Ran a 10k in June (5 Viewers)

[gruecd]

Speaking of facebookWould you more more, less or evenly apt to sign up for a race that sent info to your facebook and twitter the second after you crossed the finish line

I did a race last year (Milwaukee) where they sent updates to your Facebook page every time you crossed a timing mat on the course. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[Sean]

tough break on the weather in GB guys. great efforts given the conditions.

i'm a running n00b so maybe this is a dumb question but in regards to the GB marathon - could they have just closed the race off to runners that hadn't reached a certain distance on the course?

planned on running yesterday but spent most of my day digging a 3.5ft deep hole for a new basketball hoop. my kids better get a lot of use out of this thing..

 

[Hang 10]

Link?

Friend me, and I'll add you to the group when I get home tonight.

Done.

 

[beer 30]

Link?

Friend me, and I'll add you to the group when I get home tonight.

Done.

Same here, thanks Grue!

 

[AcerFC]

Speaking of facebookWould you more more, less or evenly apt to sign up for a race that sent info to your facebook and twitter the second after you crossed the finish line

I did a race last year (Milwaukee) where they sent updates to your Facebook page every time you crossed a timing mat on the course. Pretty cool stuff.

Ok, Im working with a company that is offering that for the race I am coordinating. Thinking it might be a cool option

 

[Exit 1]

I was looking at my local running club's website race schedule (not a member of their club yet) and it seems like over 75% of the races are 5K's. Why is this? Is this because that's the easier race for most people?

I would really like to see more 10K races. I'm definitely not a real fast runner or a great runner in general...haha...but I don't know....it seems like 5K goes by too quick (too short of a distance).

Anyone else feel this way?

 

[Wrighteous Ray]

I was looking at my local running club's website race schedule (not a member of their club yet) and it seems like over 75% of the races are 5K's. Why is this? Is this because that's the easier race for most people?

Yeah, I'd imagine they get more people to sign up for a 5K than a 10K. And it's probably logistically easier because you don't need to close down as many roads or have as many water stations, etc.

 

[Juxtatarot]

tough break on the weather in GB guys. great efforts given the conditions.i'm a running n00b so maybe this is a dumb question but in regards to the GB marathon - could they have just closed the race off to runners that hadn't reached a certain distance on the course?

I think if they were more proactive, they could have done something like that. (Just my opinion at this point.) They got overwhelmed though and reached the point that they had no choice but to cancel it all.

 

[jb1020]

Speaking of facebookWould you more more, less or evenly apt to sign up for a race that sent info to your facebook and twitter the second after you crossed the finish line

I did a race last year (Milwaukee) where they sent updates to your Facebook page every time you crossed a timing mat on the course. Pretty cool stuff.

Add me to that group too, We're already friends on FB. Nice running this weekend. How often is it hotter in WI than in MS?

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I was looking at my local running club's website race schedule (not a member of their club yet) and it seems like over 75% of the races are 5K's. Why is this? Is this because that's the easier race for most people?

Yeah, I'd imagine they get more people to sign up for a 5K than a 10K. And it's probably logistically easier because you don't need to close down as many roads or have as many water stations, etc.

I'm sure this is a huge part of it. Marathons and half-marathons require a ton of work to put on compared to 5Ks.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

tough break on the weather in GB guys. great efforts given the conditions.i'm a running n00b so maybe this is a dumb question but in regards to the GB marathon - could they have just closed the race off to runners that hadn't reached a certain distance on the course?

I think if they were more proactive, they could have done something like that. (Just my opinion at this point.) They got overwhelmed though and reached the point that they had no choice but to cancel it all.

Yeah, I'm wondering what happened to the people who were at mile 24 or mile 25. Surely they didn't get yanked off the course at that point. Right?

 

[Juxtatarot]

tough break on the weather in GB guys. great efforts given the conditions.i'm a running n00b so maybe this is a dumb question but in regards to the GB marathon - could they have just closed the race off to runners that hadn't reached a certain distance on the course?

I think if they were more proactive, they could have done something like that. (Just my opinion at this point.) They got overwhelmed though and reached the point that they had no choice but to cancel it all.

Yeah, I'm wondering what happened to the people who were at mile 24 or mile 25. Surely they didn't get yanked off the course at that point. Right?

A lot of runners kept on running and the volunteers stayed at the water stations. The streets were still closed off. I'm sure most of those people finished (without offical times). That said, they cancelled it so early I think only like 10 people finished offically. I doubt there were many runners at the 24 or 25 mile point.Edit: I retract what I wrote about 10 finishers - that's all the website lists but I'm not sure what's going on with the results. They also have some times posted that were after it was shut down - I don't understand that.

 

[Exit 1]

I was looking at my local running club's website race schedule (not a member of their club yet) and it seems like over 75% of the races are 5K's. Why is this? Is this because that's the easier race for most people?

Yeah, I'd imagine they get more people to sign up for a 5K than a 10K. And it's probably logistically easier because you don't need to close down as many roads or have as many water stations, etc.

I'm sure this is a huge part of it. Marathons and half-marathons require a ton of work to put on compared to 5Ks.

Gotcha. Yeah, I wasn't thinking so much of the logistics of a having a race. Thanks.

 

[gruecd]

tough break on the weather in GB guys. great efforts given the conditions.i'm a running n00b so maybe this is a dumb question but in regards to the GB marathon - could they have just closed the race off to runners that hadn't reached a certain distance on the course?

I think if they were more proactive, they could have done something like that. (Just my opinion at this point.) They got overwhelmed though and reached the point that they had no choice but to cancel it all.

Yeah, I'm wondering what happened to the people who were at mile 24 or mile 25. Surely they didn't get yanked off the course at that point. Right?

Nobody got yanked off the course, but anyone who finished after 9:35 a.m. didn't receive official results. That being said, they didn't pull the timing mats, so results were still captured for anyone who chose to keep running. I continued to get the text/email alerts for my friends who decided to finish, so at least they've got "unofficial official" results.And yeah, if what they're saying is true and medical resources were truly exhausted (debatable), then they had no choice but to shut it down immediately. In today's overly litigious society, you can understand why they'd be overly cautious. Stupid lawyers.

 

[pigskinliquors]

New PR 20:39

Avg HR 188 Max 195

ETA HR to splits - yikes.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!

Turned in 1:53:03 in my half this morning. I had hoped to be sub 1:50, but didn't think I had a great chance at it. PR'd by over 5 minutes so I'm more than pleased.

Giddy'up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After 12 miles, 30 obstacles, 3 hours, and numerous bruises I can officially call myself a tough mudder! What an event!

Around mile 5 I caught a group of cute women about my age in spandex who started in the 8:40 wave. Couple of guys around me agreed that it didn't matter how fast we were going; they were going the perfect pace so I followed them virtually to the end.

Outstanding!!!!!!!!! Mudder stalking would me an excellent addition to this thread!

Seven Bridges Season Starter 5K

20:23 ... 6:35/mile ... HR=177 avg

Well, this was a millenial PR as it beat my time from six weeks ago by 3 seconds per my watch (last sub-20:00 I ran was in 1999).

Outstanding Tri-Man!!!! You are an incredible inspiration.

Anyway, I knew by Mile 3 that I was screwed, so I dialed it back right away. Ended up running 1:34:23, which was good for 2nd place in the Clydesdale division. The 1st-place guy beat me by 14 seconds. Oh, well.

You've had some ####ty luck lately GB. Still a great result. Hopefully you are recovering well.

 

[pigskinliquors]

Finished the 5k (actually 3.3 miles) in 1:26x. This was a couple minutes faster than last year. 10th fastest male and 1st in my AG by 7 minutes. Would have been 3rd master if they had that.

That is an epic race Sand. Un-freaking-believable.

Honestly, I have no idea if I would have made 3:15 or not. If there is any positive to this run, however, it’s that it gives me confidence that I am certainly capable of qualifying for Boston and I now am certain I know what I have to do to accomplish this in the future. Maybe that will mean more to me in the coming days.

I think I can recover quickly and running a 3:15 in a month seems doable.

Also unbelievable Jux!!! You certainly have a BQ in your future. Hopefully you recover quickly, and can maintain your amazing current level of fitness

Is it gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) of me to want to see race pics of the runners in this thread? I have to admit, that I wouldn't mind putting a face with a with a race time.

:nttawwt: _________________________________

My Update:

With all the races, this is going to be pretty darn trivial.

Fri: I did Cross-fit with some friends, but the whole workout was only :30. As soon as we finished two of us wanted to get our HR's up, so we went for an approx. .7 mile fast run. It felt AWESOME to just run. No extra pain afterwards!!

Sat: Did a 46 mile bike ride with the 4 guys I'll be riding across Iowa with this summer. It was pretty as the group is darn slow, but it was a blast riding in a group. We averaged approx. 16 MPH, not including two stops. Three of the other four were struggling coming in, so RAGBRAI is going to be a chore to get them through. My AVE HR was only 132 for the ride and I raced up all hills and twice raced up, back down, and back up, to get my HR up while they struggled up (they rode approximately 43 miles). Afterwards I did P90 Core Synergistics.

Sun: Did a 22 mile bike ride, solo. Was fairly happy to AVE 21.1 MPH while keeping my AVE HR under 170 (=168). Afterwards I started round 2 of P90x with Back and Chest.

Had I not eaten my weight in smoked meats on Saturday and Sunday, and Fri, Sat. and Sun. I'd be feeling a hell of a lot better about myself.

 

[BassNBrew]

Please give me a moment to rant about the cancellation. From what I’ve read, medical was overwhelmed with heat related cases and couldn’t handle the numbers expected by continuing the race. Under those circumstances, they had no choice but to cancel. I fully understand this. However, that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have a beef. The heat wasn’t unexpected. The forecast called for it several days out. And 80 degree days in late May happens. What we have here, in my opinion, is piss-poor planning. I don’t know and, frankly, don’t care who is to blame. Whether it’s the city or the event coordinator or whomever. I’m a layman, of course, but I assume it’s highly predictable how many heat related issues with runners you’ll have with various weather conditions. There have been many, many marathons and half marathons run when the temperature has been in the 80s to base this on. You need to make sure you have enough medical help available. If you don’t, do something about it way before people run over 20 ####### miles. They could have cancelled the marathon yesterday and let everyone run the half. I could have PR’ed that. They could have incented people not to run at all. Maybe they should have limited the number of runners from the get-go to match the percentage they’d have to care for during adverse conditions. They could have told us early in the week that they had this problem and I could have decided to save money on the gas and hotel bill and stayed home.Anyway, enough with the negative. I know better than to make this decision for several days, but I am considering signing up for a marathon to run in the next month. I haven’t done a search yet, but does anyone have a recommendation for one that’s not too far from Chicago? Right now I can’t imagine starting a whole new 18 week schedule for Chicago in October without clocking an official time beforehand. I know Pfitzinger is down on multiple marathoning but right now I feel like I’m in the best shape of my life and, obviously, stopped short of a 100% effort. I feel better physically tonight than I felt after marathons in the past. I think I can recover quickly and running a 3:15 in a month seems doable.

Totally blows that you were on track for Boston and had the opportunity stolen from you. I can only imagine how ticked off you are. Heck, I feel like I was reading a riveting book and some just took the last 6 chapters away. Hopefully they'll have the decency to offer refunds after screwing this up. It's damn near summertime, it's not like you shouldn't expect a warm day is possible.Good luck in your next attempt, I hope the weather is favorable.

 

[BassNBrew]

Congrats Sand...still a major accomplishment no matter how many times you do it.

Ned...how does it feel to be fast???

 

[pigskinliquors]

Watched the Women's 2011 Crossfit Championships on ESPN this weekend. Julie Foucher deserves some attention in this thread.

For Sand

(12:11 on the clock is special). Beating the WR by 4:00 =

 

[tri-man 47]

Thanks for the support, guys.

I'm thinking about signing up for the Sunburst marathon on Saturday, June 2 in South Bend, IN. That's only a little over a 2 hour drive for me. To be honest, driving or finding a flight to MN doesn't sound too appealing. It starts at 6:00 a.m. and they're on Eastern time so that's like 5:00 for me. Sounds pretty safe to avoid the heat, right? I'll have to see if I can get the logistics (time off work Friday, etc.) to work.

So that would be a 13 day training cycle. How would you do this? I'm thinking just a couple recovery runs this week, maybe a 12 miler over the weekend, then some more recovery runs and maybe that Pfitzinger "Dress Rehearsal" run the week before the event.

Jux - sounds like a good event to shoot for! I see it's a BQ event, and the course is generally quite flat. You could even wait a couple more days and check a 10 day forecast to get some sense of what the weather might be like, but yeah, 6:00 a.m. on the edge of the Eastern time zone is similar to 5:00 a.m. here in the Chicago area. Keep in mind this coming weekend IS the week before the event! How are you feeling today?liquors - Nice. Pics. Hey, your RAGBRAI stories will be epic. My understanding is you ride in the a.m. and then chill out after that. Somebody better call Iowa and tell them to stock up on beer.

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With a quick turnaround to my next race on Saturday, I took some sore legs out for a 12 miler today ..cruised it along comfortable, but still had a great pace (8:08/mile).

eta: Race Results

4th of 12 in AG, 59 of 423 overall

The three that beat me are the same three from the April 1st 5K. FWIW, in yesterday's heat those three ran 12, 60, and 45 seconds slower, respectively, while I picked up 3 seconds. But they were all still at least a minute in front of me.

 

[gruecd]

Totally blows that you were on track for Boston and had the opportunity stolen from you. I can only imagine how ticked off you are. Heck, I feel like I was reading a riveting book and some just took the last 6 chapters away. Hopefully they'll have the decency to offer refunds after screwing this up. It's damn near summertime, it's not like you shouldn't expect a warm day is possible.

I agree that it's disappointing, but I really don't think that the race director "screwed anything up," nor do I think that they owe anyone a refund. Medical resources were exhausted. It's Green Bay, not Boston/Chicago/NYC. There's only so much you can do.

 

[pigskinliquors]

liquors - Nice. Pics. Hey, your RAGBRAI stories will be epic. My understanding is you ride in the a.m. and then chill out after that. Somebody better call Iowa and tell them to stock up on beer.

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The three that beat me are the same three from the April 1st 5K. FWIW, in yesterday's heat those three ran 12, 60, and 45 seconds slower, respectively, while I picked up 3 seconds. But they were all still at least a minute in front of me.

We have hired one of our team's son's (22 y/o) to pull a camper. We will start with good supplies, and his primary duties will consist of breaking down our nightly campsite after we leave each morning, then purchasing our supplies for the day (beer, some food, and more beer) before setting up that day's campsite. Each day is approx. 70 miles and we'll be stopping at every beer stop, pond (just to jump in), etc. that we can. IF we finish by 4:00 pm each day I'd be happy. re: being 4th = the other three must be freaks. VERY impressive to have that much competition!!

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Totally blows that you were on track for Boston and had the opportunity stolen from you. I can only imagine how ticked off you are. Heck, I feel like I was reading a riveting book and some just took the last 6 chapters away. Hopefully they'll have the decency to offer refunds after screwing this up. It's damn near summertime, it's not like you shouldn't expect a warm day is possible.

I agree that it's disappointing, but I really don't think that the race director "screwed anything up," nor do I think that they owe anyone a refund. Medical resources were exhausted. It's Green Bay, not Boston/Chicago/NYC. There's only so much you can do.

I was just reading the thread about this over at Runners World, and according to somebody in that thread, two of the GB hospitals had notified the RD that they couldn't accomodate any more runners in the ER. And this is at a point when back-of-the-packers are just crossing the half-way mat. Realistically, I don't see how the RD doesn't pull the plug at that point. This had the potential to get really bad if you leave the course open.

 

[gruecd]

I was just reading the thread about this over at Runners World

Link?

 

[pigskinliquors]

I was just reading the thread about this over at Runners World, and according to somebody in that thread, two of the GB hospitals had notified the RD that they couldn't accomodate any more runners in the ER. And this is at a point when back-of-the-packers are just crossing the half-way mat. Realistically, I don't see how the RD doesn't pull the plug at that point. This had the potential to get really bad if you leave the course open.

I fully agree. It doesn't make is suck any less though.

 

[gruecd]

I was just reading the thread about this over at Runners World

Link?

NM. Found it.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I was just reading the thread about this over at Runners World, and according to somebody in that thread, two of the GB hospitals had notified the RD that they couldn't accomodate any more runners in the ER. And this is at a point when back-of-the-packers are just crossing the half-way mat. Realistically, I don't see how the RD doesn't pull the plug at that point. This had the potential to get really bad if you leave the course open.

I fully agree. It doesn't make is suck any less though.

Oh yeah, if I was Jux, I'd be pissed off at the situation. But I think most of us would have made a similar decision if we were in the director's shoes. You don't want somebody dying on the course.

 

[comfortably numb]

Watched the Women's 2011 Crossfit Championships on ESPN this weekend. Julie Foucher deserves some attention in this thread.

For Sand

Oh my.I have never been so confused i my life.

I feel nice in my pants, but, I am wondering if I should??

 

[jb1020]

The Inaugural Flora Half-Marathon RR

Overall 1:53:03 HR AVG 168 – I know Ned, I know.

Garmin Info

I wasn’t nearly as prepared for this one as I had hoped to be, training wise, but I felt pretty good. One thing that threw me off was the course. This was a new event and the people that put it on did a great job, but it could have been a little bit better. There was no map or elevation chart so I decided to go drive it and take my garmin.

After getting my garmin plugged in it said there was a total of 188 ft of elevation. I looked back at my last Hm and saw it was a total of 700 or so…so I figured no big deal. Turns out it was nearly 600 ft, freaking felt like it too. Anyone know whats up with that?

I knew there was a big hill at mile 5-6 so I decided to take it easy the first half, then put the hammer down at the half way point.

Splits as follows…

Mile 1: 8:36 HR 148

Mile 2: 8:34 HR 154

Mile 3: 8:42 HR 157

Mile 4: 8:21 HR 161

Mile 5: 8:26 HR 165

Mile 6: 8:53 HR 168 – 129 ft of elevation gain here.

Downhill Started, I decided to stop being conservative.

Mile 7: 8:04 HR 173

Mile 8: 8:04 HR 172 - I was feeling great at this point.

This is where knowing the course is so important, I would have completely changed my strategy with a little homework. Mile 9 thru the finish was a steady (but slight) uphill. When I drove this thing I just looked and thought, “oh, they’re just rolling hills.” I honestly couldn’t tell the first half was practically downhill and the second half uphill.

Mile 9 : 8:22 HR 174

Mile 10: 8:40 HR 175

Mile 11: 8:32 HR 177 – hurting like hell at this point. No shade on this course either.

Mile 12: 8:53 HR 175

Mile 13: 9:23 HR 176

Mile .16: 7:27 HR 183 – this was the first time I had been passed since the begging of the race, I had to try and beat that guy, but he got me.

Still set a PR by over 5 minutes so I was happy, but I was a little pissed off because I thought I could have run a smarter race. You live and learn I guess.

I had that strange feeling where you think you can go faster, but your legs just won't allow it.

The only real gripe I had about the race was after you made the turn the mile markers were way off, like by half a mile. So, Say I’d hit the 9 mile marker on my garmin, by the time I hit the actual road sign I’d be at like 9.6. When I realized this I actually got pretty frustrated, cause I assumed the course was not measured properly. I was thinking to myself, “#### I might can get my pace down to about 8:20 and not be in the 1:40’s, so whats the point?” ####ty attitude I know, but the thought did cross my mind. But of course they evened out, it was just a mental thing.

I had also planned on being asleep well before 10, but got sucked into a college baseball game that ran long. I didn’t even get to bed until 11, then my son woke up at 1. Crummy night sleep all around.

 

[jb1020]

Congrats Sand...still a major accomplishment no matter how many times you do it.Ned...how does it feel to be fast???

Sand, thats pretty incredible...

 

[Sand]

Watched the Women's 2011 Crossfit Championships on ESPN this weekend. Julie Foucher deserves some attention in this thread.

For Sand

She's break you like a twig.

 

[Sand]

Congrats Sand...still a major accomplishment no matter how many times you do it.Ned...how does it feel to be fast???

Sand, thats pretty incredible...

Thanks, guys.

 

[pigskinliquors]

She's break you like a twig.

This is what I say about that.

 

[pigskinliquors]

The Inaugural Flora Half-Marathon RR

Overall 1:53:03 HR AVG 168 – I know Ned, I know.

Garmin Info

I wasn’t nearly as prepared for this one as I had hoped to be, training wise, but I felt pretty good. One thing that threw me off was the course. This was a new event and the people that put it on did a great job, but it could have been a little bit better. There was no map or elevation chart so I decided to go drive it and take my garmin.

After getting my garmin plugged in it said there was a total of 188 ft of elevation. I looked back at my last Hm and saw it was a total of 700 or so…so I figured no big deal. Turns out it was nearly 600 ft, freaking felt like it too. Anyone know whats up with that?

I knew there was a big hill at mile 5-6 so I decided to take it easy the first half, then put the hammer down at the half way point.

Splits as follows…

Mile 1: 8:36 HR 148

Mile 2: 8:34 HR 154

Mile 3: 8:42 HR 157

Mile 4: 8:21 HR 161

Mile 5: 8:26 HR 165

Mile 6: 8:53 HR 168 – 129 ft of elevation gain here.

Downhill Started, I decided to stop being conservative.

Mile 7: 8:04 HR 173

Mile 8: 8:04 HR 172 - I was feeling great at this point.

This is where knowing the course is so important, I would have completely changed my strategy with a little homework. Mile 9 thru the finish was a steady (but slight) uphill. When I drove this thing I just looked and thought, “oh, they’re just rolling hills.” I honestly couldn’t tell the first half was practically downhill and the second half uphill.

Mile 9 : 8:22 HR 174

Mile 10: 8:40 HR 175

Mile 11: 8:32 HR 177 – hurting like hell at this point. No shade on this course either.

Mile 12: 8:53 HR 175

Mile 13: 9:23 HR 176

Mile .16: 7:27 HR 183 – this was the first time I had been passed since the begging of the race, I had to try and beat that guy, but he got me.

Still set a PR by over 5 minutes so I was happy, but I was a little pissed off because I thought I could have run a smarter race. You live and learn I guess.

I had that strange feeling where you think you can go faster, but your legs just won't allow it.

The only real gripe I had about the race was after you made the turn the mile markers were way off, like by half a mile. So, Say I’d hit the 9 mile marker on my garmin, by the time I hit the actual road sign I’d be at like 9.6. When I realized this I actually got pretty frustrated, cause I assumed the course was not measured properly. I was thinking to myself, “#### I might can get my pace down to about 8:20 and not be in the 1:40’s, so whats the point?” ####ty attitude I know, but the thought did cross my mind. But of course they evened out, it was just a mental thing.

I had also planned on being asleep well before 10, but got sucked into a college baseball game that ran long. I didn’t even get to bed until 11, then my son woke up at 1. Crummy night sleep all around.

Great race JB! Very consistent throughout, and excellent job maintaining your HR!

 

[Juxtatarot]

Still set a PR by over 5 minutes so I was happy,

Congrats on the PR!

 

[Juxtatarot]

Jux - sounds like a good event to shoot for! I see it's a BQ event, and the course is generally quite flat. You could even wait a couple more days and check a 10 day forecast to get some sense of what the weather might be like, but yeah, 6:00 a.m. on the edge of the Eastern time zone is similar to 5:00 a.m. here in the Chicago area. Keep in mind this coming weekend IS the week before the event! How are you feeling today?

I'm feeling well. Calves are sore but nothing I think will hold me back. I think I'll be fine for a recovery run Wednesday. I think stopping when I did made a big difference.

 

[pigskinliquors]

Jux - sounds like a good event to shoot for! I see it's a BQ event, and the course is generally quite flat. You could even wait a couple more days and check a 10 day forecast to get some sense of what the weather might be like, but yeah, 6:00 a.m. on the edge of the Eastern time zone is similar to 5:00 a.m. here in the Chicago area. Keep in mind this coming weekend IS the week before the event! How are you feeling today?

I'm feeling well. Calves are sore but nothing I think will hold me back. I think I'll be fine for a recovery run Wednesday. I think stopping when I did made a big difference.

FWIW: with Boston getting tougher to get in, and no guarantees even if you hit your time; this might be a blessing in disguise. You might be able to regroup and kick the #### out of your next one!

 

[Juxtatarot]

I was just reading the thread about this over at Runners World

Link?

NM. Found it.

Just for the record, the one guy in that thread #####ing and ranting about not qualifying for Boston is not me.

 

[Dexter]

First real race (stony creek xtri) of the season was canceled due to lack or participation. Guess I'll look into Island Lake.

 

[BassNBrew]

Totally blows that you were on track for Boston and had the opportunity stolen from you. I can only imagine how ticked off you are. Heck, I feel like I was reading a riveting book and some just took the last 6 chapters away. Hopefully they'll have the decency to offer refunds after screwing this up. It's damn near summertime, it's not like you shouldn't expect a warm day is possible.

I agree that it's disappointing, but I really don't think that the race director "screwed anything up," nor do I think that they owe anyone a refund. Medical resources were exhausted. It's Green Bay, not Boston/Chicago/NYC. There's only so much you can do.

I think Boston offered deferels in advance which was a nice solution and they didn't cancel. Did that happen here? Not sure what the thought process was, but it would have been better to pull the plug before the race or reduce it to a half. Surely there's enough history now that you can say x% will need medical attention and we can only support y%.Myrtle Beach had a worse debacle two years ago. It snowed the day/night before and they pulled the plug. Snow melted by the start of the race.I suspect the next thing on the horizon is canceling a race because lightning is detected within 20 miles.I hope you catch some decent weather in the near future after catching some bad luck recently.

 

[gruecd]

All 3 who requested have been added to the FBG group on FB!

 

[Ned]

Watched the Women's 2011 Crossfit Championships on ESPN this weekend. Julie Foucher deserves some attention in this thread.

For Sand

 

[17seconds]

Any of you guys use strava.com?

 

[beer 30]

All 3 who requested have been added to the FBG group on FB!

Thanks grue!

 

[prosopis]

I did 5.85 miles on treadmill. Did most of it at 9:40 pace and the rest was .25 mile warm up and a 5 min cool down.

It was 112 here today We had an out of town hiker die from heat related issues not far from where I live. Young girl at 23 years of age. Very sad.

I have a 5k race coming up 6/2/12. I expect it will be around 100 for this race- giddyup

http://www.azroadrunners.org/races/detail/mmd

Advertising Amby Burfoot who may have run with Tri man as a young fellah will be there.

http://www.ambyburfoot.com/

 

[beer 30]

Any of you guys use strava.com?

I use Runkeeper, same kinda thing.

 

[Sand]

Any of you guys use strava.com?

I love that place - it is a crack addiction. My rides are organized around hitting those damn segments. My last ride - was pretty darn happy with those PRs.

Only thing I can complain about are the rankings are certainly skewed toward those in big groups. But still, it is a good carrot to work hard during a ride.

 

[jeter23]

Ran tonight for the first time in a LONG time.

I've been working out w/ my neighbor (P90, Insanity etc) and he has been focusing more on running lately, so I figured it would be a good time to get back to it.

I ran for 7 years (HS and college), then coached HS XC for 7 more. In the past 5 years, I have probably run less than 10 times total.

Tonight, I went out for a run and ended up doing about 6 1/2, but at a terrible pace. Legs are stiff, but felt good overall. Hopefully, just the beginning for me.

Love reading the updates here from you guys.

 

[tri-man 47]

Ran tonight for the first time in a LONG time.I've been working out w/ my neighbor (P90, Insanity etc) and he has been focusing more on running lately, so I figured it would be a good time to get back to it.I ran for 7 years (HS and college), then coached HS XC for 7 more. In the past 5 years, I have probably run less than 10 times total.Tonight, I went out for a run and ended up doing about 6 1/2, but at a terrible pace. Legs are stiff, but felt good overall. Hopefully, just the beginning for me.Love reading the updates here from you guys.

Welcome back, coach! Given your background, I'm sure we'd all love to hear your perspective on topics as they come up.

 

[Ned]

Ran tonight for the first time in a LONG time.I've been working out w/ my neighbor (P90, Insanity etc) and he has been focusing more on running lately, so I figured it would be a good time to get back to it.I ran for 7 years (HS and college), then coached HS XC for 7 more. In the past 5 years, I have probably run less than 10 times total.Tonight, I went out for a run and ended up doing about 6 1/2, but at a terrible pace. Legs are stiff, but felt good overall. Hopefully, just the beginning for me.Love reading the updates here from you guys.

Welcome back, coach! Given your background, I'm sure we'd all love to hear your perspective on topics as they come up.

Oh hell yeah...