Dat Run

Sometimes you go for a run and you're just like "Daaaauym; Dat Run."

[datrun]

Just rediscovered this blog

Man. It’s been a minute. Like a reeeeal long minute. Unfortunately, I blew out my left knee back in... I guess it would’ve been 2014 and haven’t been able to run since. C’est la vie.

View my experience as a cautionary tale: don’t over do it.

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A Solid Week

Finished off miles 22-27 with a tasty 6 miler. It was fun. I was only tired a little bit thanks to that blistering 5 miler I did yesterday. Averaged 7:15 min/mi and felt pretty good doing it.

I’m planning on running 27 miles again next week as opposed to pushing up to 30 because I figure, why push things? My paces are blistering (for me of course) and there’s no reason to rush up the mpw while I’m not training for any race in particular.

That said, I sure think that a 10k lies in my future. Maybe a sub-43???

[datrun]

I Did It

This is the best run I’ve had in probably 2 years.

Mile 1 - 6:51 Mile 2 - 6:53 Mile 3 - 7:12 Mile 4 - 7:32 Mile 5 - 6:18 (not a typo)

Total - 34:46

Average Pace - 6:57

[datrun]

Holy BAAAALLLS

80% humidity? In Orange County? I thought I wouldn’t have to deal with crap like this ever again. Felt like a July afternoon on the East Coast during my run today.

Fortunately, the speed matched.

Mile 1 - 7:04 Mile 2 - 7:03 Mile 3 - 7:24 Mile 4 - 6:38 (is this my fastest split I’ve had out here? I feel like it is)

Total - 28:09

Average Pace - 7:02

[daniellethesheep]

[runsonpizza]

Portland Marathon: Recap

So it’s been a little over a week since the Portland marathon and I’m just now finally getting the chance to sit down and give a proper race recap due to a hectic week at work. Ahh. Portland. I could say, without a doubt, that Portland will one day be where I call home.  Going into the marathon I really had no idea what to expect. Six months ago I was having my second fasciotomy done to treat a case of compartment syndrome. Halfway into my training plan I was plagued with a stress fracture that kept me out for 8 weeks at which point I was only a month out from Portland by the time I recovered. There’s only so much training that one can do a month prior to a marathon after recovering from a stress fracture. Longest run of 10 miles a week before the marathon? Longest run ever being 16 miles? Yeah sure why not lets run a marathon. I figured that I could go maybe 15/16 miles before things would start to suck for me and I would have to dig deep to finish. Here’s a play-by-play (rather mile-by-mile) of how the marathon went for me. Right before the start: *Oh shit, I really really have to pee but the marathon is about to start in 10 minutes. Okay- I’ll make the line for the porta potty and hope it goes quickly* It was down to the second. As soon as I got out, my corral was starting. Mile 1: *me to my dad* holy shit. We really just started this. . Mile 3: @the-miles-of-trials jumped in and ran with me for a bit. I’m glad that he was able to make the drive up from Eugene for the marathon. What a solid guy. Miles 5-8: Running through the industrial district of Portland. Pretty boring scenery. I have to pee again. Crap. Mile 10: Stop at a porta potty along the course and take a gel out of my running pouch to have at the next water stop. So I rip open the gel, start running again, notice that my running pouch is now too loose and is bouncing around, I go to tighten the waistband, forget that I had already opened my gel, squirt GU all over my legs and shorts. I GU’d myself. My legs are sticky as hell and I’m running so uncomfortably. Mile 11: Finally get to the aid station where I grab two cups of water and I start splashing my frontal side in an attempt to get all of that GU off of me. It worked. Looked like I was trying to pleasure myself on the run. But it worked. Halfway mark: *ok that wasn’t so bad.. but it’s still really early and I gotta do this all over again.* Miles 13-16: Long stretch headed towards St. Johns bridge where the highest elevation gain was so I spent these miles trying to run as relaxed as possible knowing that the point in which I thought I would conk out was approaching along with said elevation. Miles 16-17: *Oh man… I still feel damn good and I just cruised through that incline. Still 10 miles to go though so don’t get ahead of yourself. Mile 20: *Isn’t this where people say that they “hit the wall” ??? I still feel really really good though. I kind of want to go run sub 7 minute miles… Wait no. That’s stupid. You’ll probably die out. More hills??? The wall will come. Run smart* Mile 22: My dad started to fade out and drop his pace a bit at this point. He was definitely feeling it. Miles 23-25: Okay I don’t know how, but, I felt better at this point than I did at the start of the race. I wanted to take off for a fast finish but I also didn’t want to leave my dad behind. I kept yo-yo’ing my pace going up ahead and then slowing back down so that he can catch up.  Mile 26: Isaac jumps back into the race with me and we talk about how we don’t know how the hell I was able to run this damn marathon. Finish: How the fuck???

[the-chubby-marshmallow]

[datrun]

Back to bad habits

I forgot to post my last two runs! I think I’ll blab about them.

On Sunday, I was supposed to run 9 miles to prep for a week at 27 mpw. However, I got a bit out of hand Saturday night and was hungover all day. So instead of going for a long run I napped and ate an entire pizza. And watched football. Gross.

Monday was better though. I originally thought that I might skip the long run this week and stick to the higher mileage during the week but I left work early yesterday and got to work.

SoCal is known for having pretty dry heat, but recently we’ve been obscenely hot and surprisingly humid. Yesterday was no exception. It was cloudy when I set out for the run at around 6 but still over 90. It felt close to 100 based on how sweaty I was when I got back.

The route I mapped out took me through a bunch of Irvine and ended with a nice zigzag through campus. I finished the run in about 68 minutes which put my average pace at 7:33. Not bad.

Today, I had another choice to make. I could either run the 3 miler I had planned for Tuesday (but monday is normally a rest day for me) or I could bump each planned run up a day since I did the long run a day late. I decided to take it nice and easy and just run the run planned for today. And did it in under 21 minutes.

Oops.

[datrun]

19:59

Woulda been further from 20 if that dude on the bike hadn’t almost killed me.

Mile 1 - 6:33 Mile 2 - 6:47 Mile 3 - 6:39

Total - 19:59

Average Pace - 6:40

[sarahseeandersen]

Been waiting for this aaaallll year.

[datrun]

Relevant again!

[datrun]

Soooooooooo

close.

Mile 1 - 6:51 Mile 2 - 6:50 Mile 3 - 7:28 (Fuckin’ hills man) Mile 4 - 6:53

Total - 28:02

Average Pace - 7:00.5

[datrun]

Hey, Strangers.

It’s been a while, yeah? I am still alive and still in grad school and, most excitingly, still running!

I went through a serious lull where I was hardly running. A combination of no time, lots of stress, and existential crises galore.

This week marks the second week in a row that I’ve managed to run 25+ miles. Today’s long run of 8 miles featured some snazzy splits, a decent number of hills, and some spectacular music. It feels so good to be back in a legit rhythm.

Time - 58:28 Average Pace - 7:19 Fastest Mile - 6:57 (Mile 8)

[kingerbits]

A super spoopy ghost to haunt your dash

[datrun]

Oh Right

I ran 14 miles on Sunday. It was awesome. It was 75. Some times SoCal makes sense.

[datrun]

I accidentally ran 20 miles this week..

[thegrandarchives]

never forget

[datrun]

Radio Silence

Oh hi. I'm still alive.

Running and I went on a sort of break for a good chunk of time because grad school is time consuming and I rolled my ankle quite badly while playing basketball.

Since then, the joint is stiff (probably will be the rest of my life) if I leave it in an awkward position but I can finally run pain free. Building up my base again and I'm thinking about running a half before the end of the winter quarter.

I went for a run today. It was supposed to be a short 3 miler but the weather was beautiful and I finally have music on my new phone and I got "lost" and so I ran 5 miles.

I felt like a superhero. For the first time in a long time. I want to try and run 2015 miles in 2015. That'd be neat.