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@BeeerRunner kick *kitten* report!! You definitely have what it takes to be an awesome trail runner! Look out tree roots!!!2
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Did the Nebraska Trail Run 12K today. Challenging hills. Usually I screw up by starting out too fast. With single-track trail, I started towards the middle to back of the group. Felt like I was going way too slowly in the first mile, but eventually started getting past a few other runners. That might have been really helpful, though, because I often wear myself out too early and did not do that this time.
Time was something like 1:37:4x (I need to check exact time, but that was the clock when I came in). That isn't a great time compared to others, I think, but for me it is. Especially considering some of the difficulty of the trails. I was projecting to be just under 2 hrs., so this was better even than anticipated.
There are some photos already posted, and I changed my profile photo to one of my favorites so far.
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The Capital 10 Miler is in the books. I started at the back of the pack and stayed there for the first 4.5 miles. At that point I was bored senseless and kicked it up a notch until I caught up with a slightly faster friend. I ran the last 3+ miles with her and finished my day just under a 10:00 minute pace. I really needed this type of race since my legs were about to go on strike.
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first ever half marathon race report...
If this gets long, I apologize. Last year I ran my first race ever at the Oklahoma Aquarium Run, a 5K. So I felt it was appropriate to run my first half at the same event. I spent about the last 4 months training for this race. I spent the 2 days prior drinking copious amounts of water and eating almost everything in sight. The morning of the race I got up just before 5am to eat a bagel with peanut butter and drink more water, then went back to bed until 7. Plenty of stretching then a short warm-up run, and I was ready to start!
My first mile was right at a 10 minute mile which was right where I wanted to be, so then I pushed a bit harder. I was hoping to increase my pace over the next couple miles but I found myself at a 8:20MM for the second mile. I was a bit surprised but I wasn't pushing really hard so my goal was to hold that pace. Miles 3, 4, 5, 6 all held right about my 8:30 goal but I started slowing after that and I found my self having to push harder and harder to try to maintain, but the times began slipping to 8:40s, and 8:50s. As I came into the last mile I hurt from my hips down to my ankles. It was a gut-check mile to keep going. I kept telling myself over and over, "last mile, don't quit, you can do it". As the finish line came into view I pushed myself 100%, attempting to sprint it in. I saw a video me crossing and I certainly didn't LOOK like I running how I felt I was pushing, LOL.
my goal for the race was to finish under 2 hours, and I made it in 1:56:31. I grabbed my water and medal as I crossed, then stepped out of the line of traffic to my waiting wife for a breath and to rest. OMG, I could barely move. Just standing for a couple minutes and I almost couldn't start walking. I felt completely hammered, in pain and no energy, but I felt completely awesome for what I had just done. The only thing I was unhappy with was that I forgot to pair my heart rate monitor to my running app, so I didn't get to see how my exertion level tracked to my pace over the miles. Oh well, that was a minor thing for this race. The weather and temp was beautiful and course was flat and easy!
My next half is in 6 weeks and I can't wait!
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Wow BeeerRunner - that is a heck of a way to finish a race. I'm glad it didn't stop you. Congratulations on finishing under 4 hours anyway.1
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@silverfiend Great job on your 1st HM!! That last mile is tough and really requires a lot of mental focus to keep pushing and not giving up. My husband told me he could tell I gave it my all coming into the finish of both my HMs so I'm thinking my arms and legs may have been flailing. Lol!
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Ran Cooper River Bridge Run for the 3rd time. First time they have ever offered a medal (40th Anniversary). It was also the first time I was in a time seeded group. However, the race didn't go as well as I have performed previously. The combination of a broken toe and a bad cold after that was a real setback, so I settled for a more moderate (half marathon) pace.
IMAG2712 by gsaun039, on Flickr
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IMAG2702 by gsaun039, on Flickr
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On March 18 I ran a PR 8K at the USATF Masters 8K Championship / Shamrock 8K. That was only good for 8th in the age group, but they gave me a finisher's medal.
Today another medal arrived in the mail:
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@STrooper- Nice job! I have run that bridge before, but not the official race. It's no joke. My husband and I always say we are going to make it down there one time for the race, but we still haven't yet. I ran the Charleston marathon in 2015 and was kind of disappointed that it din't go over the bridge. That would have been really cool. It's such an impressive structure!0
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Final 10k for this season, and now it's really annoying me that I missed one of them back in December, so I'd have the complete set of medals. My favorite was the icy night-run in the city in February, and my least favorite was yesterday. I just wasn't feeling good and fought a bad attitude the whole way, up until I was 100 meters from the finish line and saw the clock -huge surprise to me- gun time was a PR! I literally laughed out loud when I saw it.
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5.2 miles, 22 obstacles. 1:30:29 Too many burpees. And I've rediscovered is that I need still to figure out how to stop sucking at climbing things. Otherwise, the Fort Benning Spartan Sprint was a good weekend. We were there early enough to watch the Rangers start the race and go through a couple of the obstacles that were next to the festival area, which was awesome (wish I had photos) and was done early enough in the competitive heat to watch a friend finish his open heat (and he finished second overall in the open).
Now I just need to wait for all the photos to get uploaded so I can download the fire-jump photo...
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I had a great 17 mile trail race Saturday. With 2350' of elevation gain, and loss, it was my longest and hilliest trail race so far. I finished in 3:10:14, good for 112th out of 425 overall, and 10th out of 56 in the Grand Master Male division.
Here's the bling:
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I have a nasty cold. It was hot. Those two factors combined to make today's race rather ugly, particularly after mile 20. But at the end of my slowest marathon (3:49:42), there was bling:
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@MobyCarp, running in hot weather with a nasty cold and finishing is still amazing. Great job!0
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Ran a little race in Boston yesterday. It was a little warm, but I seem to race better in warmer temps. I felt good throughout most of the race, except for some cramping in my left hamstring the last two miles. I wasn't sure how aggressively I should push at that point. I didn't want to be one of those people on the side of the course being held up by two medics. Anyway, official time for Boston Marathon 2017: 2:56:41. This is a new PR for me, so I am very happy. I was the 61st woman and 7th in AG.
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@Wendy98 That's Awesome!1
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@Wendy98 that is an incredible run! Congrats to you for a PR!1
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Wow Wendy, that is impressive. No PR for me at Boston. Actually my slowest of my solo marathons. But I had a hamstring injury throughout training and was not sure what I could expect out of my body. I finished with a 3:53:10, which technically would be a BQ for me, but I know it won't be good enough to actually get me back next year. At any rate, I was pleased with my performance and happy to be able to say that I finished the Boston marathon!3
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13 days after Boston, I ran the USATF Masters 10K Championship at the James Joyce Ramble in Dedham, MA. My expectation was that I could race the event, but that pushing for a PR that soon after Boston would be stupid. Of course, the team scoring is by time, with the coach reminding us that every second counts. And my Boston recovery was going very well indeed; when I did 3 x 10 squats with 75 lbs. on Friday, the quads felt symmetrical. So I was optimistic about having a good race, probably breaking 42 minutes and maybe breaking 41 if everything lined up. My PR 10K was 40:43 in 2015 at age 59.
The Ramble is an out, loop, and back course, with the first mile downhill, the last mile uphill, and some interesting rolling hills on the loop. It is not a fast course, but rolling hills are my comfort zone. After doing a slow preview of the out and back the day before, and a warmup of part of the out and back before the race, I was comfortable with the geography of that part of the race. I had not seen the major hill on the loop. The plan was to go out like a bat out of hell for the first mile, moderate my pace to something more sustainable after that, and run the rest of the race by feel.
Amazingly enough, the race went pretty much as planned. I passed the mile mark at 6:00, 2 miles at 12:18, 3 miles at 18:48, 4 miles at 25:28, and didn't see any more course clocks till the finish line. Put on a surge to try to beat 40 minutes, felt like puking, had to moderate a little to get to the finish because I knew actually puking would slow me down even more, crossed, tried to puke, failed, then remembered to stop the watch. The watch said 40:12. My gun time was 39:54, smashing my previous 10K PR and age grading at 82.97%.
You can tell by my face that the early part of the race was fun, the end a bit of an effort.
My team was the 3rd place M 60+ team, an average of 18 seconds behind the 2nd place team. I certainly could not have run 18 seconds faster on this particular day. So for the way my team mates and I ran, I got a team medal and an age grade medal. The age grade model is bronze, for 80-84%; I have never age graded above 85%, which would earn a silver age grade medal.
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@MobyCarp -A sub-40 10k is quite impressive in its own right, but at 60+ years old? That just blows my mind. Well done!!2
