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Sunday Sep 21, 2014 #
8 AM
Run warm up/down 8:45 [1] 1.1 mi (7:57 / mi) +10m 7:44 / mi
Ran up the road and down for a quick warm up. Pretty muggy, mercifully cloudy.
Trail Run race 4:44:44 [3] 31.1 mi (9:09 / mi) +1364m 8:03 / mi
So, 50k. I'd been talking about doing this for a while, and almost begged off when the weather looked warm (Friday, when it was 30 rising to 50, would have been beyond splendid) but I figured I'd grin and bear it, it's not like it was 80 or something stupid. Drove out at 5:45 in rain, blasting along Route 2, listening to Beethoven (I couldn't get anyone to come with me, but not because of that) and playing the fourth movement of the third symphony maybe four times because that seemed like good running music. (It was, and I begrudged people running with headphones. Of course, I always do that.)
Warmed up, real muggy, definitely no shirt, full water bottle, five (5) goos. Took the first mile at 6:51 (whoops) and the next four sub-8, but it's not really trails, so it's doable. Probably too fast? I was with a group of about 5 and we ran together in to the first wall at mile 5.5 (the elevation is sneaky: no big climbs, but lots of climb, also my Garmin elevation was totally janky; at one point I was damn near sea level, and sometimes I'd climb a hill and wind up 500 feet below where I'd started. After a while it gave up the ghost and lost the elevation, although Strava figured it out). As usual, lost them on the downhill in to the feed. Repeated the mantra "run your own race" and "you've never done this before" a few times.
Refilled water bottle. I did this four of five times. Lost count. Small bottle, but probably 2l of water guzzled during the race (I even stopped to pee at one point). It was real sweaty. It was cool for the first 3 hours or so, then warmed up from 66 to 72 which was problematic. Stayed cloudy, Allah be praised, or I would have been in real hurts. Sort-of-paved climb around mile 8 was rough, and I couldn't find much speed after that.
Fed around mile 11 and cinched up one shoe which was feeling blistery in the back. Was in lighter shoes which were fine but probably need to be broken in better. Lots of body glide everywhere, no chafing! And some other guys had nasty blisters, my feet just go straight to calluses. It's pretty great, actually.
Entered the pain room around mile 18, and mostly kept the door open for the flat(ish) loop around the lake. I was mostly running alone, with one fast-on-the-downhills guy hopscotching me and one other guy who tried to keep up with me on an uphill. (He passed me on the last road downhill when my legs were shot. Both headphone dudes. Still bitter. If I am a race director ever I am totally banning headphones. End rant.)
Major hurt around mile 22 to the end. More gatorade. Only had one goo around mile 10 and the caffeine helped, and some Coke around mile 18 (caffeine helped, carbonation less so, but it was so good). Nibbled a banana at mile 22 for cramping, and some dude gave me some "magical pill" for cramping which did nothing. He eats one every four miles. That's basically doping, right? (Also, logging right after a long race when your head is working at about 30% is fun!)
Lost that guy on a climb, walked some not-that-steep uphills, found the legs to run, barely, at like a 10 minute mile, 4:30 was definitely out, but since the course is not-quite 50k 4:45 wasn't, got caught by a guy on the big road downhill, and then I thought I could catch him on the paved uphill but my legs started spasming whenever I tried to run up. That is a problem! (That hasn't really happened since I rollerskied 30k and then packed Tucks last summer, which was so great.) Staggered in to the finish barely under 4:45.
Ate all the food. Wiped all the bugs off my chest. Took off my Team Giggles tiara. No hose, no lake. Sweaty.
Would I do it again? Oh, yes, probably. Maybe on a less-sweaty day (50 would be great). Body Glide again wins. So does carrying a water bottle (especially since it's a pretty not-that-technical course; the worst parts were the ice rink-esque bridges). I may only do one or two of these a year, but I doubt this will be my last.
(I am going to go take a long shower and drown my pain in alcohol.)
Warmed up, real muggy, definitely no shirt, full water bottle, five (5) goos. Took the first mile at 6:51 (whoops) and the next four sub-8, but it's not really trails, so it's doable. Probably too fast? I was with a group of about 5 and we ran together in to the first wall at mile 5.5 (the elevation is sneaky: no big climbs, but lots of climb, also my Garmin elevation was totally janky; at one point I was damn near sea level, and sometimes I'd climb a hill and wind up 500 feet below where I'd started. After a while it gave up the ghost and lost the elevation, although Strava figured it out). As usual, lost them on the downhill in to the feed. Repeated the mantra "run your own race" and "you've never done this before" a few times.
Refilled water bottle. I did this four of five times. Lost count. Small bottle, but probably 2l of water guzzled during the race (I even stopped to pee at one point). It was real sweaty. It was cool for the first 3 hours or so, then warmed up from 66 to 72 which was problematic. Stayed cloudy, Allah be praised, or I would have been in real hurts. Sort-of-paved climb around mile 8 was rough, and I couldn't find much speed after that.
Fed around mile 11 and cinched up one shoe which was feeling blistery in the back. Was in lighter shoes which were fine but probably need to be broken in better. Lots of body glide everywhere, no chafing! And some other guys had nasty blisters, my feet just go straight to calluses. It's pretty great, actually.
Entered the pain room around mile 18, and mostly kept the door open for the flat(ish) loop around the lake. I was mostly running alone, with one fast-on-the-downhills guy hopscotching me and one other guy who tried to keep up with me on an uphill. (He passed me on the last road downhill when my legs were shot. Both headphone dudes. Still bitter. If I am a race director ever I am totally banning headphones. End rant.)
Major hurt around mile 22 to the end. More gatorade. Only had one goo around mile 10 and the caffeine helped, and some Coke around mile 18 (caffeine helped, carbonation less so, but it was so good). Nibbled a banana at mile 22 for cramping, and some dude gave me some "magical pill" for cramping which did nothing. He eats one every four miles. That's basically doping, right? (Also, logging right after a long race when your head is working at about 30% is fun!)
Lost that guy on a climb, walked some not-that-steep uphills, found the legs to run, barely, at like a 10 minute mile, 4:30 was definitely out, but since the course is not-quite 50k 4:45 wasn't, got caught by a guy on the big road downhill, and then I thought I could catch him on the paved uphill but my legs started spasming whenever I tried to run up. That is a problem! (That hasn't really happened since I rollerskied 30k and then packed Tucks last summer, which was so great.) Staggered in to the finish barely under 4:45.
Ate all the food. Wiped all the bugs off my chest. Took off my Team Giggles tiara. No hose, no lake. Sweaty.
Would I do it again? Oh, yes, probably. Maybe on a less-sweaty day (50 would be great). Body Glide again wins. So does carrying a water bottle (especially since it's a pretty not-that-technical course; the worst parts were the ice rink-esque bridges). I may only do one or two of these a year, but I doubt this will be my last.
(I am going to go take a long shower and drown my pain in alcohol.)
Saturday Sep 20, 2014 #
12 PM
Bicycle 1:08:58 [1] 16.0 mi (4:19 / mi) +83m 4:15 / mi
Easy, easy bike ride up along the Fells (well, pushed that) and a hill (pushed that too). Then tooled my way back down. Just stretching out the legs for tomorrow.
Wednesday Sep 17, 2014 #
6 AM
Run hills 42:47 [1] 2.0 mi (21:23 / mi) +610m 10:59 / mi
NP today was 57 sections. I'm still planning to do a 50k this weekend (because I am an idiot) and didn't want to kill myself. So I did 43 sections, the last few sprinting with full recovery.
Also, I was thinking during NP "damn I am not trained for a 50k at all." Then I thought "well, except for running a 15 mile trail race a few weeks back, and a 15 mile hike a couple weeks ago, and some trail climbing and descending this past weekend." We'll see how it goes. I have cash money now to pay for the race, and need to go buy some gels.
Also, I was thinking during NP "damn I am not trained for a 50k at all." Then I thought "well, except for running a 15 mile trail race a few weeks back, and a 15 mile hike a couple weeks ago, and some trail climbing and descending this past weekend." We'll see how it goes. I have cash money now to pay for the race, and need to go buy some gels.
Monday Sep 15, 2014 #
6 AM
Run 11:00 [1] 1.4 mi (7:51 / mi)
Ran to NP, and then back.
November Project 25:00 [1]
Not really sure about the group deck. People just made up exercises and times, it seemed. I didn't get asked. And I think if I'd said "toe circles" or "ulvangs" people would have been confused.
6 PM
Run 42:37 [1] 5.4 mi (7:54 / mi)
Knowing I have a busy week upcoming, I went out for a run because it was so damn nice. Nice breeze, great temperature, and I had veggies roasting in the oven. Went across Longfellow then to the BU Bridge, and dropped a nice 6:45 along the other side of the river. Right. It's not hot anymore. Getting time for a 3000.