Training in Montana

Not an actual race marathon-length training run

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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
Sat, May 02, 2015
Race: Not an actual race marathon-length training run (26.219 Miles) 04:10:59, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
26.22

Not an actual race, but 4.2 miles further than any training run I've done so I made it marathon distance just because. I knew my route which is my normal long run route the first 7.5 miles then a new turn off I've never needed until now. Haven't uploaded the Garmin yet but lots of up on those extra 5.5 miles. I was pressed for time so originally was only going to do 12 and turn around but I decided I could make it and I'm glad I did. I fueled well with 50 oz Gatorade in my pack and 22 oz water in a hand held. Used Easter jelly beans mostly then one caffeinated peanut butter chocolate Gu at 2 hours. Yum! Seriously delicious and gave me needed booster rockets. Getting back to my normal route at 19 miles helped immensely. I only walked a couple times after that.

Just uploaded my Garmin and just over 2000 feet of gain. I'm pretty happy with the run. Feeling strong this week, hopefully it will continue. 

 

Cascadia 10 Miles: 26.22
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From allie on Sat, May 02, 2015 at 16:50:23 from 24.99.46.55

nice job, russ.

i fueled with easter jelly beans at my mom's house a few weeks ago. they work great.

From Holt on Sat, May 02, 2015 at 18:04:24 from 67.2.226.123

Good job on the win!

From SlowJoe on Mon, May 04, 2015 at 18:06:24 from 104.51.208.13

Sounds like a nice pre-bighorn torture session...well done!

From Russ on Tue, May 05, 2015 at 10:47:40 from 74.114.3.253

allie, on clearance i bought 2 bags of starburst and 2 bags of jolly rancher jelly beans. they'll last me all year on my long runs. they are delicious.

Holt, I needed to notch a win of some sort and the only way I can do that is to host my own race and invite nobody else.

Not-so-slowjoe, it was pretty good! Nowhere close to the nearly 13000 feet of gain I'll get at the Bighorn run, but the best I could do without driving an hour to the mountains. I'm surprised at the lack of soreness afterwards. Something to be said for a long slow run.

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