| Location: AL,USA Member Since: Jun 14, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: I've finished a couple of races here and there... Short-Term Running Goals: Maybe one day I'll be enough of a runner to run a race. maybe not...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 286.90 | 3.10 | 12.40 | 0.00 | 302.40 |
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| The Run Across Alabama got underway today, with Schotz, Elmore, and Charette covering the first 50 miles in 9 hours and 50 minutes, apparently no worse for the wear. Tomorrow it should get fun. Check out the website for real-time tracking of where they are en route...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 50.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50.00 |
| Got to help out with the http://www.runacrossalabama.com Fun stuff...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 32.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 32.00 |
| Final day of the http://www.runacrossalabama.com Even more fun...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.40 |
| Kind of anti-climactic after this past weekend... | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.10 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 8.20 |
| "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of." - Burt Bacharach
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Desperado... Why don't you come to your senses? You've been out ridin fences... For so long, now...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." - Edgar Bergen Also, props to Karl Meltzer (who some of you might know...) for his impressive performance at the Hardrock 100.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| "Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." - David Starr Jordan | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A.A. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| "I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.30 |
| "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." - Peter De Vries | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 17.10 |
| "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| "The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day." - Donald Barthelme
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Make it By Midnight Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:23:36, Place overall: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 26.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.20 |
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So I went over to Macon, GA, to take part in the Make it By Midnight Marathon, put on by the blog's own Deborah (aka the Little Engine that Could). I went in with the plan to have a solid long run, without wanting to push too hard, and I got just that, a solid long run. The idea behind the Make it By Midnight Marathon is that everyone picks when they want to start running, with the goal being to finish at midnight. The course is a 4.3 mile loop through a neighborhood in Macon, so six loops make a marathon. I started shortly after 8pm, not knowing what the course was like, and, I must say, I wasn't disappointed. The loop winds its way through a maze of streets within the subdivision, and I don't think there was more than a quarter mile of flat running anywhere on the loop. Fun stuff. I cruised through the first loop without too much difficulty, simply trying to get a feel for the course, which, as I came to realize more and more, was relatively difficult as far as a road course goes. I picked up my water bottle for the second loop, and I grabbed my headlamp at the beginning of the third loop. I took a little supper break after the third loop, spending around 5 or so minutes at the aid station to throw some food down my throat and refill my water bottle, and was on my way. As tends to be the case, the second half of the run was a little more difficult than the first, but only slightly so, and before I knew it, I was done. My unofficial time was a 3:23, which was good enough for the win and a course record, and I am very pleased with the time with respect to the amount of effort put into the run. I must say, this race was a blast. The very nature of the loop course meant that I was constantly seeing other runners to offer and be offered encouragement. After I finished, I hung out at the finish line with the rest of the runners until everyone else had finished, chatting it up and having a good ol' time. It was definitely a marathon with an ultra "feel" to it. If anyone is ever near Macon in late July, I highly recommend this race, just for the fun atmosphere of it; as it was described to me, it is just a party with a marathon in the middle of it.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.30 |
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"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not." - Vaclav Havel | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 9.10 |
| "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." - Paul Valery | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.50 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 17.60 |
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Hey everyone, it's my Inimitable Mother's birthday; she's been twenty-something for twenty-something years in a row. Like I said, inimitable...
On a side note, I think that I've had a relatively successful last couple of weeks, because in the last 8 days, I've run 5 races and somehow managed 4 victories (and the other was a 2nd place finish) . Too much racing for me, but I'm pleased with it nonetheless, and it should provide some much-needed motivation in weeks to come...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.20 |
| "Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise." - William Congreve | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 286.90 | 3.10 | 12.40 | 0.00 | 302.40 |
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