Runners
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Thought this was a cool shot from my 7 mile trail race this past weekend:
I'm currently about 8 weeks out from Chicago and I'm closing in on peak mileage. This week is 77-78 miles, next week will be 81-82, and the week after that I'll peak at 83-85 miles. After that, I'll drop 3-5 miles a week until I really taper out race week, which will enable me to hammer some big workouts as I approach the fitness peak. I've usually tried to keep mileage fairly consistent for a good 2-ish months, but I'm trying a slightly different approach this time. I'm intentionally holding the workouts back slightly until the mileage starts to drop because I've generally had the tendency to hammer workouts a little too early in the season, and I've peaked a bit early my last three seasons, which is obviously not ideal. Looking forward to seeing how this one goes.
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Are you from Chicago? It’s a good course. As flat as can be. Tons of crowd cheering the entire way. Last I ran it was 2015. Marathoning is just too much of a time commitment for me. Only 1/2’s now. Just trying to make those faster. I usually volunteer at the race. I’ll keep an eye out for you amongst the 40,000.
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@rocket stylin! Glad I’m not the only one who likes the bright colors. Though I guess my reasoning is somewhat morbid- if I’m ever stuck out there and SAR is looking for me, neon will stick out amongst all the colors of the forest…
@cander49 you are looking pretty effing fast lately. Report back on your thoughts when it’s all over. I’ve taken a different approach to training this year too. Seems to be working so far, with four weeks until race number two, I feel woefully unprepared! -
there is def a safety aspect over here too @neversummer far too many clowns …
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Are you from Chicago? It’s a good course. As flat as can be. Tons of crowd cheering the entire way. Last I ran it was 2015. Marathoning is just too much of a time commitment for me. Only 1/2’s now. Just trying to make those faster. I usually volunteer at the race. I’ll keep an eye out for you amongst the 40,000.
I'm in Utah nowadays, but I grew up in MN and my parents both ran Chicago back in the 90s, so I was out there during the race years ago. Yeah, I'm looking forward to a nice fast, low altitude course!
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@rocket waywt compression leg sleeves edition:
Zensah sleeves (the good, the bad, and the argyle?), dirty girl gaiters, Salomon sense ride. My last big run before Plain 100, though unintentionally bigger than planned at 35 mi and 9700 feet gain -
Ran 5.6 miles and climbed 3,630 feet to this abandoned fire Lookout. We arrived in the dark at 8:30pm, Stayed the night and ran out the back way 10 miles. My first go at ‘fast packing’ it was a blast! We had Milky Way for dinner and a sunrise for breakfast!
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Stellar place @Brock !!!! Awesome pics, love the night sky shots absolutely epic!!!
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Jealous of @Brock right about now
Running a 5k today. The Two Roads Brewery Shore to Pour Run. I try to do an organized 5k every other week or so. Beer and Philipino BBQ to follow. I just learned that a good chunk of this race is over sand
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. . . Running a 5k today. The Two Roads Brewery Shore to Pour Run. I try to do an organized 5k every other week or so. Beer and Philipino BBQ to follow. I just learned that a good chunk of this race is over sand
Woohooo!!Good luck, happy running and enjoy
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Good luck, happy running and enjoy
Thanks bro. I’m looking forward to it.
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@Brock what state are you in? That looks grand.
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Stellar place @Brock !!!! Awesome pics, love the night sky shots absolutely epic!!!
Thanks Roxanne! It was definitely Epic!
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What a day. Drunk. Working at 5pm
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The last 1.5 miles was sand and broken shell.
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Hello, so I planned on running a 1/2 marathon on September 14th but a good
Injury killed that date. The foot is Nearly better and I want to
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Well gents, sad to say I will not be participating in the Plain 100 after all.
Went hiking/scrambling with two friends last week to visit a hard to get to summit in Indian Peaks Wilderness. Got most of the way there, and past all of the most difficult movement (the first time, this was an out and back), when I tripped on the easy talus walking about .2 miles away from the goal. Put my hands up of course. Heard a pop when I hit the ground, lots of pain, and saw a small but obvious deformity in my left wrist.
So still did the summit and hiked 6.5 hours back out in up to third class terrain. Lots of easier but loose talus and and scree along the way too.
I broke the left Radius about an inch below the wrist. Currently still in a splint, should get a real cast this week. My first broken bone ever! Bad timing I guess- was really looking forward to this one. Thought about it for a few days, but I essentially can’t use my left hand at all right now.
But in all, was able to get out under my own power with a lot of route finding help from my two friends I was with. Not seriously injured, though the hike out effing sucked. This happened at around 12500 feet- had to get back above 13200 to get out. And echoing through my mind, people die up there. There were plenty of chances for a fatal or higher consequence fall that day, so glad it wasn’t worse.
Plain will still be there next year.
Ihsh-201!
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Dang @neversummer that sucks! At least you summited the peak–is that South Arapaho?
