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

Tue, Sep 06, 2011

Total Distance

8.01

Tough run today, but mostly on purpose. I'm worried about Veyo hill, so figured I'd do my miles heading up my toughest nearby hill. I ran it Saturday and like to tackle it every now and then, but I think I'll start tackling it every run until the Marathon when possible. I felt a little sluggish today, probably from yesterday's work outside. I didn't rest a whole lot and was on my feet most of the day. I was able to get up the hill in a decent time, but coming back down I didn't have the oomph so an 8:00 downhill was tough. I know my legs are beat when that happens. At 6 miles I was doing an 8:44 with a slight downhill and just sluggish, so listened to some Kam advice and bumped up the speed to an 8:15 or so for 30 seconds and that got me out of it. Felt better the rest of the way.

AP: 8:55. 65 degrees out at 5:45 am.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/112987791

Blue Brooks Adrenaline GTS 10 Miles: 8.01

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Kam on Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 14:25:01 from 68.66.163.179

Ah Russ, you flatter me. The surge works eh? It's funny when you get in a physical rut. The 8:15 pace really isn't much harder to maintain than the 8:45. It just changes things from you being controlled by your sluggishness to you controlling your run, and overcoming your sluggishness...kind of an "act rather than be acted upon" sort of thing.

From allie on Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 16:02:05 from 24.10.191.18

nice veyo-prep run, and good job on stepping up the pace to shake the slugishness. kam always has good advice.

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