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Monday - January 21

Run

4h 09m
24.40 miles
10m 12s /Mi

Long, long, long run today. First three hours were pretty easy, other than the frigging 20 mile per hour headwind, and 35 degree temperatures.... The last hour and 9 minutes were pretty close to torture, as my legs were TIRED!!

Took a few walk breaks, but I finished that damned run.

One last long run in a couple of weeks, and it's MARATHON TIME, Baby.

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Sunday - January 20

Run

26m 24s
3.07 miles
08m 36s /Mi

Easy recovery run, after yesterday's race. Just trying to loosen everything up, to get ready for my 24 mile run tomorrow....

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Saturday - January 19

Run

51m 41s
6.50 miles
07m 57s /Mi

Frost or Fog race in upper Bidwell Park. Good overall race, splits of 7'47", 7'59", 8'30", 9'24", 5'52", 8'30", 3'36". Quite a bit of uphill on mile 3 and 4 explains the longer splits, there is no explanation for the 5'52" mile - other than the mile marker being off!!! I am sure I did not run a sub-6 minute mile LOL.

Anyway, happy with the times, given the hilly race course. Hopefully somebody else will put the race into the race report system, so I can just plug my numbers into the report.

RACE DAY: Frost or Fog

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Friday - January 18

Swim

25m
700.00 yards
03m 34s /100 yards

First swim in a long time... 100 yards kick, the 5x100 at about 2 min/100, then 100 side stroke.

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Thursday - January 17

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Wednesday - January 16

Run

54m 52s
6.00 miles
09m 08s /Mi

Hill run in upper park, in the dark, plus 6x600 hill repeats.

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Tuesday - January 15

Run

47m 11s
5.00 miles
09m 26s /Mi

Easy recovery run (only 12 hours from yesterday's run) at what I hope to be "marathon pace". This pace would put me at a 4 hour, 7 minute marathon (which would be a 30 plus minute improvement from my last (and first) marathon time).