November 2018 Monthly Running Challenge
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Today I got to run 3.25 miles around one of my usual lakes, but from a brand new starting point - my new house! Everything has been chaos around here but I DO plan on sitting down after dinner tonight and reading up on how everyone’s week went. Mine has been a doozy, for sure, and no way am I hitting my fitness goals this month, but that is okay.
I started the month wanting to do a 10K training program, but instead I’ll be going into the race on Saturday not having run more than five miles at a time since my half one month ago. I don’t think there’s a PR in my future, but that’s okay too. In the last four weeks I bought a house (doing most of the financial side of things myself and having changed banks three weeks before close), moved, and checked my mother into the hospital with heart failure. A lot of that was just the last week: we closed a week ago yesterday, spent most of the day Friday in the ER with mom before she was admitted, movers came Tuesday, and mom was released yesterday, which was also my first full 24 hours in the new house. Whew!
Never having owned a house, the whole thing is weirder than I expected. I get really excited about certain things, then really irritated at other things. I worry about having taken on so much more debt, but love the idea of slowly making this place into exactly what my husband and I want. And it’s been fun watching how excited he is about color-coordinating bathrooms and planning which rooms to redesign once the money frees up. As I was perfectly happy living in a rental with thrift store and alley rescued furniture, I’m glad one of us cares about that kind of thing.
Mom is doing okay - the doctors think her heart failure (primarily caused by atrial fibrillation probably caused by sleep apnea probably caused by inactivity, obesity, and smoking) is largely reversible with medication and lifestyle changes. Easier said than done, of course, but given how much mom really hated being in the hospital, I’m hoping staying out of it will be enough to get her going. And she REALLY hates having to take medication, so I’m encouraging her to see diet and exercise as a way to at least cut some of those back. And once again, I’m reminded of what my future could look like if I don’t take care of myself.
So yes, not as much running this month as I’d planned or would prefer, but I’m still going strong. My butt is still cold, sadly - the butt-coat has not been the solution I hoped for - but I’m making progress on the rest of my layers. I’ve only ran twice in the last week, with a four-day gap that felt like an eternity, maybe my longest stretch without running since April? My running cave (basement suite w/shower and walk-in closet) needs unpacking but shows promise. And Saturday I will add another medal to the rack, even if the rack is still bolted to the wall of the old house and the medals are in a box.7 -
ContraryMaryMary wrote: »Whose streakin'?
I wanna do it. But think three days is where i falter. So. I declare that I'm streakin' and plan on making it past 3 days.
Its the perfect time to recommit to the" better me" goals.
How does a streak work. Simply run every day? What's the shortest distance you count, like 2k/1 mile?
Its a mile per day from Thanksgiving to new years. But i say set your own steak goal if you need to.
Set my own steak goal, ok then; I will. It is barbecue season here after all.
My goal is two eye fillet steaks a week for the months of December, January and February!!
Hahaha! Love it! Mmmm.... I wanna steak. Ribeye be alright. The beef industry must have altered my post
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2---2.24 intervals
3---5.24 walk with DD
4---5.49 walk with DD
6---2.29 intervals
11---2.0 tm
15---2.05 tm
18--2.0 tm
22---1.01 run
22---4.45 walk
26.8/65 miles
7.1 miles cycling
Upcoming Maybe Races
December 1st Dinosaur Valley Endurance Run. 5 Mile Glen Rose TX
January 5 BIRR Ultra relay. 50k. Hawaii. For @KeepRunningFatboy
March 31, 2019 A2A Undecided distance. Ardmore OK
April 28, 2019 OKC Memorial Marathon (half)4 -
Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
11/01/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
11/02/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
11/03/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
11/04/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
11/05/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 3.0
11/06/18 :::: 3.2 :::: 6.2
11/07/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 6.2
11/08/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 9.2
11/09/18 :::: 3.0 :::: 12.2
11/10/18 :::: 5.5 :::: 17.7
11/11/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 17.7
11/12/18 :::: 1.2 :::: 18.9
11/13/18 :::: 1.4 :::: 20.3
11/14/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 20.3
11/15/18 :::: 4.6 :::: 24.9
11/16/18 :::: 0.0 :::: 24.9
11/17/18 :::: 5.3 :::: 30.2
11/18/18 :::: 4.5 :::: 34.7
11/19/18 :::: 4.5 :::: 39.2
11/20/18 :::: 3.9 :::: 43.2
11/21/18 :::: 4.2 :::: 47.4
11/22/18 :::: 5.1 :::: 52.4
As promised, the Turkey Trot was super cold this morning. About 10 degrees F with a below 0 wind chill. The "race" was very lowkey and not officially timed, with no bibs. One of my friends only wanted to do the 4k but we quickly shamed her into doing the 8k (same route twice) so we could all earn more pie. The wind was tough on one the outbound part of the course but the sun was out and it wasn't as bad as I feared. We almost finished last, which had a prize of a pumpkin pie, because most people ran or walked the 4k only - or really ran it rather than the nice conversational trot that we had going on. But my friend with me did win a pumpkin pie for being the oldest female finisher (who stuck around anyway). She can't eat gluten so I took the pie with me to my gathering, where it did not get eaten so I still have a whole pie. Please don't ask me over the next few days if I actually ate that pie all by myself because the answer may be yes.
Happy Thanksgiving to all those who observe it, and happy Friday to all tomorrow!
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Ok, the family has left, food has been put away and kitchen cleaned.
I am proud of my 5k today. I shaved 0:45 off each mile from the race 2 weeks ago. This makes me happy.
I am really trying to focus on my form and not just finishing. My oldest daughter, who is in the military, suggested that I focus on lengthening my strides and paying close attention to how much time neither foot was on the ground.
The stride thing made perfect sense, but my time off the ground.... that seemed bizarre to me initially, but once I was seeing it in action it made sense, too
The course today was much hillier than the last. The ups was easier to focus on strides. The downs I focused on both. It really felt good to feel the longer strides and floating down the hills.
47 ran/ 50 committed. I’ll hit my Nov goal tomorrow. 100 for December!!11 -
@MobyCarp @amirahdaboss @katharmonic Well done in your events!
@Beka3695 Great job on that pace improvement!1 -
Hope everyone who celebrates it had a Happy Thanksgiving!
I got double bling at my Turkey Trot, 3rd out of 56 in AG! Plus a PR! 27:03, previous best 28:17!
Man, it was crazy out there. A couple of days ago I was chatting with another runner who warned me that this Turkey Trot was very big and very crowded - hardly enough room to breathe, she said. I looked online at previous year's finishers to figure out how I wanted to run it - if there was no real chance for a placing I could just hang back and stay out of the scrimmage, but if I had a reasonable chance for the podium I wanted to go for it. And it was hard to say, depending on who showed up I could either win my AG or end up not even in the top dozen. So of course we decided to go for it.
The start line was set up confusingly and everyone lined up on the wrong side. The announcer had bad equipment and wasn't really audible, so it took some time for everyone to get the word about where they were supposed to be. Race started ten minutes after official start time, which gives you an idea of what a mess it was. Everyone pressed through the gate to the correct side and 2000 people all standing on top of each other. You couldn't flap your elbows and my husband remarked that if people didn't stop stepping on his shoes he was going to lose his temper. We fought to stay as close to the starting line as possible because I didn't want to deal with walkers, which put us a couple hundred people back. Then everyone moved out at top speed, first onto unpaved dirt road, then down a ditch, and onto a paved barely double wide track. It was wild! My husband and I went single file and I told him I was just going to pass as many people as I could as fast as I could and try to stay with me. At one point a little girl ran past me acting the fool - running backwards and weaving back and forth in front of other runners - I expected to see her fall and get flattened at any moment but then here comes her dad, who is a big, tall, athletic looking serious runner - who pushed me off the trail! I don't think he even noticed he did it, he was too concerned with his kid. I put a foot off the trail and wrenched my ankle pretty good but kept running and fortunately it seems to be okay. There was also a lady in front of us flinging her arms about wildly trying to keep other runners off of her. I said, "I'm passing crazy elbows lady, by whatever means necessary, try to pass when you can," and just ran like hell on a downhill, dodged her, and squeezed through. Somehow my husband managed to keep up with me. After about half a mile we had passed most of the trouble spots and people had mostly sorted themselves and settled into running, but that first half mile was an experience.
Despite all the dodging about our first split was 8:30, which is really, really fast for us. For comparison our fastest 5k pace previously was I think 9:17, and that was on a flat course, while this was hills, and my best single mile is barely under 8.
So once we were in the clear (still three and four people abreast on a double width trail) all we had to do was keep going. This is where our hillwork paid off, as several people unfamiliar with this trail could be heard gasping and cursing at the hills. Our second and third splits were slower but still in the low 9s, as we followed a strategy of passing people who pooped out on the uphill and just rolling down hill as fast and easy as possible. My husband said he started feeling like his heart was going to explode but said, it's just one tenth of a mile, you can do anything for a tenth of a mile... unfortunately a right angle turn on the finishing stretch kept us from getting any real finishing kick, but we made it in going WOOO because we could tell we had a PR.
Husband got himself a cinnamon bun while I got our results - he placed quite well also, 12 out 40 something - and then we tromped back to the car for our water bottles and MY cinnamon bun - I knew I couldn't eat theirs so I brought a 10 net carb 200 calorie cinnamon cranberry pecan muffin made with almond flour! Yay! Then we went for a walk around the lake wearing our bling. It was fun having two medals clanking together! The petting zoo for the Christmas village was setting up so I got to pet a goat, a donkey, a kangaroo, and a camel!
I feel like today had a lot of victories to it, my muffin turned out great, my diabetic safe pie was well received, my mom even complimented my salad (which had pecans, Granny Smith apples, and goat cheese) and by the time I got home my blood glucose was back under 100!
Check out the backdrop of porta potties at the photo booth!
I like the turkey made out of shoes.
Yes there were lots of turkey costumes!
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@rheddmobile Congratulations on your finish and personal record!!!0
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@amirahdaboss WTG with the PR! Especially in the cold. Love your outfit.
@MobyCarp I can't believe that pace is your "easy run." Glad you listened to your body and didn't aggravate your hamstring.
@katharmonic Good for you for doing the 8K. I'm in awe of all of you who are running in those temperatures.
@Beka3695 Congratulations on shaving off almost a minute from your time just 2 weeks ago!
@rheddmobile Congratulations on the double win!
I ordered a Garmin Forerunner 235 today! Got $50 off for an early Black Friday deal. Can't wait until it gets here. Hopefully, it will help motivate me to get off of my "you know what" and keep to my running schedule.9 -
Ok, the family has left, food has been put away and kitchen cleaned.
I am proud of my 5k today. I shaved 0:45 off each mile from the race 2 weeks ago. This makes me happy.
I am really trying to focus on my form and not just finishing. My oldest daughter, who is in the military, suggested that I focus on lengthening my strides and paying close attention to how much time neither foot was on the ground.
The stride thing made perfect sense, but my time off the ground.... that seemed bizarre to me initially, but once I was seeing it in action it made sense, too
The course today was much hillier than the last. The ups was easier to focus on strides. The downs I focused on both. It really felt good to feel the longer strides and floating down the hills.
47 ran/ 50 committed. I’ll hit my Nov goal tomorrow. 100 for December!!
This is fab. Just one word of caution - if you're trying to lengthen your stride, just ensure the extra length comes from pushing off and your feet stretching behind you, rather than stretching your feet forwards as you stride. You want to ensure your feet still land under your hips otherwise you're risking injury (spoken by someone who's been there!).10 -
11/1/18 5 miles
11/3 3 miles
11/6 3 miles
11/7 2 miles
11/10 3.1 miles
11/11 13.1 miles
11/14 4 miles
11/17 3.91 miles
11/22 3.01 miles
Total 40.12 /60-90 miles
Seems I have bad luck with turkey trots. Another short course (even their online map measured 3.08) although much closer than last year (at around 2.7). I was a little faster than Vegas 5k. 33 min instead of 35. I'm not sure .09 would add too much more time.
Nice morning for it. Not as warm as last year but not as cold as some other turkey trots I've done (coldest was 12 degrees).10 -
11.1: 3.5 @ 8:09/M (3.5) Pace Run
11.2: 7.2 @ 9:46/M (10.7) Long Run
11.4: 4.0 @ 9:04/M (14.7) Easy Run
11.5: 3.5 @ 8:27/M (18.2) Fartlek
11.6: 4.0 @ 9:20/M (22.2) Easy Run
11.7: 8.3 @ 9:35/M (30.5) Long Run
11.9: 3.5 @ 8.25/M (34) Pace Run
11.11: 4.0 @ 9:06/M (38) Easy Run
11.12: 4.0 @ 9:00/M (42) Intervals
11.13: 8.1 @ 9:56/M (50.1) Long Run
11.15: 4.0 @ 8:19/M (54.1) Pace Run
11.16: 4.0 @ 9:19/M (58.1) Easy Run
11.18: 4.0 @ 9:09/M (62.1) Easy Run
11.19: 3.5 @ 8:35/M (65.6) Tempo Run
11.20: 8.4 @ 9:33/M (74) Long Run
11.22: 3.5 @ 8:15/M (77.5) Pace Run7 -
@rheddmobilem well done!!!!!1
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I did get an action shot from the race.
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No run today instead we had 3-foot flames coming out of the oven. Which was good since the temps were in single digits F.6
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1.6 miles/2.4km done in 24:15. Felt awful. Will try again on Saturday.
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PastorVincent wrote: »No run today instead we had 3-foot flames coming out of the oven. Which was good since the temps were in single digits F.
Oh and burned the bottom of my foot, but, eh, not like I do not have another one...🤪
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@PastorVincent
We need more details... 4 -
ContraryMaryMary wrote: »Whose streakin'?
I wanna do it. But think three days is where i falter. So. I declare that I'm streakin' and plan on making it past 3 days.
Its the perfect time to recommit to the" better me" goals.
How does a streak work. Simply run every day? What's the shortest distance you count, like 2k/1 mile?
Its a mile per day from Thanksgiving to new years. But i say set your own steak goal if you need to.
Set my own steak goal, ok then; I will. It is barbecue season here after all.
My goal is two eye fillet steaks a week for the months of December, January and February!!
Now thats a goal I can support!2 -
November goal: 75 miles
11/1: 4.1 miles
11/4: 8 miles
11/6: 4.2 miles
11/7: 4.6 miles
11/8: 3.1 miles
11/10: 3.2 miles Wags & Whiskers 5K - 1st place female/3rd overall
11/13: 4.1 miles
11/14: 3.6 miles
11/15: 4.1 miles
11/18: 8.1 miles
11/20: 3.5 miles
11/21: 5.1 miles
11/22: 4 miles
59.7/75 miles completed
I did run 4 miles this morning. Then we had Thanksgiving with the family. It was kind of small this year as several of the nephews and my daughter were celebrating with their significant others this year. My sister and my brother in law who just lost his daughter 2 weeks ago didn't come either but their kids came and their 4 grandkids did too. It was a tough year for them but they seem to be doing ok. I think we had about 20 this year. So it was smallish, but still nice. The food was good and I ate too much pie and then when we came home we had birthday cake for my son's 22nd birthday. I was glad I got a run in this morning. It was pretty nice too. It was cooler than I expected even though the temperature was higher. But it was cloudy and yesterday was sunny. Tomorrow will be a rest day. Part of me feels like I should run to make up for the extra calories today. But I know I don't eat like this every day and I do need a rest day. I love the holidays, but I also find them stressful.
Congrats to all who raced this weekend!
2018 races:
5/19/18: Run for 57th AHC Half Marathon - 2:43:59.7. - 2nd place AG
10/6/18: Old Rip 5K Run - PR 29:43.5, 2nd place AG
11/10/18: Wags & Whiskers 5K - 30.05 official time - 1st place female/3rd overall7 -
11/20 - bike 18.7m (30k) in ~2hrs
11/21 - run 3.7m (6k) in ~35min
1/20 - bike 18.7m (30k) in ~2hrs
Cumulative: bike 37.5 miles / 60k + run 3.7 miles / 6k
As for my goal "I'll aim for 15 miles running and 215 miles biking. If the latter reduces I have to upgrade the former, to compensate ;-)", I realized that I need to roughly 1/3. that, since I only started this on the 20th.
Goal: 7.5 miles running + 90 miles biking.
@amirahdaboss: inspirational! I don't think I could do a race on a holiday. Well done, girl!
There were more here I would like to applaud :flowerforyou:, but I lost track, since I can only catch up with emails the next day
I still feel like this is the perfect thread to actively participate in and thank you once again for the welcoming start! 6 -
PastorVincent wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »No run today instead we had 3-foot flames coming out of the oven. Which was good since the temps were in single digits F.
Oh and burned the bottom of my foot, but, eh, not like I do not have another one...🤪
So..... Did you have turkey dogs instead?
Hope the damage and trauma were minimal!2 -
Not much to report about this morning's run. It started out slow as there was some DOMS going on from yesterday's strength training (note to self, FIND time to do it when you're meant to instead of having to leave it until rest day and end up running the following morning or quit moaning when it hurts!).
Improved after I warmed up. I'm falling into the habit of doing speed intervals between lampposts on my way home, it spices things up at least.
Looks like I've pretty much decided I will sign up for my 2nd half marathon in March even if I don't survive the first in a couple of weeks time, at least the spreadsheet that's appeared on my computer which follows the next training plan up from the one I've followed this time and starts on New Year's Day (which also happens to be my birthday!) seems to think so!
2/11: 7km
4/11: 11km
6/11: 7km
7/11: 5km
9/11: 7km
11/11: 13km
13/11: 8km
14/11: 5km
16/11: 8km
18/11: 10km
20/11: 8km
21/11: 5.5km
23/11: 8km
November goal: 125km. Completed so far: 102.5km
ETA: Going up to the village again this afternoon, really looking forward to doing my 14km long run on the trail I found up there last time!7 -
RunsOnEspresso wrote: »@PastorVincent We need more details...
So wife pulled the turkey out of the oven, but the pan tipped into the oven, pouring the juices into the gas burners. They lite up and flames shot out of the oven, so I stepped forward to close the oven door (she still had the big old turkey in hand. As I am addressing the fire, she pulls turkey back (it was blocking door) and spills a bit more of the juices which I step in. I was only wearing socks so they sucked up the hot liquid nicely to hold against my foot.
The turkey was fine (it stayed in the pan the whole time), and my foot will heal. All the fire was contained in the oven, which is a box designed to hold fire, so all was fairly minor. My foot will probably be fine by tomorrow, I got the sock off quickly.
The funny thing was I was in my office not 2 minutes before and I saw my sneakers. I looked right at them and said I should put them on. I just had that urge. But I told myself "stop being so silly." and did not do it.
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@PastorVincent
Oh wow! Glad everyone, and the turkey, was safe! Yikes.0 -
@PastorVincent There is never a dull moment at your house, is there? Glad there was only minor damage and injury and the turkey was okay. I'm sure that was scary for everyone though. Hope you foot is all better this morning. BTW, I have found listening to that little voice in your head, even when it sounds silly, is usually the right move.2
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11-1 Rest
11-2 7k intervals
11-3 7k easy
11-4 10.5k slow
11-5 7k recovery
11-6 Rest
11-7 7k intervals
11-8 7k easy
11-9 Rest
11-10 7k
11-11 10.5k slow
11-12 7k recovery
11-13 Rest
11-14 7k intervals
11-15 7k recovery
11-16 Rest
11-17 7k easy
11-18 10.5k slow
11-19 7k recovery
11-20 Rest
11-21 7k intervals
11-22 7k easy
11-23 Rest
November total: 122.5k
November goal: 150k
Scheduled rest day today. Going to decorate cookies with the nieces and nephews. Might eat some, too.
@PastorVincent Glad you made it through the holiday relatively unscathed.6 -
ContraryMaryMary wrote: »Ok, the family has left, food has been put away and kitchen cleaned.
I am proud of my 5k today. I shaved 0:45 off each mile from the race 2 weeks ago. This makes me happy.
I am really trying to focus on my form and not just finishing. My oldest daughter, who is in the military, suggested that I focus on lengthening my strides and paying close attention to how much time neither foot was on the ground.
The stride thing made perfect sense, but my time off the ground.... that seemed bizarre to me initially, but once I was seeing it in action it made sense, too
The course today was much hillier than the last. The ups was easier to focus on strides. The downs I focused on both. It really felt good to feel the longer strides and floating down the hills.
47 ran/ 50 committed. I’ll hit my Nov goal tomorrow. 100 for December!!
This is fab. Just one word of caution - if you're trying to lengthen your stride, just ensure the extra length comes from pushing off and your feet stretching behind you, rather than stretching your feet forwards as you stride. You want to ensure your feet still land under your hips otherwise you're risking injury (spoken by someone who's been there!).
Thanks for the advice. I have had 2 back surgeries - I don’t need an injury of the hips or anything in that region!!!1 -
@dkabambe Nice long run, looks like you're in great shape for your marathon training.
@zeesparrow Congrats on your 5K!
@amirahdaboss Great race, and congrats on your PR!
@MobyCarp Nicely run, and with great restraint and consideration for your hamstring!
@katharmonic Congrats! Aaaand, have you eaten that pie yet?
@Beka3695 Congrats on your 5K, but as @ContraryMaryMary said, be wary about lengthening your stride...most people do this by extending their legs out further in front of them which typically causes them to land with their foot ahead of their body; you need to make sure you extend your legs out behind you.
@rheddmobile Congrats on an awesome race and PR!
@RunsOnEspresso Nicely run!RunsOnEspresso wrote: »@garygse Please update us on those shoes. I am actually very curious about the claims.
Had a rest day yesterday seeing as it was Thanksgiving...no turkey trotting from me. However, this morning's run was the exact same run as I did on Monday, only then I was wearing the Zoom Fly SP and this time it was ten degrees warmer, I was still stuffed with turkey, and I was wearing the VaporFly 4%. So how did they fare?
Well Monday was after a weekend of rest and had an average HR of 173 bpm, an average cadence of 197 spm, and I set a new PR for the 5K (20:49) and 10K (42:14).
Today was after one day of rest and had an average HR of 176 bpm, an average cadence of 190 spm, and I set a new PR for the 5K (20:02) and 10K (40:27).
So I had a slower cadence, but a longer stride (1.31m average vs 1.21m average), and ran faster. It was also just nine hours after feeling comletely stuffed from a full Thanksgiving dinner. The shoes felt great, with plenty of bounce in my step, although I could feel the edge of the carbon fiber plate under the ball of my right foot at times. Maybe I have to try true-to-size for a snugger fit instead the half a size up I have? Dunno, they certainly feel like a really good shoe, and Nike currently has a 60-day return policy, no matter how used the shoes are, so it's an option that's available to try out if I wish.
So, do the shoes work magic, was it a placebo effect, or am I just getting faster? Probably a bit of everything to be honest, but they're definitely going to be my race day shoe from now on. If I was rich enough, I'd run in them every day.Obligatory shoe shot.
PRs all around.
01 - 14.71
02 - 22.16
05 - 15.66
06 - 14.90
07 - 13.09
08 - 13.52
09 - 26.21
12 - 15.68
13 - 16.13
14 - 14.13
15 - 14.36
16 - 20.30
19 - 6.22
20 - 7.93
21 - 5.85
23 - 6.22
Total: 227.07 / 300 miles9 -
yikes @garygse - get some mud on those legs to cover up that horrid clashing!!! You don't happen to be colourblind do you?
nice looking shoes though.5
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