Go Rae and Tom!
1:41.
The Kona coverage yesterday was good - NBC showed a little of the pro race (though much more of the males than the females), a whole bunch of special-interest stories, but neglected most of the age-groupers. However, I won't complain about two hours of vicarious triathlon! Heal heal heal little sfx I want to race again :D
or just getting back to where you started from in the first place . I got up at 5:45 and thought i guess i will go to the Y BAR HARBOR and run with GINGER AND KAREN S at 7:15 well i got there a little after 7ish and they had left already well i will ride out Schooner Head road and find them . no luck i did she MARY D. but she had her fanny pack and looked like she was going long ( not a good plan for me ) so a quick ride around town and a pit stop at the fire house and it is now about 7:30 to why not go to Little Long Pond at 8 and do that run I GOT THERE A ABOUT 7:45 stayed until almost 8 and saw no one and thought well i guess i will go back to town and run from the Y i did meet JUDSON going thru OTTER CREEK ( well that would have been worse that TRYING stay with MARY ON THE LONG RUN) so as soon as i got a cell tower i called BOBBY JORDAN and he was about to go around the lake rt in ELLSWORTH and said he would wait for me i told him i would be ther by 8:30 . now there is this strange red and white button on the dash of my car that says but i have never pushed it so i thought now would be a good time to push it but i guess the fuse must be blown or you need to use it more or something because nothing seemed to be different / so regular speed back to his house for the 6 mile run NOW this is the part about where i said earlier about getting back to where you started from IN THE FIRST PLACE FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DO NOT KNOW BOBBY LIVES 1/4 MILE FROM MY HOUSE I KNOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A BIG NEG. YOU KNOW LOST TWO HOURS AND WASTED ALL THAT GAS PLUS A CAN OF RED BULL AND A GU BUT NO I AM TURNING IT AROUND INTO A POS. IT IS a GREAT TRAINING PLAN FOR THE RACE IN HOULTON IN FEB I. E. 2 HOURS RIDE WASTE OF GAS ECT. THEN GET OUT AND RUNNING THE RACE / NOW I AM GOING TO TRAIN FOR THRE RETURN RIDE HOME BY LAYING IN A RECLINER FOR TWO PLUS HOURS OR UNTIL PATTI AND STEPEHEN GET HOME FROM CHURCH AND CATCH ME WASTING MORE DAY LIGHT HOURS SORRY FOR MY ERRORS IN TYPING / PATTI THINKS I WOULD BE GREAT AT WRITING HOSTAGE DEMAND NOTES SHE WAS /IS A SCHOOL TEACHER AND IT DRIVES HER CRAZY TO READ MY ERRORS IN POSTINGS SO I BETTER HIT SEND BEFORE SHE GETS HOME A STARTS THAT SPEACH AGAIN
It looks like another luvelly day.
and rowing. Not sure how many METs's or meters.
Go Rae and Tom!.. hope you are settling in to your pace at this point, enjoying your GU of choice and taking in the scenery.
Slow going on lumpy ice and packed snow. My ankles got a real workout, but it is a beautiful day here, and I somehow managed not to fall, so it was well worth it. Tom, your morning sounds a lot like a treadmill run: going and going and going but never getting anywhere.
Tom with all that early morning stress and a pre-load of red bull and GU your run must have been nice and easy. Rae and Tom weather here mid 40 hope the weather and your run were good. Don
We started at 6:45. I forgot to post it last night. I don't know how you missed us. We ran Schooner Head Rd., did a loop around Schooner Head Overlook, ran to Sand Beach then turned around. We saw Mary too.
Ninety min. with 8 strides. Beautiful running out there today, if only it would stay like this.
awww I miss Sand Beach
today with achy shoulders what will it feel like to race, tapered!
2 x 8oo w/u 12 x 75 on 1:10 as easy/build/fast by 25 2 x [2 x 5oo on 7 + 12 x 5o on :5o] - 6:12, 6:14, 6:15, 6:05 1o x 1oo IM on 1:45 ~1:25 3oo c/d
purrrr
On a warm day (high 40s). Felt great during the run, then a dunk in the river after I broke some of the ice on the edge. Some stretches, too. Later some core work.
Keep running!
nice late afternoon run. can't seem to get out early these days. lot's of people tracks to the end of lurvey spring road, but no people. Then I was the first to break trail to echo lake except for the bunnies, squirels ect...Saw lot's of bunny footprints.
in the afternoon. not too slushy; in fact where there was snow it was stiff enough to run through nicely. late afternoon sunlight comes early these days. wrapped the rhodos in burlap....after the cold temps with strong northerly winds...and tucked the canoe and kayaks under the porch. that said, someone was kayaking on Eagle Lake today.
earlier this morning. I didn't realize Ginger, Karen and Mary were all running quite that early also. I bagged the idea of running on the island because I couldn't wait until 8 to start. Should have checked. Oh well. Tom, nice positive spin on it all!
Starting at 8 with MattF, MattH, & JC, on snow covered carriage roads, to Jordan PH and up Day Mtn, cut over to Cooksey Drive, Seal Hbr, uphill to JPH and back to LLP. 1:45. The snow provided a perfect medium for stride analysis and didn't detract from the pace. Followed with short soaking in the ocean.
Posting from Sara's computer.
Beautiful morning for an Eden run from Little Long Pond, even if it was a bit of a struggle to keep up with the crew for 15+ miles.
Nice run. Some great views up on Day Mnt.
Almost had to bail on the James Bond marathon. See I am missing 5 films and for some reason the Volume 3 special edition set which has all 5 I need jumped from around $70 to over $200 and every store around has taken the individual dvd's off the shelves because the new 4 volumes have come out and they want to sell those. Only problem is the new volumes are mixed diferently that the special edition ones so I'd have to buy 2-3 of the new volumes to get the 5 films I needed which would cost over $200 and give me double copies of a lot of films. Pretty much I'm pissed if you cannot tell. It's all very complex even to find the movies online. These new box sets are really frigging everything up and with Christmas it's almost impossible to get those anyways. Ya, some James Bond fan I am, never completing my collection like I should have a couple years ago. Now I almost paid for it. But....
Anyways, thankfully for me the damn movies i needed are classics and wha better place to go that Arnaold's, so I rented all 5 I needed for the marathon which I am starting at Midnight tonight and going until I'm done. Damn the Man. Probably about 36-40 hours, maybe more maybe less. Bathroom, food, bringing back a few movies to the rental place and my 5-mile run are the only things I'll be doing tommorrow. Anyone feel free to come by. It starts in 6 hours.
Ya, I'm not nuts!!!
but entertaining nonetheless
if I lived Bar Harbor way.You should have a pretty good buzz by end of first movie if plan is to imbibe every time Bond drinks and gets laid. Dave T.
Greetins fom Tucson. (hotel computer#$%^) 7 weeks ago, I said this was either the smartes or the dumbest idea of my life. Sice we walked out of the Tucson airport, I've been thinking it was the smartest. No, I didn't Boston qualify, not even close 4:19:??, but what agreat way to see the country. Every moment has felt like a gift. Now I could blame today's winds 10-15 mph depending on which of the 4,000 people complaining at the finish you choose to listen to ( along with predictions of how much it cost in time 7-15 min.) But no it wasn't about that. I am not fit enough to run 2 marathons in 2 months and I learned that today. But we re fit enough to run 2 marathons in 2 days and marvel at the experience. The beginning of our trip were inauspicous, we left home at noon, in the snow, 14 hours later we were in an airport transportation van when it ran out of gas before reaching our hotel. At the time I was concerned this might be foreshadowing or a way too obvious metaphor. Yesterday was great with a tour of the hotels kitchen garden by the chef, head gardner and assistant. We are learning the names of lots of cactus : saguaro, funny bunny, totem, barrel, prickley pear, century, saw a coopers hawk, funny looking quail and road runners + lots of bunnies. Today started out with a coach bus rude from the hotel to the start of this point to point rase on the side of the Catalina Mtns. We had heard about temps in the 30s at the start and 70s at the finish. I had bought 18$ worth of sweats, hats etc at the Gorham Goodwill to recycle. The great thing was that we could stay on the busses and use their bathrooms before the 7:30 start. A good idea given all the snakes and cacti encirclingthe outdoor bathroom zone. We saw several people with nasty gashes on their calves and Tom startled a snake. The first mile is a mix of up and down. The road s closed for the first 4 miles so we were pretty comfortable as everyone settled into their pace. The next 24 miles were predominantly down hill. This took it's toll on a lotof runners. It's great to say you should train for the down hill but where can you run 24 miles downhill. My downhill form may be my strength but it was hard to hold after 10 miles. Then there was the wind. I'dlike to say we ran a smart first half, right on pace but I think it's because the headwinds kept us from considering going out too fast. We were in the desert so there was nothing to break and we knew we weren't changing direction anytime soon.Tom has been nursing a bad calf for the past month but he kept going. I wasso proud of him. He was chatting away, thanking every volunteer we saw. At mile 15, we slowed, talked and discussed our options. It was clear, I wasn't qualifyingfor dog catcher, so we adjusted goals and kept moving. Did I mention there were 2 dead coyotes on the course? Now that's something I haven't seen in a marathon before. The scenery (besides the roadkill) was amazing, surrounded by mountains and wild vegetation. One concern, I started to havewas dehydration: low humidity, wind, sun, I don't think it was possible for anyone to drink too much. The worst hill in this course comes around 25.6 and lasts aout .4. I had read that it was as bad as the end to Marine Corps and figured the person was exagerating but now I think it's worse, much longer. The medals are very cool, a cut out of a saguaro cactus. We got back to the hotel, sat by the pool, eating drinking beer and watching lots of strangers limp around with their medals on try to guess the velocity of the wind. The perfect end to a perfectly amazing day.
Rae & Tom
15.1 miles, no more, no less.
1 mile walk to cool down.
802 Rae Chalmers Gorham, ME 229 F-49 4:19:52 9:55 F 45-49/30 262 4:21:14 881 Thomas McLaughlin Gorham, ME 816 M-42 4:30:26 10:19 M 40-44/101 583 4:31:48
the Tuscon marathon looks pretty cool from their website! I can't wait to hear about your runs :)
I struggled through posting on the hotel key board/television thing on Sunday. Maybe I was rejected for excessive typos ; (
Okay, 7 weeks ago I had this idea. We felt so great after Bay State that I said, "How about one more try at qualifying for Boston?" It just seemed like everything had been in place for Bay State and then my rookie mistake of tossing my jacket and inhaler to Alison at mile 12 wasted all that training. Seemed we might still be able to capitalize on that preparation. I learned on Sunday that I was wrong. I am not fit enough to run 2 marathons in 2 months but if this was a mistake, it's the best mistake I've ever made. The whole experience was amazing. We left home in the snow at noon on Friday. Fourteen hours later, we stepped out of the airport in Tucson and were blown away by the landscape and the feel of the air. We hopped into the "Stagecoach" airport shuttle/van. Unfortunately after he dropped the other passengers at their hotels he ran out of gas. At the time, I suspected this was foreshadowing or an overly simplistic metaphor but we had walking to do and no time to contemplate larger meanings. It gets cold in the desert at night so we walked fast. An inauspicious beginning. So much to tell. I could fill a page with the descriptions and names of cacti (Funny Bunny, Dancing Cholla, etc.)wild life (coopers hawks, crazy looking quail, bunnies everywhere, snakes, birds nests with snake skins woven in, I'm afraid of snakes) but you are runners so I will get to the race. Sunday morning 5 nice coach busses were lined up at our hotel at 5 AM and Starbucks coffee was available in the lobby, yes. The best thing about the busses was that they have bathrooms on them, YES! Unfortunately on about half the busses they kept them locked (who knows the rationale behind that). Now I had read that the temp at the start would probably be in the 30s and then could heat up to 70 pretty quickly. For that reason I'd spent $18 at the Gorham Goodwill on sweat pants, shirts, hats that we could discard at the start. Wise investment. Wandering off road for that final bathroom stop was a risky adventure, limited screening, lots of cacti and snakes. Saw many nasty cuts on people's legs. We were standing at the start, 2 minutes to go, when the man next to me pointed out a water bottle at my feet. Turns out I had my fuel belt on upside down. More foreshadowing. The first mile was a mix of hills, up and down and then the next 24 miles were predominantly down hill (about 2,200 feet net elevation loss) This can be a quad buster as evidenced by all the limping people (us too) we saw after the race. Weight training (leg lifts) would be a big plus for this race. The downhill was counterbalanced by a steady headwind of 10-15mph that kicked in somewhere around mile 4 and then never went away. Not gusts like we get here but constant. By mile 11 it just felt psychologically exhausting. I stepped in behind Tom, clomped on his heels a few times, felt no improvement (I'm sure he didn't either) and then he spit (I tried not to take this personally, he's a spitter) and I realized this was a really bad idea. For the first time in a marathon we had no problem running the first 5-10 conservatively at our pace. I don't think this was because we were disciplined or smart but rather the best we could do. Every mile was right around 9:10 but the effort felt more like 8:45/mile. Whether it was the wind or lack of recovery from Bay State or both, that was our best. At mile 15 we slowed and reassessed. There was no way I was finishing in 4:05 and it didn't make sense to destroy ourselves so we dropped down to around a 10 minute pace and started to enjoy the scenery, temp., low humidity (this meant NO CHAFING!!), sunshine. We also saw 2 dead coyotes, 1 was fully on the course. At mile 18 we separated. Tom's calf had been bothering him and he needed to walk more. Around mile 20 he heard a woman breathing/gasping heavily and he said to her, "Hey I always sound like that after mile 15" She replied that she always sounds like that from the start of every race. Then she paused and explained that she only has 1 lung. Very humbling. One thing I really appreciated is that after mile 18 or 20 the water stops started coming every mile, really necessary in those dry conditions. I had heard that the end of this course was as bad as Marine Corps (steep uphill)and figured that had to be an exageration but it's actually worse since the hill is about 4 times longer. Yeah at 25.5 you get a half mile steep hill. Oh well. The medals are very cool, a cut out of a cactus. Afterwards, we lay around the pool, drinking beer, eating hamburgers, watching strangers limp around and swapping marathon stories with the people around us. It was the perfect end to a very cool day. I recommend travelling west for marathons. The time change was actually a plus. We had no problem getting to bed early Sat. night and getting up at 4:30 on Sunday. Rae
with Fenway while Matt, Matt, Mike and Judson ran 15 miles. So I can walk four miles about 10 minutes faster than they can run 15. Fenway wasn't exactly pushing the pace, but I guess he never does. I bet without visiting other dogs, making pit stops (both of us) and stopping to talk briefly with my mother on the phone (you can get cell reception on the hill on the far side) I would have beaten them by 20 minutes.
35 and no wind this time of year is sweet.Mixed surface at Back Cove,some trail,frozen mud,ice,snow.Important to maintain good mechanics and choose a line looking up ahead to miss the icy patches. Dave T.
One of the winter routes from the University. College-Gilman Falls-Bennoch-Stillwater-College Loop. Started with a large Sunday morning group (9 of us in all), ran most of the way (until the final half mile) with Erik. Covered the route in sub 7 minute pace.
I do love that EL, JP, BB 11 mile looo and the snow made for good footing this time (clearly all sow is not created equally). Got a mite nostalagic knowing tha was probably my last 3 lake loop for several months and certainly the last one in snow. Life is good in the woods.
Congratulations to Rae & Tom!
along the course of the 8.5 race. Congrats Rae and Tom!
Running/Walking = 215
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