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Location:

Eugene,OR,USA

Member Since:

Nov 09, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

  • 5k PR - 18:48 (7/04/08)
  • 8K PR - 33:46 (5/19/07, on trails)
  • 10k PR - I have not run a competitive 10K yet.
  • 12K PR - 50:10 (8/09/08)
  • 15K PR - 1:04:52 (3/22/08)
  • Marathon - Have run 1 trail marathon, (Grand Island) 3:55 (July 2007)
  • Ultra Marathons -
  • Farmdale 33.5 miles, 10/08 - 6:08
  • Riddle Run 28 Miles, 01/09 - 5:35 (run in 2-3 inches of snow)
  • Devil's Lake 50k, 07/09 - 6:22
  • Howl at the Moon 8 hour, 08/09 - 39.98 miles
  • North Country Trail Run 50 miles, 09/09 - 9:44
  • Farmdale 32 miles, 10/09 - 5:45
  • McNotAgain 30 Miles, 10/09 - 5:50
  • Red Rock Canyon Half, Las Vegas, 06/12 - 2:15


Short-Term Running Goals:

Keep running in the winter - 1st year in Eugene - fun!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep on Keeping on..

Personal:

Moved to Eugene in Autumn, 2012 - Track city USA!

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.250.000.000.008.25

Weather - 28 degrees, sunny.

Cold, but clear, and I seem already accustomed to cold weather trudging. Did the South Farms/MBK modified loop again. I actually saw another runner on the South Farms dirt road.

During my 2 mile warmup I saw 2 ginko trees releasing an endless stream of golden leaves. It was a spectacular show, it looked like the sky was dropping sunrays. I stood beneath the trees and listened to the leaves striking the ground, it was just like rain.

After my warm-up I stopped at the arboretum and did 3 sets of strength exercises and stretching, then started the South Farms loop.

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Comments
From The Howling Commando on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:39:08

Gingko trees! Yay! Emma wants those leaves on the table at the wedding :) Or wants them instead of flower petals? I forget. But anywho great run :) Slicin and dicin' fo sheezy.

From GTI on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:47:21

Hey! Got the note you left on my last blog post.

Congrats on your 1 year blog-o-versary! It's nice to have that log in front of you in black and white showing you what you need to do and what you have already done, isn't it?

When I first started running for exercise, I used to tell my friends that, yeah, i ran, like 2 or 3 times a week. Then after 9 months of that, I finally started keeping my spreadsheet. I didn't have a training plan, I was just charting what I finished. I was genuinely surprised to see that it was really more like once a week, on average, and sometimes not even that. Once I had that record, it became so much easier for me to set goals and chart a forward path.

Clearly, you've had a similar experience.

Whenever anybody tells me they want to start jogging or walking for exercise, I tell them they just need to do 2 things: buy a halfway decent pair of shoes, and keep a little log of what they do.

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