Run 100 miles in NOV (Page 2)

Either back to Vancouver or back to Louisiana. For now it's back to the ranch in Texas to make a decision and get some fresh air and beautiful country sunsets.

5 miles yesterday and 7 tonight puts me at 24.  First run of the Fall running in the dark after work.  I hate running in the dark.

I've been meaning to ask you.. what is "kloofy"?

35.

Yea running in the dark sucks. I was looking at headlamps yesterday and they all had a battery life that was less than some of my runs take me to complete.

10 very windy, rainy, cold miles today puts me at 34.

I use a Magicshine headlamp.  I run trails in the dark through the winter so I need something super bright. The Magicshine is 550 lumens but the battery life is only about two hours and with a li-ion battery it does not dim it just shuts off completely when it gets low.  I got stuck in a storm in the dark along a very technical ridge trail when I learned this.

Congrats on the PR!! And getting that close to a BQ is still really damn impressive.

I was running very early in the morning before the sun came up.  After taking a pretty hard fall I waited for dawn.

Congrats on a great race Pam.  PR and placing in AG make for a super day.

In my opinion, I don't think March is too soon by a long shot.  Four months is a very long training block building off this race.  I don't think I'd run a slow mary a month before a BQ attempt though.  I'd want to keep to my training and even a slow mary is going to have a certain amount of taper and recovery when you would be at a pretty critical stage of training.  Where is the March 5th race?  If temps are cooler, you could pick up a fair amount of time.  72 is pretty warm.

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After my race this weekend, I'm going to change my run sessions a bit to improve speed as well.

There are a few local 5k's over the next few months that I'll direct some focus to.  It is a perfect time of the year with it being dark after work to get some speedwork in at a lit track.  I've always loved running on the track for some reason.  In addition to trying to keep my overall mileage up, I'll do a weekly session of 200's and 400's with full recovery to work on form and efficiency.  I'll gradually add some tempo work in during the week and after four or five weeks start replacing the reps with hard intervals like 4 x 1000m with minimal recovery.

A couple of 4 mile runs this week puts me at 47 miles.

Are you starting to go crazy tapering for IMAZ Roland?

Originally posted by kloofyroland

Originally posted by popsracer Are you starting to go crazy tapering for IMAZ Roland?

Just a little but keeping calm and positive. I had an anxiety dream Monday night about being lost and gathering stuff before the swim start thinking I'd make the swim cutoff but only to realize I wouldn't even if I swam my butt off, hehehe. I have a short bike and run session tomorrow and skipped my short swim tonight because it was very cold and windy outside and I didn't wanna risk getting a cold or something. Gonna do some ST though. The weather is predicted to be very nice! Yay! :D

Good luck.  We'll be rooting for you.

ROLAND! ROLAND! ROLAND!!

Can't wait to follow on the athlete tracker tomorrow.

I'm up to 77 for the month, and just broke 900 for the year, woohoo!

ROLAND! ROLAND!