Training in Montana

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Location:

Billings,MT,

Member Since:

Jan 10, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

~~Longest Ultra: Bighorn Trail Run: 12:19:00, 52 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 20, 2015

50K: Bighorn Trail Run: 5:52:13, 32 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 15, 2013

Marathon: 3:25:01, Deseret News Marathon, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

Half-Marathon: 1:37:00 (downhill), Deseret News Marathon Split, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

10K: 44:07, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2012

5K: 20:25, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back into running shape.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Not get super fat, and qualify for Boston before I'm 50 (April 2023).

Personal:

Started running seriously in March 2010. Married 22 years to a hot momma and we have 3 boys, 1 sweet girl, 2 dogs, 3 2 0 1 cat, and 6 4 5 6 3 5 3 1 2 0 chickens (until Spring 2019 when we'll start over). As of September 2018 I'm looking for work... yay. I'm on the local School Board.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Adrenaline 18 Lifetime Miles:						424.24
Cascadia 12 Lifetime Miles:						396.50
Adrenaline 18 #2 Lifetime Miles:						64.00
Altra Lifetime Miles:						50.50
Brooks 20 Lifetime Miles:						50.00
Cascadia Green/orange Lifetime Miles:						223.00

Wed, Mar 28, 2012

Total Distance

3.00

3 miles this morning. 37 degrees with almost no breeze = shorts. Ah. I said it earlier this week but I'll say it again - I've lost about 1 minute per mile! Crazy how fast it goes. My effort up a little hill just before the 1 mile mark felt like it did before the injury, but is a solid minute per mile slower. Same on the way back home. Before I'd be flying on the dirt road in the low 7s or faster and now it's the low 8s. Don't get me wrong - I want to take it slower for a while, but the perceived effort is similar and the speed is much lower. I knew it would happen and anticipated it but it still is very weird.

1X90 plank, 30 pushups.

Pushups Miles: 30.00	New Red Brooks Adr GT 11 Miles: 3.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Kam on Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 16:54:35 from 68.66.163.179

You'll get your groove back, Russ. I mean, if Stella can, you can. I think the physiology will catch up quick. Just keep your healthy, reasonable mental approach and don't shoot yourself in the foot. You had a busy stretch without running, and with quite a reduction in "working out". It's safer than doing mega x-training, and then going out to bang out 35 miles, only to injure yourself because your cardio is so far ahead of your legs.

From Russ on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 15:21:42 from 74.114.3.253

Thanks Kam. "Stella" is my new mantra now. And I did cut back on cardio during the down time partly because I'd read Camille Herron's blog about not wanting cardio to outpace your recovery or risk reinjury. Or at least I told myself that when I was feeling lazy.... It will all work out (hopefully) and I'll be able to finish my 50K upright.

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