overtaking haynes

4 miles (2 trail at huntington) with kristin and brother. then ran home after. 

ran 5.55 miles in the am. did turkington falls loop out and back.

ran in the dark after work, did 3 with brother. we started at a good pace but on the way back going up the big hills my bro had to slow down a bit. after he recovered and i decided to challenge him 0.15 miles away from home, the minimum distance i feel confident i can out kick him. i need 0.1 miles just to loosen up. if i go more than 90% to start i'm going to pull something because i'm so ridiculously inflexible right now. no one i have ever come across that's not over 80 is worse than i am. anyways i get an early lead on him and push it 90% up the 10ft hill. after halfway to the end of the road my brother gains on me and takes a half stride length lead. i was actually nervous and decide i need to go up to 95%. i pull even and decide to go all out. i start to pull away barely and win, almost running right in front of a car since i couldn't stop myself with all the momentum. my brother claims he slowed down because of the car but a win is a win. he has yet to beat me when it has been a real challenge. i won't challenge him after the hill. ran another 1.6 out and back on whortleberry. the full moon or close to full moon actually made it not that dark.
 

5.6 miles am (turkington falls loop)

4.1 miles pm costa lane loop then whortleberry to dirt.  

4.1 miles am

3.1 miles pm dogs came out onto road barking which was scary.

1.6 with kristin

5.4 miles during lunch

5.5 miles pm

ran 5.47 miles during lunch. first mile faster than normal at 7:18. at 2 mile mark at 14:33. Then decided to pick it up to finish at 6:59 pace. really pushed it the last 2 miles. 

 pm, ran 1.6 miles with kristin and brother out and back on whortleberry, then repeated it. 3.23 miles total
 

2.2 miles with kristin then did 5 mile loop around house. 

was SUPER nervous to do a race less than an ultramarathon with my lack of speed training. didn't want to get discouraged but i decided i couldn't pass up a unique and fun sounding trail race less than 30 min away. 

I got to the race which was on the sound, remembering i had done triathlons and duathlons starting from this very 150 acre park in high school. i expected the race to start at 10 but it didn't start until 10:30. my 1.3 mile warmup at 9:45 was pretty much worthless. i did happen to relieve myself in the woods and some woman reminded me that the bathrooms were still open. only in greenwich! i was deep in the woods and no one could even see anything. it's not like it's poop! anyways there was another greenwich person moment that i thought was funny as well. the people are so rich there and feel entitled i guess.

 the race was advertised as having hay bales and logs to hop over and there were quite a few of those. the course was much hillier than i imagined being right by the water. no big hills but some 15 or so foot rises and some terrain that was just going through the woods without a trail. i looked at the starting line and didn't notice anyone who looked ridiculously good and the previous years winning time was over 30 mins so i thought i should at least finish in the top 10. there were what seemed like a couple hundred people. we took off up hill and aside from a kid that looked 15 i was leading. i was then leading for the first half mile thinking what is going on. that soon changed which made me more comfortable actually. the first mile was like 5:40 something on my watch and i knew that was too fast. i was in 3rd place after the first 1.2 miles. top 3 got free shoes. i felt weird pushing myself again. it didn't hurt but it felt uncomfortable and i didn't feel like i could go any faster. overall i was happy, i finished in under 31 minutes, my gps watch said the course was no more than 4.9 miles. i definitely lost speed but wouldn't say i died at all. i was able to drop the young kid at mile 4 who i was sure would out kick me. The winning time was 28 something and i was about 30 sec from getting free shoes which would have been nice.

i think it's funny how nervous i get after not having raced in a while. it's not like it matters. drove home ran 2.6 with kristin and made sure i kept running after to go over 10 on the day since 70 mile weeks are the goal these days.  

ran 5.5 at lunch then 4.6 at night. 

2.7 miles am

4.25 miles during lunch

1.9 mile pm outside (heard extremely bizarre and animalistic/alien screeching noise that was intermittent). apparently other people in my family have heard it about a year ago. the sound was there as i was planning on running down the dirt road near my house so i decided to just go in. i heard it about 10 or so times. it started up again later but was coming from a different place in the woods).

 ran 10 mins on the treadmill 1.25 miles.

 adding all those little numbers up = 10.1 miles

3.9 miles in the am

4.4 miles pm 

5.3 miles during lunch sub 8 min

5 miles pm. gallows hill lonetown loop 39:30 

5 miles during lunch 

3.3 miles pm 

wasn't raining too badly when i started. i was meaning to put on some body glide to prevent chaffing but at the last minute forgot. it started to pour which was kind of cool and my clothes just stuck to me. when i got home i noticed foot long red streaks down my shirt from both nipples. didn't really feel anything though which was odd. got home just as it was getting dark. 8:35 pace on a really hilly loop.  

 felt weird not running yesterday for the first time in 35 days. took a road trip to visit some friends so didn't really have time. had a headache all of yesterday for some reason.
 

ran 5.2 miles at lunch at 7:03 pace.

after work ran 3 with my brother and we have a rule where either of us can challenge the other. he decided to challenge me about 0.1 miles from home. i crushed him! ran another 1.8 on my own. 8:43 pace for the 4.8 total.

5.2 miles in the am 

4.9 miles pm 

3.7 miles am

4.8 miles at lunch

2.2 miles at night with kristin

total 10.7 

ran 5.4 at lunch. started at a comfortable pace and then picked it up. i was racing a bus that seemed to stop every few driveways and i almost kept up with it for about 3/4 of a mile. felt really, really good, haven't felt this good since i can remember while running. 

 i agreed to take care of someone's pets (one of them happens to be a dog a used to own) for the next 9 days. There are 2 rhodesian ridgebacks, a fish and a cat. It would be fine except there's an 18yr old cat who misses the litter box (and it's a huge litter box) and it can't walk right so i may have to bring the litter box upstairs and i have to shove pills down her throat twice a day and i'm afraid she's going to bite me. i've been assured it won't bite me but i don't feel very comfortable around cats.

 had to figure out everything i had to do so only had the energy to run 3 miles with my brother. didn't start till almost 9pm. hopefully i can get at least 3.8 miles out of the way tomorrow morning but i'm very poor at getting up to run in the morning. i'll snooze 10-15 times. i hate getting in less than 10 miles.

 

5.4 during lunch

 2.2 with kristin and dave than 1.6 more on my own pm

3.25 miles with kristin then 9.2 miles at huntington then home

a better start to the week than the zero miles i ran last sunday but really didn't have time. i'm house sitting and taking care of 2 big dogs, an 18yr old cat and a fish named puffy. i get woken up by whining at 4:55am every morning. hopefully i can make up some miles during the two days off from work this week.

shoes are feeling dead, need new ones. 

did a 2 hr hike with kristin and brothers up and around bogus mtn. about 4.15 miles. we happened upon an old ammo box that said geocache.com

apparently these are hidden all over the place and people try to find them. it was cool how we found it without even trying. we happened to go up a cool rock off trail and i spotted the case in a crack. may start looking for these.
 

2.6 mile run with kristin at the bent of river audobon society in southbury, CT. really beautiful place. after we hiked on the cascade trail which did have a nice waterfall. i really wanted to run up this hill on the same road called east flat hill road. it started at about 150ft outside of the place we ran and climbed to just over 700ft in 1.3 miles. i wish i had a 500+ft climb in my town. kristin picked me up at the top. 

 in the afternoon i ran some old trails that were a little overgrown but had some good parts about a mile from my house. it's such a shame the trails aren't better designed/maintained. i wonder if i could volunteer. did 7.1 miles
 

did not run during lunch. ate pizza instead. 

ran 8 miles at night. first 3 with brother. don't like when dogs bark and i can't see them