Weekend Bling Report
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Had a wonderful day yesterday and met all of my goals for the marathon I've been training for all year!
Not pictured: shirt is in the wash cause I wore it after the race, and everywhere I went they kept handing me more of this alcohol-free beer, so I have a pile of that too.
The 7 is because this is the 7th year they've done the marathon.
I now have medals # 5, 6 &7
but this one was my best by far.1 -
Picked up a pint glass to add to my collection. Ran the Firecracker 4 Mile (Fairport, NY) in 26:56, good for 20th of 561 overall and 1st of 15 in the M 60-64 age group.
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Picked up a pint glass to add to my collection. Ran the Firecracker 4 Mile (Fairport, NY) in 26:56, good for 20th of 561 overall and 1st of 15 in the M 60-64 age group.
Those of you who are not in the Monthly Challenge group may not know that @MobyCarp sadly passed away at (or after) a race at the weekend. He will be sorely missed by all of us who were lucky enough to know him round here.0 -
eleanorhawkins wrote: »Those of you who are not in the Monthly Challenge group may not know that @MobyCarp sadly passed away at (or after) a race at the weekend. He will be sorely missed by all of us who were lucky enough to know him round here.
Oh, no! I always looked forward to reading his race accolades.
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Superior 100 this past weekend. took me 6 hours than I wanted, but that's how it goes sometimes.3 -
So.... Erie Marathon... I made it to the starting line in one piece. This after not being able to run at all 6 weeks ago to managing 15 miles last Saturday. This after spending Friday night in the ER due to some really bad steak lodged in my esophagus. Manged 2 hours sleep and still decided to do my shake out run at 7 AM. So the fact that I made it to the start was surprising.
I started off OK - I was conservative and held around a 9 min pace for the first 7 miles. I decided to back off just a little and hung around 9:30 for the next 5. At some point I started to feel cramping in my injured abs and it was starting to become obvious I was not in marathon shape. So rather than risk injury I bailed at the halfway mark. Had I gone on I would have been ok for 5-7 more miles but then I would have been in no man's land. No easy way to get back to the the start.
I'm not disappointed since I have accepted the fact that I wasn't going to do well anyway. My focus now is to see if I can heal and train enough to give an honest effort at Harrisburg in November. I will be waiting until the very last minute to sign up. If I can run it hard, I will bag it for the year and focus on a spring marathon instead.3 -
*That should say "If I can't run it hard". DUH!0
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making good calls is such a big part of racing, and you made a great call. Sorry the race didn't turn out well, but you gave what you could and called it a day when you need to. Good Job.So.... Erie Marathon... I made it to the starting line in one piece. This after not being able to run at all 6 weeks ago to managing 15 miles last Saturday. This after spending Friday night in the ER due to some really bad steak lodged in my esophagus. Manged 2 hours sleep and still decided to do my shake out run at 7 AM. So the fact that I made it to the start was surprising.
I started off OK - I was conservative and held around a 9 min pace for the first 7 miles. I decided to back off just a little and hung around 9:30 for the next 5. At some point I started to feel cramping in my injured abs and it was starting to become obvious I was not in marathon shape. So rather than risk injury I bailed at the halfway mark. Had I gone on I would have been ok for 5-7 more miles but then I would have been in no man's land. No easy way to get back to the the start.
I'm not disappointed since I have accepted the fact that I wasn't going to do well anyway. My focus now is to see if I can heal and train enough to give an honest effort at Harrisburg in November. I will be waiting until the very last minute to sign up. If I can run it hard, I will bag it for the year and focus on a spring marathon instead.
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I ran a rare 5K last weekend. I had intended on actually training for it and getting a PR but time slipped away and I never managed to do any speed work. It still went well though. 23:57, just 12 seconds off my PR. And, for the first time, I placed 1st in my age group!! (M50-59) and 7th overall. Just to put that into perspective, there were only 72 in the race, only 39 of which finished in under 40 minutes, and only 4 in my AG. Several 3rd place AG winners were actually walking the course. Still, I'm happy with it. For my efforts I got another coffee mug, my third after placing 2nd AG last year and 3rd AG the year before.
I've done this race every year since I started running in 2015, (and every year they've held it) and will continue to do so. I always wear the cotton shirt from the first race. Coming so close to a PR, I'm thinking I may try to squeeze in another 5K or two this fall and try to PR.1 -
I had a last minute opportunity to run the Twin Cities 10 Mile last Sunday, the 4th largest 10 mile race in the US. My friend was registered but he fractured his foot so transferred the bib to me. It was a beautiful race and the weather was fantastic. Everything clicked. I had a goal of 1:25:00 and finished in 1:24:24 with an even split.
The bad news is that 2202 runners finished ahead of me. The good news is that I finished ahead of 8839 other runners.
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Awesome job! Top 20%!1
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Surely I can't be the only one getting bling here, can I?
Another race Sunday, my 4th in 6 weeks. This was the Loopet Loppet 12 Hour Trail Race in Theodore Wirth Park just outside Minneapolis. 95% single track bike trails, 5% paved. I ran this last year and made it to 42 miles, but I also ruptured a tendon in my foot which required surgery and 3 months out of running.
This year I beat my old mark and set a new distance PR of 45 miles, good for 10th out of 68 overall, 5th out of 38 males. And I avoided injury.
Instead of a shirt, we got a really nice insulated metal coffee mug and instead of a medal we got a finisher sticker. If you set a distance PR you also get a main patch, with a leaf patch for subsequent PRs. They made this retroactive so I got the big patch for last year's PR and the leaf patch for this years PR.
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@7Lenny7 Great bling!! Congrats on the PR. You have been through a lot in the past year. Glad to see you are making a strong come back!!
My bling from Chicago is just a finisher's medal. No PR, but I did come within 30 seconds of it, which makes me happy because I ran that PR 4 years ago. Also very proud of my negative splits. First half was 1:49:49 and second half was 1:49:07.
We were in Chicago for less than 40 hours and I attended a marathon expo, saw Hamilton, ran a marathon, attended a post race party, did a riverboat architecture tour, ate lots of good food, had a few drinks, watched the Steelers beat the Chargers and accumulated over 36 miles worth of steps. All in all, it was a fantastic weekend!2 -
I ran the Harrisburg Marathon on Sunday and managed a PR for the course despite injury derailing my training over the summer. This was not my original target race but due to the injury I had to DNF and DNS my earlier races. I hit the wall hard at mile 22 and lost 3-4 minutes over the last couple miles. Still pretty happy that I was able to run it considering the fact that I couldn't run at all in August.
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I had two goals for the Monterey Bay Half: 1) not get injured again, 2) maybe set a PR (and 3, the race not get cancelled, but I couldn't do anything about that).
The race did not get cancelled, I set a PR, and I don't think I re-injured the knee.
I spent the summer rehabbing ITBS on the right side due to overtraining in the spring, probably combined with the brutal camber of the road on the last leg of the Big Sur Marathon relay. (Those of you who plan to run Big Sur, watch out for Carmel Highlands.) The knee felt good on race day. So good, apparently, that I went out WAY too fast. Runkeeper tells me my mile 2 pace was 6:36. By comparison, my target race pace at that distance is about 9:00/mile.
Unsurprisingly, this caught up with me around mile 9 when the knee started to hurt.
I walked for about 5 minutes, and the knee felt better, but at this point everything else from my right calf to glute cramped up. I was never able to pick up my pace again. I finished in 2:08:55, somehow managing a PR, but well short of the 2 hour half marathon I was hoping for. Maybe next time, after a few more months of strengthening the hip/glute/quads.
The knee at this point feels a little inflamed but not painful, and it's been getting better every day. I've been spending additional quality time with the foam roller and lacrosse ball, which seem to be helping.
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I ran my first ever virtual race today. This one started its life as a virtual race (not a rescheduled race) and I really wanted the shirt so I signed up (plus I want to support my local running store). I had no expectations going in and I didn't train specifically for it but I figured since I'm running so well at the moment I'd give it a good shot. I finished in 1:39:27. No idea where that places me yet (I'll find out Sunday) but I suspect it should be pretty good for an age group award.
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Another weekend another virtual race. This time Roger Synder Memorial Half Marathon. I ran the actual course. It was cold and snowing - this may have been the latest we ever got snow in this area. And the wind was whipping. FUN!
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I forgot to post a real (not virtual!!) race I did 2 weeks ago. I ran 20:19 in the Greg Hodnett Foundation 5k. The course sucked, I had to drive an hour, and it was hot as hell, but it was a REAL RACE!!!!!
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Is no one running races? So quiet around here.
I ran my 2nd 50k of the year on Sunday. I finished 3rd overall!!! I have a marathon in just over a week, a 24 hour run in October, and 2 halves at the end of October. Racing life goes on
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I ran Tupelo 14.2M on Sept. 6 and have a few races (25K's and a half marathon) in Oct., a half marathon in Nov. I didn't post about Tupelo, which was my first race since everything started cancelling in March. Then again, I didn't post about most of my 18 marathons, 50K, half marathon, and 5K I ran in the 12 months before everything cancelled.1
