Ran a 10k - Official Thread (8 Viewers)

[xulf]

On a side note - a quick prayer to @bushdocda and @SteelCurtain as they travel overseas for the race. Have safe travels and a great time and race. Cheers.

TLDR - 25545 me & 66355 Steel via the Berlin marathon app and maybe online, not sure how the tracking performs on raceday . We’ll go off around 9-930 local time so if you’re up early ️.

Other notables running - Eliud Kipchoge and Keira D’Amato chasing the female win and record book. Kipchoge seems to have last raced Tokyo in March 2022 (win 2:02:40) so he’s probably been training for the race where he set the world record in 2018.

I’ll head out later today and Steel is already overseas by now. Been trying to shift my wakeups earlier to ease some time zone stuff. Pretty anxious yesterday so that will come and go. It’s an ominous feeling. Might have been bc I was converting plan from miles to kms.

I don’t know what the crowding/over distance impacts will be so I factored in both into the race plan.

3:19x is the BQ time to watch.

PR watch is under 3:25:51.

Race plan is first 3 miles from 8:00 to 7:45 per as crowd thins. Roll low 7:3x miles through mile 20, take the gradual downhill home in 7:2x for a 3:17x.

Fueling with maurten and a cold brew roctane. Prob every 8 or so km. I never seem to take them all so I think I will force at least 4, hopefully 5 to get like 500 kcals dropped in there.

Volume and training runs were solid, would have liked another long run but they were good too. Ancillary work was there to help keep me going. I know I’m stronger so we’ll take it to the course and take the test.

You are in phenomenal condition...you got this!

 

[xulf]

Negative bitches

I’m not sure if that’s good or bad any more.

It's not not good.

 

[The Iguana]

 

[tri-man 47]

Don't keep raising your arm like that. I'm not sure you've got the aerobic base to handle it. Just sayin' ...

 

[bushdocda]

~26 hours precace we’re reporting a local SI of 95.

 

[SteelCurtain]

Thanks for the support fellas! Looking forward to taking the streets of Berlin in 11 hours. Best of luck to @bushdocda !

 

[tri-man 47]

things'll get interesting about 2:30 after the start, or 11:30-12 in Berlin. That means 5:30-6:00 a.m. EST ...4:30-5:00 a.m. CST ...2:30-3:00 a.m. for the west coasters.

#25545 - bushdocta & #66355 - SteelCurtain

App is BMW Berlin-Marathon

 

[ChiefD]

Get you some!

 

[ChiefD]

Don’t forget your poop reports!

 

[bushdocda]

Feeling a bit calmer now that bag is dropped and waiting on a last wazz before corralling up. Sleep was fine after a great dinner with Steel and a merry bunch of runners.
Fair to say I feel pretty good and I’m fueled and hydrated up well from prior few days. The goat said something like ‘the pain is where the success lies’ so I’ll remember that. And D’Amato said something like ‘I was going for it anyway so why not today/now’. (Big paraphrase there as she was referencing before Houston when a America record was being discussed. So I’ll lean on these calls to action today when it gets the time comes for me.
You’re all coming along for this one whether you’re awake or not.
LFG

 

[tri-man 47]

15K splits:
SC on track for a 3:10. He’s actually *three seconds* ahead of his planned goal split for 15k (and a time of 3:07:59). #pacingskills

Bushdocta on a 3:27:24 pace (PR is 3:25:51). He planned to negative split, so he can PR, but running a BQ 3:19 would call for a big improvement in pace.

Let’s go, boys!!!

 

[tri-man 47]

SC’s HM - 1:34:38. That improves their projection to a low 3:09.

 

[pbm107]

@SteelCurtain is in at 03:08:57, congrats on the PR.

 

[tri-man 47]

SC in at 3:08:57!!! What a machine.

 

[tri-man 47]

Bushdocta thru 35k …on track for a 3:24:03 and a PR! Definitely has picked up the pace as he planned. Do it!!

 

[Zasada]

@SteelCurtain is in at 03:08:57, congrats on the PR.

YES!!!! Nice work, @SteelCurtain!

 

[pbm107]

@bushdocda is at the 40km mark at 3:13:28.

 

[Zasada]

C'mon, @bushdocda, 2KM left -- bring that PR home!!!

 

[Zasada]

3:23:18!!! Way to destroy those last two km, @bushdocda! Congrats on the PR!

 

[pbm107]

Congrats on the PR @bushdocda, great morning around here with 2 well earned PRs.

 

[tri-man 47]

Yes!!! Another PR!!! Bushdocta (as we saw in the St Louis relay) is a helluva finisher.

Two awesome races by a couple of BMFs!

 

[Juxtatarot]

Congrats @SteelCurtain and @bushdocda!

 

[gruecd]

Way to go, @SteelCurtain and @bushdocda!

 

[SayWhat?]

Holy crap the two of you slayed that race! Nicely done. CONGRATS!!

 

[BassNBrew]

Well don @SteelCurtain and @bushdocda

 

[ChiefD]

Awesome job fellas!

 

[gianmarco]

Fantastic job, both of you. Planned and executed. Hope it was an amazing experience.

I also like to imagine SC crossing the finish line and yelling out "Wally" a few times in a thick German accent.

 

[-OZ-]

@SteelCurtain and @bushdocda
Well done gentlemen!

 

[bushdocda]

Lots to process on the race morn and race day. Pretty thrilled with the run pacing execution , botched the corral and was the caboose for awhile that must have added distance. I intentionally wanted to run on point and still ran almost 27 effing miles which is some insane # of kms (actually I love running in kms). Hugged the blue tangent line too or so I thought. BQ comes another day.
Love you, going drinking.

 

[SteelCurtain]

Thanks for the support fellas. I knew you MFers would be up crazy early watching the Berlin tracking. I so appreciate all of the texts, messages, support here.

It was awesome hanging with @bushdocda . Such a good dude all around. His wife is definitely so awesome too.

I'll have a full race report in the coming days. This was a fun trip and made a ton of memories.

 

[gianmarco]

Thanks for the support fellas. I knew you MFers would be up crazy early watching the Berlin tracking. I so appreciate all of the texts, messages, support here.

It was awesome hanging with @bushdocda . Such a good dude all around. His wife is definitely so awesome too.

I'll have a full race report in the coming days. This was a fun trip and made a ton of memories.

To be fair, I think it was mostly @tri-man 47 and he probably was up to pee.

But I ALMOST set an alarm.....

 

[gruecd]

Thanks for the support fellas. I knew you MFers would be up crazy early watching the Berlin tracking. I so appreciate all of the texts, messages, support here.

It was awesome hanging with @bushdocda . Such a good dude all around. His wife is definitely so awesome too.

I'll have a full race report in the coming days. This was a fun trip and made a ton of memories.

To be fair, I think it was mostly @tri-man 47 and he probably was up to pee.

But I ALMOST set an alarm.....

I got up just for them.

 

[SteelCurtain]

Thanks for the support fellas. I knew you MFers would be up crazy early watching the Berlin tracking. I so appreciate all of the texts, messages, support here.

It was awesome hanging with @bushdocda . Such a good dude all around. His wife is definitely so awesome too.

I'll have a full race report in the coming days. This was a fun trip and made a ton of memories.

To be fair, I think it was mostly @tri-man 47 and he probably was up to pee.

But I ALMOST set an alarm.....

I got up just for them.

 

[tri-man 47]

Thanks for the support fellas. I knew you MFers would be up crazy early watching the Berlin tracking. I so appreciate all of the texts, messages, support here.

It was awesome hanging with @bushdocda . Such a good dude all around. His wife is definitely so awesome too.

I'll have a full race report in the coming days. This was a fun trip and made a ton of memories.

To be fair, I think it was mostly @tri-man 47 and he probably was up to pee.

But I ALMOST set an alarm.....

Spot on.

 

[SayWhat?]

Inspired by @SteelCurtain and @bushdocda, I ran exactly 10% of a trail marathon yesterday.

#puttinginthework

 

[tri-man 47]

I happened to have had my 1,000th Strava posting a couple days ago. A small number of swim and bike workouts are in that mix, but I don't think those wouldn't distort the overall numbers. Based on the totals, it works to an average workout of 7.7 miles per run at roughly an 8:30/mi pace, which sounds about right for these last four or five years.

As to 2022, I should finally reach 1,000 miles for the year at some point later this week. But that was the plan, for this year and next ...keep the mileage lower to better focus on strength and flexibility.

 

[MAC_32]

While we wait on race reports from our heroes...

A few of you saw and commented (thank you), but I think I had a lightbulb run Saturday. Successfully completing 9 miles at a sub 7 minute pace is obviously a good thing, but more than that I didn't experience any ill effects the next day. There was some tin man stuff going on while I tried to play football with our boys later Saturday, but Sunday morning's run went well and including an afternoon full of XC coaching I net 22,297 steps for the day. Despite that I'm writing this now and feel fresh. And also realizing that I did a couple impromptu 600's last week as well.

I still need to clear the increased volume hurdle (October's goal), but after navigating various injuries for almost exactly a full year I think I've finally figured out a routine that works. I'm not considering marathons again any time soon, but I just added find some spring races on my calendar. Felt damn good too.

...now get to typing on Berlin!

 

[mrip541]

I've started running/cycling again and now that I'm post-40 it feels like an uphill battle against injury rather than a battle to push myself. Constant shin/hip/ankle issues. I sat out all of August so my shin splints could heal and they came back after 1 ride. After a 5 mile run yesterday my elbow was so jacked up it hurt to hold my phone. Didn't even know that was possible. Pretty frustrating stuff.

 

[gianmarco]

I've started running/cycling again and now that I'm post-40 it feels like an uphill battle against injury rather than a battle to push myself. Constant shin/hip/ankle issues. I sat out all of August so my shin splints could heal and they came back after 1 ride. After a 5 mile run yesterday my elbow was so jacked up it hurt to hold my phone. Didn't even know that was possible. Pretty frustrating stuff.

You sure you're doing it right?

 

[tri-man 47]

I've started running/cycling again and now that I'm post-40 it feels like an uphill battle against injury rather than a battle to push myself. Constant shin/hip/ankle issues. I sat out all of August so my shin splints could heal and they came back after 1 ride. After a 5 mile run yesterday my elbow was so jacked up it hurt to hold my phone. Didn't even know that was possible. Pretty frustrating stuff.

You'll need to balance the workouts with supporting work on stretching and strength. I've added a short routine (~ 5 minutes) before getting out of bed in the morning and before going to sleep at night. It has helped to keep me from, um, acting my age (which is post-60).

 

[BassNBrew]

https://twitter.com/AMReportsHQ/status/1574066868146544641?utm_campaign=Weekly%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=227359454&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--_WPsM4PeTDqjz0BUbkM589N7UnoJP4zwcQG86N7CMMl4GOBrT7bZeTGlJCOlOOvC4MQOTg2NYQvVsEh8OOLuL5LOl1Q&utm_content=227359454&utm_source=hs_email

Should this be legal? Maybe it's common practice in the road running world but it's a no-no in the trail world. Imagine 25,000 bikes on the course at Boston as personal sags for runners.

 

[beer 30]

I've started running/cycling again and now that I'm post-40 it feels like an uphill battle against injury rather than a battle to push myself. Constant shin/hip/ankle issues. I sat out all of August so my shin splints could heal and they came back after 1 ride. After a 5 mile run yesterday my elbow was so jacked up it hurt to hold my phone. Didn't even know that was possible. Pretty frustrating stuff.

I used to have a terrible time with shin splints, two things helped:
1. Calf compression sleeves. Can't recommend enough, wear 'em 24/7 until you get over the hump https://procompression.com/collections/marathon-calf-sleeves
2. Running through it. Shin splints, for me, eventually went away as my workload ramped up. Whenever you "start over" I expect shin splints because of what you are doing. Compression sleeves help but just getting your legs back into condition is a big part of it as well.

Not sure why you are getting them riding a bike though

 

[gianmarco]

I've started running/cycling again and now that I'm post-40 it feels like an uphill battle against injury rather than a battle to push myself. Constant shin/hip/ankle issues. I sat out all of August so my shin splints could heal and they came back after 1 ride. After a 5 mile run yesterday my elbow was so jacked up it hurt to hold my phone. Didn't even know that was possible. Pretty frustrating stuff.

Not sure why you are getting them riding a bike though

I mean, I joked, but shin splints from a bike and elbow pain from running seems....backwards.

 

[beer 30]

I've started running/cycling again and now that I'm post-40 it feels like an uphill battle against injury rather than a battle to push myself. Constant shin/hip/ankle issues. I sat out all of August so my shin splints could heal and they came back after 1 ride. After a 5 mile run yesterday my elbow was so jacked up it hurt to hold my phone. Didn't even know that was possible. Pretty frustrating stuff.

Not sure why you are getting them riding a bike though

I mean, I joked, but shin splints from a bike and elbow pain from running seems....backwards.

Hey maybe we've been doing it wrong all along? You don't know

 

[SteelCurtain]

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Should this be legal? Maybe it's common practice in the road running world but it's a no-no in the trail world. Imagine 25,000 bikes on the course at Boston as personal sags for runners.

I think rule exceptions are made for world record holders.

I actually thought it was pretty awesome to watch how happy he was to successfully get the bottle to the GOAT. And I understand when Kipchoge set his world record a few years back in Berlin, he signed his bib and gave it to this water guy.

I found this in an article about him.

During a previous interview, Kipchoge recalled that the most memorable thing from his record-breaking feat in Berlin in 2018, was Claus handing him water bottles and encouraging him to keep going.


“My biggest remembrance of the Berlin marathon is the guy who was handing me water. He is still my hero up to now, the way he was handling, reacting and talking was unbelievable,” Kipchoge said."

 

[SteelCurtain]

I've started running/cycling again and now that I'm post-40 it feels like an uphill battle against injury rather than a battle to push myself. Constant shin/hip/ankle issues. I sat out all of August so my shin splints could heal and they came back after 1 ride. After a 5 mile run yesterday my elbow was so jacked up it hurt to hold my phone. Didn't even know that was possible. Pretty frustrating stuff.

I don't think you have shin splints if a bike is causing it.

 

[tri-man 47]

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Should this be legal? Maybe it's common practice in the road running world but it's a no-no in the trail world. Imagine 25,000 bikes on the course at Boston as personal sags for runners.

Pretty sure that is not legal for triathlons. Seems like an unfair advantage and, as you note, at some point it's going to interfere with another runner.

 

[BassNBrew]

I think rule exceptions are made for world record holders.

So basically like the NBA where the most talented don't have to play by the rules and get special advantages against the competition.

 

[BassNBrew]

https://twitter.com/AMReportsHQ/status/1574066868146544641?utm_campaign=Weekly%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=227359454&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--_WPsM4PeTDqjz0BUbkM589N7UnoJP4zwcQG86N7CMMl4GOBrT7bZeTGlJCOlOOvC4MQOTg2NYQvVsEh8OOLuL5LOl1Q&utm_content=227359454&utm_source=hs_email

Should this be legal? Maybe it's common practice in the road running world but it's a no-no in the trail world. Imagine 25,000 bikes on the course at Boston as personal sags for runners.

Pretty sure that is not legal for triathlons. Seems like an unfair advantage and, as you note, at some point it's going to interfere with another runner.

Well it would make watching running more entertaining to watch if we put 25,000 bikes on the course and get a cycling road race to watch at the same time.

 

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