Where's the Donuts?

The 18 is a little bit of a guess, but it was a long day out there. Krissy organizes the Chuckanut 50k that I'm signed up for in March, so we stayed up in Skagit Valley and went to run the middle 18 miles of the race course. A crowd of 12 showed up, so we had a good crew, and unexpectedly the rain held off (a little blue sky, even). 

A lot of climbing and rolling back downhill, it's a course with some good elevation and great terrain. The hiccup was that one girl fell way back, and lost from the trail. So we broke up into smaller search party crews for an hour or so. We found her eventually, then took back to the course and ran part of it backwards (still found the signature hill and hiked up it, whew). Good run though.

Even coming off a race day, my legs felt pretty good after the first few minutes of getting the blood going. I did hit a fatigue wall at about 2:30, just didn't fuel enough and was a little lightheaded heading up Chinscraper Hill. But I pounded a few bars at the top and got another wind to finish. I don't think running the 50k will be a problem fitness-wise, given how I felt, but I'll need to pay close attention to fueling.

About 4:30 total, but maybe 45 minutes or more we were stopped trying to find that girl (or come up with a plan to find her). So I'll call it 3:30, probably on the conservative side. 

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Six with Mike around Bremerton. Could have taken a day off after the weekend, but it was sunny outside and I couldn't help it on a day off. And my legs didn't feel that sore either, surprisingly (good sign, eh?). Met at Evergreen Park, up the Warren Ave. bridge and then down for a loop around Lion's Park. Back to the Manette Bridge, then a lap of the breakwater at the Bremerton Marina. Felt good, didn't try to push but we kept an honest pace around 7:30 or so. 47:48

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Came up with a new "Manette Hills" route this morning. My house to Trenton, up the hill, cross at Stone Way then up again at Magnuson rather than down by the Y. Then another up at Callahan and back down by Harrison Medical Center. Then back toward Shore Drive, turning back up Hayward to crest the Manette Hill. Back down, and out Jacobson home. 

Good morning for it, rain held off again and it's really warm. Nice March we're having. Legs felt good, kept the pace honest, even pushed a little on the hills. 48:40

supernova glide -- 192

Quick lunchtime run; 11th Street-Shore Drive loop. Pretty good pace, 7:30s or so. 

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Met Henry down at Annapolis, drizzly morning but warm enough for shorts. Lot of Slug cars in the parking lot, which is great to see.

We started right in quickly, Henry has a way of pulling me along at the start like that. Two 7/min miles to start, then 7:08, 7, 7:02, 6:57 (with the last 400m or so uphill), 7:09 (consciously trying to back off, since that one's downhill), then back to a 6:48 and two 7:05s. 

Pretty fast pace for just a mileage run, but we'll get used to it. Finished one bottle of water and a mini Clif bar during the hour, I'll use these runs as fueling practice. Henry said he could feel the breakdown when we were at 8 or so, but I felt strong all the way in, which is pretty good considering it's the highest mileage week I've had in months. Another encouraging sign for 2010. 1:12:08.

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