The Perils of Self Betterment

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Location:

UT,

Member Since:

Jan 17, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

yearly mileage totals (actual running miles, not crosstraining etc)

2008 - 1,317

2009 - 2,654

2010 - 2,578

2011 - 2,618

2012 - 3,083 (ran everyday this year. PR's in half and full marathons, at age 48!)

2013 - 1,177

2014 - 1,716

2015 - 1,060

2016 - 951

2017 - 786

2018 - 1,058

2019 - 1,211

2020 - 1010

2021 - 1064.9

2022 - 1135.9

Short-Term Running Goals:

reacquaint myself with my long lost running freak, and then proceed to get my running freak on

run faster

increase mileage in the Spring 

keep running

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

run

 

Personal:

born in 1964. married 25 years. one wife one dog

6 ft tall, nation wide

"Engaging in a little suffering — however self-imposed, arbitrary and contrived — before breakfast each morning tends to demand some humility and injects some marked relief into the rest of the day, making things sharper, more inspired, more immediately aware of the powerful presence of being. And that seems really worthwhile." A. Krupicka

 

"I cruised down hills, churned up hills, and floated over the asphalt, existing in a world that seemed to lack the confinements of such ubiquitous rivets as time, obligation, or pain. I knew then that this was destined to be one of those serendipitous runs for which so many of 
us strive yet so rarely achieve." J. Nevels

 

 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Switchbacksblack Lifetime Miles: 176.50
Kinvara11(2) Lifetime Miles: 362.50
Kinvara11blue Lifetime Miles: 327.70
Rincon2 Lifetime Miles: 262.40
Spg 4’s Lifetime Miles: 135.50
Skechers Razor3 Lifetime Miles: 160.90
Rincon2(2) Lifetime Miles: 85.50
Asics Noosa14 Lifetime Miles: 73.00
Sauconyaxon2 Lifetime Miles: 73.80
Mach 4 Lifetime Miles: 34.50
Total Distance
61.70
Asics DS 13 Miles: 10.00Junk Shoes Miles: 25.10Bandito's Miles: 4.20GSS 3 Miles: 7.00Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 5.00GSS 3 (2) Miles: 10.40
Weight: 0.00
Total Distance
3.00

3 miles. 12:12 PM, sun, 78F. Hopefully running long tomorrow but I didn't want to skip a day so went to the 1/2 mile track and ran 3. Mile 2 was a 6:45 the other two miles much slower.

 

WET: 44.4 miles

#6

Asics DS 13 Miles: 3.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(3)
Total Distance
25.10

25.1 miles / 9:56 avg. Started from home and ran all over the place. 9:45 AM, sunny and 50F, by the time I got done it was 66 degrees. Great running weather. Stuck to the roads but still ended up with about 2400 ft vert. for the run. Ran the first 15 miles with just my 16 oz. hand held bottle. My first stop at mile 15 was at a little nature preserve where I had a half gallon of water cached. There's a 1.2 mile trail there, pea gravel, wooden step bridges etc. I did a couple of laps on that, topped off my hand held and finished the rest of the half gallon, and continued on. I hit a really low point around mile 21 and I thought, "well, that's it; I'll be bonking my way through the last 4 miles". I walked a total of .4 miles in mile 22, and then rallied. My fastest miles of the run were the last two! I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Usually once the crap starts hitting the fan I'm finished. So hopefully this means that I'm starting to get some of the fueling strategy down for the longer runs.

My total mileage for the week that ends today is 69.5.

 

WET: 69.5

#7

Junk Shoes Miles: 25.10
Weight: 0.00
Comments(9)
Total Distance
4.20

4.2 miles. From work, 10:30 AM. Sun 68F. Just out assessing the immediate effect from yesterday's long run. No soreness, which makes sense because though I ran pretty far yesterday, I ran at a very easy pace. I am fatigued though, very much so. Interesting challenge on today's run as I felt as though I would drop off to sleep at any moment. I don't feel tired, it feels like an exhaustion welling up into my head, threatening to knock me out on a whim.

WET: 58.3 miles

#8

Bandito's Miles: 4.20
Weight: 0.00
Comments(7)
Total Distance
7.00

7 miles / 8:53 avg. TM...

Still in recovery mode. Feel pretty good.

#9

WET 60.3 miles.



GSS 3 Miles: 7.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(4)
Total Distance
7.00

7 miles / 58:52 / 8:24 avg. The only way I was going to get a run in today was on the treadmill at home; and so it is.  Made up a mini workout to keep me going:

2 mi. wu @ 8:55 pace

2 miles @ 7:54, 7:42

1/2 mi. easy (9:15 pace?)

1 mile @ 7:30

1.5 cd @ 8:51 pace.

The deranged musical meanderings of live Phish on the boom box to occupy.

 

WET 60.3 miles

#10







Asics DS 13 Miles: 7.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(7)
Total Distance
5.00

5 miles easy on the Bluff trail. Partly cloudy, 58F.

WET 60.3 miles

#11

Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(8)
Total Distance
10.40

10.4 miles on the hilly, rocky fire break road. about 1,600 ft. total vert - out and back. 70 degrees. 10:40 avg.

WET 61.7 miles

#12

GSS 3 (2) Miles: 10.40
Weight: 0.00
Comments(4)
Total Distance
61.70
Asics DS 13 Miles: 10.00Junk Shoes Miles: 25.10Bandito's Miles: 4.20GSS 3 Miles: 7.00Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 5.00GSS 3 (2) Miles: 10.40
Weight: 0.00
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