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The weekend was not great training-wise. I hadn't ran since Tuesday in Hawaii, and I wanted to get out there. However, Friday I ended up going out and seeing a movie and with karate in the morning and working the rest of the day, I ran out of time. Saturday I felt lousy — I…
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I'm back… it was an awesome weekend break from every day life. 5 days of running, reading, playing in the water (no real swimming), sleeping, and just doing whatever we wanted. Friday started off great — I love 4am Runs with Bums(TM). Down Venice beach and part of the Marina Del Rey bike path with…
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I really want to get faster on the bike… and more comfortable. So I need to put the miles in, and do some speed work. I'm always so tempted to run instead… but I like the brick feeling so I rode yesterday knowing I was going to run after. I only put in about 10…
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It was an awesome weekend, and great things lie ahead! Friday morning was swimming and karate, and in the afternoon roller blading and swimming/hot tubbing with my roommate and 2 other friends. I felt like a little kid again, and just played in the water 🙂 Saturday I did karate and went for a long…
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Just went for a quick run as it's been a busy week. Got in 30 min and about 3.3 miles. Felt good to get out there, and happily the knee that I feel on felt just fine. So the tendons are probably all good 🙂 I went easy the first mile, 5-10k race pace the…
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I did my first trail race Saturday. Damn. Alarms started going off at 3:30ish in the morning. After rolling out of bed, I pulled on race clothes and warmups, filled some water bottles, and headed out to the car. Drove a nice 1.25 hours up to the site. From the view I got driving, I…
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I've decided to do the Malibu Creek Challenge 14 miler this weekend. Somewhat a last minute decision, but I want to try an ultra later this year and so a first all trails and hilly race seems like a good idea. It should be fun — I'm excited to try this other branch of these…
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Nothing too exciting — ran Tuesday (yesterday) morning. As posted on the forum: speed work on a track — a little over a mile run there to warm up, then did what I call a pyramid: 100m run (then 100m jog for active recovery) 200m run (200 jog) 300m run (300 jog) 400m run (400…
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It was a good weekend — Friday had it's normal karate and swimming, adn some much needed social time. Saturday had it's normal karate, and then I did my long run for the week. Just over 12.5 miles and about 2:10. I was happy with it as it has been a while since I did…
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My friend (also an Ironman) put what I’m feeling very well — Ironman blues. I’m not super motivated to train right now, so I’m not as happy ’cause I’m not training as much. I don’t have the pre-race jitters for weeks. I don’t have that big, all-important goal in my future. I need to get…