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May 02, 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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Adrenaline 18 Lifetime Miles: 424.24
Cascadia 12 Lifetime Miles: 396.50
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Altra Lifetime Miles: 50.50
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Cascadia Green/orange Lifetime Miles: 223.00
Fri, Mar 02, 2012
Total Distance
2.00

2 elliptical miles. Man, those things are slow! I worked my butt off and did 50 minutes on the machine from hell, but thankfully had some interesting shows to watch. And I don't recall anything I watched, but it passed the time. I wore my Garmin HR monitor and kept the HR above 130 most of the time, got it up to 158 or so on the toughest parts. Good enough I guess. The elliptical HR monitor was always 10-20 bpm faster than my Garmin. I'll trust my watch.

Red Brooks Adrenaline GTS 11 Miles: 2.00Pushups Miles: 30.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From allie on Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 16:02:40 from 75.148.144.125

nice job, russ. the elliptical can be tough, but it's a good substitute for running. way to keep that HR up and get it done.

From Russ on Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 16:05:49 from 74.114.3.253

thanks allie! i like the one i used today - simulated running pretty well and almost no foot pain afterwards. best of luck in your race tomorrow! i think it's the same course smooth recently did? don't break your foot. but if you do, just keep running.

From allie on Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 16:10:08 from 75.148.144.125

thanks for the advice. :)

i'm preemptively avoiding all injuries by wearing boot casts as running shoes.

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