Training Log Archive: Toivo!

Another load cut and hauled (with my main squeeze)
Also a sap collection trip in the woods.

C • don't get 4

One load cut and hauled.

Back and forth, forth and back in the sugar bush... with dogs.

Owatonna Conn. with the dogs.

Making birch kombucha all day.

One giant trailer load of birch, cut/loaded/unloaded.
Still have to think about whether or not to log (no pun intended) this stuff.

Trails from Mineral Center. Up to the ridge + and back, checking out the various syrup operations. With gang.

Res River to Res River and back.

Family saunter ... Owatonna Connector, in the evening.

With TomO!
From O-St. aroundabout to Hartley, and back.
Porch beer. Good times.

Up and down the road to the end beaches +
With Jubes and Hansi

Pulled the birch taps (50 gallons of sap on snow)

Two trailer loads of birch from the Bison Ranch

C • okay jonas 4

Two trailer loads of birch cut and hauled.

RRR, #61, up and down some random logging road... with Hansi.
Video sessions with my mum's church, family, and Ho-bags. It's a brave new world.

From RRR, to Hovland, uphill on Arrowhead Tr. to the Bennett's and back home. 53:00 up (headwind) 22:00 back. 5 1/2 with Julie.

Up and down the road to test the back... felt okay.
Otherwise, just hauling sap, tending fires, splitting wood. GP

Tentative trot to test my back.
Nice day out there!

55 pu (25/30)
100 bicycles

Snowmobile trails to the sugar bush, and then a loop to snoop on other people's set-ups. In boots.
Lower R back hurts, a lot.

From home to St. Mary's via UMD, St. Marie, Vermilion, 4th St.
Felt good, but kidney/back injury started hurting @4
(last mile, flat, 7:45)
Boiling sap

I got a call from the DN-T about Grandma's and knew I'd be asked how many of them I've run. I never knew the right number and would just say, "oh, about half?"
So, after Jarrow told me that the complete results are finally posted, I looked them all up. I was pretty close at 19 races.

'79-2:42
'80-2:35
'81-2:33
'83-2:36
'84-2:31
'86-3:04 (ran with Zelda Blauert)
'87-2:36
'88-2:35
'89-2:59 (not sure what happened there)
'95-2:46 (several years off to be a skier/biker)
'96-2:50
'99-3:09
'03-2:51
'05-2:51
'07-2:59
'08-3:05
'09-3:02
'12-3:14
'15-3:37
'20 4:46:40 (Virtual)
Average Time (not counting seconds) = 2:52:00 ++

Adding these as I find them...
Rocket City Marathon '98 2:53:00 (ran with Katie and tied)
Las Vegas Marathon '92 2:35:28
Tucson Marathon ''00 2:46

Twin Cities Marathon
'83 2:28:35
'87 2:25:29 (PR)
'95 2:31 (10th Master)
'02 2:51
'04 3:05
'06 2:56

Paavo Nurmi Marathon
'71 3:16 (16 yrs old)
'72 3:05
'74 2:53 (first sub-3:00. Keenan 2:51)
'95 2:39 (2nd behind Tom Lenz)

Boston Marathon
'84 2:39:26 (1:11 at half. Gabrielle Anderson 2 secs. back)

C • Boston Marathon 2

C • TCM 7