| Location: Venice,FL,USA Member Since: Oct 31, 2012 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: 5k:
21:01, (6:46 pace) 11-19-11.
20:08, (6:29 pace) 9-1-12 (Part of a Mini-Triathlon Relay).
19:17, (6:12 pace) 11-17-12.
19:19, (6:13 pace) 11-23-13.
19:30, (6:17 pace) 1-4-14.
20:34, (6:34 pace) 9-13-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 10-25-14
19:32, (6:17 pace) 11-22-14
19:40, (6:19 pace) 12-19-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 1-31-16
8k:
34:42, (6:57 pace) 3-17-12.
32:11, (6:28 pace) 3-16-13.
32:32, (6:33 pace) 3-15-14.
34:00, (6:50 pace) 3-14-15.
33:09, (6:40 pace) 3-11-17.
32:56, (6:38 pace) 3-17-18.
10k:
44:18, (7:08 pace) 4-14-12.
41:22, (6:39 pace) 12-15-12.
42:11, (6:47 pace) 4-13-13.
41:06, (6:37 pace) 12-8-13.
42:03, (6:46 pace) 3-5-16
44:35, (7:11 pace) 8-26-17
12k:
53:53, (7:14 pace) 3-24-12.
49:20, (6:37 pace) 3-1-14
15k:
1:18:16, (8:24 pace) 2-26-11.
1:04:37. (6:56 pace) 2-20-16
1:08:25 (7:18 pace) 2/22/20
Half Marathons:
1:37:57 (7:28 pace) 1-26-20. Fort Lauderdale - A1A
14 Marathons:
1. 4:12:08, (9:37 pace) 1-9-11. Disney.
2. 4:18:18, (9:51 pace) 10-30-11. MCM.
3. 3:42:26, (8:29 pace) 1-14-12. Charleston.
4. 3:13:15, (7:22 pace) 10-7-12. Steamtown.
5*. 3:12:26, (7:20 pace) 1-19-14. Louisiana.
6*. 3:14:06, (7:24 pace) 4-21-14. Boston.
7*. 3:19:38, (7:37 pace) 7-19-14. U. of Okoboji.
8*. 3:16:27, (7:30 pace) 2-22-15. Mercedes-Benz
9*. 3:30:38 (8:03 pace) 5-15-16 Sugarloaf
10. 3:24:21 (7:48 pace) 11-5-16 Savannah RNR
11. 3:27:37 (7:56 pace) 5-12-18 Brookings
12. 3:46:02 (8:38 pace) 10-7-18 Towpath
13. 3:35:11 (8:13 pace) 9-12-21 Med City
14. 3:45:45 (8:37 pace) 4-16-23 Coastal Delaware
* = These 5 races were run at 67.9 seconds per pound. If I want a PR, I need to weigh less than 170 pounds. Short-Term Running Goals: 2024 GOALS:
to not get fat Long-Term Running Goals: Continue running as often as I can, as far as I can, as fast as I can. Teaching my kids (by example) the rewards that come from putting in the work. Very slowly get to 50 states. Personal: I'm married, with two sons, 18, and 19.
I started running because someone dared me to.
I ran my first race 3 days after my 40th birthday. (Disney)
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| Miles: | This week: | 17.50 |
Month: | 51.70 |
Year: | 773.95 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 1669.61 | 8.37 | 1677.98 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail and over SWOM bridge and back. 6:15 am start. I see no "winter" in my future. Just perpetual hot, sticky weather. Also, today there was no breeze. None.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail and over SWOM bridge and back. 6:15 am start. Today, I ran through mist.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Colonia and back. 7 a.m. start. Then we had a soccer game in Bartow. We won 4 to 2, but played just awful. We couldn't trap, shoot, or pass, but other than that, we looked pretty good. We have games out of town on both Saturday and Sunday next weekend, so I don't know how running is going to go. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood trout. Something fishy.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. Work / life has been crazy lately. I needed this run. There was low humidity and was in the low 50s. Great weather.
I had this stuck in my head, like out of nowhere...
https://youtu.be/I2tefRyoCTs
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. 7 am start. I did the gator chomp at a guy wearing all Michigan stuff. That was nice. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 7 a.m. start. Big shout out to my man Michael for completing his fourth race in 4 days today! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| This is not my video, but it is a short video of my hometown:
https://youtu.be/yv4s19mofeU
Just kind of cool.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. hood route.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Colonia and back. 7 a.m. start. Very smooth miles this morning. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. 7 am start. 65 and big winds from the west. That's 2 miles of fighting on the way out and 2 miles of flying on the way back. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Too much soccer yesterday! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 49 degrees this morning. Really pushed the pace today. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. 55 degrees. 7:20 am start. Very smooth. And it should have been! I took the last 3 days off! Long story short, work has received most of my attention lately.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. 50-something degrees. 7 am start. in the light rain. When I got home, I realized the back of my shorts was still dry. I don't think that's ever happened before. The front of me was soaked. The back of me was dry. How fast have you got to run to make that happen? I must have been flying! Just kidding. It was really smooth though.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood Route. 6 am start. 47 degrees.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 2 up. Then 8 x 100m+ grass sprints with 100m+ recoveries. 0.5 down. 6:15 am start. 42 degrees. The mist over the fields at sunrise was nice. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 mi. Hood route. Polar vortex of 47 degrees. 6 a.m. start. I wore a "hoodie." | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 7 am start. 60something degrees. First timed run since? But you've got to come to terms with where you are at some point. 1:04:02. 32:16 on the way out. Then I drove 1.5 hours to boy #1`s last soccer game of the season. They tied 2 2. It was a really physical game. Lots of penalties, a few cards. Some overexuberant parents. Good times. This is rhe only game we have not won. The other team was for sure dirty, but they were well-coached too. Once they got the lead, they slowed the game down to a crawl. Substitutions, extended time retrieving out of bounds balls, goalie waiting to punt. It was briliant, if I wasnt on the other team! This year, we have outscored our opponents 72-8. It's all tournaments after this until April-ish. it has been both a good and a bad year. Good, in that we won a lot of games. Bad, in that I think Tommy could have got a lot more out of this year in Player Development. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. Super fog. 70ish degrees. Then I went to church and sat on a TB12 vibrating pliability sphere, while eating a donut. 8:30 pm. 67 degrees. 4.5 slow miles at halftime. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 63 deg. Foggy. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 4 up. 8x100M+ grass sprints, with 100M+ recoveries. 0.5 down. 5:45 am start. fogalicious. sprinting feels good again.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to legacy trail and back. 6 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 2 up. 8x100M+ grass sprints, with 100M+ recoveries. 2 down. 5:45 am start.
My brother and his wife were at a recording of The Price Is Right about two weeks ago. He's been sending me photographs of his TV, where I can see them for the last hour.
Our lives are very different.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 5:45 am start. Light fog | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| 1 mile on the hotel treadmill in Winter Haven. I realize that I hate treadmills. Then one mile outside the hotel. Tommy had a soccer tournament in Winter Haven this weekend. 3 games, 2 on Saturday. One on Sunday. They won 4-1, 6-1, and 8-1. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 Mi on the Legacy trail from Venice Avenue to Laurel Road and back. It was like 80 degrees. But that's not the big news. The big news is that I saw wrong direction antisocial board shorts guy again! He was running South and I was running North. He had a lady friend with him who was riding a beach cruiser bicycle. I thought for a second about not saying anything. But then I realized I just had to. So I said hi, again. And he ignored me. Again. And I laughed for a little while after that. Now there is no way that it was headphones that was keeping him from saying hi to me. Clearly this is personal! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM (Stupid Waste Of Money) bridge and back | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 2 up. 8 x 100m+ grass sprints with 100m+ recoveries. 0.5 down. I wanted more this morning, but I overslept. I'm glad I got the speed in, instead of defaulting to an easy run.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail and back. In the rain. Not a mist, not a drizzle, not a downpour, no lightning, no thunder, just constant easy rain. Not that bad, really.
I took the boys to watch the Venice High girls soccer game last night (Tommy's whole soccer team went.). A win would have put them in the state championship tournament, but they lost to St. Pete, in the 7th round of a shootout. What a crazy game. I mean, even without my home team bias, it was just a great soccer game to watch. A couple of things:
1. First time I have ever seen someone get a blue card. Venice played short handed for the last 12 minutes of regulation and all 20 minutes of overtime.
2. At the end of every game decided by a shootout I have ever seen, every fan, every coach, and every player I have ever heard says "It's a shame it had to end like this." If we ALL feel that way, why does it have to end like this? You would think something could be done. I mean, I'm the first guy to complain about stuff without offering solutions. But this seems ENTIRELY FIXABLE.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 4 up. 8 x 100m+ grass sprints with 100m+ recoveries. 0.5 down. Like, perfect weather this morning. The kids have no soccer or basketball games this weekend.
I might have to fix something around the house.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.70 | 0.00 | 10.70 |
| 10.7 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge, then down legacy trail to colinia, and the same route back. Started at 7. I don't know why I started so late, or why i looked down when I did, About a quarter mile into the run, I looked down to see a roofing nail with the point up in the middle of the sidewalk. I picked it up, and was adequately freaked out about what might have happened for the rest of the run. Next time I run in the dark, I am going to be on full ground scan mode. After running, I pressure washed the front of my house. Then I pressure washed my dad's driveway. Then I played an hour and a half of soccer with boy #1. Then I took boy #2 to the Venice courts, and we played basketball for 40 minutes. Then he got into two 4on4 pick up games. It was perfect. I got to practice with him but I didn't have to play a game. Then I went home and took a shower. I almost fell asleep in the shower. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 7 am start. No nails. Very hot. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood Route. 6 am start.
Sometimes life gets in the way of running.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 13.40 | 0.00 | 13.40 |
| 13.4 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM Bridge to Venice Avenue and back the same way. Longer than I wanted to run this morning. But I changed my plans halfway. Foggy when I started. 78 degrees. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 8 am. 80+ deg and humid. Hello, summer. Which makes this feel more ironic - It's less than 3 weeks until I have these kids in Utah snow. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 2 up. 8 x 100m+ grass sprints with 100m+ recoveries. 2 down. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 on the trails. 7 am start. beautiful morning.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge and back. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 Mi. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM Bridge and back. 8 a.m. start. Then we finalized plans for our snowboard trip to Salt Lake next week. Super stoked about getting these guys in snow. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 6 am start. 4 up. 8x100m+ grass sprints with 100m+ recoveries. 2 down. You know how when you have a job and you want to go on vacation and your workload really seems to pile up right before you leave? I hate it when that happens. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 11.45 | 0.00 | 11.45 |
| 7.75 Miles. Hood route to legacy Trail over SWOM Bridge and back. 5:45 am start. I took advantage of the crisp air this morning and moved at a pretty good pace. I was also running on good feelings left over from boy #1's soccer practice last night. He had a really good practice. It's amazing how remembering moments like that can get you moving.
6:30 pm. Ran around Islandwalk and got lost with boy #2. 3.7 miles.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. 6 days to Utah. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. Hot. It felt really smooth, but then again I haven't run in 5 days. So I had some car trouble last week on top of all the work stuff, and travel to weekend soccer tournament, blah blah blah. I had to get a new alternator. I'm leaving town tomorrow, and now my car won't start again. In happier news, happy birthday to my dad! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| Am: 7.75 Mi. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge and back 6:30 a.m. start 63 degrees. Pm: TPA - SLC. Stoked. | |
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| Met up with my brother in SLC. Then we got snowboard equipment, groceries, settled in our place in Midway. The kids are flipping out about snow, icicles, and ice. | |
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| 1st day snowboarding for the kids. Brighton. We got them lessons for the day. They looked like they were doing very well. The instructors were great. I spent the day on the blues and greens with my brother. At about 3ish, the instructor released the boys to do a green run with us. The moment I've been waiting for! It was magic, for one run. All four of us, coasting through some really scenic stuff! Near the end of the run John went down hard. Long story short, 2.5 hours later, he walked out of the cottonwood heights walk in clinic with a cast on his arm. Devastated. His snowboard trip is over. I can't risk him further hurting his arm. So now, my wife and I are scrambling for plan 2. Since we prepaid for lift tickets for 3 more days, i am for sure going snowboarding with tommy and my brother. But what does my wife do with a 12 year old boy who is really depressed about not being able to snowboard in Salt Lake City area? We are really limited from activities where he might fall. I'm putting it out to the fastrunningblog for help. How can we make this a fun trip for this kid? | |
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| .... The continuing story of tom k's Park City family vacation..... Snowboarding in Park City with my brother and boy #1 today. Boy #2 is still pretty bummed out. Spouse and boy #2 toured the Olympic sruff in Park City and a couple of other things. Boy #1 ia very frustrated he doesn't have this snowboard thing wired yet. It is day 2, after all! It's going to take more than 2 days, kid.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.60 | 0.00 | 5.60 |
| 5.6 miles in Midway, Utah. 7 am start. 27 degrees. I HAD to do a run here to see what all the fuss is about. How is this different than home?
Elevation - I didn't notice it that much during the run, to be honest.
Hills - Those we really noticeable and I didn't even run a hilly route.
Dry air - super obvious. I got back "home" and started wheeze-coughing for a few minutes.
Wildlife - I saw 3 deer and a flock of geese. That was crazy. People - I got honked at by a dude driving a range rover.
Temps - It was cold, by human standards. I had gloves, hat, and a long sleeve shirt, but I ran in shorts.
I guess I should have run a trail, or in snow, or something more Utah-ey, bu this will have to do.
Then we went to Soldier Hollow, the biathlon Olympic Village. And we found out that the tubing in snow is out. We missed it by one day. But the kids made a snowman, so that was cool. We also missed the Ice Castles by one day. We also wanted to swim in the 96-degree water at the Homestead Crater in Midway, but we found the scheduling to be too complicated / limiting. Plus now that Johnny has a broken arm, he couldn't go anyway.
Tommy, Andy, and I finished the day by Night snowboarding in Brighton. As soon as the sun got behind the mountain the temperature dropped like crazy. Tommy was so frustrated by this point they told me he hated snowboarding.
This trip is going great.
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| We salvaged the Utah vacation today!
Back at Park City for snowboarding for just me and Tommy. Spouse took Johnny and Andy to the airport so Andy could fly home. Then she took Johnny on a snowmobile tour that they both came back totally fired up about. I mean, really excited. It was good that he had something like this, since snowboarding is out for him.
Something clicked for Tommy on the slopes today. In less than 24 hours we have gone from hating snowboarding to wanting to move to Utah. He was pretty proud of the fact that we made it from one side of Park City all the way to the other side of the resort in one day by just snowboarding down and taking lifts up. And to end the day by snowboarding across the bridge downtown with his hands in the air and yelling was pretty huge!
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| Tom K's vacation report. Last day. We fly out super early tomorrow.
Spouse took Johnny hiking for an extended period of time. Then they went to Donut Falls. And Johnny got to slide down a big ice shoot for like 30 yards. The pictures look really cool.
Tommy and I went back to Park City for our last day of snowboarding. This is day five for him. So I spent the entire day chasing him down the mountain and barely keeping up. I mean, he's got it. We went on some great runs. He had 6 falls, total, for the day. Earlier this week, he had 8 falls on one run.
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| SLC - TPA. 6 am. What a vacation. The only thing my kids missed on this trip was snowfall! I wish they could have seen that. The snow report says they got 4" snow Thursday night. We missed it by one day.
Back to the soup. Ah, sweet humidity, how I've missed you! I'm glad I don't go back to work until Monday. The time zone thing really has me twisted. We'll see about running Friday, I guess.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 on the trails. 10 a.m. start. 67 degrees and humid. It's been a while so I wanted to take it easy today to see where I'm at. Snowboarding tweaks you in some unusual places. I'm really feeling it on the outside of the hip and on the groin side. The action of pushing off back to the lift with one foot strapped in a snowboard is not good for runners I think. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 7:30 pm start. Now that vacation is over, I can re-focus on running maybe. Starting up a new plan. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM Bridge and back. 6 am start. 67 degrees. So end of March seems like a good time to put together a race plan for the year. Holy Procrastinating, Batman!
4/27/19 - Gator Wilderness 10k in Punta Gorda
9/29/19 - Nebraska Marathon
11/2/19 - Revel Mt. Lemmon Marathon.
I'm not signed up for anything right now, which is why I have lost some motivation, I think. I may do both, or just one of the marathons. We will see.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. 70 degrees. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| 6 am start. 2.0 miles. hood route to soccer fields. 0.5 miles home. bathroom stop. 0.5 miles to soccer fields. (8) x 100M+ sprints, with active recoveries. 0.5 miles home.
I totally didn't feel like running. I really didn't feel like sprinting, especially after the bathroom stop. But I forced the issue. And I'm glad I did. I'm really starting to enjoy these short grass sprints.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. a bit cooler out this morning.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. the weather has been amazing lately. nice cool temps.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.90 | 0.00 | 12.90 |
| 12.9 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to Venice Avenue and back. 7 am start. Steady pace. Nothing crazy. No camelbak.
Then went to a recreational league soccer game (friends of my sons). Then went to the Venice barbeque festival, where I played some corn toss, listened to some blue grass, and made some very bad food choices. Pulled Pork Nachos is not health food.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route 9 pm.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. 6:30 am start.
I can't wait until after Easter, when all of the snowbirds leave. I am so tired of instructing these folks that they have the right of way. Look, it's dark, you have tinted windows, I can't see you, and I get that you want to show me that you see me, but this process works a lot better, if everybody just obeys the rules of the road. When you stop in the middle of a 45 mph road to give me room to cross a very small diveway, you are putting yourself in real danger. I don't run with any distractions. I am looking for you. You have the right of way. Just go. You can brag to your friends about what a safe driver you are some other day.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. No SWOM today. The weather has been great. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to legacy trail and back. 6 am start. Cool and breezy. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. 67 degrees. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. 70 degrees.
Then the health testing people came into the office (this is for reduced insurance costs). I had to fast before going to work today. But dang! I must have become shorter over last year. One of the most important metrics they use is BMI. I have to get below 170 pounds to not be considered "overweight"? Right now, I'm 10 pounds shy of "obese", apparently.
I don't think I'm going to see 170 anytime soon. I'll still get the reduced insurance plan, for sure. I have other means to get the points I need.
I work in a building with 80 people. If I'm overweight, then so are 75 of my co-workers.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.70 | 0.00 | 10.70 |
| 10.7 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail, over SWOM and back to Colonia, and back. 7 am start. Hot Humid.
Because I am still ticked off about people using pseudo-science and numbers to indirectly call me a "fatty" yesterday, I decided to see if I could still get under a 7 minute mile if I wanted to, on the way out. I got a 6:42. There was some effort there. On the way back, I did it again. 6:47. Much more relaxed. Like, I thought it was going to be @ 7:30ish. All of this does nothing to change my BMI. And these aren’t times that will go in record books. But it does reinforce my opinion that my health is defined by more than BMI.
Also, we went to the Venice High School vs. North Port baseball game last night at the new Braves Spring Training Facility in North Port. What a great venue for high schoolers. I ate some popcorn. I think the excess salt made me feel like I had a size 11 tongue on this run!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. 7 am start. Then 2 around the block miles with Johnny. He is somewhat serious about doing decent at the gator wilderness 5k. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. Then 2 around the block miles with Johnny.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. In the rain. Then 2 around the block miles, including 2 quarter mile pickups. 1:27, 1:32. The run was short - stridey, so I threw in some speed. Rain was steady at the end of it all. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.70 | 0.00 | 6.70 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood Route. Then 1.2 around the block miles with Johnny. 5:45 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 Miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Hood. 6 am. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 7 miles. In Winter Haven. FL. 11 am start. Hot. Tommy's soccer team is in the state championship tournament tbis weekend. They won this morning 5 to 1. Tomorrow is the final. If they win there, apparently we go to Baton Rouge for regionals. Anyhow, after the game this morning, i got to run around a lake in Winter Haven near Legoland. It was a decent run, considering the busy morning and all. Good luck to all the FRB-ers going to Boston! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 7 pm start. Tommy's soccer team lost the state championship final this morning 2-0. Then we drive home and unpacked and cleaned. We have 1 more tournament in 2 weeks. Then that's the end of the season. It has been a really long season. Everyone is totally burned out. Tryouts for next year are mid May! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge. Smooth. 70 something degrees. 5:45 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood Route. 6 am start. 67 degrees? less than 50% humidity? dew point below 50? Where am I? Is this heaven?
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| Missed running yesterday after 25 straight days. I played a bunch of 5 on 5 soccer last night, so it's not like I'm a couch potato or anything. I was still a bit ticked about missing yesterday, because this low dew point, low humidity stuff doesn't last forever around here. If I get decent weather, I need to jump on it. I wasted an opportunity yesterday. Enough about yesterday.
Today - 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge and back. 5:50 am start. Fast-ish mile on the way out. 6:35. Fast-ish mile on the way back. 6:38. I'm starting to like this fast mile thrown in running thing. I've been running easy miles for 2+ years. It's about time I push it. Even just a little bit.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM Bridge and back. Slow but steady pace. late start - 6:15. The humidity has returned.
So on Tuesday night, I was talking to my dad next to his car. I commented that it was the cleanest car I have ever seen. Like a mirror. He spent roughly 6 hours on Sunday detailing his car. It must be nice to be retired. Then he started singing "Working at the car wash blues." I haven't thought about Jim Croce in years! So, since Tuesday, one Jim Croce song or another has been rattling through my head at all times. This morning it was "One less set of footsteps." So there's that.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 13.40 | 0.00 | 13.40 |
| 13.4 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge to Venice Avenue and back. 7:45 am start. Very windy. 2 of the first 4 miles were right into the wind. The last 2 miles I was really dragging. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail over SWOM Bridge and back. Fast-ish mile on the way out - 7:12. Fast-ish mile on the way back - 6:52. 6 am start. Humidity, ah, there you are.
I ate WAY too much egg salad yesterday. That's not the best runner diet.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. Feels like Florida summer.
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Gator Wilderness 10k (6.21 Miles) 00:48:24, Place overall: 7, Place in age division: 1 | | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.21 | 0.00 | 6.21 |
| My first trail race. I have seen first hand the good work that this camp has done. I believe in the cause of this race, so naturally, I wanted to run it, even though I know nothing about trail racing, and I am not really race ready for anything. My boys ran the 5k. I ran the 10k. They start the 15k and the 10k together at 8 am. Then wait a bit, then start the 5kers. We live an hour from the camp, so we had to get up pretty early for this. We got there, got our bibs, and took the tractor pulled trailer to the start. We wandered about checking out what we could of the camp, did some strides, and looked at the lake. The course goes around this lake to start, on dirt and grass, then into some single track on shell that was not very well compacted, over a couple of small narrow bridges, and then moving out between all of those; dirt, grass, pine straw, shell, sand, narrow, wide, and so on. It was a real mixed bag. Scenic as all get out. Fog through the pines. Running through the oak hammock. Pretty stellar stuff. Anyhow, the first chunk of shell running slowed me down quite a bit. I had to work super hard to get through it. I got turned around and had to double back a couple of times. not really long distances, but enough to annoy me, and get in my head. Then just before mile 3, I had this woman come up behind me and say "I'm pacing myself off of you." (I had a very similar experience in a previous marathon, and it kind of ticked me off.) I said, "you know, I've gone off course a couple of times already". Then she told me that if we got lost it wouldn't be her fault. Is that funny? She should be a comedian! Then we hit a big grass patch, and I left her. It was really great cruising in the grass. But in the next shell zone, she caught back up to me, and I could hear her crunching away behind me. We went around a really tight turn, and my left foot caught a ditch all wrong and I mildly rolled my ankle. I stopped running long enough at this point for her to pass me. I said "just go". I decided to just jog it in, to save my ankle. Then it was just me, making hard turns through the pine trees like I was skiing. A few good long straight grass patches, and my ankle started to feel decent again. Then back to the lake. Big wide areas for running until about a half mile to go, near the POPs, they turn you onto single track stuff. After getting off course at least 7 times, this was the worst part of the race. If you get behind some super slow 5kers here, you're done for. There is no "out of the way" for them to get to. I may have yelled a bit here. So then the course gets wide again, and I cruised through the finish. As it turns out, I won my age group. This is the coolest race award I have ever received. It is a routed, emblazened hunk of a log, cut into a disc segment to look like a race medal. There was an enormous food spread after the race. Shrimp and grits, biscuits and gravy, bacon on a stick, tons of food. They had some healthy stuff too. I tried the acai (is that how you spell it?) berry smoothie. Even though a ton of stuff went wrong in the race, I still had a really good time and plan on going again next year. Like I said, I believe in the cause. The boys did decent in their 5k as well. They were too busy jumping off a dock and swinging off a rope swing into the lake to hang around for me getting my award though.
This race reinforced a couple of things I already knew. 1. "Racing" isn't "running". I forget that sometimes because I go so long between races. The mentality in a race is different, and you just can't get there running solo miles. I need more frequent, shorter, races in my life. 2. I could also add some longer tempos to the running plans. But we already knew that they can't all be easy runs.
The real story of this weekend was the brutal schedule. This is the last soccer touranament of the season. So Friday night - game in Sarasota. Saturday morning - races in Charlotte County. Saturday noontime - game in Sarasota. Saturday evening - beach for sunset. Sunday morning - game in Sarasota. Sunday noontime - Avengers End Game. Sunday evening - Church childrens program. (I have been involved with the 5th and 6th graders small group for a couple of years, and I do not like to miss it for something like soccer.) This weekend has left me incredibly thirsty. It's crazy. I can't drink enough water.
....What a weird ending to a race report.....
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM and back. 5:45 am start. It's getting warmer out there. All running systems appear to be functioning post-race.
So I've got that going for me, which is nice.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. Warm. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route 6:15 am start. before the rains. lots of soccer last night.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. 6:30 am start. Then drove to Lover's Key. Then spouse and I rode bikes all over the island. What a place! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 miles on the beach on Lovers Key. Sunrise run. From the north end to the south end and Back Again. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.70 | 0.00 | 5.70 |
| Last day on Lover's Key. Same 5 mile round trip as yesterday, from the north end on the beach to the south end and back. Then I just felt like running a bit more, so I did the bridge over Big Carlos Pass and back on Estero Blvd. Some dolphins were splashing around below me as I crossed. I considered running the trails, but the beach here is too perfect. Spouse and I checked out most of the trails by bike over the last 3 days anyway. The sand on the beach in Venice is much more coarse, and dark. This stuff is like flour and when hard-packed, near the shore break, it is near perfect. If the sand at home were like this, I would have much more beach runs. Then, Spouse and I walked most of the route I just finished running. We went from the north end down to Hurricane Charlie's, and back. Then we packed it up and went home.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail, over SWOM bridge and back.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. I had to stop at McDonalds @ 2 miles. Super hot and humid. The good news is I found out who it was that honked at me a few weeks back. Today, he honked and yelled "Run Forrest, Run!" I haven't heard that in a while.
Also, this happened:
https://youtu.be/e18zMCavD3A
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 2 up. 8x100M+ grass sprints w/ 100M+ recoveries. 2 down. 6 am start. In the dishwasher. I found a tennis ball out there. I bounced it while running the 2 down. I feel super coordinated.
Also, Boy#2's cast (broke arm 1st day snowboarding in Brighton Ski Resort in mid-March) came off last night. That means basketball training starts tonight.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 Miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail over SWOM Bridge and back. 6 am start. It rained last night, so I ate many bugs this morning. I ran some segments with my shirt over my face. It was bad, but I have for sure been through worse.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood Route. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.70 | 0.00 | 10.70 |
| 10.7 MI. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge to Colonia and back the same way. 8 am start. The sun was murder. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 Mi. On the trails. Great Wildlife sightings today. Snake, turtle, woodpecker, it was awesome! 2:30 p.m. start. Very very hot. A year ago today I ran the Brookings Marathon. It seems much longer ago than that. Happy Mother's day everyone! Well, everyone that's a mom, that is. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles at 6 am in the dishwasher. I have got to a point that 3.5 miles is regarded as a day off.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 MI. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM Bridge and back. 5:45 a.m. start. Very hot and humid. Quicker mile on the way out 7:06. On the way back 7:30. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge and back. 5:45 am start. Really good weather this morning. Lower humidity, dew point. I think this helped pick up the pace. But since I'm not timing anything, who knows?
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| 3.5 Miles. Hood route. Once again, low humidity. It was nice. I hope to go running again this afternoon with Tommy. He turns 14 tomorrow. Probably no running tomorrow. For his birthday, we are taking a canoe trip down the Peace River, looking for fossils.
P.m. 2 up. (8) x 100m+ grass sprints w/ active recoveries. 2 down. Most of it with Tommy. Hot, but I've run in worse. Then an hour of basketball with Johnny. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 8 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.70 | 0.00 | 5.70 |
| 5.7 miles on Legacy trail. 9 am start. Venice Ave. to Laurel Road over the SWOM Bridge and back.
I took the day off work, because today Spouse and I are married 25 years. I was planning on writing this big thing about how much she means to me, and how much I love her. But that is all pretty much covered in the "married 25 years" thing. She's awesome. There have been several versions of her through the years, as we all change, and go through different phases, and pursue different interests. I have been in love with every new phase of her. And I can’t wait to see what’s coming up next.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail and back. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.45 | 0.00 | 10.45 |
| 10.45 miles. 6 am start. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge, and return to colonia. Then return trip, minus the bridge. Weather was not as bad as I thought it would be. Oldest boy's 8th grade graduation this morning. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 11.50 | 0.00 | 11.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. Still great running weather. Song in my head: Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian restaurant. 5:30 PM: 6 miles on Legacy Trail. They have these mile markers on the trail that makes it easy to do the math. So tonight I ran 3 miles north and 3 miles back. It's the best part of legacy trail, in my opinion. I crossed Shackett Creek bridge, US41 bridge, Roberts Bay bridge, Dona Bay bridge, and the SWOM bridge on the way out, and again, on the way back. Add to that the whistling of the wind through the Australian Pines, and it is stellar. Just one man's opinion. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.70 | 0.00 | 10.70 |
| 10.7 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM Bridge to Colonia and back. 6:45 am start. Nice slow miles. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.70 | 0.00 | 10.70 |
| 10.7 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge to Colonia and back. 9:15 am start. Super hot. That run was rough. I should have got out earlier. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail, over SWOM Bridge and back. 6 am start. The temperature change between dawn and full sun is huge. I have got to be disciplined enough to begin running before sun up. Also this morning, some guy in a corolla with a trailer hitch changed lanes erratically to pass, and swerved into the bike lane next to me @ 50 mph. After incidences like this, I momentarily think I should have a treadmill.
Or carry a change of shorts with me.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail, over SWOM Bridge and back. 6 am start. I saw a dead butterfly and a dead blue jay. I mean an actual blue jay. Not the baseball Jays that lost in extras at the Trop last night in front of a crowd of 37. Why do I feel guilty about not going to baseball games? The Rays are really good, but nobody got time to go to baseball games in Tampa!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the Swom bridge and back. 5:45 am start. Just finished raining before the start. Super humid. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 7 am start. Hot. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.70 | 0.00 | 10.70 |
| 10.7 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge to colonia and back. 7 am start. Life saving clouds on the way back. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:15 am start. Dewey | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. 5:30 am start. left hip is kind of off. But I couldn't go another day without running. So I went.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles on the trails. 8 am start. My hip is still hurting. Then to the south jetty. There were tons of dolphins and manatees out today. Then boy #1 sang goodbye yellow brick road at a show. I think he did well. Then we hung out with some friends we haven't seen in a while for a bit. This got me to thinking, this is the second time in two weeks that someone has given me a book to read after I've told them that I don't read much. It's crazy. They asked me do you like to read? And I say No, not really. And then they say you should read this, and give me a book. Look, I just wanted to hang out. Why are you giving me homework? | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 Mi. Hood Route. 7 a.m. start. First run back in a while. Finishing up a Monster Week! Later, I'm going with the kids to the Rays game. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Who's got two thumbs and ran 3.5 Miles this morning? This guy! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| hood. hot.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. 6 am start. 83 degrees. 86% hum. 78 dew point. That's what you call dishwasher miles. These are probably going to be my running conditions for the next four to six months. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 84 degrees. 85 % hum. 79 dew point. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.25 | 0.00 | 9.25 |
| 1.5 miles. 7 am start. Then home field advantage bathroom stop. Then 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back, with a 7:24 mile thrown in the middle for funsies. I wanted a faster mile, but this was faster than I expected. 88 degrees. 71% humidity. 77 d.P. my shoes were making squishy noises for the last 2 miles. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 2.00 | 7.50 |
| 6:30 am start. I don't know what the exact weather conditions were. But imagine Florida in late June. I came home soaked, as if I went swimming, again. Anyhow, 0.75 up, 2 mile tempo in 14:39 (7:20, 7:19), 4.75 down. This is way faster than I expected again.
So, if I’m going to run Nebraska, I have about 100 days to get ready. I’m kind of on the fence. But these last 2 runs have shown me I have a little bit of speed in there. I’m feeling like I’m a 3:30ish marathon guy right now. I’m trying to be a bit more realistic about my abilities. I’m trying not to train like I am a 3:15 guy, because that guy’s been gone for a while. I might get that back. But let’s get back to 3:30 first. So, when I do these faster miles on my runs, I’m shooting for 8’s. 7:20’s is way too fast. I’m sure this will all sort itself out by the time I’m doing longer tempos.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 5:45 am start. Warm, but I've been in worse. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 1.00 | 5.50 |
| Track Thursday. 6 am start. 2.25 up. 800 in 3:16. 400 AR. 800 in 3:14. 2 down. Meh, I've been faster, but this is right in line with where I think I am. And this was not redlining. So, all positives, I think.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. We had a ton of rain last night. So it was a bit cooler outside. On the other hand, I had to eat many bugs this morning. I wonder if I will ever get used to bugs pinging off my face and chest while running. I still freak out and have to brush them away, like, every time. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 8:30am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 16.25 | 0.00 | 16.25 |
| 16.25 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to circus bridge and back. 6:15 am start. 84 degrees. 81% hum. 77 dew point. Yucko. 13.5 up? 2 in 16:07 (8:25, 7:42). .75 down. I was mentally out of it by the time I was supposed to kick. You can kind of tell I forgot I was supposed to be running fast, at least for that first mile. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 8:30 am start. So things were going well for me last week. And I thought it would extend into this week. I had planned on taking Monday off. And then back to Tempo Tuesday. But I got a call Monday evwning rhat my dad was on his way to the hospital. He either had a stroke, had an infection, or something that made him really out of sorts. No balance, words not making sense, etc. So after spending a decent chunk of Monday night in the ER, I didn't run Tuesday. Could have, but didn't. Back to the hospital Tuesday night. Pop was even more delusional, and now angry. The nurses were kind and respectful, but Dad had to have his hands tethered to the bed frame by the end of the night, to keep from pulling out his tubes. It was a rough night. I went to work Monday through Wednesday. So, Wednesday night was much better. He was still a bit disoriented, but was very calm, and apologetic for his behavior the prevuous 2 nights. He's going to be there a while. I'm hoping I can make running still work with all this going on. I was in a very similar situation when I started running, and joined the blog. Pop was in and out of hospitals and rehab facilities back then as well. So it can be done. I just don't want to feel guilty about it. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.90 | 0.00 | 3.90 |
| 0.4 miles. Around the block. Then 3.5 miles. Hood route. My bro is in town from Venice, CA, to see my dad. Dad has been moved to another hospital that is more geared towards pop's condition. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| I decided to pretend to be a runner again this morning. 5.5 miles. hood route. 5:45 am start. I passed 2 other runners this morning, which is 2 more than usual. Despite the dishwasher conditions, and not running for so long, the run felt pretty good.
Tomorrow, we have a meeting at the hospital. They intend to release Pop home on Saturday. Work is bananas. Other family stuff going on. I am stressed out like maybe never before in my life.
I don't know if that means I should run more or run less. On the one hand, it is like my therapy. On the other hand, it feels a bit selfish right now.
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| 5.75 miles. Legacy Trail. Venice Ave. to Laurel Road over SWOM and Back. 8 am start.
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| hood route. 6 am. Fatty is back to wearing a shirt.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. Day started with picking my dad up off the floor. Things are going great. | |
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. Soupy. Ran straight back to my parent's house. Pop was in such bad shape yesterday, I thought it was the end. Today, he wakes up, and was like, what's for breakfast? When old people get fevers, it is devastating. He sweated through 3 or 4 shirts last night. His fever was breaking, mom and I thought he was dying. We are happy to be wrong. | |
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. Super muggy. Lots of traffic. | |
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| 3.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. I played some soccer with boy #1 last night.
I've never been a runner that devotes an adequate amount of time to stretching. Yeah, I know I should be more serious about it, but I need to get on with the day, here. Ain't nobody got time for that. So, you could describe my stretching as something below the bare minimum. What I've noticed recently is that my flexibility has really dropped off, like faster than my drop off in mileage. It seems out of proportion. Like when doing the quad stretch, where you use your hand to hold your heel to your butt, I feel like I may not be able to grab my foot. It's crazy. Yes, there has been a substantial reduction in mileage. Do I feel winded? No. Do I need to buy new clothes, because I've blimped up? No, but that might be next week's problem. Have I lost all flexibility in my hamstrings, calves, quads, hips, back, ankles, and neck? Yes. It is a wonder I can walk.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. I had extra time this morning, so I went longer. It was weird because I thought mostly about running. Usually, my head is elsewhere.
Tommy had freshmen orientation at Venice High this morning. We parents sat in one lecture hall, learning about the dangers of vaping, jeans with holes in them, and not following drop off / pick up proceedures. By the way, the kids can wear one ear bud as they walk from class to class. Interesting rule. The kids had a completely different lecture in another hall. And then a campus tour. The last thing before they sent them off was to give them their class schedules. I mean, wouldn't it have been smarter to give the kids the schedule BEFORE the campus tour, so there was, at least, a chance of them finding the classes they will be attending?
We're not off to a good start here. I don't feel as though my kid is oriented.
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| We took the kids this weekend to NASA, Kennedy Space Center. (This will get running-related later, I swear.) I've lived in Florida since 1983, and I've never been there. It is really worth visiting. It feels like the last place that they make really big things. Like, unbelievably big things. We toured the space center on Saturday and Monday. Went skimming and boogie boarding on Sunday. Also scootered in the skatepark and toured /shopped in RonJon in Cocoa Beach Sunday. The kids want to work for NASA now. Not so they can be cool astronaut types. But so they can get home from work and spend the rest of thier time surfing and skimming. We stayed in Satellite beach, which is notorious for being extremely rocky and shelly. We experienced almost none of that, and I didn't believe it was true, until super-low tide on Sunday evening. I was in waist deep water. I finally stubbed my toe on some rocks. I split my left big toenail.
Which is why I didn't run this morning.
The Kennedy Space Center is still buzzing from the 50 year anniversary of the walk on the moon. But I was really impressed with what I learned about Eugene Cernan's 6-5-66 Gemini 9 Spacewalk. That guy's heart raced up to 160 bpm, NASA realized they forgot to put hand holds on the outside of the craft, his visor fogged up, and he lost 13 pounds in 2 hours 5 minutes. I imagined trying to grab the outside of a round capsule with oven mitts on!
He's still the last dude to walk on the moon, though.
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| 3.5 miles. hood route. sweaty.
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| 3.5 miles. hood route. I was stretching out for this, and I looked to the east, and I saw the Atlas V rocket going up on the other side of the state. I ran back inside and woke the boys up. Johnny came out to watch the rocket streak across the sky. We could see flames. Crazy. This seems to mean more, having just visited the launch site.
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| Hot. Hood. Rain. | |
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| 7.75 miles. hood route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. 8 am start. Soul sucking heat. I mean, I have run in hot weather before, but this one was bad. no breeze. no rain. but a lot of rain before and after. 89 degrees. 99% hum. 82 d.p. Steam coming up from the roadways. I knew within 50 yards that this run was going to be hard to breathe. It was like running with an undersized snorkel. It was like someone soaked a beach towel with vegetable soup and then draped it over my head and shoulders before I started running. It was like...well you get the idea. emergency bathroom stop at mcdonalds at mile 2. they were blasting frankie valli in that echo chamber bathroom.
1. i finished the run. 2 i didn't die. 3. i saw a rainbow. 4. there were no gnat clouds to run through, like usual after rains.
the kids start school tomorrow. I've got one in high school now. How did that happen?
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| 3.5 Miles. Hood route. 6 am start. slightly better weather this morning. 79 degrees. 99% hum. 79 d.p. feels like 85. I felt like a humidity plow, and I was leaving a moisture wake behind me.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. It's still sticky out, but I'm trying to get back to running every day.
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| 3 miles at track with boy #1. 4 speedyish 200s in there. | |
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| 3.5 miles. hood route. in the lightning and rain. the finish line is Thomas's high school bus stop. This is going to develop into a new thing, maybe.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. This rain will never end. | |
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6:30 am start. Hot humid blah blah blah .... | |
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| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 7 am start. Hot. Humid. I spent a couple of hours pulling weeds yesterday. It's amazing how much that will pull on your hamstrings. | |
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6:45 am start. I wanted more miles than that, but I overslept. | |
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. | |
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:40 am start. | |
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. | |
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| 3.5 Mi. Hood Route. 6 a.m. start. Song of the run was Goo by Sonic Youth. Then I had a day of "team building" at work, with a few other offices that are working on the same big project. It was so incredibly awful. The project will last the next 2.5 years. Ironically, I think we will all get along much better outside of the "team building" enviroment. Then I got home and saw Thomas in his new Venice High School Cross Country uniform. Suddenly, my day is better. | |
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| No run in the am, because: I attended my first high school cross country race in @31 years this morning. Thomas didn't race, because he's only been with the team for less than a week. These guys have been training together all summer. Coach says he will race next week. We just went this morning to get a feel for how these events go. I had forgotten everything. We might have to watch McFarland later.
5.75 miles. legacy trail from venice avenue north over SWOM bridge and back. 1 pm start! 45 minutes after eating a delicious sub sammich! I wore an orange shirt and blue shorts. The gators play miami tonight. Song of the run: blow up the outside by soundgarden. Then swimming. Then I cut the grass. now off to bouncy hoops with boy #2.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. It's going to be another long season for this gator fan. The gators beat the canes, the refs, and Felipe Franks kast night. | |
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:40 am start. | |
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| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 5:30 am start. Doughy Shirtless. So Thomas is racing in his first cross country race this weekend. I'm trying to guess his finish time for an off road 5k race. He ran 7:09 pace for a road 8k 3/17/18. I'm trying to manage expectations. What's your guess? | |
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| 7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail and back 5:45 am start. Misty outside. Like, if you were driving, you would have to use your windshield wipers, even though it is not raining - misty. I'm going to have to work harder to get out by 5:30.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood Route. I procrastinated myself out of a good run. Song of the run: Taking back Sunday - Decade under the influence.
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| Dropped Thomas off at VHS for the bus at 5:30. I came home and sqeezed in a 3.5 mile hood route run.
Then we drove to St. Pete for his first JV cross country race for the High School. It was a really flat track. and mostly paved, as it turns out. He got 23:38. 7:36 pace. 37th overall. 7th and last on the team. Yes, it was stupid hot and humid at 9:45 am. He really looked like he was hampered by that. He's a bit dissapointed by the time, but I told him that we have a benchmark to improve on now.
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| 10.5 miles on the legacy trail at 2 pm. After cutting grass at my house and my dad's house! At the start it was 94, with a heat index of 104. at about 6 miles deep it rained for about 30 seconds. Then the path instantly turned to steam. Within a half mile, all of the moisture on the asphalt trail was gone. I really struggled, and I expected to.
Weird find while running - just south of Colonia, on the side of the trail, there was a neatly stacked, 1 foot thick pile of playboy magazines. Trying to figure out that backstory took my mind off of things for about a mile.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge and back. 6:30 am start. After yesterday's huge effort, today felt like I was running downhill. Yes high temps and humidity, and I still came home soaked. Everything felt really smooth, though. Song of the run: AJR - Sober Up.
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| I am "barely" sick. So no running.
I think the rule is - If you don't have a fever, if you don't have a broken bone, or if you are not in jeopardy of involuntary discharges, you should be running.
I have the sniffles, and a sore throat. I should be running.
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| 3.5 miles. 6 am start. Well, I got out and did something. It's gross outside. As I'm typing this, it's 9:45. The Mission Valley (Venice) weather station lists 88 degrees, 83% humidity, 82 dew point, and feels like 109. I'm surre it wasn't that bad at 6 am, but it's still nasty.
I devoted some time this morning to think about how people survived here before air conditioning.
Also, what if we invented the world's largest dehumidifier, and stuck it in the middle of town? We could then use that water gain to re-charge the aquifer, so that Zephyrhills could suck it out again and sell it across the country. I am altering the state's water cycle, so I may sweat less.
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. For some reason, i ran faster than usual. The fog over the orange groves was fragrant and awesome. A half mile later the goat farm was also fragrant, just not awesome. Then the Venice invitational, where Venice JV finished 2nd,and Thomas was runner 5.then a big day of yard work and pressure washing. Then the gators won. Then sleep. | |
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| Dad went back to the hospital. Luckily, by brother is in town to help coordinate all of that. Still, I didn't feel like running.
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| 6 pm. rainy hill / bridge sprints with Thomas. 0.5 up. (10) x 0.15 sprints up the north bridge. jog down. 0.5 down. Rained hard for the first half, then drizzled for the second half. Then to the beach, where we just missed sunset, but the afterglow was vibrant.
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| 5.5 miles hood route. 5:45 am start. not as miserable outside as it has been. 75 deg. 99% hum. 75 d.p.
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| 3.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start.
Pm. 4 miles on Venetian waterway park with Thomas. He was very consistent with his pace and movements tonight. | |
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| 6 on legacy trail. 8 am start. Venice Avenue to Laurel road over SWOM bridge and back. My brother's last day in town. So I'm skipping work. | |
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| 6 am: 2 miles. then emergency bathroom stop at home. then 3.5 miles. hood route.
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| I got about a half mile down the road, and had to emergency turn around again. Something is wrong with my stomach.
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| 3.5 Miles. Hood route. No stomach emergencies today. A bit sore from basketball with boy #2 last night.
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| Hood route. 6:15 am start. less humidity than normal. 74 deg. 89 % hum. 70 d.p. glorious.
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| 7.5 miles. Hood route to legacy trail and back. 5:30 am start.
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| 5.5 miles. hood route.
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| 7.75 miles. hood route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. 6:10 am start.
Friend/Neighbor/Crossfit/Spartan race/Tri guy was just finishing up his run before I started and talked to me for a sec. Usually, this means I'm going to get a sales pitch for Crossfit/Spartan race/Tri, but not today. We talked mostly about my dad. (We have a meeting at the hospital today. Pop will be released on Saturday.) Also, he said that he just finished 8 miles, at something less than 8 minute pace. Dang. It's been a while since I could say that. I'm like 9 years older than this dude, but still. I have a reputation in the neighborhood. I'm not ready to give up my "running guy" place in society yet. I have a good start to this week, and I have to keep it going.
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| 7.5 miles. hood route to legacy trail and back. 5:40 am start. I tried to book it at the end to catch Tommy at his bus stop, but I saw him get on the bus about 100 yards away. I was moving pretty good for that last mile to try to make that happen. So close.
BTW, This is already my biggest week of mileage since late June.
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| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 6 am start. Slow. | |
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| At track. Noon. 1 up. 4x400 w/ 400 AR, 1 down. Faster stuff all in - 6:33. Pop got out of the hospital, again, yesterday. We had a fairly rough night. I spent the night on my parent's couch. | |
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. It is my parents' 53rd anniversary today.
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| Hood route. | |
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| 6 am start.
I saw a shooting star.
And a dead armadillo.
These items are not equal.
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| 7.75 miles. hood route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge and back. 6 am start.
then church, then 1 hour of basketball with boy #2, then track stuff with boy #1.
track stuff:
1.125 up. (5) x 400m, w/ 400m AR, 1.125 down.
then swimming, where I got a big cramp in my calf.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail and back. No SWOM Bridge today. Stupid hot and humid.
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| hood route. 6 am start. hot and foggy.
6:30 pm. 1 hour of basketball with John. The kid was on fire, knocking down shots from everywhere. The teenagers on the other end of the court noticed.
Also, if you are into underdog stories, you need to root for the Rays. It doesn't matter if you have a connection to Tampa / St. Pete. With the lowest payroll in all of baseball, it's amazing that they win ANY games. Imagine a Red Sox fan, who's team is paying out 4x what the Rays pay, just so their Sawx can NOT go to the playoffs!
Besides, it's crazy entertaining! The play at the plate tonight was awesome! Adames gunned him down!
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| 7.5 miles. hood route to legacy trail and back. no SWOM bridge today. 5:30 am start. It's down to 73 degrees. But with 100% humidity, and a 73 dew point, miles 2 &3 were just miserable. When Dew point = temp, we get fog. Anyhow, I've been wondering if there is some sort of cumulative discomfort from always running in a dishwasher. Nothing ever dries. Ever. I don't expect Autumn weather for another 3 weeks. Yeah, I know, I choose to live here. But I think I'm ready for this "crisp" air I've heard about. Yes, I seem to remember that once. As I recall, it was pleasant.
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| 7.5 miles. hood route to Legacy Trail and back. No SWOM Bridge. Again, miles 2 and 3 were really slow because of the insane humidity. Much smoother running overall today, though.
Go Rays!
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| 12.9 miles. hood route to legacy trail to venice avenue and back. 9:45ish on the way out. 9:15ish on the way back. felt strong. still hot though.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. Last night's gator game had a negative impact on today's run. 8pm kickoffs are just wrong. 16 15 weeks until A1A half.
2:30 after watching my sons and the neighborhood kids go nuts at what appears to be the end of fortnite, track stuff with boy #1. Assorted slow and fast stuff. All in 2.5 miles. I had 2 dill pickles at lunch. That was an exceptionally poor choice.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail. Over SWOM Bridge and back. Pit stop at McDonalds with 2 miles togo. 6:15 am start. Very hot and Humid. Hamstrings were oddly tight this morning.
I'm okay with the late start because I didn't have to drop boy #2 off at school today because it's columbo day canadian thanksgiving day indigenous peoples day national dessert day.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.10 | 0.00 | 12.10 |
| 7.5 Miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail and Back. 5:30 am start. Hot and Humid again. POP stop on construction site north of Laurel Road.
7:30 pm. 4.6 miles. Ringling Bridge Run! Like the old days. I had a chance to run with Tommy tonight, so I thought we should do something cool. It is a much longer drive than it is worth, but still was fun. I'm glad I took advantage of this when I worked downtown. Anyway, the run was still warm, the views were great, and the kid kept my pace honest.
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| 7.5 miles. hood route to legacy trail and back. 5:30 am start. started slow, but then got into a good groove. I'm starting to feel some fitness come back. There's a point where you reach the "sore, but good" feeling. that's where I am right now. I need increase the base, and do more speed work. But i feel like i am progressing towards that at the right pace. I don't want to do too much too soon. Oh, and most importantly, no emergency bathroom stops this morning.
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. First shirtless run in a while. 75 deg. 88% hum. 71 d.p.
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| 7.5 miles. Hood route to legacy trail and back. 5:45 am start. Ever so slightly cooler this morning.
1 pm: at track. They were having a chili cook off at work, and I wasn't interested, so I bounced out early. Good news / bad news. Good news: I did a legit track workout today. The Fanken5k! (or, if you like, 5kenstein!)
1 up. 1600M, 400M recovery, 1200M, 400M recovery, 800M, 400M recovery, 400 M, 200M recovery, 400 M, 200M recovery, 400 M, 200M recovery, 200 M, 200M recovery. 1 down.
This might be pushing it for me right now, with my present level of fitness. But I needed to know where I stand. I didn't want to go on in the dreamworld, thinking I was still at 2012 levels of fitness. So I'm going to feel this one later, for sure. But well worth it, I think.
Now the bad news: 6:31, 5:08, 3:23, 1:36, 1:35, 1:40, 0:42, for a grand total of 20:35. 6:38 pace. So this is the start. No where to go but up from here!
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| 7.75 miles. 9 am start. hood route to legacy trail over SWOM Bridge and back. rain, wind. felt very smooth and a bit quicker than usual. Because I ran fast yesterday, and that has a tendancy to straighten out my stride? because the rain has the temps down? because the wind was occasionally at my back?
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| 5 miles. On the trails. 11 am start. First three with Tommy. Very hot. | |
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| 5.5 tough miles. Hood route 5:45 am start. 79 deg. 96% hum. 78 dew point.
I am having a hard time remembering a run in this miserable, abusive weather conditions. When you get to the point at the end of a race, when things have fallen apart, and you are just focusing on bringing the next foot forward, and nothing else - it was kind of like that. I imagined as I ran leaving a wake of humid air. It was carving my way through soup running.
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| 7.5 miles. hood route. 5:45 am start. Even hotter and humid-er than yesterday, so rough sledding today. I just forced the issue and finished the run. I might have been faster than yesterday.
Also, I have been obsessed lately with Vitamin String Quartet. I'm sure they have re-done your favorite song.
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| 7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail and back. 5:40 am start. What a difference a day makes! Temps in the 70s, Humidity below 70%, dew point below 70! Woo-hoo! I had to be a minute per mile faster today.
We're scheduled to resume the usual steam room conditions tomorrow, but today was great!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.90 | 0.00 | 12.90 |
| 12.9 miles hood route to legacy trail to Venice Avenue and back. 6:45 am start. 77 deg. 92% hum. 75 d.p. 1st half 57:17. 8:53 pace.
1st run in new shoes. Hokas. The last pair (Kinvaras) really lasted way too long. At first I thought that I bought a half size too small, because the toes were really tight. Then things loosened up by mile 3, and I was rolling along. You get some weird pains along the way when you transition in shoes. At one point my hip hurt, then later my knee, then later, my ankle, then my big toe. At the time, all of those felt like "Oh no! Bad shoe" moments. I feel fine now though.
Life really got in the way of running the last 2 days.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. hood route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. 7 am start. slog. hot humid, etc. I'm sore, but I don't think its from the new shoes. I spent the day working on a boat trailer with boy #1. there was a lot of lifting and such.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 11.50 | 0.00 | 11.50 |
| 7.5 miles. hood route to legacy trail and back. 5:45 am start. hot, humid, blah, blah, blah. The big difference today is that I timed the run. 32:31 1st half - 8:40 pace. 31:24 2nd half - 8:23 pace. All in 1:03:55 - 8:31 pace. okay.
6:30 pm. 0.5 up, (1) x 0.15 mile hill (bridge, we don't have hills here) sprints, jog down. 0.5 down. I ran the first 2 too fast. Most of them @ 56 seconds. 6:13 pace.
Then an hour and a half of basketball with Johnny. He was really knocking the shots down. It's really cool to watch your kid improve. His confidence is building.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood Route. 5:50 am start. 75 deg. 97% hum. 76 d.p. Left Quad is still beat up from basketball last night. We were going after a rebound. Johnny's knee went straight into the outside of my thigh.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. did not feel well this morning. many bathroom visits before heading out. also, my job has been trying to keep me from running the last couple of weeks. so, physically and mentally out of it this morning. I still ran it, so, that's..... something?
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Good route to legacy trail and back. 6 am start. Still running in a dishwasher down here. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 16.25 | 0.00 | 16.25 |
| 16.25 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Circus Bridge and back. 6 am start. Weather was slightly better than usual. I'll take it. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.70 | 0.00 | 10.70 |
| 10.7 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge to Colonia and back. 6 or 7 am start, depending on which clock you're looking at. We voted to eliminate daylight saving time 2 election cycles ago. Go figure. Oh yeah, running... The weather was great this morning. Many more runners than usual today. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. hood route. 5:45 am start. It was even cooler out today. Also, My son won a chili cook-off at our church last night. 24 entries. he was the youngest. blind taste test with 3 judges. Who knew? Which brings me to my next point. It was probably good that I ran alone this morning.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.30 | 0.00 | 6.30 |
| 6 am start. hood route. And we're back in summer weather around here. hot, humid, fun. 1.55 up. 1 mile in 7:00. 1 mile easy. 1 mile in 7:30. 1.75 down.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail, over SWOM Bridge and back. 5:45 am start. 1st 2 miles were slow, but then things got rolling along. 74 deg. 98% hum. 72 d.p. There was a skimboard in the middle of the sidewalk on Laurel Road. That's a first.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. hood route. 74 degree dishwasher. 5:50 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. I was promised a cold front this morning. Now, where is it? | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 10.2 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail to Colonia and back. 10 am start because I took my parents to the airport this morning. Still humid maybe 5 degrees cooler. But because I ran so late, I had to deal with full sun and windy conditions. I timed this one. 1:31:54. 9 minute miles. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 11.50 | 0.00 | 11.50 |
| 6 am start. 7.5 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail and back. About 5 degrees cooler. Still with the humidity. Then after church. 4 miles on the trails with Tommy. Then an hour of basketball with Johnny. We did an hour yesterday also. Tryouts are tomorrow. I want him to be confident. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. hood route. 6am start. Something below 70 degrees. Yes, it felt like fall.
So on Saturday night, when the temps droppped like 5 degrees to put us in the low 70s, my buddy decided to build a bonfire. One of the conversations was - If you were a major league baseball player, what would your "walk-up' song be? I think I have this narrowed to 3:
1. Blur - Song 2
2. Win Win - Victim
3. Local H - All right (Oh yeah)
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to legacy trail and back. 6 am start. Warmer today, still humid. I wanted a 6 mile tempo this morning. (Right now, I'm counting anything beating the 8 minute man as "tempo".) Last night I made dinner choices that go against this goal (3 chili-kraut hot dogs and a bowl of black cherry ice cream). So this is what I ended up with (and honestly, it's not as bad as I thought it would be) 0.75 up. 1 mile in 7:57. Emergency bathroom stop at McDonalds. 2 miles untimed, 3 miles in 23:03 (7:41 pace), 0.75 down.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail, over SWOM bridge and back. 5:40 am start. 60 deg. 91% hum. 57 d.p. chilling? misty wind. coldest run in a very long time. other than another stop at McDonald's (seriously, they might refuse entry for me if this keeps up), things were clicking along this morning. nice even cadence.
Johnny had tryouts forthe middle school basketball team on monday and tuesday. We have been playing a lot of basketball as build up for this. This morning, we found out he made the team. So we're all pretty stoked about that.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. 6 am in misty rain.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 16.25 | 0.00 | 16.25 |
| 16.25 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail to Circus Bridge and back. Cooler, but windy. The wind beat me up a bit. There was a 5k in the middle of this run. Some of the people in the Turkey trot recognized me and said that I should be racing. Not ready yet. I didn't know there was a race today either. This is the first time I've seen a race in Venice, that didn't run by the pier. Something different. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 10.2 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail to Colonia and back. 7 am start. Much cooler this morning. No gloves yet, but we're close! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 6 am start. hood route. 0.75 up. 2 miles in 15:30. excatly even split. 2.75 down.
what can i say about yesterday? sometimes life gets in the way of running, or somebody had a case of the mondays, or whatever lame excuse you like.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. hood route 6 am start. much less humidity this morning, which made it feel cooler.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 10.2 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to colonia and back. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge and back. 8 am start. we went to the beach later. I made it waist deep. It's getting cold in the gulf. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 miles. Venetian waterway park. 10 am start. No AC last night. Barely slept. I really wasn't feeling it this morning. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 14.20 | 0.00 | 14.20 |
| 10.2 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail to Colonia and back. 7 am start. 1:27:30. 8:35 pace. Second half faster by a ton. Pm: bridge Sprint workout at North bridge to Venice. 0.5. miles up. 10 x 0.15 mile bridge sprints.jog back. 0.5 miles down. The restaurant on the other side of the intracoastal was really cranking out the fried fish tonight. It smelled amazing! But then again I really appreciate seafood. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 7 am start. I'm looking forward to hearing about the Pachev family, and how many Turkeys they claim this year. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.85 | 0.00 | 7.85 |
| 7.85 miles. Fruit cove big route. 7 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 Miles. Fruit cove. 8 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.85 | 0.00 | 7.85 |
| 7.85 miles.7 am start. Fruit cove. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 8 am start. Hot out. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 11.75 | 0.00 | 11.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 8 am start. It's just like summer out there.
A half hour later, 4 on the trails with Tommy, with a fast finish.
A half hour after that, 1.25 hours basketball with Johnny. Weather for basketball: 81 degrees, 76 % hum., 71 d.p. Like I said, summer.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 Miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail and back. 5:45 am start. great weather, decent running this morning.
While I was out of town for Thanksgiving, I turned off my alarm. I thought I had forgotten to turn it back on and then over slept Monday. Not the case. When I overslept Tuesday's run, I was kind of ticked that I missed two days of good weather running for no good reason. So last night I focused on what was wrong with the alarm. Somehow I had inadvertantly unchecked the box that says "alarm in silent mode." Which means that whatever the volume of my phone ringer is, that will bethe volume of my alarm. Since I live with my phone on vibrate, there was no alarm. I checked the box, and we're back in business today. I wish I had a better story for missing running the last 2 days.
In other news, I waited until Cyber Monday to officially sign up for the Publix Fort Lauderdale Half. I had an Active.com 25% off discount code. There was no discount, and Active.com is the biggest scam ever. To sign up for most races, you need them. They default you to signing up for their membership on every page, which you have to be looking for to get out of. Then if you accidentally miss one, 30 days after you sign up for your race, they surprise extract $100 from your account (This would be after your 30 day "trial membership" that you unknowingly signed up for.) These people should be sued.
Beaten first, then sued.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. hood route. 5:45 am start.
Johnny's Laurel Nokomis Middle School Basketball team won their first game in 3 years last night. The boy was grinning from ear to ear all night.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 7:30 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. Then church. Then 1.5 hours of basketball with John. We spent a lot of time on footwork today, pivoting, etc. Then 4 miles on the trails with Tommy. 80+ degrees. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood Route. Heavy Fog. 6 am.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.75 | 0.00 | 9.75 |
| 9.75 miles. Hood route. 0.75 miles in a heavy downpour, then the rain just stopped. So for the rest of the run I was singing Cracker's Another Song About The Rain. So I ran to the corner of Laurel and Edmondson, then back to McDonald's to use the bathroom then back to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back home. Another bad week of running. Sometimes life gets in the way. Johnny, AKA boy #2, turns 13 today. So for his birthday, he wanted to spend the day at the skateboard park on his scooter. So that's where I am typing this. it rained this morning, but I squeegeed the skatepark, and now it's 74 and sunny. Good day. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM Bridge and back. my endless summer.
then church.
then the track with Tommy. I don't know. I chickened out / was too tired / whatever I guess. He ran and I timed him. He needs volume. I need speed. someday we'll figure this out and run great.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM Bridge and back. High of 81 today.
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| 3.5 miles. hood route.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles of is it raining? or just super misty? 6 am start. by the time I got to work, it has become 10 degrees cooler. weather is super confusing, yo.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. hood route. 5:45 am start. cooler and breezy. At the turn around, homeless guy was awake earlier than usual, and he said good morning.
For some reason, I had Van Halen's "Could this be Magic?" stuck in my head for the whole run. So on my morning commute it was a Van Halen medley. - little guitars, you really got me, beautiful girls, top jimmy, and so on.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail and back. 7 am start. Windy. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail and back. First half faster. I didn't realize I was running with the wind timed the second half 31:00. Started off heavy rain light wind. Finished heavy wind light rain. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.90 | 0.00 | 12.90 |
| 12.9 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail to Venice Ave. and back. 7 am start. Longest run in a while. Warm and sunny today. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.75 | 0.00 | 9.75 |
| 9.75 Miles. Hood route to the legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back with an extra 2 miles thrown in because of bathroom stops. Then 2 hours of soccer with neighborhood kids. It's been a while since I've played soccer. So now I'm sore. Merry Christmas, FRBers! I have a long night of eating traditional Polish Christmas Eve food. Fish, pierogi, and a ton of other stuff that I love. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 7 miles on the trails. 2 pm. 70+ degrees. Merry Christmas. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 10.2 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail to Colonia and back. 8 am start. The Sweat burns the eyes today. It's got to cool down someday, right? Also. Is "brick" by Ben Folds Five the only song about December 26th? It certainly has to be the most famous. | |
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| I was planning on running today. But I think I have a good excuse this time.
This is my brother's last day in town, and his birthday is tomorrow. At a young age, he took up golf, influenced by my Uncle Joe. Because of many hours on the golf course together, he has a great friendship with my Uncle. So, he really wanted to be that guy for my sons. So he set it up that the five of us, Me, Andy, Uncle Joe, Tommy, and Johnny would do 9 holes at Lake Venice Golf at 8 am. It's not too long until my boys are learning to drive. The Floridian learns to drive by first recklessly driving a golf cart. Later, you can advance to the roads and do some real damage. So, that was part of my motivation for this. How did I play? I haven't played in 4 years. But, for 5 holes, I was awesome. I was putting for bird or par. Then the wheels came off. I shanked 2 into the woods. On the same hole, I hit 2 separate trees on different shots, both times sending my ball backwards on the course. After you have a double digit score on a hole, it is tough to keep competative. But my brother's goal, about influencing my kids into golf was, I think, accomplished. After, I spent about an hour on the driving range with my sons.
Then Johnny spent the day at the skatepark. Then we saw the new Star Wars. Big day.
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| 12.9 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to Venice Avenue and back. Slow, but steady. 8 am start. Stupid hot. 75 degrees. 85 % hum. 71 dew point. Really crowded out there today.
At the base of the US41 bridge, a lady passed me on her bike. Then she slowed up because of the incline. So I said "Come on!, You aren't about to get passed by a runner, are you?" Then she had to explain to whoever she was talking to in her earpeice, what was happening. And she was pretty embarrassed about it. So I yelled back "I'm sure you'll catch me on the downhill!"
She didn't. When I crossed the line where the overpass ends, she was still coming up behind me. I threw my arms in the air and yelled Woo Hoo as loud as I could so that her phone call friend could hear.
BTW, this talking to people while you exercise thing is getting really commonplace. I used to be self conscious about having arguments with myself while I'm sorting out life's problems while running. Now everybody is talking to someone. And who is on the other end of the line? Do I want to listen to you huff and puff while describing what happened last night? Not this guy. I don't get it.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. Comedic levels of heat and humidity. Also, I've developed something of a cough lately. I hope that goes away soon. Pm. Surprise second run! 5:30 pm. 2 on the trails then I ran out of light, then 5.5 miles. Hood route. I ate a swarm of gnats! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 10.2 miles. Hood route to the legacy trail to Colonia and back. 6 am start. Really hot and humid. Song of the run- when I grow up by NF. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| I woke up coughing and sneezing. No fever, so I should have ran, I guess. I just didn't feel it. No, this is not from watching my Gators stink up the Orange Bowl and still win last night. Just your regular head cold. Maybe I'll write a year-end thing later.
Happy New Year, all.
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