Ran a 10k in June (5 Viewers)

[gruecd]

BnB - I guess gruecd's going to have to do the Half-IM to settle the debate!

I wouldn't want to be the guy betting against me.

 

[BassNBrew]

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Who reported me???

 

[BassNBrew]

My last chance to post here before I head to NYC for the marathon on Sunday. I knocked out 7 miles last night with 2 miles at 8:15 pace. My body feels rested and ready to take on the big one. I've been very conscious of getting lots of sleep this week (8+ hours a night) and I'm planning on starting my carb loading tomorrow night with plenty of rice. My only fear is bonking like I did in Orlando in January but my training was much more effective this time around (the PFitz 18/55 plan) and I'm planning on being smarter about my on-course refueling (more frequent water/gatorade/gels) to get me over the dreaded 5th avenue hump.Feel free to track me on Sunday: Race number - 20-099.I'll post a race report sometime early next week.

We're sorry.Due to the high demand on Athlete Tracker and the excitement for the ING New York City Marathon 2010, our servers are temporarily overloaded.

What a major f-up.

 

[prosopis]

My last chance to post here before I head to NYC for the marathon on Sunday. I knocked out 7 miles last night with 2 miles at 8:15 pace. My body feels rested and ready to take on the big one. I've been very conscious of getting lots of sleep this week (8+ hours a night) and I'm planning on starting my carb loading tomorrow night with plenty of rice. My only fear is bonking like I did in Orlando in January but my training was much more effective this time around (the PFitz 18/55 plan) and I'm planning on being smarter about my on-course refueling (more frequent water/gatorade/gels) to get me over the dreaded 5th avenue hump.Feel free to track me on Sunday: Race number - 20-099.I'll post a race report sometime early next week.

We're sorry.Due to the high demand on Athlete Tracker and the excitement for the ING New York City Marathon 2010, our servers are temporarily overloaded.

What a major f-up.

That sucks

 

[prosopis]

I tried to use garmin training center to schedule future workouts. I hope it worked. I dont see any where that I can see if it did. I guess I will find out tomorrow. Has anyone done this? Will it just happen when I hit start timer tomorrow?

 

[tri-man 47]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

http://www.lostdutchmanmarathon.org/

$60 by 12/31 ....hmmmmmmmm, indeed!!!

 

[Sand]

My last chance to post here before I head to NYC for the marathon on Sunday. I knocked out 7 miles last night with 2 miles at 8:15 pace. My body feels rested and ready to take on the big one. I've been very conscious of getting lots of sleep this week (8+ hours a night) and I'm planning on starting my carb loading tomorrow night with plenty of rice. My only fear is bonking like I did in Orlando in January but my training was much more effective this time around (the PFitz 18/55 plan) and I'm planning on being smarter about my on-course refueling (more frequent water/gatorade/gels) to get me over the dreaded 5th avenue hump.Feel free to track me on Sunday: Race number - 20-099.I'll post a race report sometime early next week.

We're sorry.Due to the high demand on Athlete Tracker and the excitement for the ING New York City Marathon 2010, our servers are temporarily overloaded.

What a major f-up.

That sucks

You'd think they would have learned from the DC Marathon (which was a major cluster#### with the same issues). For crying out loud, you don't use your own servers for a once a year surge. You rent servers and bandwidth from IBM or Amazon or Google or something. For them this kind of traffic is a blip.Idiots.

 

[2Young2BBald]

PERFECT Day for trail racing today. 34 degrees when we left the house and about 40 at the gun. Nothing but blue skies & sun. Seemed like I ran pretty hard, but the result will likely be the worst of the 3 years I've run this race. Ran a 46:00 last year and think I'll be in around 49:00 today (4.8 mile SUPER technical track). Got held up bad at the start and spent the first few miles "on-yer-lefting" my way through the crowd. I home-made garlic pickles & pickled jalapenos back in August just for for the Bloody Marys after the race. Thought I was done trail racing for the year, but just found out about a wicked one next Sunday with multiple river crossings and a sprint up a toboggan hill. We got plans the night before, so it will likely be a race day decision to run it.

 

[gruecd]

SRD today, so I did some yardwork this morning, and now I'm chilling watching football. Feeling pretty good going into next weekend's race.

Dexter and Turkish - Looking forward to the race reports!

2Young - Way to run hard!

pigskin - Good to hear you were happy with today's race. Sorry you couldn't make it through the run.

Hope you're all having a great Sunday. And GO PACK GO!!!

 

[Dexter]

Quick report: The course was really muddy. So I didn't finish under 3 but was within range with a 3:07.

Also Turkish Harem beat me by 10 minutes. So congrats to him.

full report later

 

[BassNBrew]

My last chance to post here before I head to NYC for the marathon on Sunday. I knocked out 7 miles last night with 2 miles at 8:15 pace. My body feels rested and ready to take on the big one. I've been very conscious of getting lots of sleep this week (8+ hours a night) and I'm planning on starting my carb loading tomorrow night with plenty of rice. My only fear is bonking like I did in Orlando in January but my training was much more effective this time around (the PFitz 18/55 plan) and I'm planning on being smarter about my on-course refueling (more frequent water/gatorade/gels) to get me over the dreaded 5th avenue hump.Feel free to track me on Sunday: Race number - 20-099.I'll post a race report sometime early next week.

We're sorry.Due to the high demand on Athlete Tracker and the excitement for the ING New York City Marathon 2010, our servers are temporarily overloaded.

What a major f-up.

That sucks

You'd think they would have learned from the DC Marathon (which was a major cluster#### with the same issues). For crying out loud, you don't use your own servers for a once a year surge. You rent servers and bandwidth from IBM or Amazon or Google or something. For them this kind of traffic is a blip.Idiots.

Still down.

 

[Ned]

I found this:

http://www.halhigdon.com/halfmarathon/novice.htm

Does that appear to be good? I seem to remember a free one where you could plug in what days you would do the long runs on but I dont recall where.

This topic has come up before. I honestly don't like Higdon's HM plans. A few other posters in this thread feel the same way. The problem is that he maxes you out at only 10 miles. If you're new to this distance, you really need to do at least one 13-miler before race day. This isn't like training for a marathon where nobody trains all the way out to the full race distance on account of injury risk and recovery considerations. For a half, training to at least 13 should be standard IMO. (If you had several HMs under your belt already, then maxing out at 10 would probably be okay, but then you wouldn't be using a "novice" program).

I've been on the Higdon Intermediate and he's got me running 12 next week (1 week before the HM). Today's Sunday was 11. I like the layout, but some of his description on what to do is a little lacking.

 

[Ned]

This weekend was up/down for me. Yesterday was a 5mi HMP run. I am not sure what my HMP is just yet, so I decided to do this at an 8:30 pace and felt great. I finished in 42:20 for a 8:28 average. I felt good and felt like I could possibly hold this pace at race day, but.........

Today was an 11 miler and it sucked pretty hard. I went back to the same location where I did my 10 miler from 2 weeks ago. This is about 70% trails, which I really enjoy, but today's run wasn't so enjoyable. About 2mi out a root jumped up and grabbed my foot. I proceeded to do a full superman on the trail and took a root to my right knee. Limped around for about a tenth and then started back up. It took a few minutes to get back into the groove, but settled back in to a 9:30ish pace. I did my usual Gatorade/Gu at 5mi and felt pretty good. It all came crashing down on me around 8.5mi. My body just took a nose dive and I had absolutely nothing left. The last 2.5 was a total test of HTFU. I finished it, but I really paid for it. I'm now pretty sore and completely exhausted. I was awarded a nice knot on top of my knee for my efforts today. I finished it in 1:46:31 with some time for traffic, eating dirt, and fueling up. I still averaged 9:41 (which shocks me somewhat), but it was 100x harder than it should've been.

More kudos to you marathoners. Days like today cannot be pretty when you've got a 20+ miler in front of you.

 

[BassNBrew]

If 20-099 is 20099 then Workhorse had a great race...

Name Marker Bib

5K 0:25:35

10K 0:50:58

15K 1:16:41

20K 1:42:23

Half 1:47:59

Mile 14 1:55:22

Finish 3:35:53

David Skalka 20099

Negative split it by 6 or 7 seconds.

 

[Ned]

If 20-099 is 20099 then Workhorse had a great race...Name Marker Bib 5K 0:25:35 10K 0:50:58 15K 1:16:41 20K 1:42:23 Half 1:47:59 Mile 14 1:55:22 Finish 3:35:53 David Skalka 20099 Negative split it by 6 or 7 seconds.

If so, great run!! These mid 3hr marathons blow me away. Absolutely impressive.

 

[prosopis]

If 20-099 is 20099 then Workhorse had a great race...Name Marker Bib 5K 0:25:35 10K 0:50:58 15K 1:16:41 20K 1:42:23 Half 1:47:59 Mile 14 1:55:22 Finish 3:35:53 David Skalka 20099 Negative split it by 6 or 7 seconds.

WOW

 

[tri-man 47]

Dude's a horse ...just a workhorse.

Hope that that's him - great effort!!!

 

[Workhorse]

If 20-099 is 20099 then Workhorse had a great race...Name Marker Bib 5K 0:25:35 10K 0:50:58 15K 1:16:41 20K 1:42:23 Half 1:47:59 Mile 14 1:55:22 Finish 3:35:53 David Skalka 20099 Negative split it by 6 or 7 seconds.

Yep, that's me.I'll post a full race report once I'm back home but safe to say that this was the race of my life. Never hit the wall and felt strong the whole time. Every marathoner should run NYC at least once. Put your name on your shirt and the crowd will carry you the whole way.Time for breakfast.

 

[pmbrown_22]

Great racing guys. Way to pull off some impressive times as the conditions for some seemed to be quite difficult.

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Having a rough go of it as of late. I just can't seem to get out there consistantly to get my runs in. Life is getting in the way. I hate it when that happens. Got my 6 miler in on Saturday and noticed some congestion when I was running. No big deal for Saturday, but woke up yesterday (my b-day) hoping to do 13 and reach my goal of 2000 miles, but have a horrible sinus cold and knew that I was not going out for a run. Still feeling crappy today, but hopefully I can get back out there tomorrow and get back at it. My fitness seems to still be there, but I just want some consistancy. I guess in a simple world, we all do.

Have a great day all.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Great job, workhorse. Congrats.

 

[The_Man]

PSL, glad to hear you did so well.

Workhorse, Congrats! Great effort and I can't wait to read all about it.

PMB, hang in there - running is like the rest of life and has its normal ebbs and flows. It's occurred to me lately that runners seem to expect to be at their best with every workout and think they're failing or doing something wrong if they have an off day (I'm as guilty of this as anyone). But back when I used to golf, I just took it for granted that some days would be good and some would be bad, and that it's all good as long as you're out there having fun, and improving overall (even if some days you take a step back). You'll be back on top in no time. Ned, same for you - you've been having a great training cycle, and it's only natural that there are some half-steps backward while moving so far forward.

Maybe I've been thinking this way, because I'm still such a total wreck in recovering from the marathon. Even though I didn't start running until after turning 40 last year, I've never felt of myself as an "old" runner in any way. But I think I've discovered two areas in which my age does have an impact on what I'm able to do physically. One is speed work. It's very hard for me to incorporate speedwork into my training without it just beating me up and tearing up my legs. The other is recovery. Man, is it hard for me to come back from a race. When I raced a Half in September, it took every bit of two weeks to get over it. And now that I'm 8 days post-marathon, I find myself hoping that four weeks under the "a day to recover for every mile raced" formula is all I'll need.

Did 3 on Saturday at 9-minute pace and felt o.k., but then really struggled through 45 minutes at 9:30 pace yesterday. My HR and fitness are good, but my legs are still just totally shot. Not really sore, just completely lifeless and dead. Saturday and Sunday were my first back-to-back days since the race, so I'm hoping that's why Sunday felt so hard. Three tomorrow and then Higdon calls for a tempo run on Wednesday, but I'm pretty sure there's no way that's happening right now.

 

[Ned]

I think you're 100% right, The_Man. It's just a matter of being able to take the good with the bad and move on.

Holy crap am I sore today.... OOF. :(

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Maybe I've been thinking this way, because I'm still such a total wreck in recovering from the marathon. Even though I didn't start running until after turning 40 last year, I've never felt of myself as an "old" runner in any way. But I think I've discovered two areas in which my age does have an impact on what I'm able to do physically. One is speed work. It's very hard for me to incorporate speedwork into my training without it just beating me up and tearing up my legs. The other is recovery. Man, is it hard for me to come back from a race. When I raced a Half in September, it took every bit of two weeks to get over it. And now that I'm 8 days post-marathon, I find myself hoping that four weeks under the "a day to recover for every mile raced" formula is all I'll need.

I'm 38, and it took me every bit of a month to recover from Twin Cities.

 

[tri-man 47]

now that I'm 8 days post-marathon, I find myself hoping that four weeks under the "a day to recover for every mile raced" formula is all I'll need.

I'm 38, and it took me every bit of a month to recover from Twin Cities.

 

[FUBAR]

finally looked at the course profile for the 50k/50M http://www.badtothebone.biz/docs/profilebmer.pdf

 

[BassNBrew]

finally looked at the course profile for the 50k/50M http://www.badtothebone.biz/docs/profilebmer.pdf

Are you going to do this???Along those lines...

http://www.blackmountainmarathon.com/

10 miles shorter (only 40 mi) but a massive elevation gain. The February event date usually means snow and below freezing temps.

 

[Ned]

finally looked at the course profile for the 50k/50M http://www.badtothebone.biz/docs/profilebmer.pdf

You're friggin insane if you do that.

 

[Darrinll40]

finally looked at the course profile for the 50k/50M http://www.badtothebone.biz/docs/profilebmer.pdf

It's not so bad, once you get to the top you can just roll down the other side.Or maybe you could wear a pair of those shoes with skates hidden in them for the downhill.

 

[Darrinll40]

If 20-099 is 20099 then Workhorse had a great race...Name Marker Bib 5K 0:25:35 10K 0:50:58 15K 1:16:41 20K 1:42:23 Half 1:47:59 Mile 14 1:55:22 Finish 3:35:53 David Skalka 20099 Negative split it by 6 or 7 seconds.

Yep, that's me.I'll post a full race report once I'm back home but safe to say that this was the race of my life. Never hit the wall and felt strong the whole time. Every marathoner should run NYC at least once. Put your name on your shirt and the crowd will carry you the whole way.Time for breakfast.

Nice race, looking forward to the report.Today I feel great. A lot of the problems I had last week seem to be gone, at least for now. When I get home today I am going to take a walk, probably just a mile, but I have to start somewhere.

 

[wraith5]

If 20-099 is 20099 then Workhorse had a great race...Name Marker Bib 5K 0:25:35 10K 0:50:58 15K 1:16:41 20K 1:42:23 Half 1:47:59 Mile 14 1:55:22 Finish 3:35:53 David Skalka 20099 Negative split it by 6 or 7 seconds.

Yep, that's me.I'll post a full race report once I'm back home but safe to say that this was the race of my life. Never hit the wall and felt strong the whole time. Every marathoner should run NYC at least once. Put your name on your shirt and the crowd will carry you the whole way.Time for breakfast.

Congratulations on a fantastic race! Looking forward to the complete report.

 

[wraith5]

90 minutes on the bike trainer last night, 85 ave cadence and 142HR (max 158). Wasn't trying to kill myself or anything - just a consistent spin to work the legs/heart a bit and justify the ridiculous amount of food I've been eating lately (specifically Culver's Concretes - I have a problem).

Weather for Veterans Marathon on Saturday in Fort Wayne is looking good as of now: 36-55 breezy with some clouds. It's been jumping around a bit and I'd be VERY happy if it stays as is.

On cue, my kids got sick this weekend. It's absolutely ridiculous.

 

[pigskinliquors]

Great to see another great weekend of racing!

Dexter and Turkish: Way to git'r done. Looking forward to reports.

Workhorse: You KILLED IT! Awesome race!!!

2Young: Love that you are doing more trail runs. My future is heading that way for sure!

Grue: I'll gladly bet that you'll do it, and have zero doubts that you can!!

The_Man/Ned: I feel you on the prob's with recovery and speed work. My body doesn't respond to either like it used to.

FUBAR: Bad to the Bone is DO IT!!

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My race report:

I behaved really well the day/night before the race. I helped my buddy set up his tailgate at 8 am, and had just one beer with him, prior to going to my daughter's soccer games (10-1). I then went to pick up my packet and got back to the tailgate (OU vs. A&M) and had just one more beer, and a lot of Gatorade between 3 and 6 (game time). Went to the game, and literally lost my voice screaming for the Ag's as they beat the hell out of OU!!!! Had one beer post game at the tailgate, and got back home to ice my leg (11-11:30) and get some sleep.

My alarm went off at 4:15, and everything went as it was supposed to. I input what I needed to, and output all that I needed to. Got on the road by 4:45, and it was extremely foggy = the one hour drive took a bit longer. I got marked at 6:10, and to the transition by 6:15 (half hour before it closed). It was FREAKISHLY COLD = FREEZING. They announced the temp at 35 degrees while I was in the transition. My coldest workout was likely in the high 50's = Holy crap! I could not stop my teeth from chattering and body from shaking as I went to the bathroom one last time, then put my Wetsuit (half John) on. I then gingerly walked to the race start where they announced everything would be delayed to let some of the fog clear = 10 more minutes of freezing my ### off, while race stalking. I took this time to try to acclimate to the water (and pee again). When I went under for the first time, the coldness of the water literally took all of my breath away. I tried to swim to warm up, but there was no way to get warm at this point. I fully expected to finish the swim for sure, with an approximate 50% to attempt the bike and 25% of finishing (due to my calf).

My wave was the third of four big waves (600 racers total), in a tiny shoot that led to a very narrow channel that started the race (race course). I started in the middle, and darted to the far left immediately to swim in the cold, foggy abyss. Within 100 meters, BOTH of my quads were cramping bad from the freezing water. At that point I just told myself, HTFU, and just finish the swim. Fortunately, my body warmed up a bit, and the water warmed up after we got out of the narrow, shallow channel. I was in a really good rhythm, sighting with every 6th breath, but had great difficulty finding the objects I was trying to sight through the fog/steam. I got slightly off course around the 200 meter point (no where near the turn buoy!), but quickly got back on course. There was a turn buoy around 400 meters, that was a major cluster, as it was a 90 degree turn and somehow it seemed all 600 swimmers got there at the same time. I lost a lot of time here, but had zero difficulties the rest of the way. I had great rhythm, was sighting every 8th breath, and my shoulder felt really good. The last 50 meters of the swim was very shallow so you had to try to run through majorly goopy ground (almost like stepping into quick sand with every step). My calves felt really good, during this stretch, likely because they just had a nice long ice bath! I made it to the strippers and got my wetsuit off much quicker than anticipated, and tried to "jog" to T1. I had ZERO pain, as I got to my bike, and decided what the hell, let's give it a go.

I was FREEZING as I was wet, and just in my singlet in 37 degrees. I did put toe covers on my shoes as part of my set-up, but greatly screwed up by not putting on gloves (had them there, but didn't want to waste the time. T1 went really well, and though I had trouble clipping in, I started my Garmin and was off and riding. It wasn't just cold, but very windy as well = FRIGID, doesn't do it justice. About 3 miles in, I had to use my right hand to move the fingers on my left hand as they were clamped on my forward shifters, and frozen. I'd heard the course was hilly, but didn't expect it to be nearly as hilly as it was. With the wind, it was a brutal combination. I made it through mile 20 averaging 21 MPH, but knew it was going to slow down, as a good portion of that was with the wind. I did well through mile 40 (still averaging approx. 20.7), before we turned right into the wind, for the hilliest portion of the ride. Those 10 miles were brutal before getting a side wind for the final stretch.

Less than 1 mile from the finish, my ex surprised me by bringing my daughters to the race. I heard "Go Daddy Go!" screamed by my 5 and 9 year old, and must have gone through some dust, as my eyes got really watery. It was the most awesome feeling. My calf was pretty beat up, but I decided I could make the short run back to them to get one more cheer. T2 went quickly, and as I ran out, I fully anticipated my calf to seize up immediately. It didn't. Unfortunately the course didn't go right back to my girls (I thought it would), but instead wound around the sidewalks of the resort for awhile before getting back to the road. As I got back to them, I was at mile 2.2. They saw me even sooner this time, and cheered up a storm as they didn't expect to see me running (their mother told them that I probably wouldn't be running because of my calf). My calf was sore, but certainly hadn't torn yet, so I blew some kisses and tried to do all that I could to get back to them for the loop back. I passed them again at mile 4, and made it through the chip mat (3 loops of 4.4 miles). At mile 6'ish, my calf had a slightly sharp pain (not awful, but not good). I made it back to them (6.6 miles), stopped and gave them hugs. In stopping my calf felt better, so I told them I'd try to make it back to them one more time. As my Garmin beeped mile 7, the pain was too much. I walked/limped back to them for many more hugs and kisses. They headed back home, and I stayed around for some post race fun and food.

I don't have any times yet, but my swim was likely between 39 and 40 minutes (fast for me), as my Garmin went on for the bike 42 minutes after the start (I'm predicting T1 time was 2.5 minutes). My final bike time was a mess, as I lost satellite for part of it, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere near 20.0 MPH. I'd normally not be too happy with it, but in those conditions I'm ecstatic. I'll be shocked if anyone went over 23.0 MPH on that course. I was averaging around 8:30 pace on the run, and my HR was doing surprisingly good (between 170 and 174). With a healthy calf I'm pretty confident I could have finished those last 6 miles, and was looking at an approximate 5:25 time.

While I'd have liked to have finished, it wasn't much of a possibility. All in all; a GREAT day.

Edited to add: just found the race results, and am sad that mine aren't posted, not even with a DNF :sad: It looks like only 3 people did the bike at faster than 22 MPH (22.8 was the fastest; from the overall winner).

 

[The_Man]

PSL, awesome!

Totally hard-core to get as far as you did. That was a fantastic effort.

 

[gruecd]

Finish 3:35:53

David Skalka 20099

Yep, that's me.I'll post a full race report once I'm back home but safe to say that this was the race of my life. Never hit the wall and felt strong the whole time.

Every marathoner should run NYC at least once. Put your name on your shirt and the crowd will carry you the whole way.

Time for breakfast.

Great job, Workhorse. Can't wait to read your report. Easy 6-mile recovery run for me this morning, and I think I'm getting some bounce back in the legs. Good stuff. Tomorrow is the race-week staple, 7 miles with 2 at GMP (6:53).

pmb - Hang in there, bro.

The_Man - Good luck with the continued recovery.

FUBAR - That's flucking insane!

PSL - Awesome, man. Way to HTFU!

** ACTUAL FANTASY FOOTBALL QUESTION ** Normal scoring, no PPR, TE not required....want to pick up a WR to replace Miles Austin in my starting line-up. Do I pick up Tamme or Sidney Rice?

 

[wraith5]

PSL, awesome!Totally hard-core to get as far as you did. That was a fantastic effort.

It's great that your ex brought your daughters out!!

 

[wraith5]

** ACTUAL FANTASY FOOTBALL QUESTION ** Normal scoring, no PPR, TE not required....want to pick up a WR to replace Miles Austin in my starting line-up. Do I pick up Tamme or Sidney Rice?

Personally I think I'd go Tamme. I still don't trust MN.

 

[pigskinliquors]

** ACTUAL FANTASY FOOTBALL QUESTION ** Normal scoring, no PPR, TE not required....want to pick up a WR to replace Miles Austin in my starting line-up. Do I pick up Tamme or Sidney Rice?

Personally I think I'd go Tamme. I still don't trust MN.

Agreed.I also forgot to post that my annual Chondromalacia (runner's knee) is full-bore this morning. I literally get it with my first cold weather workout each year. Great to get it right now, as I'll need to shut it down for a few weeks to let me calf repair anyway. I'm contemplating selling my Houston marathon entry (very easy to do), to run Galveston's new marathon. I'll be able to make $100, and will have three extra weeks to train. This would give me at least a slim chance of being able to BQ, while trying to train for the Houston marathon (8 or 9 weeks of training), would give me virtually no chance. I could also sign up for both, but the three weeks recovery wouldn't bode too well.

 

[2Young2BBald]

PSL, awesome!Totally hard-core to get as far as you did. That was a fantastic effort.

It's great that your ex brought your daughters out!!

AGREED, absolutely awesome effort

 

[FUBAR]

finally looked at the course profile for the 50k/50M http://www.badtothebone.biz/docs/profilebmer.pdf

Are you going to do this???Along those lines...

http://www.blackmountainmarathon.com/

10 miles shorter (only 40 mi) but a massive elevation gain. The February event date usually means snow and below freezing temps.

yes, but only the 50k. I'm a slacker.

 

[tri-man 47]

PSL, awesome!Totally hard-core to get as far as you did. That was a fantastic effort.

It's great that your ex brought your daughters out!!

AGREED, absolutely awesome effort

Way to tough it out, liquors! Way cool about the girls.The later marathon makes a lot of sense. Trying for Houston doesn't sound like a good idea at this point.

 

[prosopis]

Great report PSL. I love the kids part. Sometimes I think that is the main reason I do this. I love the feeling I get when my kids are cheering me on. They just look at you differently when you are doing something like this. Great write up.

Looking forward to workhorse's !!!

 

[prosopis]

Today was day one of my structured half marathon training. I am using smart coach/mcmillan times.

Today was an easy 2 miles at 12:08. I had a hard time keeping it at 12:08 but did the best I could. I ended up with an 11:40 pace. Biggest PIA for me is programming the garmin. I dread programming it for the speed workouts. I failed when I tried to create a workout in personal trainer and transfer it to the garmin. I ended up programming it on the street today. :whoosh:

In the 80s today and windy.

 

[2Young2BBald]

Today was day one of my structured half marathon training. I am using smart coach/mcmillan times.Today was an easy 2 miles at 12:08. I had a hard time keeping it at 12:08 but did the best I could. I ended up with an 11:40 pace. Biggest PIA for me is programming the garmin. I dread programming it for the speed workouts. I failed when I tried to create a workout in personal trainer and transfer it to the garmin. I ended up programming it on the street today. In the 80s today and windy.

Instead of setting the pace alarms, put up the average pace and speed up or back off accordingly. The only PIA here is that the pace will get skewed if you end up waiting for a light here or there.

 

[BassNBrew]

10-1: 3.1 mi @ 8'16", 25'40", 150 hr 10-2: 3.3 mi, 30'55", 134 hr + 22 mi bike 10-3: 5.6 mi @ 7'44" (gps was off), 43'24", 138 hr 10-4: off 10-5: 3.1 mi @ 8'09", 25'02", 140 hr 10-6: 3.1 mi @ 9'09", 28'40", 127 hr 10-7: 4 mi @ 9'40", 38'43", 140 hr

10-8: 3.5 mi @ 9'31", 33'20", 130 hr 10-9: 2.2 mi @ 9'00", 20'00", 135 hr 10-10: 3.1 mi @ 8'54", 27'36", 141 hr AND 3.2 mi @ 8'47", 141 hr 10-11: 9.0 mi @ 8'59", 1:20'43", 138 hr 10-12: 3.21 @ 9'38", 30'56", 131 hr 10-12: 4 mi @ 8'24", 33'35", 142 hr 10-13: 3.1 @ 9'58", 30'49", 132 hr 10-14: 2.2 mi bike ride + 3.31 mi @ 9'15", 30'36", 136 hr 10-15: 3 mi @ 8'42", 26'10", 140 hr 10-16: 2.14 mi @ 9'43", 20'42", 140 hr 10-17: 3 mi @ 9'27", 28'21", 134 hr 10-18: 4 mi @ 8'39", 34'35", 131 hr 10-18: 2 mi @ 10'32", 21'03", 120 hr 10-19: 3.5 mi @ 9'45", 34'08", 128 hr 10-20: off 10-21: 15 mi bike ride, 5 min run which doesn't count 10-22: 3.11 mi @ 7'43", 23'58", 150 hr 10-23: 2.76 mi @ 8'5", 24'31", 132 hr plus 38 mi bike ride 10-24: 2 mi @ 10'00" and 4.5 mi @ 8'36", 38'43", 134 hr 10-25: 2.6 mi @ 10'23", 27'00", 123 hr 10-26: 3 mi @ 9'20", 27'58", 124 hr 10-27: 3.1 mi @ 8'25", 26'02", 139 hr 10-28: off 10-29: 2.55 mi @ 7'51", 20'00", 145 hr 10-30: off 10-31: off 29 runs in 31 days, 96.97 miles for October

11-1: 3.1 mi @ 7'45", 23'58", 147 hr

11-2: 7.0 mi @ 8'16", 57'53", 144 hr

11-3: 5.49 mi @ 9'21", 51'25", 147 hr - trail run

11-4: 2.0 mi @ 10'00", 114 hr

11-5: 10.01 mi @ 8'53", 1:28'53", 138 hr

11-6: 5 mi @ 9'02", 45'08", 139 hr - trail run

11-6: 2 mi @ 10'29", 20'55", 124 hr

11-7: 2.26 mi @ 9'11", 20'42", 139 hr

11-8: 3.1 mi @ 8'23", 25'56", 144 hr followed by

11-8: 22.4 mi computrainer bike ride, 1:01'28, 256 average watts, 151 hr

11-8: 1.87 mi, 20 min

39 runs in 39 days, 41.83 miles for November

 

[Ned]

Today was day one of my structured half marathon training. I am using smart coach/mcmillan times.Today was an easy 2 miles at 12:08. I had a hard time keeping it at 12:08 but did the best I could. I ended up with an 11:40 pace. Biggest PIA for me is programming the garmin. I dread programming it for the speed workouts. I failed when I tried to create a workout in personal trainer and transfer it to the garmin. I ended up programming it on the street today. In the 80s today and windy.

What did you program? Runs such as these I just press start and go by feel/check the watch.Curious why the program has you doing just a slow 2mi as your very first run? That's weird...

 

[Dexter]

Iceman Cometh: Traverse City, MI

Conditions: 40's partly cloudy. Leading up to race day there was snow and rain.

Turkish and I started in the second round of waves. for some reason they decided to put the all the women including the +60 group and the Clydesdale in front of us. We get into the corral and I notice my front tire is not spinning like it should. Almost like the break is on. After tinkering with it I was able to get it rolling right a minute or so before the start gun. The race started and my other friend who was in our wave took off. Turkish and I are riding along at a good pace when we decide to catch up to him. I felt the pace was too slow for me so I attacked and neither of them followed. Keep in mind the first mile is all paved. Just before hitting the trail I look down and my front tire is not locked into place. so I had to stop and lock it up. I was afraid Turkish and my other buddy would catch me at that point they were no where in site.

The first few miles were nice and packed dirt. As soon as we hit the area known as Steves Secret it turned into a mud pit. I've never rode through so much mud so I was a little inexperienced and didn't know how to attack it. Mean while I'm passing women left and right and a bunch of Clydesdale as well. I felt pretty good (thank you pickle juice) when my chain which by this point is covered in mud starts skipping. So instead of powering up hills I have to walk up them.

With 15 miles to go I hear, HEY CDUB!!! behind me and it's Turkish. My heart deflats. I was hoping I could put enough distance between him so I could cruse to an easy finish. We ride together for a while before he stops at the top of the hill for a GU break. I keep riding again hoping to put some miles between us.

13 Miles to go. HEY CDUB!!! Sigh... Again Turkish and I ride together for a while. In the middle of some muddy single track we are stuck behind two women. Turkish sees an opening and attacks. I couldn't get past the woman in front of me and to be honest I'm not even sure I could respond. As we emerge from the single track Turkish is no where to be seen. My only hope is he cramps bad or has an equipment malfunction... Neither happened and he finished 10 minutes ahead of me and was just under the 3 hour mark. I finished in 3:07

Turkish reward for beating his friends was a dip in lake Michigan.

FYI the race had pros some of which raced in the Tour de France. The winning Pro time was 1:42.

 

[Zow]

Glad this thread popped up. I've never really run before but ran a 10k this past weekend for charity. Finished in 51 minutes. Is that any good?

 

[prosopis]

Today was day one of my structured half marathon training. I am using smart coach/mcmillan times.Today was an easy 2 miles at 12:08. I had a hard time keeping it at 12:08 but did the best I could. I ended up with an 11:40 pace. Biggest PIA for me is programming the garmin. I dread programming it for the speed workouts. I failed when I tried to create a workout in personal trainer and transfer it to the garmin. I ended up programming it on the street today. In the 80s today and windy.

What did you program? Runs such as these I just press start and go by feel/check the watch.Curious why the program has you doing just a slow 2mi as your very first run? That's weird...

I programmed 2 miles @ 12:08 pace.For Wednesday I just programmed warm up 1 mile @11:38-12:38, 3 miles @ 10:07-10:33, cool down 1 mile @ 11:38-12:38Next week is one I need a translation for if you dont mind. Plan says: Speedwork Dist: 5 mi, inc warm, 2x 1600 in 9:53 w/800 jogs.I think that means 1 mile warmup, 2 miles @9:53, 1 mile jog, 1 mile cool down. Am I correct?I am using runners world smart coach and I told it I wanted Sat to be my long run. Maybe that is why my first run was a slow 2 miles?edit to ask if maybe the w/800 jogs means a half mile of jog between the 1600 in 9:53 and not 1 mile jog as I wrote above?

 

[Ned]

Today was day one of my structured half marathon training. I am using smart coach/mcmillan times.Today was an easy 2 miles at 12:08. I had a hard time keeping it at 12:08 but did the best I could. I ended up with an 11:40 pace. Biggest PIA for me is programming the garmin. I dread programming it for the speed workouts. I failed when I tried to create a workout in personal trainer and transfer it to the garmin. I ended up programming it on the street today. In the 80s today and windy.

What did you program? Runs such as these I just press start and go by feel/check the watch.Curious why the program has you doing just a slow 2mi as your very first run? That's weird...

I programmed 2 miles @ 12:08 pace.For Wednesday I just programmed warm up 1 mile @11:38-12:38, 3 miles @ 10:07-10:33, cool down 1 mile @ 11:38-12:38Next week is one I need a translation for if you dont mind. Plan says: Speedwork Dist: 5 mi, inc warm, 2x 1600 in 9:53 w/800 jogs.I think that means 1 mile warmup, 2 miles @9:53, 1 mile jog, 1 mile cool down. Am I correct?I am using runners world smart coach and I told it I wanted Sat to be my long run. Maybe that is why my first run was a slow 2 miles?edit to ask if maybe the w/800 jogs means a half mile of jog between the 1600 in 9:53 and not 1 mile jog as I wrote above?

I think it's a process of elimination to get to your warmup/cool down.1600 + 800 + 1600 + 800 = 4800That leaves you 3200 so 1600 warm up and cool down makes sense.I'd just program the Garmin with 3 steps:1 - 1600 @ whatever pace2 - 1600/800 repeat 2x3 - 1600 @ whatever pace

 

[prosopis]

Today was day one of my structured half marathon training. I am using smart coach/mcmillan times.Today was an easy 2 miles at 12:08. I had a hard time keeping it at 12:08 but did the best I could. I ended up with an 11:40 pace. Biggest PIA for me is programming the garmin. I dread programming it for the speed workouts. I failed when I tried to create a workout in personal trainer and transfer it to the garmin. I ended up programming it on the street today. In the 80s today and windy.

What did you program? Runs such as these I just press start and go by feel/check the watch.Curious why the program has you doing just a slow 2mi as your very first run? That's weird...

I programmed 2 miles @ 12:08 pace.For Wednesday I just programmed warm up 1 mile @11:38-12:38, 3 miles @ 10:07-10:33, cool down 1 mile @ 11:38-12:38Next week is one I need a translation for if you dont mind. Plan says: Speedwork Dist: 5 mi, inc warm, 2x 1600 in 9:53 w/800 jogs.I think that means 1 mile warmup, 2 miles @9:53, 1 mile jog, 1 mile cool down. Am I correct?I am using runners world smart coach and I told it I wanted Sat to be my long run. Maybe that is why my first run was a slow 2 miles?edit to ask if maybe the w/800 jogs means a half mile of jog between the 1600 in 9:53 and not 1 mile jog as I wrote above?

I think it's a process of elimination to get to your warmup/cool down.1600 + 800 + 1600 + 800 = 4800That leaves you 3200 so 1600 warm up and cool down makes sense.I'd just program the Garmin with 3 steps:1 - 1600 @ whatever pace2 - 1600/800 repeat 2x3 - 1600 @ whatever pace

Thanks