Sunday, April 22, 2012
Trail by Hills
This past week can be summed up by hills. It started with a hilly 16 miler at Afton State Park home of the Afton 50k and 25k, and I finished up the week with a hilly 12.5k race part of the Trail Mix 50k team race. I finished 3rd overall with a 5:50 average and along with my friends Jim Felling, Brandon Heebink, and Jason Philliphi won the team competion. It was fun doing a team race again and I enjoy doing these races from time to time to race for someone other than yourself. Overall I felt the race went well I was within control throughout, but wished I woudl have pushed a little harder after passing 3rd place but somehting to improve on. Next race on schedule is Chippewa Ice Age 50k this coming Saturday. Another high mileage week instore for this week. Just putting in the miles.
Friday, April 13, 2012
The Wood Duck Diaries
Since the Human Race or should I say gut check training has been going well. I ran on some new trails in Lebanon Hills Park, the eastern most portion. There is a 2.1 mile or so loop around a lake that is perfect for workouts. The goal is to try and get a workout on those trails once a week or every other week.
Another positive are my races from last weekend. Last Saturday I went up to Bunker Hills park on the north side of the cities to run the Bunker Hills 2 mile and 8k. The goal was to get in a hard effort in the 2 mile (junk in the legs) then come back and try to run goal marathon pace in teh 8k (5:50) pace. I ended up running 10:35 for the 2 mile (no splits) and 28:14 for the 8k (5:41 pace with a 5:22 3rd mile) I took first in the 2 mile by 7 secs and was runner up in the 8k with the same time as the winner.
After winning the 2 mile was cooling down with 2nd place when he told me he was doing the 8k as well. We decided to have a gentleman's agreement that if we were way up front at the finish he could win the 8k and that way we both went home with a first place. It worked out well and it is always amazing the nice people you meet at smaller races when compared with the big one.
The next 2 races are Trail Mix 4x12.5k team race next weekend and the Chippewa 50k the last Saturday of April. I am going to try and get better at posting at least once ultimatly twice week with some tips and insites on running.
Another positive are my races from last weekend. Last Saturday I went up to Bunker Hills park on the north side of the cities to run the Bunker Hills 2 mile and 8k. The goal was to get in a hard effort in the 2 mile (junk in the legs) then come back and try to run goal marathon pace in teh 8k (5:50) pace. I ended up running 10:35 for the 2 mile (no splits) and 28:14 for the 8k (5:41 pace with a 5:22 3rd mile) I took first in the 2 mile by 7 secs and was runner up in the 8k with the same time as the winner.
After winning the 2 mile was cooling down with 2nd place when he told me he was doing the 8k as well. We decided to have a gentleman's agreement that if we were way up front at the finish he could win the 8k and that way we both went home with a first place. It worked out well and it is always amazing the nice people you meet at smaller races when compared with the big one.
The next 2 races are Trail Mix 4x12.5k team race next weekend and the Chippewa 50k the last Saturday of April. I am going to try and get better at posting at least once ultimatly twice week with some tips and insites on running.
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