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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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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
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12.35
Brooks Adrenaline 15 Miles: 11.50Cascadia 10 Miles: 0.85
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Too tired to wake up.

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Too tired to wake up.

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8.00

8 TM miles this morning as there were 3" of snow, it was still falling, and it was windy.

Brooks Adrenaline 15 Miles: 8.00
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3.50

3.5 miles at lunch. Not much time in between meetings so I changed in my office, headed to the Y, ran fast, and made it back in time.

Brooks Adrenaline 15 Miles: 3.50
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Stayed up late last night replacing the Macpherson struts on my son's Subaru so I didn't get up this morning to run. And I'm okay with that.

I'm really tired of my current training schedule and considering packing it in and not doing my 50 miler. I will probably do the run but I'm going to significantly decrease my mileage. I'm just tired of it, and I'm tired. All the time. Not sure what happened recently but the past couple weeks I've just been dragging, and I really don't have all that much going on. Busy most evenings but it's not too taxing of stuff. I might continue to just take it easy and run as much as I feel like but not come close to the mileage I really should be putting in to run 50 miles. And maybe I'll drop down to the 50K or 30K. I really don't know at this point.

All that whining aside, I feel blessed that I can run.

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I headed out with 40 ounces of Gatorade in my pack and 20 ounces of water and I was planning on 16-24 miles depending on how I felt. I got started and really didn't want to do this run. After 1/2 mile I was struggling to talk myself into continuing on and just before 1 mile I stopped, ala Forrest Gump, "I'm pretty tired... I think I'll go home now." And back home I walked.

I'm not sure what this means for me and running and my 50 miler but I felt pretty down about it on Saturday. I'll play it by ear over the next couple weeks. I expect I'll get back in the saddle and do my race but with much less training intensity than the plan calls for.

Cascadia 10 Miles: 0.85
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Brooks Adrenaline 15 Miles: 11.50Cascadia 10 Miles: 0.85
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