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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
Fri, Jan 10, 2014
Total Distance
7.00

Pace mile Friday, so I warmed up 1 mile on the TM at the YMCA, then did 6 miles at 8.1 mph/7:24 pace. Warmup & first 2 miles at 2% incline, next 2 at 1%, last 2 at 0 incline. Amazing what a difference 1% incline makes. I was struggling after 2 pace miles and nearly slowed to a walk (typed in 4.0 on the TM but didn't hit Enter) but then dug in and continued on. I rightly predicted that after 2 miles or so I would be dialed in to the pace and my legs would be numbed to the difficulty. That worked great. Love this hard workout. Now I need to work on keeping the incline at 2% for longer. Not sure I'll be running MP miles outdoors for a while as the roads are pretty crappy around here and we've had oodles of snow so far this season.

Brooks Adrenaline 13 Miles: 7.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From allie on Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 09:31:30 from 174.23.134.136

oodles of snow!

nice running, russ.

From Russ on Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:28:02 from 74.114.3.253

thanks allie. oodles of snow = 43.5 inches so far, which is 3rd most for billings by this date. the city policy of not plowing the side streets = lots of TM running.

From allie on Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:33:40 from 161.38.221.168

wow, that is a ton of snow. i hope you have time to build an ice fortress at some point.

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