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Hey I think we are supposed to be hearing about Abbie's latest 5k right about now. :-)

Good job.  You are getting faster. :-)

What do you think might have led to the cramp?  Do you need to eat less, or earlier?  Or drink less or earlier before the race?

You can probably get away with that plan if you feel like you have fresh legs.  You should push the intervals to next week to make it a bit better since it's not vital that you do intervals before this race.  Plus you are already doing speedwork with these 5ks.

Have you started eying up a half marathon and your schedule is geared towards that?

LOL you guys are funny.  No, I am not signed up for Columbia yet.  Yes, it's a big name race, but I like to do new races (to me), it's too pricey and locks up the whole weekend with the way it is laid out.  If everyone signs up though, hmmm...

The Pinchot Park Sprint is the same day.

It's exciting to see Abbie signed up for a half marathon.  You'll do well.  If you wanted to come here for a marathon, we have the NCR Trail Marathon in late November which is nice, and I should be there volunteering.  But, I really wouldn't recommend going from your first half marathon to your first marathon in a span of 1.5 months.  You could look at Disney, or a spring marathon.  The New Jersey Marathon is where I got my marathon PR.

It is hard to run after a day's work, that could easily slow you down, but it's hard to tell in a 5k.  Some things that affect longer distances, don't seem to affect 5ks nearly as much because it's over in 25 minutes.

Yes just do mellow runs til the 5k.

Roger and I @ JFK50 - I don't see as a trainwreck.  Surely there will be a lot of suffering going on, but I see a trainwreck race as one where things fall apart so badly so quickly that you cannot help but watch. :-)  I have a circle of friends right now whose training is subpar for their goals.  Add to that, I've been really tired for 10 days now and it's hard to imagine running 26.  But, I've run really well sometimes after a spell of tiredness forcing me to rest, so it could turn around come race day.

Besides, I have no goals for JFK.  If I don't finish, I don't finish.  If I walk the last 20 miles, that is fine.  Just being out on the Appalachian Trail and C&O Canal, and experiencing an ultra, is good enough.  I really like the AT and C&O Canal in that area.

Abbie, you didn't have a sub 7 minute first mile in your 5k, did you?

Oh, and, you will suffer a lot lot more in a marathon than you ever will in an Olympic Triathlon.  You might be able to say the same about a Half Ironman as well.

Haha, we'll see about that. :-)  Well one thing that I did feel in the disaster yesterday was that I was pretty happy with my walk/run and how it was working out, I felt like I could do it forever without dying.  I am sure JFK will be a lot like yesterday.  Just slowly knock off the miles.  I struggled from mile 10 on, so I got a lot of time with managing my resources in the same way JFK will be.

Bummer, that's the same day as Frederick, which I was planning on pacing for.

The NJ Marathon used to be a point-to-point race, which made it even more fun.  I hear it is no longer such.  We ran from Sandy Hook to Long Branch.  It was nice to have the ocean right there on the trip.

Ok, that;s good.  I'll accept that as a good 1st mile.  Good job on your 5ks!

Wow 2 loops, I don't know if I like that as much. :-)  I will have to check out the course though, it's probably nice since they rerouted it.

Yes, most of the time the overall top 3 are excluded from age group awards.  It doesn't degrade what you did, as all these rankings are based on who shows up anyway.  1st place AG is 1st place AG, I would love to have that award.

Steve, are you going to do any of the ultra marathon up in Prettyboy this weekend?  Seems it would be good for your relay training.  You can do just one loop of the course.  I am planning on it.

I am also already eying up the City of Oaks Marathon in Raleigh on Nov 1st.  Ready to redeem myself, or prove that I no longer have it. :-)

LOL, Abbie you better be getting something to drink at EVERY aid station, woman!  You can't possibly keep up with the dehydration you are putting your body into in a race.

BTW there are only 110 spots left for Columbia, not much time to decide left.

Ok now it says 87 spots left for Columbia and I just took one of them.  Looks to be selling out tonight.  Abbie, sign up.  The rest of us are in.

If you really decide to get out later, there is some money you can get in a refund.  I don't recall how much it is.