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March 28, 2024

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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
Total Distance
4.00

I bought new shoes over the weekend after going over 500 in my old pair, and really missing my Adrenalines which I hadn't run in for a very long time. I've got some self-diagnosed plantar fasciitis on my left foot and I'm hoping new shoes which fit better and are more supportive will help.

I ran this morning on a hotel TM in Helena, MT, our state capital. A colleague and I drove up yesterday to teach a leadership training class this morning. The roads were pretty awful a good stretch of the way, but it wasn't snowing and blowing so just some iciness and divots but we stayed safe and made it fine. The run this morning was good but thankfully we didn't need to leave the hotel until 8:30 because I wasn't the first in line for the TM. I got there at 6:15 am and there was a lady on the lone TM. What the??? That is MY treadmill, lady in a yellow shirt only running 5.2 mph on the only hotel TM. So I did the gentlemanly thing and stood in front of her and stared until she got off. 30 minutes later. Well, I wanted to, but I didn't so I hopped on the elliptical and pretended to work out until she finally left. I literally hadn't even broken a sweat. I don't like ellipticals. They are lame.

4 miles, with the last one an attempt to run a 6:30 pace. That lasted 1/4 mile and then I had to walk for 1/4 mile. This sucks! I need to get back in shape. Alas, my Turkey day 5K will not be a PR. I will still have fun, however.

Brooks Adrenaline 15 Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Christie on Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 19:14:13 from 66.111.126.189

Why didn't you use those boot camp skills and kick her off?! :)

Hope the new shoes help.

From Russ on Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 15:48:50 from 74.114.3.253

Hey Christie, just noticed that you took your blog private (I'm pretty slow) so wanted to give you a shout out and say Hi. Hope training is going well for you!

From Christie on Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 08:27:57 from 67.22.173.213

Thanks Russ. I was getting some rude private messages so went private for a little while.

Nice run on Saturday.. all those push-ups must be helping :):):)

From Russ on Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 18:45:22 from 24.72.194.88

Sorry to hear about the rude messages. Some people are lame.

Happy training. Are you pushing for a summer tri or is there one sooner than that?

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