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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…
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Did 30 miles in the Eagle Caps yesterday..
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That looks a 10. Where is that exactly?
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North east Oregon. In a Little town called Joseph.
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Prepping to run the Timberline Trail this Saturday.. 42 miles around Mt. Hood with 10,000’ of vert.
Getting stoked!
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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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Ran up and around Butser Hill this morning, 1000 ft of elevation in less than an hour, pretty fun!
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A cold one this morning in the fog
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I just did my longest run in years on Sunday!
In the absence of marathoning in 2020, I decided to train up for something I could do at home in my garage on my treadmill. I planned to go out on pace to break 5 hours and 50 min in running time (7:00 / mile) and hopefully have only very brief bathroom breaks so I could keep it under 6 hours. I was able to do it just a touch faster, with a moving time of 5:44:04 (6:53/mile) and limited the bathroom time to 4 min and change, so my total including bathroom pit stops was 5:48:26 (6:58/mile elapsed time). I ended up live streaming the whole thing on Zoom and doing it as a fundraiser for Best Friends Animal Society, so it raised $1375 for them, which is awesome: https://support.bestfriends.org/site/TR/PersonalFundraising/General?px=3527814&pg=personal&fr_id=1500 Hoping it'll trickle up above $1500 in the last few days I leave it up!
More details on nutrition on Strava if you care: https://www.strava.com/activities/4498645045
Training for this was more or less similar to a marathon cycle, except that I added in 4 long runs of between 31 and 35 miles, ranging from 2 35 milers at a pace in the ballpark of the 50 mile pace to a progressive 50k at 6:36/mile average, starting in the 6:50s and ending in the 5:50s.
Really grateful to everyone who tuned in to watch and kept me going, including @neversummer. But seriously, that hurt like hell – mentally even more than physically -- so I hope that marathoning is a reality again in 2021 and I don't have to do something like that again any time soon.
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@cander49 that is a long and fast run, great work
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Wow @cander49 that is some type of superhuman effort / achievement
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just stumbled across the topic….
@cander49 … that is one super human effort there... even more so with the added boredom factor of the treadmill!
Top effort too @Nkwkfld
and @Brock - that looks like an epic run around Mt hood… what an absolutely beautiful place and awesome phots as per usual from you!
Everything is just on such a huge scale compared to the UK... I'd love to ride around there on my mountain bike... or dirt bike for that matter!
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Thanks guys! @Baba-san, everyone keeps asking how in the world I did that on a treadmill, and my reaction is the exact opposite: how in the world could anyone do this NOT on a treadmill?
I didn't have to carry any supplies and still, I had a box of gels, stack of cookies, candy, and 3 bottles at my finger tips the entire time! Plus, I got to watch TV for the first 31 miles and then crank some music on the sound system in the last 19 miles. I couldn't imagine a more optimized environment for something like this. 
In all seriousness, I get really bored if I'm doing a short, easy on a treadmill, but if I'm doing something like a workout, a long run, or a time trial, I'm focused enough on the run and what I'll get out of it that it never gets boring! -
@cander49 an impressive effort to watch- thanks for doing the zoom thing, it provided some entertainment at work. As you might be to odd person for liking treadmills, I am the odd person who likes to virtually spectate. I’ve watched Moab 240 the past few years, as well as a few other ultras. And all it is it watching someone’s tracker very slowly move around a map!
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Made it out into the mountains today.
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