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On Mt Burdell typically, up behind San Marin High School. Lately I've been running up Dwarf Oak Trail (trailhead behind the baseball diamond) up to San Andreas Fire Road and then doing my repeats on that, then running back down.
Yep.Sand said:A few points here - decent bike shorts matter a lot. Get Body Glide (if you don't already) and use it. Make sure the seat is level.A good seat is way up on my list.... My ###/taint are still sore from Wednesday's ride.
Also, there is a transition period here. European cyclists call it "growing a seat" - you do have to get used to it. But I can say with 100% certainty that the wrong seat is torture and the right one is invisible (after you grow a seat).
I'm sure a lot of east coasters are going to get wet today. I lucked out and only got drizzled on. That storm is going to dump a lot of rain!
My brother made the same comment about his seat. It's got a little channel or whatever that he swears made a huge difference for him. I have some padded shorts from my dirt bike days. I may go dig them out for my next ride.Yep.Sand said:A few points here - decent bike shorts matter a lot. Get Body Glide (if you don't already) and use it. Make sure the seat is level.A good seat is way up on my list.... My ###/taint are still sore from Wednesday's ride.
Also, there is a transition period here. European cyclists call it "growing a seat" - you do have to get used to it. But I can say with 100% certainty that the wrong seat is torture and the right one is invisible (after you grow a seat).
And it's sometimes not obvious what the best shorts or seat will be.
My seat looks uncomfortable, it's small and narrow but it has a slit for your boys to breathe. My best bike shorts have less padding than you'd expect, actually they're tri-shorts. It takes some trial and error to learn.
Rained a lot last night but not today.
I hate running Friday's after work, but after checking out the weather forecast I forced myself to slug through 8 tired miles last night. It's been pouring since the middle of the night and we have standing water in both our back and front yards so I'm happy with the decision now. Miserable hour plus last night though.
Following along and it looks like there are a handful just crushing it and then every one else struggling. Hope your boy makes it. You guys are just behind another guy I follow, Josh Holmes bib 224.
Guy from here I know has made it through 53 miles. He seems to be hanging in mid pack.
And don't worry about being 4th - those CARA races, as you noted, bring out the best.
My friend missed the cutoff at 70. He claimed it was unfair that the sweepers were using horses.
I believe the race entry is by application. He recently won the Heart of the South 500 (very close to the course record and I bet he gets it next year). So he had a pretty good resume to send in.
Yeah, I'd like to know this answer, too.Sand said:
That was a sprint?
Thanks! Just 12 seconds from 3rd. I noticed the guy taking a few walking breaks during the last mile. I almost caught up to him twice but then he'd take off very fast. I had someone do the same thing and finish ahead of me in a half marathon a few years ago. It's the oddest thing to watch.
This is hard to wrap my mind around. As a mid-packer, I've seen lots of people take walking breaks during full marathons, some of whom finish ahead of me. But during a 5-miler? At that pace? I didn't even know that was possible.
Can't get my head around running 6 minute miles...with walking breaks.
I agree. I didn't see him until that last mile so he was pretty far ahead before then. I think I only saw him walk twice and maybe for at most 50 yards each time. Then he'd take off at what must have been about 5:30 pace.
I can't even come close to expressing how amazing this was to witness in person (I was a few feet to the right of whoever took this video). To be awake for 33 hour or so, as she also had, and to have witnessed what they had all been through for a day, a night, and another day, and having experienced it once myself - to see her come on to the track with 90 seconds to get 3/4 of the way around, after 100.1 miles....30 of us were at the entry to the track, and she ran in with Rob Krar (the winner who had finished 15 hours before) and a few others, and we're all yelling "Ninety seconds, you gotta go, you gotta go, go, go!" And she just gave it everything she had. I ran across the infield to the finish line to watch from that angle and everyone is going nuts. Another guy had come in 30 seconds before her, and the crowd of several hundred people are screaming for both of them to get around. He crosses with about 30 seconds to go, and behind him comes the first 70 year old woman with a chance to finish Western States, time running down.....and she does it with 6 seconds to spare. Six seconds to spare out of thirty hours to finish 100.2 miles. There was not a dry eye in the place. As one of the few 10-time Western States finishers standing nearby said to me, "that may be the greatest athletic accomplishment I've ever seen." I can't argue.....
5 miles yesterday morning at 7:32 / mile or 37:39 total. 7:47; 7:31; 7:42; 7:38; 7:01.
Finally sat dow in front of my computer to read this - damn dude! Congrats Juxt.Juxtatarot said:
Very solid! I'd love to be able to get in 70 miles in a week, and probably should try to up my mileage a bit in the early fall into that range in my build into my next race. To do that and get in some good cross training is a great week.
