Runners

[Brock]

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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[den1mhead]

Awesome @Brock, what an achievement. Enjoy the down time and reflect on your substantial accomplishment.

[dinobarnesberlin]

Really great pix of your epic run – and big smiles at the mansion;)
Puking in a bucket on the way home means it was a good run !

[neversummer]

Well done @Brock ! Will there be more, or longer distances in your future?

[Brock]

Thanks guys! It was a lot of fun.
I’m definitely going to keep running long distance, I have a plan to circumnavigate Mt. Hood in August. It will be 42 miles with 10,000’ of gain

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[Bfd70]

Turn 45 today. Started off with 13.1.

[neversummer]

@Brock that sounds awesome! Trying to figure out something similar myself for this summer, since it seems all the races I’m interested in have been cancelled or are likely to be.
@Bfd70 Happy birthday! A good way to start the day and your 45th year.

[neversummer]

Got a slightly used Coros Apex via Facebook marketplace for 200 usd, full retail is 300. Seems fine, and has a lot of the features I was looking for. Don’t know if I would have paid full price as I can get a discount on Suunto via work which makes their watch I was looking at about 70 bucks more, and it seems like that would be nicer in the end, though it sounds like their user interface is not well liked. If cost were no objective, probably would’ve went for one of Garmin Fenix 6 options. Like the solar one a lot. Unfortunately, cost is an objective.
I’ve only used it to track baby walks around the neighborhood so far, but the track looks very accurate. I can tell what side of the street I was on or places we walked in the street vs sidewalk to avoid obstacles. As DCrainmaker noted, some of the metrics in the app are weird. Today’s 4 mile walk at 17:25 a mile with 130 ft of gain gave me 46 points on their training load graph, yesterday’s 3 mile similar pace/gain got me 0 points. Looks like 120 is the max. So not sure how my easy short walk got over a third of those points.
Anyway, looks nice and isn’t too big on my skinny ass wrists.

[rocket]

bloody brilliant @Brock

@neversummer enjoy it !!

I am still pretty happy with the Garmin 245, does what it should and don’t break the bank, tho the Fenix is nicer, but maybe not 500 more nicer…

[rocket]

random flick

[Brock]

Did 30 miles in the Eagle Caps yesterday..

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[Bfd70]

That looks a 10. Where is that exactly?

[Brock]

North east Oregon. In a Little town called Joseph.

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[Brock]

Prepping to run the Timberline Trail this Saturday.. 42 miles around Mt. Hood with 10,000’ of vert.

Getting stoked!

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[Polly]

@Brock These pictures are unreal. I live in the wrong city. A London 10 miler is lifeless in comparison. Good luck with the trail!

[neph93]

@Polly:

A London 10 miler is lifeless in comparison. Good luck with the trail!

Also the health benefits of the run may be outweighed by the air politution. Having lived in London for three years I do love the city, but don’t miss that.

[Brock]

Cross post from what are you doing today…

Instead of pictures I’ll just include my Strava link.

Circumnavigated Mt. Hood yesterday with some friends. It was an epic day and a massive check off the bucket list!

https://strava.app.link/yCpHRhYpn9

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[Nik]

Ran up and around Butser Hill this morning, 1000 ft of elevation in less than an hour, pretty fun!

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[Giles]

Madness I kneaded some dough…..

[Nik]

A cold one this morning in the fog

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