July 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

shanaber wrote: »

I will reach out to @MobyCarp's daughter on FB and let her know of all the folks here who 'knew', loved and appreciated her father. He and I are the same age and it always amazed me that he could be so fast! I loved his perspective on running, his approach to staying healthy and being patient with injuries and returning. I just can't imagine what happened. I don't think he would allow himself to get so dehydrated as to cause a cardiac event but I also wonder if he was very dehydrated from whatever the virus was that gave him such a high fever this last week and didn't realize it... as @garygse said on FB - Run in Peace Kevin!

I was out the door for my long run that was going to be dedicated to Kevin and was doing my warm up walk around our neighborhood when the neighbor's JRT came flying out of their garage at me (literally around the corner from my house). We danced around a bit as he bit at my shoes and the family tried to contain him. It was looking good for a while and I thought it would resolve with neither of us getting hurt. The father tried to use a broom to distract him (none of the family attempted to grab him!) as I backed away but as I moving away he ran around, bit my calf and ripped. We spent the last 3 hours at urgent care, tetanus shot done and antibiotics in hand. Doc was happy it was primarily a deep tear with a second smaller puncture. Apparently a larger tear is less likely to get infected than just the punctures. In all the years we have had dogs and been around dogs I have never been bitten before. Damn small terrier dogs with Napoleon complexes! So no run for Kevin today... I think he would understand. For sure I will be out there tomorrow at least I hope so.

martaindale wrote: »

PastorVincent wrote: »

Today I bring very sad news. Longtime member and supporter of us all @MobyCarp has passed on. Here is the FB post from his daughter:

https://www.facebook.com/hclinefelter/posts/1331977223645868



I know very very little, just what I read on the linked post.

What a shock. He was such a positive presence and such an inspiration to me. I knew I could never come close to his skill level but he was endlessly supportive of runners of every level here. Just shocked.

rheddmobile wrote: »

@T1DCarnivoreRunner I didn’t realize you were in the Memphis area now! Which park are you running? My favorite long run park is Shelby Farms, on the Greenline. The weather has been terrible here, like running through soup, surely that’s not helping the quality of your runs either. I’ve been running at night recently because I just can’t handle the combo of heat and humidity.

katharmonic wrote: »

In the tradition of @MobyCarp, who always wrote a great and insightful race report, I will write a short report of my race today. I know we all wish that we could read his report today too (I just read his last one, so much detail and knowledge of his running and himself) and it doesn't feel great to celebrate, but I'm sure he'd understand.

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
07/01/19 :::: 3.0 :::: 3.0
07/02/19 :::: 4.4 :::: 7.5
07/03/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 7.5
07/04/19 :::: 10.1 :::: 17.5
07/05/19 :::: 3.1 :::: 20.6
07/06/19 :::: 4.5 :::: 25.2
07/07/19 :::: 4.5 :::: 29.7
07/08/19 :::: 3.9 :::: 33.5
07/09/19 :::: 2.6 :::: 36.1
07/10/19 :::: 4.6 :::: 40.7
07/11/19 :::: 0.0 :::: 40.7
07/12/19 :::: 3.5 :::: 44.2
07/13/19 :::: 4.0 :::: 48.2
07/14/19 :::: 9.4 :::: 57.6

Today was the Boilermaker 15k in Utica, NY, which is a large race (about 12,000 runners) that attracts some elite competition. First place for the men was Gabriel Geay - @Teresa502 this is the guy you mentioned right? - who finished in 43:36, a 4:41 pace. First place woman was Caroline Rotich, who finished in 49:07.

And now for the perspective from way back in the pack. The weather was pretty fortunate, around 70 degrees and overcast to start. Word has it that it has never rained during the Boilermaker race in its 42-year history. It was humid though, so I definitely felt it was hotter than the temps implied and I took lots of water, ice and popsicles along the way.

There was about a 15-minute delay in the start of the race because of a police emergency. Apparently there was a homicide close to but off the course (and unrelated to the race). Once the gun went off, it took a while for us to make it across the start line in the crowd. I wanted to be sure I didn't start out too fast, and this was not a problem with how packed it was. I didn't feel great the first couple of miles, I think I stiffened up standing around at the start so long. By the third mile I was doing a bit better but it was gradually uphill. And then the big hill that peaks at about the 4-mile marker. I actually struggled more on the gradual part that I had forgotten about and did better on the hillier hill that I dreaded, but the sun decided to come out full force for a bit so that was a tough stretch. Then a nice long downhill section between miles 4-6 was a great way to make up a little of that time (and the clouds returned!) and I tried to just relax and let gravity do a lot of the work. Mile 4 was my slowest and mile 5 was my fastest split of the race. Then I was trying to kick it to the 10k marker because I thought I might be close to a 10k PR (I wasn't) and then I felt kind of wiped after that - which is not great when there's still 5k to go.

Back uphill a little to mile 7 and then mostly downhill for the rest of the race. The last two miles seemed to last forever. I recognized the street that we finished on but was surprised how far down the finish still was. Even so, the last two miles were the 2nd and 3rd fastest of the race so I'm glad I was able to hang on and finish strong.

My time was 1:37:41 (10:29 avg pace), which is better than last year by 5.5 minutes. Which isn't saying a whole lot but that was my main goal going into this so I was glad. I know I can run a better race. I feel like I'm still really struggling with pacing and consistency. My splits are all over the place, although generally related to the elevation changes. I walked too much for water stops (more stops than I needed and stopping and walking through rather than just slowing), and this is a mental thing more than anything. I am grateful that I have thus far managed to be healthy and I feel like my training season is going okay, so I am hopeful that I can pull together a good race or two in the fall.

By the way, MobyCarp lived only about 1.5 hours away from me and I always enjoyed the overlap in what is local to us. I had hoped I would cross paths with him in person at a race someday but we never ran the same race the same year. Raising a glass to him now.

Scott6255 wrote: »

Went out to just do an easy 8-9 mile run this morning, and was thinking about @MobyCarp. Since he was a numbers guy, I thought it would be kinda cool to do a run that matched pace to miles. If Kevin were doing it, he would probably call a 6/6 (6:00 min/mi 6 mile run) and easy run, but I am not up to his standard. I might could have done an 8/8 if I thought of it sooner, but first few miles were slow. So I ended up doing 8.5 miles in 8:50. Just something to dedicate to Kevin.