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May 03, 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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Brooks 20 Lifetime Miles: 50.00
Cascadia Green/orange Lifetime Miles: 223.00
Wed, Apr 02, 2014
Total Distance
4.00

6 X hills on the home treadmill. Roads outside still muddy and nasty and my hill is 2 miles away. I'm still tired from my weekend run, so didn't want to wake up early enough to get to my hill. This is the 3rd 20 miler of this training cycle and I know realize that the long effort wears me out for most of the next week. It's probably my age more than anything.

1 mile warmup at 10:00 pace, then 1/2 mile hills. 7 mph/9% incline for the first quarter, but that was a bit much. Walked 1/2 mile at 4 mph and 0%, then 7 mph/8% for the remaining hills. On one of them I forgot my math and I should've been done at .25 miles but my addled brain continued on and when I got to .35 and my legs were dying I realized I had gone too far.

Looking forward to April 19th. I'm ready to get this marathon behind me and return to a more normal schedule.

Brooks Ravenna 5 Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From I Just Run on Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:32:42 from 67.79.11.242

So running until you're completely exhausted almost every day is not "normal"?

From Russ on Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:24:04 from 74.114.3.253

Well, I guess that depends. If you're a WWII Prisoner of War, then going every day until completely exhausted is likely normal (sadly). If you're simply training for a marathon, I'm thinking that's not a normal response but might explain frequent illnesses. :)

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