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Well la de da...I'll just write a heart felt and emotional post about what a great person Tri-man is and just maybe people will stop making fun of me for hoarding shovels.@tri-man 47 - so much good to like in that post. Just a couple of highlights to me:
1. The reverence you showed for the entire event. You had a purpose for this race, and you executed that purpose from the day your signed up to the day you ran the race. From raising the money to always sharing items on your Facebook page leading up to the race to noticing the things during the race that made it special. Love that part about this entire race for you.
2. Running in sopping wet conditions and STILL getting that result: to me, this is otherworldly. Lots of people - LOTS - would have folded under those conditions. Yet, you persevered. You stared straight into it's eyes and fought through it. If anyone ever ran a race in the spirit of the men and women the race was about - that was YOU. Truly inspiring.
So impressed. Congrats.
Congrats (again) on a fast, gutsy race and an awesome fundraising effort. You say that you weren't happy with your mental effort towards the end, but conditions like that are going to #### with the very best of us (i.e., you).
That you saw... I'm sure there was an emergency collapsible one somewhere in the trunk.
I was about to give you trouble for posting this repeatedly and the other one magically disappeared...
Accuweather isn't showing this for me. Seemingly almost perfect weather except for the wind (9 mph gusting to 13)
ahhh... I like that one. Both wunderground and weather.com had what I posted above...
That's bizarre. If you're going to stack tracking timers you do it at the end of the race, not beginning. Not much info to glean 5K vs. 10K.
The map provided mile by mile updates, which was nice and better than the text tracking
Risk/reward. No harm in it up until a few days before, but what if. I plan to do my last real lift 9 days prior. I will do one light one 5-6 days prior then tap out. 70-80% of the normal weight and probably only 2 sets of whatever exercises I choose to do that day.
Man, I'd love to see their mile splits and total distance to see how it compares! The data doesn't look like it's available any more, though.
Not sure if it would help but If you look at your race on strava, you should see something showing others who ran it. You can click on them to stalk paces and distance ran.
I read something similar to this a few months ago. Something like there are no benefits to be had a week or so before the race. I understand where @gruecd is coming from though. I try and keep my same routine the entire week. I don’t think you will gain any benefits from it. I also don’t think you’ll see any negative impacts from it. Just realized this doesn’t help at all.
Dang dude. My apologies. One of those things I was meaning to get to and thought i had more time (can I blame Iguana for claiming all my brain space regarding race dates?). Hit me up next time you do something like this and remind me I'm in for double.
Yup, I did find all the results that are in Strava. The #2 male shows 26.41 miles; the #3 male shows 26.44 miles. The winning female shows 26.81 miles! WTH?? Looking at a dozen other runners, they all ranged from 26.4x to 26.8x (with at least one at 27.xx). Very strange!
Working on your mental planning? What are you going to think about in those final several miles? What will carry you through that last stretch on Meridian that will go on seemingly forever? Get all that in your mind before you start!
Keep your diet clean and start thinking about what you are eating the week leading up to the race.
I can only imagine what that stretch down Meridian will be like. I know what it was like last year and I was only doing the half. From 25th Street to the Circle will look like a lifetime away, I am certain! There are a few things I'll use to muscle through that section - one will of course be thoughts of here. One will be a little trick I always use when running - particularly when running new/unfamiliar routes - I take myself from where I am to a place I know - i.e. routes I run often. For example, if I am 3 miles from the finish, I'll make myself picture one of my favorite routes and will mentally mark off certain landmarks of that route. For something like the last 10k, I have several spot I can "go to". Kind of helps me focus on keeping my feet moving and hopefully will distract me from looking at Monument Circle and thinking about how far away it is.
In all seriousness, the memory of your tree will go with me around the northside of Indy. I guarantee it will pass through my mind at some point - along with @Juxtatarot's ridiculous HR, @ChiefD's shovels, @BassNBrew and @SFBayDuck and others crazy long ultra runs, @tri-man 47's killer MCM run he just finished and dozens of other things both silly and serious that goes on around here. My ultimate dream is having some kind of la-di-da, #BMF, #beatgrue story to tell when it is all over... but there's a ridiculous amount of waiting to do first... and plenty of work to do after that is over.
Can't be emphasized enough - everyone else, if you really want to challenge yourself for half training then it's Hanson's. Now to see if all the work pays off for us.
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