Carbon Fiber Runner

What a great haiku! Thank you for sharing that one. Look forward to more.

OrangeTheory Fitness leaderboard from yesterday’s 0.25 mile treadmill benchmark @otfcarmelvalley. Steve S ran a 1:15 to take the #1 spot for age 50-59.

Not often I get 1st in age group (age 50-59) @otfcarmelvalley. 12mph (1% incline, the OTF definition of flat ground) & hoped I wouldn’t fall off. Recall doing 57s as an 18yr old, so not a true PR, but this is a new OTF benchmark so their app says it’s a PR, and I’ll take it. #running

Not a cloud in the sky. Love that I could enjoy the sun, a sea breeze, the crash of the waves, and the sight of snow in the distance, all on this little jog today. #trailrunning

Coming home to a view like this makes getting up for the 5am class @otfcarmelvalley not so bad! 2.55 treadmill miles @8:49 pace #running

Didn’t feel like long
run but wanted to see something beautiful. Made wife drive me here. We got out for a min, looked around & not disappointed: saw real beauty… spellbound honestly. Then I stopped looking into wife’s eyes & noticed the mountains - they were pretty too. Ran home 1.6miles 8:39 pace.

Day started @ 6:30am w/sunrise over a fog-covered canyon. 11hrs later after proctoring #ScienceOlympiad teams firing pingpong balls at targets, came home to the sun just setting. A 5 mile run at a leisurely 9:46 pace while the sky went from orange to pink to purple to black. Just beautiful! #running

Screenshot from OrangeTheory Fitness app - PR for Everest Signature Workout set on Feb 18th at the 5am class. Distance reached of 2.37 miles, which beat my PR of 2.28 miles set December 20th, 2024.

Screenshot of Performance Summary from OrangeTheory Fitness app - graph of heart rate vs time, showing me in the orange zone (above 84% max heart rate) for most of the 23 mins of the Everest challenge. Shows I was at 176bpm at the halfway point at 15% incline.

Another PR on the @otfcarmelvalley Everest Signature Workout: 23 mins hill climb on the treadmill starting at 2%, then +1% every minute all the way to 15%, then 14% and decreasing by 2% after that, ending with an all out effort in the 23rd minute at 1%. Made it almost a 1/10 mi further. #running

setting a new pace
learning to enjoy that pace
don’t care that it’s “slow”

my haiku for this morning’s run

Screenshot of OrangeTheory leaderboard from yesterday’s 12min treadmill benchmark with me in 2nd place for men 50-59. Importantly, my 1.76 miles bested Erik by 0.01 miles.

2nd on leaderboard for my age group @otfcarmelvalley. Small victory. Beat my nemesis in the 5am class by 0.01 miles (so yeah, like 53ft) - HUGE victory! Erik bested me last time by 0.02 miles, and easily beats me on all the rowing benchmarks, so this was very satisfying. #running

Screenshot of OrangeTheory Fitness app showing new PR of 1.76 miles for the 12 minute treadmill benchmark (8.8mph pace), or 6:49/mile), edging out my previous by 0.02 miles set on Nov 12th. Graph shows heartrate mostly in red zone with max of 193 bpm at the end of the 12 minutes.

New PR of 1.76 miles for the 12 minute treadmill benchmark @otfcarmelvalley.

Today’s answer to the question: “Hmm, I wonder where that little side trail goes?” #running

Screenshot from Orange Theory fitness app showing my PR for the 12-min run for distance challenge was 1.74 miles set in October of 2024.

Trying to psych myself up to PR the 12-min run for distance benchmark next Thursday at @OTFCarmelValley. By publicly declaring that I need to set it and forget it at 8.8mph, I might actually NOT listen to the voice in my head that one minute into it starts saying, “Slow down - today isn’t your day”

1st run in Endorpin Elites: 9:32/mile for 9 miles whereas week before I’d run 7 miles @ 10:27 pace. Sure some placebo effect, but a game-changer for me. Sales guy sized me up: didn’t want to sell them to me as I’m not a sub-3hr marathoner. He was worried I’d be disappointed & would feel ripped off!

Big fan of carbon fiber plate shoes: enjoying running again. Saucony Endorphin Elite >300 miles (half road half treadmill) & only minor tread wear but feel fast still. Hoka Mach X >200 treadmill miles & no signs of wear. NB FuelCell SuperComp Trainer (about 50 miles including a half marathon)

graph of heart rate vs time graph from OrangeTheory Fitness class that shows I was at 1m 15s for 500 meter split and 543 watts when I started the 500m benchmark row. Heart rate spiked to orange zone at 170bpm.

500m benchmark row yesterday at #otfcarmelvalley started well (1:15 split and 543 watts) but didn’t finish well as I found the pain cave with 100m to go and missed my PR by a second … next time maybe

Thank you #SDHolidayHalfMarsthon and all the volunteers for putting on a great race today! 4 years since I ran it and 4 mins slower and today, but I was in an entirely different age group back then! #Running

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Off to the FleetFeet San Diego Thanksgiving Day 5k Fun Run #WeRunSD

Anyone else running the San Diego Holiday Half Marathon on Dec 14th? Last ran it in 2019 and thinking it’s time to do it again.