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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
12.00

First day of football today, so I dropped off the two oldest boys at 7:15 for their mandatory "first day meeting" and went for my long run. I got back just before 9 and they'd only been waiting a few minutes, then I hit the West High track across the street to finish up the 12.

Overall it was a good run. Kam had advised hitting MP on the last couple miles when I would be tired, and I was planning on doing the run near my house and hitting my pseudo Veyo hill at mile 3-4 so that would've tired me out for the ending. That plan changed, so at mile 3.5 I decided to do 3 MP miles then to wear me out and then hit MP again the last few miles. I struggled that first fast mile, but after that my body woke up (took a gel?) and I was hitting my strides. I kinda couldn't slow down after that, so I decided to push it as best as I could. If the marathon is anything like today's run I should be very happy. I felt great and the rest of the day wasn't too bad. Not too sore, but hungry every 30 minutes. I hate that about long run days. Overall, good last 10+ run before SGM. The football went well - youngest's team tied it up with 22 seconds left on a 2 point conversion, other two won handily, oldest played quarterback a few series and had some great tackles including a sack. Fun day.

So excited for all my TOU friends and FRBers. It was a good day for the blog.

AP: 8:33. Splits 8:51, 8:49, 9:04, 8:34, 8:20, 8:15, 8:11, 8:26, 8:05, 8:35, 8:17, 9:01 (forgot to stop my watch for a while).

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/115128356

Blue Brooks Adrenaline GTS 10 Miles: 12.00
Weight: 168.80
Comments
From Kam on Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 13:08:21 from 68.66.163.179

Russ, those are some very solid looking splits. I would try to go easy from here on out. You aren't going to do any training or speed work that will improve your marathon performance at this point, but you could do something silly/stupid to screw things up. Enjoy the slower pace, and less time spent running. Give your groin, toe and knee some rest and healing time.

From Russ on Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 13:40:03 from 74.114.3.253

Good advice Kam - I'll take it. Here's to hoping I don't trip over the curb walking to my car in the next 12 days.

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