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Lost and battle scarred 18 miler yesterday morning [warning: pictures]
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a spill during a run… seems like it’s been a year and a half since my last fall, and almost 5 years since one similar in nastiness to this one, and that one was at mile 2 of a 10 mile race. There I was, lost in a […]
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Do not try this at home.
I was aiming for 16 miles today, and planned to get moving as close to 5:30 as possible. Instead, I intentionally disabled my 5:30 alarm at 5:15 and then woke up just before my 6:30 alarm. I ate one of those Little Debbie Brownie things for pre-run fuel. Awful nutrition, I know, but I didn’t […]
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Guess my 20 miler time: I ran 6.29 miles in the first hour + highest mileage week in a year.
This was not a set up for a good long run today: I had a mid-back spasm in the first mile of my 5-miler yesterday morning that was still bothering me this morning. [Managed to fight for a 9’22” pace yesterday] The first hour of the run didn’t break 9:30 pace, the second hour was […]