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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…
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Rain woke me up, and there have been sheets of water (at least by LA standards) for hours now. I think that my 1/8 mile run to the car this morning should count as a run *and* as a swim! And tonight no climbing… instead a CT scan for the side. Hopefully we'll figure out…
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So I made it back out on a run yesterday. I ran a few times after IMAZ and my knee was just getting sore too quickly, so I backed off and gave my body a whole week impact free (at least fairly so — I only swam and did karate and a bit of archery).…
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Swimming was great yesterday… I was just comfortable in the water, and in a lane with damn fast people and able to hold my own (enough). Yeah, I was the slowest, but yeah, I felt I was doing pretty good. Part of the set was 3 hundreds as fast as we could, then an easy…
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So my right side has been very not happy for a while. Sometimes it feels like a knife is being stabbed right up under my hip bone, but usually it is a duller ache. Or sometimes it just cramps up. But whatever it is doing, I'm tired of it. It has been about a month…
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I expected to be sore after the Ironman. I mean… duh! It’s an IRONMAN! But I really wasn’t. Yeah, a little stiff that evening, and it took a few steps of walking to be “ungimpafied” the next day or two, but never really that stiff, sore, oh god more stairs!?!? kind of feeling. However, I…