Runners
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One of my college teammates decided to signup for a local 5k here in Seattle in February. That snowballed into 6-7 of us former teammates all agreeing to run as well. Most of us do not run at all anymore and the others who signed up are shells of their former running selves so it'll be interesting to see how big of a disaster it is and what all of us can do now. I haven't gone on a run since August when I broke my hand in a bike race. I plan on not running a step between now and race day so I'll have a bit over 6 months of zero running. Not expecting a whole lot.
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I'm a glutton for punishment. And I'm genuinely curious to see what I can run a 5k in without any actual run specific training (I'm not going in as a couch potato since I cycle everyday instead).
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@BloodnThunder Off the couch 5k has a nice ring to it! You’ve got the engine for sure, even if you don’t run much or at all anymore.
@kkibbey23 Hope the appt goes well. Report back. A friend of mine had that treatment (I think) for tendon issue in her heel and it helped her. Oil Creek looks like fun, I think you mentioned it before. I’ve also looked at Eastern States for an east coast race. But we’ll see!
We are expecting our first baby at the end of February, so that will certainly add another dimension to things, particularly travel (we’re in Colorado). I’m doing some training but haven’t signed up for anything. Time will definitely be at a premium once she arrives! -
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@den1mhead nice one, I'm mainly a cyclist but I've done the Bristol 10km a few times for Dorothy House. Gotta work on getting used to the extra distance! This time it'll be for Mercy in Action.
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@den1mhead nice one, I'm mainly a cyclist but I've done the Bristol 10km a few times for Dorothy House. Gotta work on getting used to the extra distance! This time it'll be for Mercy in Action.
Good man running to raise money for charity. I'm guessing as a cyclist and someone who's completed a couple of 10km runs you wont find the half marathon distance too taxing.
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I think I’m going to see what this is like in the spring. I’ll try to rope my 13 year old into it. It won’t be from the couch but Dec thru mid March doesn’t see much more than 5 milers around here. I could run with snow on the ground but I’d rather not. That leaves me the hamster wheel. Much more than 30 minutes of that and I’m bored to tears.
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Here’s a short documentary about the Ouray 100, which I’ve run the past two years (and will likely three peat this year). It follows a runner for North Face Japan. There’s also another doc on the race on amazon prime, but I like this one a lot better.
The runner is undoubtedly talented, but the Japanese aesthetic certainly comes through, and makes the film more about man vs nature or man vs self. I thought it was pretty well done, and really captures the spirit of this race and the spirit of ultrarunning in general. -
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I really enjoyed the depiction of the sense of community that develops around running.
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Pretty neat. It would be fun to try one of those races sometime. I’m essential, so had work that weekend and am also not trained enough at this point.
I was inspired by Rickey Gates to try my own every single street project, and am attempting to run every single street in the city I live in- Longmont, Colorado. One of my rules that he didn’t do in San Fran (for obvious reasons) is to start and end every run from my house on the south east side of town. We’re about 100000 residents and definitely smaller than SF, so logical that he’d start from different places.
I am considering maybe having a “base” somewhere on the west side of town to start/end from, as a lot of the time/distance I do in a day can be just getting out there, let alone then running all the neighborhood streets. And of course our city isn’t built on a grid, which makes it more difficult- I can’t just do the n/s streets one day, then the e/w the next.
Anyway, he is a link to my master map. I am tracking my runs with gps, but this looks cleaner and doesn’t have repeats and you can’t tell exactly where I live!
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1rChn6o1CQ2YlQzJuYgc6XMvvPrNuVLJK&ll=40.162424819063645%2C-105.07849105224244&z=12 -
Runners, up to anything fun lately? Virtual races? Fun running goals, prs on strava segments? Anything?
Got a pair of the Nike Wildhorse 6, which I feel pretty favorable about. Wouldn’t do 100 Miles in em, but maybe up to 100k.
Also tracked down (hopefully) a pair of the Hoka Speedgoat EVO. Went like 5 pages deep on google to find a store in Alaska still has my size. Excited to try them out, I really liked the Mafate EVO 2 last year, but these are lighter and potentially more grippy. I tried v1 of the Speedgoat when v2 came out and did not like them- definitely too narrow and I got blisters. Everything I tried gave me blisters somewhere else. So hoping these are better. Apparently they changed the fit between then and now. -
Completed my first 50K today in Forest Park.
It was a virtual 50K East vs. West Coast by destination Trail races.Here’s a little synapses I wrote for Strava:
First 50K attempt. Prior to this my longest run was 21 miles.
We started up at the Zoo and headed north to get most of the climbing over with in the first few hours while the legs were still fresh.
The view from Pittock Mansion is amazing!
Felt good for the first 15 miles. Around 17-19 I could feel it in the knees and lower back.
For some reason our watches didn’t sync with the trail length data online so when we got to the stashed car we still had extra mileage to do. That was pretty demoralizing, so we turned around and did what we had to do to make 50K. The last 5 miles for me were brutal! Lots of walking and lots of fluid intake. I think I consumed 3.5L of water.
I’ve never felt as bad as I did today after the run and was totally looking forward to a coke and some gas station food but we realized we both left our cash in Tods Truck back at the zoo [emoji2361] so we drove all the way back in a delirious nauseous stupor. When we got to the zoo I puked in the parking lot and took a breather in the grass for a bit before driving home.
Crossing the bridge back to the east side I started puking into a bucket I luckily had up front while driving.. I puked about 4-5 times and got a few honks so I took the omsi exit and pulled into the Hawthorne Asylum (food cart pod that I own and manage with my dad) to take a quick shower, grab a coke and some food. After 2 cokes and half a cauliflower wrap I felt good enough to drive home.Epic day
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Awesome @Brock, what an achievement. Enjoy the down time and reflect on your substantial accomplishment.
