flat course was 2:04. Couldn't run that on a flat course, more than 1 attempt.

 

I don't usually dread my evening runs. I usually run right after work and that is just business as usual.  I only dread them when I have a impossibly hard workout

Same for me. I run after work and my energy is pretty high. Sometimes it actually makes work better, knowing I have a run after.

Just got back from a three mile jog.  Easy recovery and I wanted to get "in the green" for the Stupid Focking Miles Game this week, helping my team to what will surely be another loss.