In my never ending search for person glory in the form of new PRs, I signed up for the Scorcher Four, a (duh) 4 mile race held in University City. This is part of my ongoing effort to PR at every distance this year and since I’ve never run a four miler, a PR was [...]
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Per my ongoing effort to meet some of those faces in blog land face to face, two of my blogging Facebook buddies and I got together for a social run Wednesday night. Beth, a former St. Louisian living in Minnesota, and Beth, a former Minnesotan living in St. Louis met at my favorite statue, The [...] - Last Thursday was intervals, 10 x 400 at an average time of 1:38 per. Still sluggish even though it was mid 90s and humid. …for my first good post-Comrades run. I did intervals tonight with the Fleet Feet crowd. On tap was 2 x 400, 2 x 800, and 2 x 1200. The temperature at 7 PM, starting time, was 96 degrees. That just isn’t right. Anyway, I ended up doing 2 x 400, 2 [...] The hottest place I have ever been is the Sahara desert in Morocco. While at Zagora on the edge of the desert it was something like 45 degrees Celsius at mid-day. I don’t know what 45 degrees Celsius is in regular temperature, but I can tell you it feels horrendous just to be sitting in the [...] Okies – we knocked out our near oven condition intervals tonight. Jason and I went over to the track and ran into 125 of our closest friends. How all these people keep showing up for this self abuse is completely beyond me. Runners are masters of self inflicted agony. Given the heat, my intervals [...] A rule of thumb I’ve heard is that after 10 workouts, you become acclimated to the climate. I’ve always questioned just what the heck this means. No matter how ‘acclimated’ I get, there is no way I’m running as fast in 90 degree heat that I can run in 50 degree cool. And [...] |
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