| 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, 17, and 18.
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: | 8.00 |
Month: | 35.00 |
Year: | 251.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 1593.00 | 16.21 | 1609.21 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 10 miles on Legacy Trail. Slow. 84 Degrees. I was pretty beat down for this run. Bad diet and sleep last night. This is not the best way to start the year. The only positive news from this run is that I did not give in to the urge to cut it short. Oh, and some kid caught a nice Spanish Mackerel off the Roberts Bay Bridge.
I don't have much in the way of a year end wrap up / look ahead into 2017. I mean, 2016 was a pretty bad year for me running-wise. I feel like I know what was missing. All of my runs were meaningless, untimed runs. If you want to race longer distances you need to train longer distances. Same thing goes for speed and recovery. So, if you look at what I did last year, you would think I was training to race 8-9 minute pace for 7.5 miles. I did that over and over again. How could I expect anything better on race day? So this year, I hope to train myself to run faster. Bring back the speed work, tempos, and intervals. I hate those things because the run magic never happens on the track for me. The run magic happens when I'm crossing the Dona Bay Bridge at surnrise, in a state of running induced spiritual creaminess. (Wait, what?) I just need to get back to doing the speed work that will lead to continued championship mediocrity. I also need to take recovery - sleep - diet more seriously. 46 years old will be here soon. Yeesh! On the bright side, ..... ...... ..... No where to go but up from here!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 27:04. 7:44 pace. 69 deg., 100% hum., 72 d.p. I had to stop for traffic a couple of times. Also, the thickest fog I've seen in a while. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood Route. 30:47. 8:48 pace. 6:00 am start. 63 deg., 82% hum. 57 d.p. I went out to the track, intending to do interval running this morning. When I have run the track in the evenings, there is, at least, some light on the track from the baseball fields next door. No one is playing baseball / softball at 5:30 am. I'm going to have to run intervals in the evenings.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood Route. 6:00 am start. 29:56. 8:33 pace. 60 degrees, 73% hum. (how is this not 100%?), 60 d.p. Super Foggy. When dew point = temperature, you get fog, apparently. Like, water droplets on your eyelashes that you periodically have to blink away - Fog. I expect much sympathy from the snow-running folks.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| I started late to avoid some storms. 7 am start. It was supposed to be the usual 10.2 mile - hood route to legacy Trail to Colonia and back run, but I needed to find a POP @ 6 miles in. I had to take a .8 mile detour to find one because most of the homes are built in that community. TMI, but crisis averted. I caught some rain @ 8 miles in. It was windy the whole run. Kicked the last mile in 6:41, which kind of surprised me. I didn't think it was that fast.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. Cold. Mid thirties. Short stride in the cold weather. A few bursts of speed in there. Skee bop doo bop a bee dop bo. 2:30 pm. Grass field / barefoot running. 2 up. (8) x 100 fast, jog back. 2 down. 50 something degrees. rat tat doodle dee day da day. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 40 something degrees. 6:15 am start. I tested out running with a headlight this morning, since I plan on headlight running at the track later this week, and have only done this once before, and that was @ 2 years ago. It went fine. But i wonder if there was a benefit to the cold weather. I already had asomething on my head covering my ears. I winder if it would be different if it were warmer outside. Also, I ran my first race 6 years ago today. A lot of stuff has happened since then, running and otherwise. It's pretty crazy to look back. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 6 am start. hood route 1.5 miles. 10:31. Then home. Then 2 miles around the block easy.
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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. I had to take the last two days off from running. Spouse was out of town. Much respect to the single parent runners. I couldn't figure it out for two days. | |
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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. 5:45 am start. Last mile 6:34. 65 deg., and humid. Super low tide. If you had shoes that could walk on oysters, you could almost walk across Dona Bay. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| We spent a couple of hours at the beach yesterday skimboarding. I crashed on my second run. Fortunately, I only sprained my pride, and because of how I landed, I accumulated a ridiculous amount of sand in my shorts. Then my kids used my own lines on me, to make me skim again, so I had to do about a dozen more runs after that. You can't lecture people about not giving up, if you give up.
I was kind of nervous about it when I went running this morning, but there were no side effects. I did 7.5 hood route miles, just beating the 9 minute man. 64 degrees, or so. I saw 6 other runners out today, which is, like, 7 more than usual.
Then I went home and took the boys to the soccer fields, so I could do my barefoot runs. 2 up, (8) x 100 sprints, jog back, 2 down. Ususally I do this stuff after church, but I decided to get this out of the way early today. I'm really enjoying the barefoot running. I believe this will make me a more efficient runner.
Then church, then back to the beach for more skimming. The water, although colder than I like, is this awesome shade of blue right now. It's really striking. We got up to about 82 degrees today. I just hung out on the sand bar, while the boys went skimming today.
It has been a great weekend.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Drove to Fruit Cove. Went canoeing with Johnny at sunset. Saw a baby gator. Awesome. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.85 | 0.00 | 7.85 |
| 7.85 miles. In Fruit Cove. 6 am start. Pretty sluggish this morning. Extra foggy out. Then canoeing with spouse. Then to the funeral of my grandmother in law. Great lady. Then back to Venice. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6:15 pm. AT TRACK! Say what? Seriously, AT TRACK for the first time in ?! 2 up. (4) x 400 fast, 400 recovery, 2 down. Fast 400s were 1:25, 1:25, 1:25, and 1:30. Just easing back into this speed stuff. Nothing crazy. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. Still hot and humid around here. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 1.50 | 0.00 | 1.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 11.40 | 0.00 | 11.40 |
| 6:45 start. Hot and foggy. 1.2 around the block miles. Then 10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail to colonia and back. 6:58 last mile. I wasn't really feeling it today. Although the sunrise through the fog was amazing. I think I was a bit dehydrated. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 7.5 miles. hood route to legacy trail and back. 6 am start. Hot. Humid. Breeze. I do not envy those running into this soup in Clearwater today. Yuck-O! 11:45 am. Grass/ barefoot miles. 2 up, (8) x 100 sprints, jog back, 2 down. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. 26:09. 7:28 pace. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 2.00 | 7.00 |
| 6:30 pm. At track. 2 up. (4) x 800, with 400 active recoveries, 2 down. 3:03, 3:04, 3:07, and 3:04. I had the place to myself. There's something liberating about being able to run and not care about what strange involuntary noises come out of you. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 hood route miles. So very hot. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 uberslow hood route miles at 6am. I'm looking to go longer than usual tomorrow. 16.25. Time to dust off the camelbak. | |
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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. 6am start. Last mile in 6:51. Camelbak. Tried out a couple of new Gu flavors. Yucko. The run felt great, mostly because of the 41 degree dew point. It's like, so foreign. Now off to boy #2's bouncy hoops game. They're undefeated, and things are getting unbearable. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 7am start. 50 degree drizzle. Steam coming up from the lakes. This run felt way better than it should have. There were some good moments where everything was clicking. I don't know if the barefoot stuff is going to happen today. It might be too cold / wet for that. 2pm. At field for barefoot running. 2 up. (8) x 100ish sprints, jog back. 2 down. I had a chance to weigh in tonight. I do not like what the scale says. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.70 | 0.00 | 4.70 |
| 6 am start. 0.4 up. 3.5 hood route miles. 25:43. 7:21 pace. 0.8 down. 40 something degrees this morning. Yowsa. I also had to dodge some traffic. This is becoming more of a problem, at least on these timed runs. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| First attempt at running the track in the morning. Cut short. No POP at the track. We'll try this again. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 hood route miles. 6am start. The run felt good. I went to the Venice High School soccer game last night, instead of running intervals at the track. It was good to go, but I feel a bit guilty. | |
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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. | |
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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. 5:50 am start. Last mile - 6:44. Camelbak. I forgot to bring Gu. I got passed by a rollerblader. That might be a first. On a side note, whoever invented the strobe light bicycle headlight - you must now do something great for the world to offset this incredibly bad idea. Get to work. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. Super foggy. I ran in some old addias boost that i wore in birmingham two years ago. Anyhow, they felt great. Big sales today in sarasota, because it's race weekend. I should go check stuff out. I'm due for new kicks. 1:30 pm. 5 barefoot miles at the soccer fields. (2 up, (8) x 100ish sprints, jog back, 2 down.) I am really enjoying running barefoot. I also missed out on the big shoe sales in Sarasota this weekend. Meh. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. Slow. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.30 | 0.00 | 4.30 |
| 0.4 up around the block. 3.5 miles. Hood route. 25:42. 7:20 pace. 0.4 down around the block. Warm. 65 deg. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6:45 am start. Super late start. It rained a bunch last night. So I anticipate a couple of lanes will be flooded at the track tonight. 6 pm. 72 deg. No flooding at the track. 1.5 up. (6)x400 w/ 400 recoveries. 2 down. 87, 88, 87, 89, 86, 87. not stellar, but my best track work out in quite some time. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. Foggy. Slow running. I am feeling good about this year's attempt to keep the workouts separate from the recoveries. I believe pushing the mileage or the pace today would have been a mistake. | |
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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. 5:45 am start. Last 2 in 7:15, 6:47. I saw boy #2's basketball coach out there. Before dawn. Small. Town. Spouse is out of town this weekend. I think this is the longest run I've had, where I've left the kids unattended. They're okay, and the house is still here, so... Winning! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. Foggy. After church and haircuts, barefoot running bizness at the soccer fields. 2 up. 8 x 100ish sprints, jog back, 2 down. I have had Janis Joplin's Mercedes Benz song stuck in my head all day. Thanks, Allie! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Hood route. 6 am. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.30 | 0.00 | 6.30 |
| 0.4 up. 5.5 in 42:36. 7:45 pace. 0.4 down. 6am start. 72 deg. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.75 | 0.00 | 8.75 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. 6 p.m. At track. 2 up. 3 x 1200, 400 AR, 4:58, 4:55, 4:57. Then I ran one cool down lap, and then started to walk. Then I couldn't complete my cooldown. My legs said NO. So I went home. The cool down has a window of opportunity, it seems. If you wait too long you're just starting a new run. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| No running today, but the parents played against the kids at basketball tonight. The good news- that was the most fun I've ever had playing basketball. The bad news -those kids did not take their first loss well. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. A vine actually caught me under my nose and jerked my head back. That will wake you up. Oh yeah, thanks for bringing the cold front with you, Dan. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 13.75 | 0.00 | 13.75 |
| 13.75 miles. Legacy Trail and Laurel Road to Circus Bridge to Caspersen Beach and back. 6:45 am start. Gulf has a bit of red tide this morning. Good run. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Woke up with a sore throat, and feeling like I was getting sick, so i skipped running. Spouse and I went to a funeral in the afternoon. The family is a big part of the local running community, so there were a few sentimental running stories in there. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 7am start. I still don't feel right, but not bad enough not to run. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 6:30 pm start. This is the beginning of a slippery slope. So far, I've been doing well at separating my workouts from my recoveries this year. Ever since Saturday, when I ran with Dan, any little thing- sniffles, cough, aches, etc.- keeps me from doing a workout. I could easily slip into 2016, where every run lacked purpose, the amorphous blob of pseudo fitness. It's pretty obvious who I should blame here.... Tom Brady. Ghosts appear and fade away.. | |
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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. Things are feeling normal again.
boomin in ya, boomin in ya, boomin in ya jeep, or your honda, or your beemer, or your legend, or your benz. The rave of the town to your foes and your freinds.....
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 16.25 | 0.00 | 16.25 |
| Change is coming. Now is my time. Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to. Twentysix point two ahead of me. 16.25 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail to Circus Bridge and back. Last 3 miles in 22:06. Not great, but not awful either. A pretty strong finish to a bad week. A couple of things from the run. First, this crazy muscle bound dude on a bike went by me in the opposite direction. His arms are bigger than my legs for sure. Anyhow, he goes by, and i hear a crash behind me. It took me about 5 or 6 steps for it to register that no neck guy just wrecked his bike. Then I stopped and turned around and asked him if he was okay. He was super embarrassed as he was digging his bike out of the woods. What the heck just happened?! It's a ten foot wide sidewalk! Did I freak him out by saying good morning? Did I cause him to wreck? The other thing is that ospreys were everywhere today. Some even flew next to me as i was running. It was crazy. I know I should say that i enjoyed the company. But they are much faster than that. I consider the slow flying to be mocking me. One thing i can't stand is a smug seahawk! The only thing worse than that would be an arrogant anhinga. After all of that, I took the boys to the beach for a really long time today. There were manatees swimming in the gulf that drew a big crowd. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back . 7 am start. I got so sunburned yesterday, I had to run the return route shirtless. Sorry you had to see that, fellow Venetians. I've been posting lyrics to whatever song popped into my head for the last 3 runs. But, I had no song in my head today. Next race is St. Patty's Day 8k in 2 weeks. I am still shooting for a May marathon, although I am not officially signed up for anything. 2 pm. At soccer fields for barefoot running. 2 up. (8) x 100ish sprints, jog back. 2 down. Then I went home, and brought the boys back to play soccer for about an hour and a half with another family. Thier team was much better. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| 6 am start. Today did not go well. Intent was to have 5.5 @ 7:00 pace. I must be still sore from the weekend, because that was not happening today. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
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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. On the other side of the circus bridge, they were about to start the Sharks Tooth 10k. We have so few races around here, I really should run more of them. I am not race ready. In fact, I am really slow right now. The last 3 miles of today 23:43. Even after all that, I'm still racing next weekend. Oh, joy! I saw musclebound cyclist guy again today. When he saw me, he gave me a big smile. Ha! I'm glad he's okay. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 10 miles on legacy trail. 7 am start. I'm playing too much soccer lately, or maybe taking it a bit too seriously. We played for 2 hours yesterday, and my legs are shredded. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 ouchy hood route miles. 6am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.70 | 0.00 | 6.70 |
| 1.2 up. (2) in 14:02. 3.5 down, at a halfway decent pace. 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. Very Smooth. This gives me hope for Saturday.
I actually met another runner on Laurel Road, and ran with him for @ 3/4 mile. He's on vacation, visiting his brother, from Ohio. He says he's training for a marathon in Xenia, OH. He says the race costs $35. I said $35!? He said yes. This interesting back and forth about the price of the race in Xenia lasted about 1/4 mile. Then I had to turn around. I'm sure he will run a different route for the rest of his vacation, so he doesn't have to talk to the guy obsessed with the $35 race again.
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St. Paddy's Day 8k (4.97 Miles) 00:33:09, Place overall: 7, Place in age division: 3 | | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 5.00 | 9.00 |
| St Patty's Day 8K. 8 a.m. start. Kind of warm. Did way better than I thought I would. Big head wind on the last mile. I was hoping for 35 minutes or better. Green eggs, biscuits and gravy, corned beef and potatoes afterwards. Dolphins in the Gulf. I ran as "Mickey Keefe." My grandmother's name. | |
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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 am start. The run felt remarkably smooth. Good day for wildlife spotting. The goat farm on Edmondson road, which is one of the foulest smells you can encounter, had BABY GOATS today. So I toughed out the smell because they were so stinking cute! Also, about a mile later, I stopped to watch some otters swim. | |
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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. I played soccer for 1 hour yesterday. Today the legs hurt much more than yesterday. Hopefully, I have enough kick to bring back Tempo Tuesday tomorrow.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 1.20 | 0.00 | 1.20 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.40 | 0.00 | 4.40 |
| Sunset Run with Boy #2. His idea. We ran over the Circus Bridge to Casperen Beach and Back. It was pretty awesome. To have a kid that shows an interest in distance running? Whoa!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 6 am start. below 50 degree above 45 degree magic running. Nice.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.90 | 0.00 | 12.90 |
| 6:45 am start. Holy bad run Batman! After 2 barely made it bathroon stops it was time to turn around. And, by the way, are homeless dudes REQUIRED to smoke in public restrooms? | |
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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. 6:45 am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 6 am hood.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 6 am hood. | |
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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. 6:30 am start. Pretty smooth. I saw 2 bald eagles. One was carrying a big fish. Man, I love fish. Fish is good. Song in my head: I'm taking a ride with my best friend, I hope he never lets me down again. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 10.2 miles. 6:45 am start. Hood route to Legacy trail to colonia and back. There was a cycling event on legacy trail this morning. About 600 hundred bikes, they say. I heard "on your left" a few times this morning. Also, one guy in the middle of a pack said "Hey Tom, good morning." I have no clue who that was. As a true Gator fan, I have been obsessed with brackets this year. The Name Of The Year bracket. Www.nameoftheyear.com | |
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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. I saw a possum. A living one, which is unusual. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 6 pm. 8 miles at Celery Mound. I ran a 2 mile loop. 85 degrees. Full sun. I used to do hill intervals out here. But today, I went long and consistent pace. I ran the grass levees and ran up and down the hill on each lap.
You know, this is a unique place. Gathered here are runners, and mountain bikers, and Hikers in training carrying full packs. Where else can they practice? Also, a large number of rare birds show up here. People come from surprising distances to see birds they might not see otherwise. I see them carrying around gimungous camera equipment, and tip toeing towards a grassy marsh, as I go by grunting. Add to that - I was involved with the planting design on top of the mound, which is just now coming into maturity. And finally, the fact that this place is 100 yards away from the big cat sanctuary. It is common to hear a lion out there. I should totally run here more often.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 6am start. Hood route to Legacy trail to colonia and back. I was so looking forward to saying 10.2 Ohpossum free miles, but... On the way back, right before I crossed Dona Bay, the biggest Opossum ever waddled into the middle of the trail. Like, I originally thought it was a racoon. So, naturally, I picked up a rock and whipped it at him. I missed him by @ a foot. He didn't even flinch. So as I ran towards him, I started clapping my hands. That made him move. His back had ridges. So flipping gross. Oh yeah, the run was pretty good. I'm playing a lot of soccer lately with the boys. So I'm a little sore-er than usual on most runs. This one felt good, though. | |
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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. 6:45 am start. Upper 60s and humidIty and stuff. Yesterday - 1 hour of soccer, and 2 hours of beach. Ever have one of those runs where you think "I'm sore now, so I'll start out with a short stride, and as the run goes on, I'll open up to my regular stride"? It took me about 7 miles to not be all short stridey. I'm glad I fought through. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| So, I've been in injury denial for a while. I don't know if it has to do with running at soccer, or change in shoes or what, but I haven't felt right in about a month. My left hip has been hurting mostly non stop. Since I make myself run even though I hurt, now my lower back has started hurting in some sort of body compensating move. I'm not going to go to the doc about this, like I have in the past. I don't see much point in paying someone to tell me that maybe I should take some time off from running. Or worse yet, paying for an x-ray or MRI to have the doc say I don't know - Could be this, could be that. Fun times over here, I tell ya.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Because not running stinks. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Better, but not perfect. What makes folks run the Barkleys? I enjoy watching the videos, but have no desire to do it myself. Kind of like Triathlons. Nope.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Hood route, then boy #1's soccer game. He played well, but the important thing here is that I turned off the dad-coaching-from-the-sideline machine. Very difficult. It was obvious the other team had a solid player in #3. Cover that kid, win the game. Simple strategy. But I held back. Not easy. | |
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| First, the injury update. I went to a "regular" doctor on wednesday night. I say regular, because it was not my usual orthopedic doc that I run with occasionally. That dude was in Boston. "Regular" doctor gave me a shot and a prescription. I go back next wednesday. No running until then.
Second, congrats to all who ran Boston. I was tracking like 5 people that all had great starts, but then fell apart at the half. 3 of them floridians! So if those guys couldn't take the heat and the weather, I'm pretty sure it was miserable for all parties involved. So, good job for anyone finishing!
Third, because of the doc visit and other shennanigans wednesday, i missed the one night only boston movie. I would have liked to see it. There is not a lot of info about when it will come out on video. Bummer.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. Slow. Not entirely pain free yet. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. Super hot and humid. Other than being old and out of shape, I might actually be done with this hip thing. Inguinal ligament. Whatever. The Tommy had a soccer game. It might have been his best game ever. Solid defense. Then boogie boarding with the boys at north jetty. Good day. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.80 | 0.00 | 4.80 |
| Almost 30 years ago, I drove a section of Center Road with some friends, doing about 80 mph, at night with my lights off, looking for the "Center Road Ghost." There was an urban legend in Venice. The story goes...Motorcycle rider...blah, blah, blah,.... Center road dead ends into River Road...words, words, words,....they never found his headlight, or his head-ooooh!.... If you drive on Center Road at night, his headlight will appear-Ooohhh! Soooo Creepy! So, in my youth, I have done this, on a few occasions. I have determined that the way the road used to be - headlights at a distance appear to be a single light, in really close proximity. It was just the way the old road reflected the light. Anyhow, I ran this section of Center Road this evening. And I didn't even think about the Center Road Ghost, until I was at River Road, and a motorcycle flew by.
The run was super hot, (feels like 96) but I feel like my injury is gone. I held 8:20 pace, pretty even, for the whole thing. I'm pleased with that. I am considering running a 5k on Mother's Day. I probably will.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Hood route. Song stuck in my head.... https://youtu.be/cxK1MUK8AlM | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. Crawling my way back to zero. It's coming, I just need some time.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood Route. @ 8:05 pace. which is way way faster than I thought I was going.
I might not be entirely out of the woods with this hip thing. Best I can figure, it is directly related to soccer with the kids (@ 2 hours of it last night). I do a lot of stuff with my right foot, which means I pivot a lot on my left foot, causing a lot of twisting on my left hip.... It looks like I have to give up the soccer, which really stinks.
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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. Slow. Great weather. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 4 easy trail miles. 8 am start. 2 different guys on the trails, on their cell phones, each walking a pair of large dogs. Clueless. On the other hand, the weather is still great, under the Florida in May context. 5 pm. Slow run with B-Minus from Circus Bridge to Caspersen Beach and back. Got stung by a mystery bug behind my left ear. It still hurts a lot. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5:45 am start. 2 miles. Then bathroom stop with home field advantage. Then 3.5 miles. This was a pretty good run.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 6:15 pm start. 5.5 miles. Legacy Trail. Laurel Road to Venice Ave. And back. About 8:30 pace. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 (say what? ) miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 8 am start. Igot a case of sneezing and sore throat at the tail end of last week. But also I got lazy, and somewhat rotund. Happy mother's day. | |
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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.
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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 traffic is bad. I don't ususally have to stop this many times for cars. I need to get out 15 minutes earlier to avoid the nonsense, I think.
Also, for the first time ever, I actually stepped on a lizard (Brown Anole) while running. Since those things are EVERYWHERE around here, you would have thought this would have happened sooner, but no. He ran under my right foot. I could feel him getting crushed. It was so gnarly.
It tasted like chicken.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. To my knowledge, no animals were harmed during this run.
P.m. 5.5 miles on legacy trail. Laurel Road to Venice Ave and back. Kind of warm. 84? So many bugs. So humid. meh. Just florida being florida!
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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 | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles of gnats. Hood route. Big day in non-running stuff. 23rd anniversary. Last soccer game for Tommy. Picked up some extra kids and hit grounders, and flies at the baseball fields. I threw a couple of buckets of balls in the batting cages. Went swimming. chicken fights. On and on. There's a good chance I've injured something. Not the most romantic anniversary, but still one of the best days I've had. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| This was ugly. 2:30 pm. I bit off more than I can chew.
12,441.4 lifetime miles achieved on this day. That is @ half Equator.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. Snappy pace this morning. We're in summer mode.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. Very smooth this morning. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.70 | 0.00 | 4.70 |
| 4.7 miles. In Sunrise Florida. 7 a.m. start. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 6:20 am start. This might be the most humidity I've experienced while running, without it actually raining. When I got home, the family said "ewww!" p.s. Solid 11 mile week, Tom! That's how winning is done! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 7am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. I just barely beat the rain.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles hood route. once again, all of the moisture of rain, without actual rain. I stayed up way too late watching Gator Softball last night.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.75 | 0.00 | 4.75 |
| 4.75 miles. 7 pm start. Venice High School to North Bridge and back during Bouncey Hoops camp for Johnny. It was interesting running on the "other" side of Venetian Waterway Park for a change.
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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 | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. I had planned on taking it easy this morning, because of soccer last night. But then there were 2 other runners on my route, which is, like, 2 more than usual. So I had to race them, without them knowing it. The pace this morning was something I haven't done in a long time. They might have not known they were racing, but they lost.
Oh yeah, I'm considering my first Half Marathon:
http://www.mysuncoast.com/news/local/manatee-county-to-consider-plans-for-half-marathon-over-sunshine/article_e3002e3c-4afb-11e7-aaef-0bcfb711ec44.html
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 7 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. 7am start. So hot, so humid, so much "bonus gravity". I saw an old dude at half way (they're all old dudes here). Anyhow, he says "kind of muggy for running, isn't it?" I said "kind of muggy for walking, too! I almost wish the rain would happen." He said "you might get your wish." Then I spent the rest of the run singing that Phil Collins song. Sussudio. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood Route.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. The rain finally happened at halfway through this run and it was awesome. My pace dropped 30 seconds on the second half of this run. Running and smiling. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles hood route. 7:15 am start. Slow and steady. | |
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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 am start. I know that there is evidence that I have run in far warmer, more difficult conditions than I did this morning. However, when you are in the moment, those times are difficult to recall. It was pretty miserable out there. It was like running with a wet blanket draped over my head. 78 deg. 100% hum. 78 dew point.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. better than yesterday. There was a slight breeze.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. no breeze, but smooth, slow miles.
song of the run: https://youtu.be/l7hXXGvRbK8
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6:30 am start. Okay, after a week off, and two sessions with the backcracker, I'm back in the game. I have made an agreement with a buddy of mine to run every day in July. In August, I'll start adding speed and distance. But for July, I'm going for consistent running. I really want to race august 26, and this seems like a sensible approach. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route 6:45 am start. Ever been so deep in thought about life, chores, job, family, etc., while running, that you almost step on a dead Armadillo? ...I have. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. Somebody cleaned up the dead armadillo.
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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 | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. I survived the mini-monsoon at the beach last night. We were with another family for the fireworks show. Then this HUGE storm rolled in, and we hid under someone's canopy. The wind kicked up, blowing stuff all over the beach. The dads held down the canopy, as the kids were screaming, half excited, half terrified. They will never forget this. You couldn't look to the wind, because your eyes would get nailed with sand. Lightning crashing everywhere. Long story short.... God provided the fireworks last night. | |
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. I tripped and fell on the sidewalk @ halfway through this morning. I haven't done that in 5 years. I did a great job with the tuck and roll. I have no marks on me. When I went back to inspect the sidewalk, and find out what caused the fall, I got nothing. Apparently the right leg went on strike for a step. He didn't misbehave for the rest of the run.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood Route. 75 deg.-94% hum.-73 d.p. This run was harder than it should have been. At least I stayed upright for the whole thing.
PM: when I got home from work, Johnny said he wanted to go to the track. I really wasn't ready for this, but why not? Gotta change gears at some point. So I did 1600 up, (4) x 100M w/ 300M recovery, water break, (4) x 100M w/ 300M recovery, 1600 down. Johnny ran all the 100s with me. We were @ 16 seconds each. I gave him a two step head start, and then could not catch him. He's got interesting form. I don't think his heels hit the ground.
Going to keep the streak going tomorrow.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. Warm. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 7am start | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. I saw a bobcat. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. Ever since I saw that new Spiderman flick this weekend, Flock of Seagulls Space Age Love Song has been stuck in my head. p.s. My family were the last to get Slurpees at the 7-11 on Venice Avenue today. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 6:15 am start. Very smooth. | |
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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. 6:00 am start. Not as smooth as yesterday.
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6am 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. 6:15 am start. 77 deg. 100% hum. 77 d.p. This run was rough. I was really struggling on the way out. At halfway, this woman was handing out bottled water and business cards. That bottle really changed my run, and things were a bit better after that. So, thank you real estate lady who's business card turned into oatmeal in my pocket on the way home. It was so wet out there was steam coming up from the grass. It was so wet out my clothes made slap-slap noises against my skin. It was so wet out I squeezed a cup of sweat out of my shoelaces after the run. I could go on, but that's enough for today.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 7 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.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood Route. 6:15 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. Fairly smooth, even if they were dishwasher miles. Mostly, I was thinking this:
https://youtu.be/e4n_qv31Bpw
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6:00 am start. I am so tired of the rain. It has been raining for about 2 months.
Also, welcome back to Florida, Juice. See you in October.
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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. Longest run in a while, and I picked a fantastically hot and humid day to do it. I ran straight up 9 minute miles. | |
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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. Cloud cover made today's run less miserable than yesterday. Actually the pace was up a bit today. That 10k next month- some of my coworkers know that I'm a bit off on my running game right now. This might make them want to take a shot at me. That thought got me moving a bit faster. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6am 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. Last 2 in 8:08, 7:08. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but given the 78 degree dew point, I'll take it. In the planning stage, I have every intention of running tempos and intervals. And I have all the respect in the world for guys like Mike, that can burn intervals in the soup. But I open the front door, and get hit with the wet blanket of humidity, I just laugh and think "let's just get the miles today, speedy stuff tomorrow." The point is, there is no "when it feels good, run faster" here. I have to consciously decide to make that happen. Congratulations to everyone who raced yesterday! And if you raced in a bonnet, then that goes double! Also, R.I.P. Snooty the Manatee. | |
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| 5.5 Miziles. Hizood Rizoute. 6am Stizart.
Weatherman says Dew Point will not get below 75 degrees until next month, and then only for a couple of hours. Moist.
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. Then 1/4 mile fast. 1/4 mile slow.
I want to do interval work not on a track. I just can't seem to get there. Since I'm a month from race day, I wanted to start doing speed work. So, yesterday I mapped out a route on mapmyrun, and then measured with a wheel in real life to verify, 1/4 mile, and a 1/4 mile recovery. Now I can run intervals out of my front door. So the plan was this morning to do 1.5 up, (4) x 0.25 mile + recoveries, 1.5 down. I went outside, felt the weather, and said "I'm just going to run 5.5 miles easy." Although I picked up the pace on the last mile, I was still fairly upset with myself for (once again) backing out of speedy stuff. So, I psyched myself up to do just one 1/4 mile run and recovery. The watch said 1:22, which is blazing fast for me. It made me question the measuring wheel.
I should have just done the workout I intended to do before wimping out.
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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.
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| Things went bad. 2 miles. Then emergency bathroom stop. Then 3.5 miles slow. Apparently running while trying not to have an accident takes a lot out of you. So those last 3.5 miles were super slow. I set out to get 12.9. Camelbak. Gu's. Man, my plans were changed! | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 1.00 | 9.00 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6am start. Then emergency bathroom stop. (Dang it!) Then around the block intervals. (4) x 0.25 + 0.25 recoveries. 1:22, 1:24, 1:26, & 1:27. Then 3.5 miles. Hood route. I'd say the new interval set up went well. During the course of the runs, 3 of my neighbors decided to do yard work, which was odd for 7am on a Sunday. Even though there are no spectators on the track, I still liked this better! | |
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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. In the rain. I ran every day in July. In 7+ years of running, I have never run every day in a calendar month. I didn't run big miles, but I ran.
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. last 2 in 15:04. 74 deg., 91% hum., 71 dp!
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 1.00 | 5.00 |
| 1.5 miles up. EBS. (4) x 0.25, w/ 0.25 recoveries. 1.5 down. 1:28, 1:27, 1:27, 1:26. I feel like I am starting to find the pace on these. I expect to do 6 reps on Sunday, and 8 reps next Thursday.
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| Hood route. | |
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| 13 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to Venice Ave and back. 6:30 am start. Extra 0.1 miles from off course emergency bathroom stop at mile 3. So they have bugun work for an overpass of legacy trail over laurel road. If it is privately funded, then so what? I mean, it would have been more useful to construct an overpass over clark road, which is actually busy. But if "the friends of the legacy trail" want to build here, i dont care. However, if this is publicly funded, i can't think of a bigger waste of money, to benefit such a small minority. The only people benefiting from this overpass would be cyclists that do not want to slow down to push a button to cross the street. | |
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| I got out early, and chose to cut the run short. Sore from running, yardwork yesterday, stressed about going on a family vacation, blah, blah blah.
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| AM: 7ish miles around Wyndham Resort in Bonnet Creek, Lake Buena Vista.
PM: 3.1 miles with my buddy Mark, in Apopka.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 more miles in Lake Buena Vista.
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| 3 last Mickey Miles.
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| 1.5 up. (4) x 0.25 miles w/ 0.25 mile recoveries. 1.5 down. 1:29, 1:25, 1:25, and 1:26.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.20 | 0.00 | 5.20 |
| 5.2 miles in Hobe Sound, FL. One of the most beautiful sunrise runs I have ever experienced. Part of the run was on the beach, part in the dunes, and part of the run looked like this:
I did not see Tiger.
Then hit some range balls, and went fishing with some old friends. I still have the cast net throwing job! Although I'm a bit sore. You don't use those muscles too often. What a Floridianly awesome weekend!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Now with minimal amounts of mojo. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route to the stupid overpass construction at legacy trail and back. Song of the run... https://youtu.be/zWFOh5y9LcM | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles hood route. 7am start. The run took less than 1 hour. 1st mile 7:40. 2nd to last mile 7:45. Last mile 7:15. I feel pretty good about this run. However, it was a lot of work, more than it should have been. I don't know what to expect out of an August 10k in Florida next week. My original goal (7 min. Pace) suddenly feels ambitious. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 6 on the trails. 8:15 am start. 78 dew point. In a word, oppressive.
3 pm: I put together the beginnings of an "increase your vertical leap" workout for boy #2 to get ready for basketball season. Part of the workout involved us running 1/2 mile to a bench to jump on and off of. The workout looks to be a good one, as I am sore in unusual places.
Boy #1 made the travel soccer team. I worked with him all summer to get ready. I'm trying to balance effort between the boys, even though my sport was soccer, and I understand very little about squeakyfouls / bouncyhoops.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route.
Could the school system be more alarmist about the eclipse? In general, every day of the year kids, don't stare at the sun! It's simple.
I'm going to start a band - The Axis of Totality! We're going to do country covers of Sir Mix A Lot. Wait, someone already has that?
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. Box jumping is the devil. I killed my legs and abs with boy #2 on Sunday. They expected 1500 runners Saturday. They've already got 2200. First time putting on a race, new course, inadequate parking.This is shaping up for a disaster. Add to that, I have to junp in my car and drive to a funeral as soon as the race is over. Then back to Bradenton for boy #1s first soccer game. I will be road warrior guy on Saturday. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Just trying to find a pace. It is swampy outside. | |
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Fort Hamer Bridge 10k (6.21 Miles) 00:44:35, Place overall: 15, Place in age division: 2 | | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 6.21 | 9.71 |
| Fort Hamer Bridge 10k. They have been building the bridge over the Little Manatee River for two years. Someone got the bright idea that they should run a race over it, before it opened to traffic. It is still under construction, technically. The views from the top were outstanding. So, given that this is the first time anyone has run this course, that the weather before and after the race was miserable, furthering problems in already bad parking logistics, that 2,600 people signed up for the races (They expected 1,500. This was the largest 10k/5k in Manatee County history.), this race, production-wise was way better than expected. Of course, the 5kers ate everything at the finish. Also, I don’t know what races have against providing water lower than room temperature. One church had a snow cone tent that I went back to many times, so I could get some ice.
I recognize that I’m out of shape, and not ready for racing. But there were a couple of other factors that contributed to my poor time. My co-worker ran the 5k. She got a PR! I am stunned that anyone could PR in the soup. The rain before and after really generated the dishwasher feeling that a PR was out of reach for everyone. Because of the parking situation (you can’t really park near this place), they had to delay the start an extra half hour to allow people to get there. That more or less wrecked my warm up. This is the second time this kind of thing happened to me, and both times it worked out bad. The course starts out, goes north 100 yards, then hairpin turns south to go over the bridge. Everyone had the same plan – I better get out in front of the pack before that hairpin on a wet road. It was kind of nuts, but then opened up on the big bridge. About a mile deep, hairpin #2 to go back north across the bridge again. I was braced for those turns. The course map made it clear those would happen. I was not braced for the 5 other little bridge crossings, extended running on brick pavers, or the other 4 hairpin turns on the course. Those were kind of a surprise, and really beat me up. I was solid for the first 3, then things started to unravel, but I held on. Like I said, I’m not in race shape. I was surprised by the 2nd place age group thing. I got another tile/coaster. Eventually, I’ll be able to tile a bathroom with 2nd place age group tiles. The guy that I used to consider my worthy adversary finished 4th overall. He has become much faster. He asked if I would run the remember the fallen 5k in two weeks, but boy #1 has a soccer tournament. Helmet Guy has returned. He is now Blonde 80s Rocker Wig Guy (think Kajagoogoo), and he beat me by a minute.
My parents drove up with my brother, which was cool. He turns 50 on Monday. Because of the late start, I could not attend the funeral in Venice for my next door neighbor at 10. So, I hung around to get my tile/coaster. Then back to Bradenton at 4 for a preseason soccer scrimmage for boy #1, that was lightning delayed twice. Many miles were driven on Saturday, and I was wore out by the end of the day.
This leaves me in a weird spot. The race was good enough to inspire me to run faster and race more. I just don’t have the time with the kids’ schedules to make that happen. Or, at least, it would feel that I would be intentionally misplacing my priorities to put running ahead of something it shouldn’t be ahead of, if that makes sense. But it felt great to go fast-ish again. I need more of that in my life.
The guy that won senior grandmasters asked me my time, and I told him kind of depressed-like. (this is, after all, my slowest 10k ever.) He was really excited for my time, and started high fiving me and patting me on the back. He kind of changed my attitude a bit. So I said “Yeah, don’t let the muffin top fool ‘ya! The kid can run!”
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| 3.5 in a heavy downpour. Flooded spots. Puddle splashing fun. Happy birthday to my brother John. He's 50! He was born with a ton of physical problems. He is really grateful to make it to 50. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Hood route. Post rain bugs. | |
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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. Smooth. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 2 miles around the block with boy #1. Then 5.5 miles hood route. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles - hood route+around the block.
Stress about Irma leads to no sleep leads to no running leads to angry man. The "Cone of Uncertainty" (opening act for the Axis of Totality) looks like it is aiming at the east coast, but there is still much prep work to do.
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|  We are fine. We lost some oak branches and fence panels, but that's it. Ironically, the place where we stayed during the storm is still without power. The kids had a great time boogie boarding, skimboarding, and kayaking the backyard storm surge where we were staying between feeder bands. Best. Hurricane. Ever. My parents lost a fence panel, too. They come back today, if there is enough gas and traffic allows it. Time for me to get to the other side of the state on Saturday morning - 2.5 hours. Time to get back Monday afternoon - 5 hours. Lots of re-routing and backups. Water crossing the road, etc.
I have been watching the buzzword of the hurricane season for the last couple of years. Apparently, every reporter got the memo to say "Eyewall Replacement Cycle" in every report.
As it relates to running, I wish I had a treadmill right now. I usually run in the dark, and there is way too much debris out there to make that a safe proposition. I'll get back to it. I promise.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. Even with the long break from running, this went pretty well. Hopping branches and running through spiderwebs is no joyride, but still.
I talked to the old man that walks along my route every day. Of course, we talked about the storm. Irma shook 452 beautiful avocados out of his tree. I don't even like avocados, or guacamole. He can't even pick up the cans he put them in because of the weight. I'd like to help him out, so I took 15 to work.
These are the untold stories of Irma's devastation! Ha!
I got all of my parents' hurricane protection down with the boys last night. We were moving. I'd like them to come home to a normal house. Tonight is yard work.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 5:30 am start. Sticky. As in, it was super hot and humid, and also, there were sticks everywhere. So far, I have distributed 50 avocados at the office. That is not enough. The people want more. Today, I will go to work with more than 100 football-sized avocados. That will show them!
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| Hood route. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| 1.5 + 7.5. Hood. I have had Billy Joel's "The river of dreams" stuck in my head for the last week. PS Also, apparently the University of Florida tackle football squad won a match last night in the most unusual fashion. The relative newcomer ball thrower heaved an oblong spheroid 66 yards to a waiting ball catcher in the scoring area for the win. This may or may not have involved the mother of a deity. And there was much rejoicing. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. Could have / should have gone longer. I just didn't have it today. There was a noticable drop in humidity, and the weather was better than it has been in a long time. Maybe it's bad sleep, or I don't know what.
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| 5.5 miles on legacy trail at 3:30 pm. 98 degrees. It rained at home while i was gone. Weird. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 7 am start. Noticeable humidity drop this morning. | |
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| 3.5 miles hood route. 7am start. These Gator games are exhausting. I wore my gator running shirt this morning. Two cars honked and gave me the chomp. I also saw a group of 8 tricked out mazda miatas. That's different. | |
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route.
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| 5.5 miles. hood route. 5:45 am start. A guy in a white jeep was puling off to the side of the road near me, as a fire truck was going in the opposite direction on Laurel road 3 LANES AWAY! The guy in the jeep ran over an empty water bottle that exploded loudly, right next to me, in the dark.
I jumped up throwing haymakers at the sky.
6 pm. 5 more miles during Tommy's soccer practice.
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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 | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. hood route. late start today and no miles yesterday because of my buddy's all day 40th birthday party, that started with an off shore fishing trip and ended with a killer sunset at the beach. It was really great.
Today is my parents' 51st anniversary. What do you talk about after 51 years? I think you've covered everything by that point.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 2+emergency bathroom stop +3.5=5.5 miles. The most traffic I have encountered on this route, ever. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 6 pm start. The weather was very un-florida. I was running down a dream. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. This dew point below 70 thing is amazing.
Every now and then, I get down to the end of a day, I'll have to stop, ask myself, "What've I done?" It just seems so useless to have to work so hard, And nothin' ever really seem to come from it. And then she looks me in the eye....
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| My running has been even more inconsistent than usual lately. I have really been throwing myself into sports with the boys. Basketball on Tuesday, soccer on Thursday. And again on Saturday and Sunday. It has been tough to get decent miles after really going in the evenings. Running is involved with those sports, but those aren't the only muscles you use when playing. Anyhow, I've been sore a lot lately. On the positive side, I have lost some weight. I did sprints with Tommy's soccer team last night. From this experience, I can safely say that I am not a sprinter (and I am also not 12!). You throw all of that non-running exercise in with a week of car and appliance trouble, and you get garbage for weekly miles.
I have been following Colin McCourt's story since February, and I find his training inspirational.
https://twitter.com/colinmccourt?lang=en
If he pulls this off, he is my new running hero. It is crunch time! 3 months to go!
I'm going to try to get a run in tonight, after I install a new washer and dryer.
7 pm. 3.5 miles on Venetian waterway park, behind Venice High School, under the friday night lights. I ran by in time to hear "Heeeeeeere come the Indians!" Something different. I always enjoy hearing Iron Man performed by a high school marching band (just as Ozzy intended).
Aside from breathing lint for the hour before I went running, the washer and dryer installs were smooth.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 6:30 am start. Super hot and humid. I was spoiled last week with the decent weather. | |
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| I love living here. I love this time of year as the sun sets behind the muhly grass in the dunes with the purple plumes, that appear to be glowing. It's beautiful. I love the smell of walking through the sea grapes and the mangroves. I love that my kids see how awesome this place is. I love that we are all happiest while looking at a sunset, with our toes in the sand. This is home. Also, I ran in 78 degree dew point this morning. Let's put that on the "con" side. Virtual high fives to Rhett and Dan for breaking 100 miles last week! You guys are bananas. | |
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| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. I said all of that stuff about Venice yesterday because the weather was so bad. Running in 78 d.p. (and again today) is awful. I don't want to complain about the weather all of tthe time. If I was reading that, I would think "why don't you just move? " So, I have to put up with a couple of miserable days of running with a snorkel. I feel like I get much more in return. If you've never run in 78 degree dew point, you are really missing out. | |
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 76 d.p. Local weatherman says "It's weather you can wear!" Pm: 5 more during Tommy's soccer practice. Doubles are very trendy around here lately. All the cool kids are doing it. | |
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| 4+1.5=5.5 miles. 70 d.p. much nicer out. | |
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| 7.5 mathless miles. 5:40 am start. Cooler, less humid. | |
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| 3 5 miles. Hood route. Aaaaand summer has returned. | |
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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. 6:50 am start. Very slow. | |
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| So, I helped a guy load a riding lawnmower in the back of his truck. .... https://youtu.be/1e4SBxgqBEY | |
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| Rough week. It took me until Tuesday to be able to tie my shoes. Here it is - Saturday - And I still ain't right. Better, sure. But I've still got a tender back. I will be building on this 3.5 mile week next week. No where to go but up!
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route then around the block laps with Johnny. He intentionally tripped and fell on asphalt, so that I would stop and check on him, so he could take off and sprint to the finish. It's hard to explain the competitiveness of this kid, but throwing yourself down on asphalt to beat your injured father in a meaningless run that no one is timing or watching is pretty crazy. I don't know how to fix that kind of crazy. Tommy's soccer team won the championship game 8-0. And it wasn't that close. | |
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| Back is much improved. Not perfect. Just better. It is still 75 degrees outside. And quite humid. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 3.5 miles in much cooler weather this morning. I saw people in jackets. I played a bunch of basketball and soccer last night. I've been off the pain meds for @ 2 days. So, I reckon I'm cured from the back stuff and should start ramping up the running again.
Here we go.
Pm. 3.5 miles. Much like this morning.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. Great weather. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Another 3.5 in sub 60 temps. Sluggish pace.
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| 10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to colonia and back. It was my longest run in a while, and it felt like it. Then, i took rthe boys and my mom and we walked to the top of celery mound. Then we checked out the Audubon society center. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood Route. 7 am start. Then Church. Then Tommy's soccer game (they lost 2-1, but played hard, and we got kudos from the other team's parents- They came down from Fishhawk - cool town name). Then back to Church. Then Home. Then McElwain fired. It's a crazy world.
Someone should sell tickets.
I'd buy one.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. Happy Halloween, everyone. And Happy blogiversary to me.Much has changed here in that time. | |
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| 3.5 miles. Hood Route.
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/21227039/can-tom-brady-leave-football-terms-tb12-method
As a result, he says, he is so well-hydrated that "even with adequate exposure to the sun, I won't get sunburned," and he presumes that the muscles under his skin look like "beautiful tenderloins" instead of "shriveled jerky."
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| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 6 am start. A bit more pep than usual.
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| Hood. | |
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| 7.5 etuor dooh. | |
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| 7.5 miles. Hood route in the opposite direction. I haven't timed a run in a while. This was 1:06:35. 8:53 pace. Man, I'm in bad shape. | |
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| 7.5 miles. hood route. Lots of fog. Continuing on the timing of even bad runs trend: 1:07:28. 8:59.733 pace. (Not 9:00). baby steps, man, baby steps.
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| 3.5 miles. Hood. After 3 days of 7.5's and soccer in the evenings, my frantic 9 minute mile pace finally fell apart. 33:06. 9:27 pace. It is a much slower climb out of the hole than I originally anticipated (or a deeper hole, maybe). Also, how can there be less fog and more humidity? It just doesn't add up.
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| 10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail to colonia and back. 1:24:56. 8:49 pace. Fairly smooth. Then to Tampa for Tommy's soccer game. They won 5-0. Then, i bought myself some soccer spikes. I have been playing a lot lately. It makes sense, I guess. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. Hood route. 1:08:29. 9:08 pace. The good news about this is the 3.5 minute neg. Split . The first 2 miles we 10+ minute miles. Feeling better aa the run goes on is a new one for me. Also, there was a breeze out of the north that pushed me a bit. | |
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| 3.5 miles. Hood route. 28:43. 8:12 pace. The moldy sidewalk next to tthe golf course irrigation overspray was pretty slick this morning. I forced me to be focused on how I was striking the ground. | |
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| 7.5 miles. Hood Route. 1:04:37. 8:37 pace. I am encouraged that these runs speed up as they go. First mile was 9:xx.
Also, as I was rounding the corner from Albee Farm Road to Edmonson Road, another runner was rounding the corner in the opposite direction. We almost had a head on collision. We both had to laugh. The only 2 people running in the whole town almost crash. Pretty funny.
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| 7.5 miles. Very Misty Hood Route. 1:06:32. 8:52 pace. My neighbor was finishing his run with his dog, when I started. He called out my name, and totally freaked me out. Shadowy figure coming out of the fog that yells your name - spooky.
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| 3.5 miles hood route. 31:59. 9:08 pace. It was tough this morning. But I should have pushed for more miles. | |
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| 12.9 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Venice Ave and back. 1:55:34. 8:57 pace. Pretty even pacing, by my guess. Beautiful morning. The glow over Dona Bay and Roberts Bay were awesome. | |
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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. 1:03:55. 8:31 pace. Smooth running. | |
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| I've been following this since February. Amazing story.
http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/colin-mccourt-smashes-16-minutes-to-win-running-bet-in-style-70235
Brilliant training. Lots of doubles. All (relatively) short, fast runs. Very specific.
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| 7.5 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail and back. 1:06:35. 8:53 pace. | |
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| 5.5 miles. Hood route. 52:18. 9:30 pace. My body wanted no part of running today. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.85 | 0.00 | 7.85 |
| 7.85 Fruit Cove miles. In the rain. First half hour in the dark. 1:10:47. 9:01 pace. Thanksgiving is a marathon, not a sprint. I've got to pace myself if I want to still be in it for the pies at the finish. | |
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| 7.85 miles. Fruit Cove. Only rained for the last couple of miles today. 1:13:30. 9:22 pace. It felt slower and it was slower. | |
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| 7.85 miles. Fruit cove run. Cooler this morning. Steam coming up from the rivers and lakes. 1:10:12. 8:56 pace. Yesterday, after running, I got to spend some time canoeing solo in Cunningham Creek. Very peaceful. The whole thanksgiving crowd drove to st. Augustine last night and did the light tour. It was really great. So now, spouse and her mom are on their way to the FSU-UF game, I sent the boys out to explore the creek in the canoe. I'll bet the boys come back with better tales. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Last run in Fruit Cove. Then drove home. Traffic was thanksgivingey. Dan Mullen. Crazy. | |
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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. 1:04:42. 8:38 pace. 6 am start.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 6 am. 1.5 miles. Just didn't have it. I went to Fit2Run at lunch. Some folks in my office want to put on a fundraiser 5k, and asked me to help. It is early in the process, still. But putting on a race is more challenging than I thought. Also, why did they ask me? It would be like saying "Tom, you go to a lot of concerts. Do you think you can set one up?" Then I found out that my division 1 college football coach has a better finishing time at Boston than your division 1 college football coach. I don't know if rhat translates into wins or points, but I sure think it's cool. Then, after work, I had planned on running one of the courses we are looking at for the race. But the park was closed. They are storing the trucks there that are picking up Irma's mess.... still. So I ran around Benderson instead. 3.5 miles. 80 degrees at the start. There were a few rowers in the lake at the start. Sunset. Very cool. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. Hood route. New socks are awesome. 31:07. 8:53 pace.
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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. 5:50 am start. 1:05:19. 8:43 pace. The run felt really smooth. It could be because I did not play soccer last night. But, I'm not ready to draw that stright line of a conclusion, yet. Also, the snowbirds are back. I don't think I've ever had to stop this many times for traffic.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 13.30 | 0.00 | 13.30 |
| .4 around the block then 12.9 miles in 1:53:59. 8:50 pace. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Venice Avenue and back. Super hot and humid. No breeze. Strong incoming tide at the bays. Like, the channel markers were throwing a wake. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles on the trails easy. Warm and humid. Mist through the pines. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| 3.5 miles. hood route. hot and humid again. 31:42. 9:03 pace.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. Hood route. It is scheduled to drop 40 degrees in the next 2 days.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles through a very thick, sound-muffling layer of fog. 6 am start. 1:04:40. 8:37 pace. Once again, I am behind on mileage this week, and have to catch up.
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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 Ave and back. 1:53:19. 8:47 pace. I could really feel the run get smoother, as I went. 1st half 58:30, 2nd half 54:49. Mid 60s temps. Intermittent misty rain. Some wind. This is not the cold air I was promised. My buddy in baton rouge got sneaux yesterday! I hope the temps finally drop tonight for the halfathon tomorrow. Good luck, Mike! | |
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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. Misfired the stop watch on the first half (Floridian in gloves) 42:38 2nd half. 8:22 pace I set out to run 7.5, but the weather was so cool and dry, and I felt so good, I kept going. That happens like never. I'm sure Mike had great weather in Tampa this morning, and had a great race. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 5.5 miles. hood route. 41 degrees. 40 d.p. I am not used to moisture -free running. My moisture wicking attire is generating odd static electricity at my walk to start running. This is all short-lived. We will have highs in the mid 70s by next weekend, and back to my endless 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. 58:56. 7:51 pace. Well, hello!, sub-8 minute miles. I know it’s been a while, and we used to hang out quite frequently, but it’s great to see you again. You are breathing heavier than I remember. Anyhow, I’m thinking you must have lost my number or something, because I’ve been here, literally, the entire time you’ve been gone. I hope that this reunion will inspire you to check in on me more often. I, sniff- sniff, miss you, man! (runs away sobbing).
Oh yeah, happy birthday to boy #2.
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| Once around the block (0.4), then 12.9 in 1:54:45. 8:54 pace. Great weather. 6:30 am start. Lots of runners out. Low tide. We saw the last jedi last night. It was okay, but i think the popcorn affected my run! After the run, boy #1 had a soccer game up in fish hawk. They lost 1-0. Back in Venice, Johnny's basketball team won without him, as he injured his wrist yesterday on the playground at school. Timing is everything! | |
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| 7 am start. Hood route. | |
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| 7.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. 68 degrees and humid. 1:02:41. 8:22 pace.
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| 5.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. super foggy. sixty something degrees. 50:29. 9:11 pace.
I came "this" close to stepping on an armadillo. ugh, those things are gnarly.
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| 5.5 Miles, Hood Route. 6 am start. 50:10. 9:07 pace. Fog.
Have you ever mentally zoned out so deep in a run that you trip over the slightest change in sidewalk elevation? I did. Today. With a mile to go. That makes twice this year. Today's fall was much better than last time. Last time, I left skin on the sidewalk. Today, I threw my body to the grassed ditch between the sidewalk and the road, and then NAILED a rolling round off cartwheelish move. Fortunately, the cars that were driving by didn't stop to ask if I was okay. I would rather they tell the story to their friends with "I saw a guy fall while running today," instead of "I asked him if he was okay, and he became this total jerk." Because out of embarrassment, who knows what I would say? I'M FINE! I'M FINE! I'M FIIIIINNNNEEE!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 7.5 miles. hood route. 5:40 am start. 1:05:45. 8:46 pace. Even thicker fog. Not the thickest I've seen, but still, kind of cool. I managed to stay upright throughout the run. My running co-worker yesterday - "Well I've only fallen once." Guess what happened to her this morning? She fell.
So I've been thinking - You know that game you played on a rainy day when you were a kid with your brothers and sisters, where you pretend the floor is "hot lava" and you jump from the couch to the ottoman to the lazy boy and back again? Well some kids really really liked that game, and they never wanted to stop, even when entering adulthood.
So now they do parkour.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 12.90 | 0.00 | 12.90 |
| 12.9 miles. 6:15 am start. Hood route to Legacy trail to Venice avenue and back. 1:52:47. 8:45 pace. Foggy again and it got foggier after sunrise. Then early Christmas with mother in law. Guess what? I got running stuff. Then to boy #2s basketball game. They lost. This is his first loss in basketball, ever. He is generally a sore loser, but he took this well. Streaks end. It happens. | |
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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. 1:03:11. 8:25 pace. | |
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| 7.5 miles. Hood route to Legacy trail and back. 10:00 am start. 74 degrees. 1:03:26. 8:27 pace. I'm not used to running in full sunshine. I got to see a 4'-5' gator sunning himself on the bank of Curry Creek. I always forget how large their heads are, in proportion to the rest of their bodies. The head is like 1/4 of their size, especially when young. | |
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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. 7 am start. 1:04:08. 8:33 pace. I rewatched Rogue One on netflix last night. IMO, that is the best Star Wars movie. I know the zealots prefer Empire. But they are, you know, wrong. Every time a new episode comes out, like this Christmas, people argue about which one is best. I vote for Rogue One. So I watched it again, and I stand by my vote. | |
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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. 7:45 am start. 1:05:23. 8:43 pace. 60 degrees. Light fog. | |
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| 10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to colonia and back. 6:45 pm start. (I got up to run this morning, and got dressed to run, but I wasn't feeling it, so I went home. Then stewed about not running all day. And it was a fairly stressful day, so I went out late.) 1:25:52. 8:25 pace. Excellent moon. It would have been a great night for fishing. The snooks were popping on the surface like crazy, when I crossed the Dona Bay bridge. Over 1600 for the year. I would like to be at about 2000, so tomorrow is going to be rough! | |
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| 5 on the trails. 7 am start. My biggest month this year. Go figure. I fell a bit short of my 400 mile goal for today. Happy New Year. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 1593.00 | 16.21 | 1609.21 |
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