The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old

TOU Half Marathon

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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 15, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs after age 40:

 

5k     15:15  Running of the Leopards.

8k      22:21  Alta Death Dash

10k   33:02    Des News

Half Marathon      1:10  Timp Half

Marathon        2:32    Ogden

First solo R2R2R Bass Trails Grand Canyon 

First R2R2R Grand Canyon Toroweap Overlook

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Not be fat all year

Long-Term Running Goals:

Smell the dirt, feel the mountain, taste the wind.

Personal:

 

"Our legs are tight, our feet are flying, and we are gliding over the roll of the land. The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old, and we are free and at peace. The clock has stopped because another time has taken over." C. Bowden

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69.500.0013.110.0082.61
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.200.000.000.007.20

My son and I slept in until 11 after our day yesterday, barely made church, and hit a trail run in Providence Canyon. Wooden legs today but no soreness. Good sign.

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8.000.000.000.008.00

Evening run Cooks Forest Preserve, Chicago. Fireflies everywhere.

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14.000.000.000.0014.00

Run in the rain along Des Plaines River Trail, Chicago.

Finally took an hour to cut apart the sides of my new Hokas and sew them back together to make them an acceptable running shoe. Worked good today.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.000.000.000.0015.00

Pavement running today. 7 miles in the morning in Trenton then off to work. 8 miles easy in the afternoon after work. Six weeks on meds, actually the first prescription meds in my life, and it's over this Friday. So excited to be done with this.

After prepping for weeks to run with Almost Dead Jocks at Hood to Coast, I have to stay in Logan for family reasons. Every time I plan something out months ahead something happens that makes it impossible. I'm going to stick with jumping into things the night before.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
19.800.000.000.0019.80

Ran 20 miles of the 66 miles of the Raraitan Canal south out of Trenton towards New York.  Great day to run, one of many this summer that just seem to be flowing for me.  Brought back memories of a good TED article a friend sent me a few years ago about "flow".

http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow/transcript?language=en

 

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3.500.000.000.003.50

Only a one hour break all day from work, at Trenton airport in between flights. Ran around the airport twice. Very sore which felt great.

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Race: TOU Half Marathon (13.11 Miles) 01:15:07, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.0013.110.0015.11

The best race for me in a year and a half. I couldn't make it to Hood to Coast as planned this weekend buy since I would be in Logan I might as well run the Half. The kids and I got home at 3:30am and I caught an hour nap before heading down to see if I could get an entry. Up at the start I ran a few miles for warmup and was as exhausted as I could ever remember being at the start of a race. But once we got going I relaxed and had a good time. My legs were pretty dead today but if I slowed back to 5:45 they would recover fairly quick so I ended up surging a lot, just being limited by tired legs. But they held up! Pretty stoked about a good run on dead legs today and training is right where I need it to be. Awesome morning talking to Sasha, Fritz, Matt, Steve, Jaren, Mel, and other runners I haven't seen for a while. I always leave these races feeling like I have a months worth of new knowledge to sort through.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
69.500.0013.110.0082.61
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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