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