Half marathon is coming up on May 10. I hope to finish it.

LOL. You are going to kill it.

Thanks all.

Nice job, Joe!

Yay to no saddlesoreness! I miss biking!

Personally, I lose a lot of salt and potassium. I had a miserable headache the other day. I drink some salt water, eat dry fruit, and/or drink some kind of electrolyte drink and I'm all set afterwards.

I got a quick 5km run in yesterday. Hopefully 10km tomorrow.

Thanks all.

Nice job, Joe!

Yay to no saddlesoreness! I miss biking!

Personally, I lose a lot of salt and potassium. I had a miserable headache the other day. I drink some salt water, eat dry fruit, and/or drink some kind of electrolyte drink and I'm all set afterwards.

I got a quick 5km run in yesterday. Hopefully 10km tomorrow.

I usually add salt to my pasta/vegetables when I am cooking but I have been forgetting lately, need to start doing that again. Been getting cramp lately too so need to eat more bananas.

Romy, it'll be fun to wear the tshirt to work. Nice going on the run! I still haven't entered an official 5K. Perhaps a virtual one is the way to go for me.

Welcome to all the new members! I'm looking forward to getting to know you all.

I did a 10K Runner run this morning (30min R + 3 min W + 15 min R), to which I added another 15 minute run. After running the 60 minutes, I'd run 7.62K (already a personal best.....my longest running day up 'til today was 7K) and just had to see if I had enough umph left in me to make it to 8K. And I did!! It took 2:45 to make it, but make it I did.
I'm feeling pretty good right now.

I have some nuun in my running bag. Adding it to my water makes a huge difference.

Ceci, hope things went well with your run tonight.

Romy, wear the shirt proudly! I looked up the race on it's website and I bet it's a really fun shirt to wear.

Today was my long run, so I ran 10k. Due to other factors (RAWR), I've been running a lot of little runs this week, except on Tuesday and today when i ran more. I calculated at work today that I've been averaging running 19 miles a week in April, so far, but in a lot of bits and pieces!

That is awesome!

Yesterday was the 1st annual Peach Jam Half Marathon at a local greenway. I was nervously watching all the rain fall on Friday because the greenway is prone to flooding often. Even as we drove to the race early Saturday morning we weren't sure the race was going to happen. When we got there they assured us everything was OK, just some deep puddles here and there covering the entire path. Oh well, shoes were definitely going to get soaked. We did our typical lunge matrix and warmup run prior to the race. It was cold and raining lightly so I wore a light waterproof jacket over my singlet. As we waited for the start I was thinking the jacket was too much. Fortunately we ran right by my car as we made our way towards the greenway and I tossed the jacket on the hood. From the start to the greenway path it was all downhill and everyone was going fast. I kept looking at my Garmin and seeing a 7-something pace and thought "this is not good!" When we hit the greenway I slowed down a lot until I started seeing the pace get up to about 8:50. That's where I wanted to be for the first 3 miles. I settled into the pace and avoided water as much as possible until it covered the path. Shoes were soaked before I even hit 2 miles.

At the 4-mile mark we hit the north end of the greenway and the first turnaround point. I started picking up the pace a little here. My ideal finish time was 1:50 and I needed to average 8:24 pace to hit that. The only two numbers I was looking at on my Garmin were lap pace and average pace. By the halfway point I noticed I was already getting close to that 8:24 average pace. That was the point I thought "hey, I can finish in the 1:40's!" I got behind a big buy running just slightly over an 8:00 pace and drafted behind him for several miles. That really helped pull me through the hardest part of the race - miles 8 thru 10. When I hit mile 11 I turned on the afterburners and passed that guy and many others. That last 5K was the fastest 5K I have ever run (23:31). The last 10K was also my fastest at 48:37. On the return we had to go back uphill to the park where we started. They have a track there and we finished with about half a lap on the track. When I entered the track my wife had already finished and ran alongside me yelling at me to pass the people up ahead. I gave it all I could and was running a 6:00 pace for the last 300 meters.

I saw the clock at 1:46:26 as I rounded the last turn and crossed the line right at 1:46:30. Blew away my old PR of 1:53:53. My wife set a new PR of 1:42:34. She was 2nd in her age group and the 5th female overall. I was 7th out of 40 guys in my AG. Today I'm a bit sore and tired but pretty happy.

Here are my splits:


And the photographer took some pretty good photos:

Today I received my T-shirt and medal for the Prairie Dog Half (5k), guess what I'll be wearing to work on Monday!

Oh, I love this!!! Congrats, Romy!!!

I've been Mia too ;( happy Easter everyone!!! Still running just 3 after 3 after 3 miles. I need to get out of this rut, but still coughing up a bit of grossness so hopefully I can kick the final of the plague I have and get back to my regular running life! Congrats ceci!!!! So cool and to everyone else doing so well! So sorry Tim about your group run, sounds very moving and emotional...

Wait, Laura, what surgery?!?!?

I've been MIA too!! Work...grrr... Glad to hear you are keeping at it, but sorry to hear you are still unwell. :-(