kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2011 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 191)

Cute polar bears.  I want a couple of penguins.

Also love the bottle opener medal!  Sounds like my kind of race!  Hope you have a fun day.

X2 with what Scott said - great job finishing Carrie.  That's determination!

I'm debating on indoor spin class that starts in 30 minutes, or riding outdoors today.  I think I'm going to head outdoors.  It's supposed to be a beautiful weekend here, probably last one before it gets really cold.  I should ride outdoors.

Just got back from Hartford Half Marathon.  I Didn't see Kelly. And I have not even been able to catch up on posts.  Got in yesterday afternoon from Disney.  Legs were pretty spent by Thursday.

I'll post report later but run went well. Course was long at 13.39 per the Garmin, and spoke with others who had it at 13.37 to 13.41.  Anyway, at that distance, ran a 1:41:45 per my Garmin, with a 7:38 pace. Pretty happy with that.  At mile 4, I suddenly had IT band issues, and outer left knee issues.  At times, they burned, at times, they disappeared.  Overall, happy with results and happy with my last three miles averaging 7:11 pace.  I'll catch up later.  Need to unpack and cut the lawn.  Yay!!!

Jeff....awesome job!  Nice!  I can't believe you ran a half the day after getting home from Disney...LOL   Hope you and the fam had a great trip. 

Kel and I are back from Hartford (following a post-race trip to Lululemon and Chipotle) and both had decent races.

Kel ran with Jeff-y for the first 6 miles until she dropped him like a ming vase.  Kel finished in 1:46 (with 13.3 on the Garmin) with Jeff trailing in around 1:52.

I started out nice and easy and dropped the hammer around mile 11.  It felt so great to just run through the crowd at the finish.  Finished in 2:35 with 13.25 on my Garmin.

Nice job.  The course is not long.  The "problem" is that there are lots of turns and lots of people, which makes it really hard to run the tangents, which is how the course is measured. 

Jeff R. -- Next year apply to start in the "fast runners" corral, which will be for people who have a sub 1:45 half. 

Great job, all of you.  Congratulations, Kel, Shaun, and Jeff.  Chipotle....yum. 

rizer22 - 2011-10-15 1:56 PM

kaburns1214 - 2011-10-15 1:48 PM

rizer22 - 2011-10-15 12:02 PM

Just got back from Hartford Half Marathon.  I Didn't see Kelly. And I have not even been able to catch up on posts.  Got in yesterday afternoon from Disney.  Legs were pretty spent by Thursday.

I'll post report later but run went well. Course was long at 13.39 per the Garmin, and spoke with others who had it at 13.37 to 13.41.  Anyway, at that distance, ran a 1:41:45 per my Garmin, with a 7:38 pace. Pretty happy with that.  At mile 4, I suddenly had IT band issues, and outer left knee issues.  At times, they burned, at times, they disappeared.  Overall, happy with results and happy with my last three miles averaging 7:11 pace.  I'll catch up later.  Need to unpack and cut the lawn.  Yay!!!

Nice job.  The course is not long.  The "problem" is that there are lots of turns and lots of people, which makes it really hard to run the tangents, which is how the course is measured. 

Jeff R. -- Next year apply to start in the "fast runners" corral, which will be for people who have a sub 1:45 half. 

Nice work Kel Jeff-y and Shaun. Other than Park St the course was nice. Some homeless guy yelled to some girl in front of me: "hey girl in the blue, I got my eyes on you when you're done". That prob made her run faster. For the record it was 13.31 not 13.39 on my Garmin. I do understand what you are saying though Kelly. Thanks for thinking I am fast, appreciate that, but it's never fast enough is it. We always want more. . Those people running 1:10 or less is just sick. I think 1:06 was the leader.

There is no reason that with continued run work you can't be sub 1:30 next year.  You have talent and you've only been doing this for a year.  You still have lots of room to get faster.

That's some fast racing!  Nice job.

I did a 2 hour ride today, and it was so beautiful out.  A little windy, but felt great to be outside on the bike.  I added a couple of big climbs.  I've gotta say though, not used to spending that much time in the saddle anymore.  I wanted to keep going but really had to get off that seat!

Thanks Jeff.

Heading out for a long ride this morning, then a T run and 90 minute massage.  Then I need to do actual work and prep for court tomorrow morning.  No fun. 

Got back from Tampa at mindnight Friday, up at 5 AM to get the Hartford HM.  2 days of bankruptcy conferencing plus the requiste "networking events" (including a pirate party on thursday night) left me feeling like i should just not bother, but i will never voluntarily skip a race i signed up for.  Besides, we are endurance athletes.  if youre drunk the night before, wake up and run.  If your tired, wake up and run.

My goals for the race were to neither stroke out nor puke on Kelly.  So despite feeling like crap, i ran with Kelly for the first 6 miles at a nice 8:3X pace, at about mile 6 we crested a small hill and burned down the otherside and kelly stepped up to about 8:00.  No way i was holding that pace... so i settled in behind some nice pace booty (curvy redhead to the left of me, perky brunettes to my right [Sara and Tracy who kept telling each other "great job"] not bad to be stuck in the middle).

FInished in about 1:53, which is a PR for an HM for me.  Glad I did the race, felt much better afterwards.  First race in a while where i did  better than i expected.  Will do an easy ride at some point today, then back on plan tomorrow.  Afterwards, we got some food then went and found shaun and ran the last half-mile or so with him.

Kelly looked very good and in control and finished in about 1:46.  She's going to kick some tail at IMFl.

congrats to all the raceres from the past week!  Love the medal thats a bottle opener.  Carrie, great race.  Jeff R, you are a soon to be stud at this stuff.

i think it was due to my stench more than anything else, but whatever i can do to motivate... Argh!

i think it was due to my stench more than anything else, but whatever i can do to motivate... Argh!

Race Report:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=271762

Jeff-Y, great job on the PR, hungover!! I love your honesty!! And thanks for the comments. 

MRI scheduled for next week. I can't even get a swim stroke in with that shoulder. It's still killing me from the accident, and PT is not helping too much. Ughhhhh.

Kel and I went to do the Tour de Shore this morning and there was a flyer for a time trial I might actually be able to win. 

CCNS is putting on the "Donut Derby" (a 23 mile TT) where you get 90seconds taken OFF your time for EACH donut you eat.

Rudy, you might be well-suited for this one. 

http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=14197