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U of A

Member Since:

May 16, 2015

Gender:

Male

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Running Accomplishments:

Ran 200 miles in under a week(nov 2019) . Ran 226 miles in under a week twice in 17 days(oct 2023). Ran 250 miles in under a week(mar 2024)

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25. braves fan/canes fanatic/broncos sufferer

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Miles:This week: 33.00 Month: 450.00 Year: 1666.00
Fly's Lifetime Miles: 215.00
Pegs 36 #8 Lifetime Miles: 451.00
Pegs #9 Lifetime Miles: 322.25
Peg 37 White Lifetime Miles: 289.50
Streak LT Lifetime Miles: 11.50
Peg 37 Navy Lifetime Miles: 494.50
Peg 37 Magenta Lifetime Miles: 508.75
Peg Shields Lifetime Miles: 795.00
Peg Shields 2(orange) Lifetime Miles: 770.00
Total Distance
294.00
Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 211.00Peg 37 Navy Miles: 30.00Fly's Miles: 13.00Peg Shields Miles: 30.00
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5.00

AM - 5 on sokol, 6:23 pace. really haven't felt that good since the first weight session a week ago; the soreness went away by like wednesday but my legs just never really got the spark back. hopefully the drop in pace this morning is a good sign.

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 5.00
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Total Distance
10.00

AM - 5 on mural, 6:30 pace. felt like i had the training wheels welded on, maybe because my alarm didn't go off and i couldn't run until 10.

PM - 5 on hilton, 6:20 pace. felt like the training wheels are loosening off, maybe because we were blessed with a cool afternoon and i got to bask in a 75 degree heat index(for reference, the heat index at this time saturday was 106). i want to pretend this is fall coming early, but i know better.

sotd: this is how i disappear - my chemical romance

Peg 37 Navy Miles: 5.00Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 5.00
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5.00

AM - 5 on hilton, 6:24 pace. it was very nice out for 7am(i usually start at 5:30), dew point had my shoes soaked to the brim in record time though. felt like i was running with sponges on my feet made of cement!

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 5.00
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10.00

AM - 10 on sokol, 6:34 pace. felt like dogshit the entire time, which is a real shame because it was mid-60's and overcast out so it should have been a perfect run. it's annoying, but nothing to do except put the miles in and hope i'm stronger for the next run.

Peg 37 Navy Miles: 10.00
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5.00

AM - 5 on hilton at 3am, 6:42 pace. outer right ankle was a bit tight after work wednesday. not full-on peroneal tendonitis, but the omen of it. that dang problem is basically the only thing that's kept me from being able to run of my own accord the past 18 months(that and crippling anxiety), so i heeded it. this run mainly served as a test, and i passed feeling fine! very relieved. something about hilton in the extremely early morning always makes my pace fall off the map regardless of my fitness so 6:42 pace is pretty good

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 5.00
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3.00

AM - a little stationary and dynamics at the gym, the normal warmup for a run. tweaked something in my inner left ankle before my PM run yesterday bringing in groceries up the stairs to my apartment. felt some shooting pains last night so i was worried but felt fine this morning. since i work today i didn't want to risk reaggravating it on a morning run to have it get worse throughout the shift, so just a PM run today, hopefully. can feel myself losing fitness! gotta get back on the train soon

PM - 3 on hilton after work, 6:03 pace. factoring in going straight from work to the park and it still being decently hot out at 6pm, this pace would have probably been easy on a better afternoon; not to call this effort hard, just somewhere in the middle. had to get a feeler out on the aforementioned lost fitness

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 3.00
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8.00

AM - 8 on mural, 6:21 pace. course was wet, but not as bad as i feared; guess the sprinklers weren't on last night. tried picking up the pace for the last mile, but my left achilles tightened up about a quarter-mile in so i eased back off and it let me finish the run. other than that, felt good.

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 8.00
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10.00

AM - 10 easy on hilton, 6:48 pace. went to bed right after work yesterday because i was exhausted and woke up naturally about an hour before my alarm. didn't feel like finding a way to waste that extra hour so just did the run at 4am on hilton, although the humidity had it feeling like 4pm out there. always enjoy finishing a morning run before the sun rises, can't really put into words why. my guess is it's because it reminds me of when i'd do 5 miles at 4am every morning when i was doing 3 or 4 runs a day. sometimes i can't believe i ran as much as i did a couple years ago

AM2 - plyos and core at the gym. first plyo session in forever went better than expected. core was a reminder that i literally never do core and am stupid for it. was still doing some advance exercises though

sotd: eyes to form shadows - dalek. sometimes i think the music i listen to nowadays would make a 16-year-old me piss myself

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 10.00
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10.00

AM - 10 on sokol, 6:20 pace. i was a bit sore from the gym yesterday, but nothing too bad. weather absolutely sucked, nearly 80 and 99% humidity by 6:00am when i started. definitely had to work to get up those grass hills. solid run.

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 10.00
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5.00

AM - 5 on sokol, 6:33 pace. died out there, although i think it's primarily due to the unreasonably excessive heat wave we're currently under. the weather channel used something called RealFeel™️ to tell me it was already the equivalent of 86 degrees out by 5:45, dear god. might get a treadmill tempo in tomorrow morning if it's still this rough out.  hell, might do that either way.

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 5.00
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5.00

AM - 5 early on hilton, 6:48 pace. rained heavy last night but i couldn't mentally commit to the treadmill so i ran on asphalt. gross. anyway go braves for leading the NL east for the first time this season! that division is a joke but with our best player out for the year it'd still be nice to see them get smoked in the NLDS

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 5.00
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10.00

AM - 6 easy on sokol, no watch.

PM - 4 on hilton, 5:56 pace. the 8 or so hours leading up to the run were some of the most nerve-racking of my life from a few different angles, and those feelings weren't exactly swayed so by the time i got to hilton i was a time-bomb ticking down to a panic attack. i'm not sure if i ran it off or just lengethened the fuse. either way felt excellent, i was flying but wasn't going hard. 

Peg 37 Navy Miles: 4.00Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 6.00
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9.00

AM - 6 on sokol, 6:25 pace. left achilles felt a little tight at points(mostly when running on soft dirt), and i knew if i went too hard i'd be dealing with it all day at work and the PM run would be off the table, so kept it short. besides that felt pretty good.

PM - 3 on hilton, 6:15 pace. would have gone longer but i got a super sharp stomach cramp after i hit 3 so i stopped there. some very ominous flashing clouds on the horizon told me tomorrow morning's run is gonna be sloppy. this one was too, for the record. it just wasn't raining during the run itself.

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 9.00
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16.00

AM - 11 easy on hilton, 6:47 pace. started early, then once sunrise came and i had a better view of the grass i was running on the pace dropped from just under 7-minute to 6:30's and 6:20's without any real change in effort. good start to what i hope to be a good week of training.

PM - 5 on hilton, 6:32 pace. my left achilles was a bit iffy towards the end of work but i think it's more due to wearing some very worn down pegs to a job where i'm on my feet most of the time. could have worn the magenta ones but that color clashes badly with just about every item of clothing i own. anyway it had just stopped storming hard so if running on a soaked grass course didn't bug the achilles i'm probably okay

embarrassing factoid: i haven't ran 16 miles in a day since may 14th

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 16.00
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18.00

AM - 4-mile w/u, 4-mile tempo in 21:50, c/d for 13

it started raining buckets as soon as i finished the PM run yesterday so i knew the treadmill was my only option(pavement-exclusive running is never on the table). treadmills are usually the quickest way to irritate my achilles on a run but didn't have any issues. tempo went well, honestly might have played it conservative with how good it felt.

PM - 5 on hilton, ~6:48 pace(watch died towards the end). probably would have been a good one if i had some real recovery between this and the morning session(all i had was a nap right after the tempo, then had work and went straight to hilton from there). plan is to not work on mondays and thursdays and do workouts then but today was an exception

Fly's Miles: 4.00Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 9.00
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16.00

AM - 11 on sokol. tried seasoning my rice with furikake last night, forgetting that adding seeds into my diet the night before a run doesn't ever go well. managed to power through the first 8 at 6:19 pace, but my stomach was killing me so i jogged the last 3 on rodeo, no watch. good run regardless.

PM - 5 on hilton, 6:10 pace. bug flew into my eye with a mile to go, good god did that hurt

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 16.00
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16.00

AM - 11 on sokol, 6:20 pace. tough conditions out there, very humid and the grass was extremely wet which makes the hills that much harder. good news is by the end of next week the temperatures should start dropping. just thinking of the high being in the 70's without storms causing it, it's got me on the verge of tears

PM - 5 on hilton, 6:19 pace. ran about an hour earlier than usual because it's raining tomorrow morning so if i want to get a workout in i'll have to be up long before the rooster crows. very hot out today so that was fun, what's also fun is despite leaving my shoes out on the porch all day they were still soaked to the soles ~12 hours after the morning run

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 16.00
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9.00

AM - 3-mile w/u, 10 x 200m w/ 200m rec in 60", 3.5 c/d. warmup exceptionally slow(barely under 9:00 pace. not that it matters). averaged 32.7 on the repeats.

conditions were brutal this morning: 80 degrees with full humidity by 4:30 when i started warming up. it's like the summer heat used it's dying breath to take a 12-gauge to my nuts. wanted to do 15 intervals but i'm okay with a little less; my goal for this week was to hit 100 miles and at this point i could half-ass the rest of the week and still clear that easily. feels good to capitalize on potential.

PM - off. too much flooding to drive safely to the gym

Fly's Miles: 3.00Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 6.00
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10.00

AM - 5 on the road up from sokol, 7:30 pace. very early(finished before 5am). at this point my disdain for asphalt is enough i could fill a manifesto with it, but every course i usually run was going to be totally flooded and i really didn't feel like hitting the treadmill. all things considered, wasn't that bad. i'm not gonna ever choose this over something like hilton or sokol, but it's an option. didn't trust the legs to handle a full ~80 minutes of hard-surface running so just did a shakeout. more flooding today and tomorrow so might end up finding out if what i said about half-assing the rest of the week and still clearing 100 miles was true 

PM - 5 on sokol, 6:04 pace. ran in the early afternoon just before the storms hit. came through about 10 minutes at a lax 5:55 pace but then the heat hit me hard and i surrendered to it. the afternoon heat still might be less of a detriment than the morning dew on sokol that turn my shoes into bricks

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 10.00
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10.00

AM - 5 on hilton, 6:20 pace

PM - 5 on hilton, 7:30-something pace. basically jogging. ate some bad fish yesterday and felt terrible all day so no triple-digit week. i'll manage. it had just rained buckets an hour earlier so i had to run on the pavement, so if i get injured this year i'm using this run as the scapegoat

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 5.00
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12.00

AM - 8 on the treadmill, 6:10 pace. more rain overnight meant no soft-surface running. felt a few kinks from last night's run, but they worked themselves out. in the home stretch of dealing with the bs of summer in the south. truly the runner's bane

PM - 4 on hilton after work, 6:11 pace. very tired, very hungry. outer-right ankle felt a bit spotty at the end of mile 4 so cut the run short. if it isn't an issue tomorrow morning should have another workout on deck

also just ordered another pair of pegs, found a good deal on eastbay and should get here before the current work-down pairs cause any strain on the legs(if they aren't already). only caveat is that they're the "shield" model. never used a pair of them before, but with how often i run on wet grass maybe it'll end up being a boon.

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 12.00
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13.00

AM - 3 mile w/u, 6 x k on a hilly stretch of sokol with 60" rec, short c/d for 9. averaged ~3:20(watch died on #6)

conditions were miserable this morning, feels like i've started every entry off with that for the past month. felt tired by the end of the warmup, it was that muggy. the k course was pretty tough as well, so no ego boosts today. 

PM - 4 on mural, 5:56 pace. should have started about 20 minutes later for the sun to set but besides that a pretty good run. been a little while since i busted out sub-6 for a PM run, always nice for mentality if nothing else. 

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 13.00
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16.00

AM - 11 on sokol, 6:25 pace. felt terrible the first ~20 minutes, was still pretty miserable after but my legs at least showed a bit of responsiveness. extremely muddy out there

PM - 5 on mural, 6:07 pace. last half-mile in just under 2:50. been an incredibly stressful past few weeks, and if i weren't using running as an outlet i think i'd have keeled over by now

Peg 37 Navy Miles: 5.00Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 11.00
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11.00

AM - 11 on hilton, 6:31 pace. one of the most miserable runs i've had in a long time; the fact that i finished before 7am and it was still over 85F out when factoring humidity in is a sick joke. shoes were drenched by 100m in. the appeal of running to me is that if you work hard you come back every day a little stronger, but this weather spits on that concept by putting a hard cap where if you go past a certain effort you just die to the heat. i'm so got damn sick of it

PM - off. it started raining heavy before i got off work and i already had one pair of pegs soaked to the brim, didn't want my others turned to wet sponges too. gonna do a workout on the treadmill tomorrow morning, might just do all AM runs for the next few weeks on the treadmill tbh, at least i could do aerobic pace without it doubling as a suicide attempt. i really can't put into words how badly this morning run broke me emotionally

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 11.00
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17.00

AM - 3 mile w/u, 6 x .75 mile on the treadmill in 3:45(12.0 mph) w/ 2:30 jogging recovery, c/d for 12. core, hips, and upper body routine after.

always nice to burn 2000 calories before 6am. means i get to feast today with no repercussions. honestly workout wasn't that hard, it being on a treadmill is a caveat but i did set it at an incline(as i always do) so i'll take it at face value. first one was a shock to the system, next 4 were surprisingly easy, and the last one had me thinking i could add another repeat or two until the last quarter-mile where my form started to break ever so slightly, so called it there. happy with it.

PM - 5 in the new pegs on mural, 6:15 pace. felt good.

Fly's Miles: 6.00Peg 37 Navy Miles: 6.00Peg Shields Miles: 5.00
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11.00

AM - 6 on the treadmill, like 6:25 pace. gonna be busy today so wanted to get my mileage in super early, but i didn't factor in that i couldn't run 11 miles straight on a treadmill at gunpoint. call it ADHD, or mental weakness, or whatever else, but regardless considering we have a hurricane hitting us in a few days i'm not optimistic about running a good week of mileage. i'm tempted to go on my 10th rant of the month about how much i hate summer weather here but i won't. at least i'm still relatively in the driver's seat to clear 100 for this week

PM - 5 on mural after work, 6:16 pace. we got some brief but heavy rain a couple hours earlier so a good test of how water-resistant the new shoes are. in a word, they're good. damn good. not only did they stay dry, but the soles are different from normal pegs, more aggressive which is great for all the grass running i do. hope the long run goes well tomorrow morning, although with the humidity being how it's been, i'm not that optimistic. if i don't get a good one then i'm gonna die trying!

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 6.00Peg Shields Miles: 5.00
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20.00

AM - 15 on mural, 6:08 pace. last 10 in 60:33. 

realized during the run that i don't think i've ran 12 miles straight since april, and i could tell as those last 3 miles felt longer mentally than the 12 that came before it. felt a bit sluggish at the start, but after 5 miles i really started moving. grass was very wet but shields kept my feet entirely dry, i was stunned. only negative was i could feel a blister developing on one of my toes around mile 11 and those last ~20 minutes it was pretty painful. great run! just need to run a shakeout tonight and i'll get my first triple-digit week in about a year

PM - 5 very easy on mural, 6:48 pace. gym after for core and back.

Peg Shields Miles: 20.00
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4.00

AM - went to the gym for my usual pre-morning run warmup and dynamics, but the blister from yesterday was giving me fits and i knew it was going to get a lot worse if i ran on it, especially since i'm gonna be on my feet the rest of the day at work. i have some very choice words about how pissed i am about it but i'll save them, and just hope i can get rid of it in the next 24 hours so i can run a treadmill tempo early monday morning before the hurricane hits

PM - 4 on hilton. forgot the pace

Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 4.00
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AM - 30 min on stationary @ high resistance + core and some strength

PM - 45 min on stationary @ very high resistance w/ a 30 min fartlek of 1 on, 1 off, 2 on, 2 off. covered about 10.2 miles for the fartlek.

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whole lot of nothing. blame the hurricane

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294.00
Peg 37 Magenta Miles: 211.00Peg 37 Navy Miles: 30.00Fly's Miles: 13.00Peg Shields Miles: 30.00
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