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Ran a 10k in June (3 Viewers)

I'm jumping into a trail marathon tomorrow, which I'm using as a supported training run. Originally I was planning on a 50K this weekend, but next week I have my company's President's Club trip to Barbados - which will be the first non-kid, extended vacation I've taken in over 10 years. As I want to be able to fully enjoy both the in-room cross training (my girlfriend is joining me) as well as all the island has to offer, I figured I should probably avoid beating myself up with an ultra 3 days before the trip so I dropped down to the marathon distance.

With 4,740' of elevation it should still beat me up plenty, but the plan is to take it relatively easy and enjoy some time on my feet on trails I haven't spent much time on over in the East Bay. I'm also going to take what I learned in my ME testing this week and try and apply it to a new nutrition strategy - 120-200 calories an hour of UCAN superstarch, which is engineered to maximize fat burning while still taking on carbs to keep the glycogen tanks full. I've tried it on medium length runs and my stomach was fine with it, but it'll be interesting to see how it works for me on what will be a 5+ hour run on a somewhat warm day (70 degree forecast).

To make up for not running the full planned 50K tomorrow I did run 5 easy today to give me those 31 miles over 2 days. With a good, long cool down and stretching session afterward, I feel ready to go!
Ohhhhh gee I'll just run this mountain marathon so I don't get too beat up. Ohhhh OK. :lmao:

 
I'm jumping into a trail marathon tomorrow, which I'm using as a supported training run. Originally I was planning on a 50K this weekend, but next week I have my company's President's Club trip to Barbados - which will be the first non-kid, extended vacation I've taken in over 10 years. As I want to be able to fully enjoy both the in-room cross training (my girlfriend is joining me) as well as all the island has to offer, I figured I should probably avoid beating myself up with an ultra 3 days before the trip so I dropped down to the marathon distance.

With 4,740' of elevation it should still beat me up plenty, but the plan is to take it relatively easy and enjoy some time on my feet on trails I haven't spent much time on over in the East Bay. I'm also going to take what I learned in my ME testing this week and try and apply it to a new nutrition strategy - 120-200 calories an hour of UCAN superstarch, which is engineered to maximize fat burning while still taking on carbs to keep the glycogen tanks full. I've tried it on medium length runs and my stomach was fine with it, but it'll be interesting to see how it works for me on what will be a 5+ hour run on a somewhat warm day (70 degree forecast).

To make up for not running the full planned 50K tomorrow I did run 5 easy today to give me those 31 miles over 2 days. With a good, long cool down and stretching session afterward, I feel ready to go!
Ohhhhh gee I'll just run this mountain marathon so I don't get too beat up.Ohhhh OK. :lmao:
It's all relative, gb. Here is what I was originally going to do tomorrow.

And don't get me wrong - I'll be beat up afterward. But hopefully just 2-3 days beat up, not 4-6 days beat up.

 
So evidently I've partially torn my hamstring tendon and I'm sidelined for a minimum of 2 weeks from running. I've decided to retire from all sports and have tearily mailed off my soccer boots to the hall of fame. At 38 I'm sure to be the first ever unanimous first year vote in to the softball, basketball, and soccer hall of fames. On a more serious note I've also quit drinking so at least the beer weight won't pack on while I'm rehabbing my knee. I guess I'll try some swimming over the next 2 weeks to try and keep my wind. FTW
Hamstring pulls suck. Be real careful coming back - really easy to reinjure.
Yeah, don't #### around with hamstring injuries. I tweaked one several years ago, and the thing lingered for months. And that was relatively minor in the hamstring universe.

 
Half Marathon goal for tomorrow. 1:45:50 which is exactly 5 minutes faster than my time last year. I'm pretty excited about this race. First time I've ever felt "prepared and ready" for a race.

Now I just gotta figure out how many beers I'll have with my chicken breasts tonight. Maybe I'll do Chipotle or White Castle.
Dude, you're going to demolish that. I say 1:42.
Gotta at least go for sub-1:45 here. Don't go out super-conservative and leave a bunch of time on the course. If you fade a little at the end, who really cares? Take the shot.

 
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So evidently I've partially torn my hamstring tendon and I'm sidelined for a minimum of 2 weeks from running. I've decided to retire from all sports and have tearily mailed off my soccer boots to the hall of fame. At 38 I'm sure to be the first ever unanimous first year vote in to the softball, basketball, and soccer hall of fames. On a more serious note I've also quit drinking so at least the beer weight won't pack on while I'm rehabbing my knee. I guess I'll try some swimming over the next 2 weeks to try and keep my wind. FTW
Hamstring pulls suck. Be real careful coming back - really easy to reinjure.
Yeah, don't #### around with hamstring injuries. I tweaked one several years ago, and the thing lingered for months. And that was relatively minor in the hamstring universe.
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I'm jumping into a trail marathon tomorrow, which I'm using as a supported training run. Originally I was planning on a 50K this weekend, but next week I have my company's President's Club trip to Barbados - which will be the first non-kid, extended vacation I've taken in over 10 years. As I want to be able to fully enjoy both the in-room cross training (my girlfriend is joining me) as well as all the island has to offer, I figured I should probably avoid beating myself up with an ultra 3 days before the trip so I dropped down to the marathon distance.

With 4,740' of elevation it should still beat me up plenty, but the plan is to take it relatively easy and enjoy some time on my feet on trails I haven't spent much time on over in the East Bay. I'm also going to take what I learned in my ME testing this week and try and apply it to a new nutrition strategy - 120-200 calories an hour of UCAN superstarch, which is engineered to maximize fat burning while still taking on carbs to keep the glycogen tanks full. I've tried it on medium length runs and my stomach was fine with it, but it'll be interesting to see how it works for me on what will be a 5+ hour run on a somewhat warm day (70 degree forecast).

To make up for not running the full planned 50K tomorrow I did run 5 easy today to give me those 31 miles over 2 days. With a good, long cool down and stretching session afterward, I feel ready to go!
Ohhhhh gee I'll just run this mountain marathon so I don't get too beat up.Ohhhh OK. :lmao:
It's all relative, gb. Here is what I was originally going to do tomorrow.

And don't get me wrong - I'll be beat up afterward. But hopefully just 2-3 days beat up, not 4-6 days beat up.
gl Duck. Looking forward to your report.

 
Half Marathon goal for tomorrow. 1:45:50 which is exactly 5 minutes faster than my time last year. I'm pretty excited about this race. First time I've ever felt "prepared and ready" for a race.

Now I just gotta figure out how many beers I'll have with my chicken breasts tonight. Maybe I'll do Chipotle or White Castle.
Dude, you're going to demolish that. I say 1:42.
Gotta at least go for sub-1:45 here. Don't go out super-conservative and leave a bunch of time on the course. If you fade a little at the end, who really cares? Take the shot.
I'm going 1:52. Something along the lines of this slow him down.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2v0g39f&s=7

 
pre race poop complete. was starting to get a little nervous there. Read an article about paula radcliffe during the 2005 london marathon that I think literally scared the #### out of me.

 
Buzzkill day for me. 1:55. Never shook the cold I've had the last 2 weeks. Woke up this morning (after finally falling asleep at 12:30 due to coughing) at 5:00am hacking up some ugly funk from my lungs. My head was pounding, but after some breakfast decided to go.

Temp was about 60 at start, and we were running out in the country, so not much sun break at all.Gorgeous morning - just felt like crap. Decided to start with the 1:50 pacers and hang as long as possible. At the start line I actually started to feel a little better: I actually started thinking I'd run with the pacers the first half and then start to ramp it up.

After about 6 miles, I was done. Body was drained. I took water all day, and used my gels early and often. I actually was pacing pretty good up until then - exactly where I wanted to be. But my head, and body, said no. at that point I knew I was cooked, so I pretty much shuffled the rest of the day. All things considered, I'm very pleased I gutted it out without walking. Kids were at the finish happy to see me, and boy was I happy to see them. Here are my splits, but not much value to them today:

Mile 1: 8:20

Mile 2: 8:11

Mile 3: 8:05

Mile 4: 8:15

Mile 5: 8:17

Mile 6: 8:09

Mile 7: 8:19

Mile 8: 8:30

Mile 9: 8:38

Mile 10: 9:06

Mile 11: 9:43

Mile 12: 9:52

Mile 13: 9:23

Oh well. Tough day, but part of the fun. Awesome race to the Chinese guy. Incredible!!

 
Quality over quantity for races over 10K. Half marathons take their toll and you've run 3 in a very short period of time. IIRC you hadn't run many halfs before this year (2 maybe?). Run a 5K every weekend if you want but if you want to improve your race times for the half I'd space them out a couple months.

 
:lol: 1:45Way to go for and and SMASH IT!!!

Chief: I agree with hang10. Combine the cold with a body that's probably more beat up than you realize. Get some rest. Don't be afraid to take 3 days off from running. If you have to burn energy, go do some cross training or something. Just give the legs a real break.

 
That was hard.

5:57:21 on my Garmin. Connect says over 6000' of gain, Strava has 5,400'. Either way, some steep stuff in there.

Did get my first ever age group award, 2nd place in the 40-somethings. Of course when I left there were only five of us in the AG on the finishers list, but I'll take it!

More to come (of course)....

 
Oh yeah, and you should throw out any race result that involves a cold. Doing a training run while you're ill is fine within reason. Racing? Come on. Your body physically isn't there.

 
That was hard.

5:57:21 on my Garmin. Connect says over 6000' of gain, Strava has 5,400'. Either way, some steep stuff in there.

Did get my first ever age group award, 2nd place in the 40-somethings. Of course when I left there were only five of us in the AG on the finishers list, but I'll take it!

More to come (of course)....
I don't know how you do it. My trail run today was brutal for me and was nothing like what you do.

 
Congrats to Annyong on the PR and a great improvement! (PR only get harder from here, though!)

And congrats to Duck on the accomplishment and the AG award! I predict more hardware after you do this LT training you've promised us.

 
Annyong said:
That was hard.

5:57:21 on my Garmin. Connect says over 6000' of gain, Strava has 5,400'. Either way, some steep stuff in there.

Did get my first ever age group award, 2nd place in the 40-somethings. Of course when I left there were only five of us in the AG on the finishers list, but I'll take it!

More to come (of course)....
Outf'nstanding gentlemen!Chief like others have said, you've packed a lot into a tight time frame are well south of 100%, the fact that you ran feeling as ####ty as you did is a pretty strong statement. I woulda stayed in bed!

 
My Groovin' in the Grove 5K report.

I wasn't sure what to expect going into this one. My training has been a bit lackluster recently, particularly with speedwork. My PR is 18:41 set last June and I knew I didn't have much of a shot at that. I would be very happy with sub 19:00 and if I got that, it would be my second best time ever.

Perfect morning for a race. About 60 degrees with only a light breeze. I met Brony at the race. I don't think he posted about it, but unfortunately he hurt his hamstring again and didn't want to push it by doing much more than a light jog. I'm glad he still came and it was nice to meet him and chat before and after the race.

I came in 8th at this event last year. Looking around at the start this year, it didn't seems like there were as many super fast runners. There was one guy with a PENN singlet looked super fast but I wasn't sure about anyone else.

I had auto-lap set for every half mile like I always do for 5Ks:

First 1/2: 2:58. I wanted to run about 6:00 for the first mile so I'm on pace. At the end of this point I notice I'm in 5th. PENN is in the lead and he's widening it but I'm not far behind the other 3. This is the first time I remember racing when I knew exactly what place I was in.

Second 1/2: 3:03. I'm a little slower and trying to manage things so I don't wear out too soon. Still in 5th at this point..

Mile 2: 3:04 & 3:07. I pass 2 runners during this mile and notice both were laboring when I passed. I'm not worried about them catching back up. So I'm in 3rd now. PENN, the leader, is out of sight but the 2nd place runner is only about 10 seconds ahead of me. Nobody is close behind me.

Mile 3: 3:04 & 3:07. Lots of short hills here and things are difficult. I'm laboring but doing reasonably OK. No change at all, still comfortably in 3rd. The guy is 2nd slowed a little more than me on the hills but I still can't catch him. I decide to try to sprint the end to catch him if I can.

Last .12 on Garmin: :39 (5:21 pace). Well, 2nd place guy kicks and there is no way I'm catching him. As I near the finish I can see the clock ticking down from 18:40s to 18:50s, I try my hardest to break 19:00, but it's just out of reach...

Final time 19:02. 3rd out of 242 finishers. Beaten by a 24 year old and an 18 year old.

 
Duck! Juxt! Way to add to a successful weekend (for those that were healthy!!

Nice new accomplishments, guys! An AG for Duck and a 3rd overall for Juxt. Too cool. :pickle: :hifive: :pickle:

 
Great to meet Juxt and he ran an outstanding race. It will be tough to keep up with him once I'm healthy, but he's a great guy and I look forward to the competition in the 40 something AG here in Chicago.

I don't have a race report, but I'm happy that my setback appears to be a minor one as my calf feels good this morn. Targeting a local 5k here in 2 weeks.

 
That was hard.

5:57:21 on my Garmin. Connect says over 6000' of gain, Strava has 5,400'. Either way, some steep stuff in there.

Did get my first ever age group award, 2nd place in the 40-somethings. Of course when I left there were only five of us in the AG on the finishers list, but I'll take it!

More to come (of course)....
:popcorn:

Congrats on your first marathon hardware.

 
My Groovin' in the Grove 5K report.

I wasn't sure what to expect going into this one. My training has been a bit lackluster recently, particularly with speedwork. My PR is 18:41 set last June and I knew I didn't have much of a shot at that. I would be very happy with sub 19:00 and if I got that, it would be my second best time ever.

Perfect morning for a race. About 60 degrees with only a light breeze. I met Brony at the race. I don't think he posted about it, but unfortunately he hurt his hamstring again and didn't want to push it by doing much more than a light jog. I'm glad he still came and it was nice to meet him and chat before and after the race.

I came in 8th at this event last year. Looking around at the start this year, it didn't seems like there were as many super fast runners. There was one guy with a PENN singlet looked super fast but I wasn't sure about anyone else.

I had auto-lap set for every half mile like I always do for 5Ks:

First 1/2: 2:58. I wanted to run about 6:00 for the first mile so I'm on pace. At the end of this point I notice I'm in 5th. PENN is in the lead and he's widening it but I'm not far behind the other 3. This is the first time I remember racing when I knew exactly what place I was in.

Second 1/2: 3:03. I'm a little slower and trying to manage things so I don't wear out too soon. Still in 5th at this point..

Mile 2: 3:04 & 3:07. I pass 2 runners during this mile and notice both were laboring when I passed. I'm not worried about them catching back up. So I'm in 3rd now. PENN, the leader, is out of sight but the 2nd place runner is only about 10 seconds ahead of me. Nobody is close behind me.

Mile 3: 3:04 & 3:07. Lots of short hills here and things are difficult. I'm laboring but doing reasonably OK. No change at all, still comfortably in 3rd. The guy is 2nd slowed a little more than me on the hills but I still can't catch him. I decide to try to sprint the end to catch him if I can.

Last .12 on Garmin: :39 (5:21 pace). Well, 2nd place guy kicks and there is no way I'm catching him. As I near the finish I can see the clock ticking down from 18:40s to 18:50s, I try my hardest to break 19:00, but it's just out of reach...

Final time 19:02. 3rd out of 242 finishers. Beaten by a 24 year old and an 18 year old.
3rd out of 242 says it all. That's knocking on the door of top 1%. Congrats.

 

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