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fred-urie
<p>Still burnt from Tuesday.</p>
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<p>Thursday</p>
<p>60 minute warmup, 3 times 200 uphill, my legs were trashed and I bagged the workout.</p>
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<p>Friday- Run 60 min., walk 2 hours and 15 minutes, ice and snow in the forest.</p>
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ksrunr
<p>Sorry to hear about the knee Fred.</p>
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<p>I only ran 7.25 miles Monday.  Took yesterday off completely due to breakfast date and dinner date.  I suppose I could have snuck it in somewhere but just wasn't motivated which made for a nice 10 mile hill run this morning faster than normal.  I'm cutting back from 82 miles last week to about 66 miles this week and then 2 more 80 mile weeks before backing off again for may 1st marathon.</p>
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<p>Had a nice cool front blow in Mon night/Tues morning.  High Mon 96 degrees already; a record.   So if felt pretty nice running this morning in upper 50's.</p>
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<p>Just signed up for Bar Harbor Mount Desert Island marathon in Bar Harbor, Maine held in Oct. this year.  Looks like a very hilly course.</p>
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<p>Knee any better Fred?</p>
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<p>12.25 miles of hills this morning.</p>
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<p>Excellent golf yesterday</p>
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<p>15 moh this morning. Plan on 8 more tonight.</p>
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<p>Erika - I can taper for 3 weeks or 2 weeks or 1 week or not at all and it doesn't seem to make all that much difference.  Maybe I'm a one speed horse?<br><br>
I know I can't charge at hill like I could when I was younger.  It feels like I'm just jamming my ankles into the ground rather than have some shock absorbtion.  It's better for me to relax and focus on good form on them up hills.<br><br>
Way to go on ruining a jr prom!!  :)</p>
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<p>Golf was good watching Simon.  I'm sorry Mcelroy fell apart.  I was pulling for him.</p>
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<p>I was never in a school or program that got close to running 100 mile weeks let alone that being a taper week.  I have in recent years run some 100 mile weeks just to say that I have done it.</p>
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<p>I put Ed's age and time in the age grade calculator and it didn't like it.   It only goes up to age 75 and that grades out at 87.5% so at 80 he has to be at 90% or above which is world class level; which we all knew.   An amazing man/runner.  Congratulations to him.</p>
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<p>Hope to run 14 miles tonight.  It's only 60 degrees here this morning with no wind and very low humidity.  So obviously with the weather so nice I have other obligations that keep me from running on this beautiful morning.</p>
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<p>Boston runners have only 6 days!</p>
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<p>Fred - it could be acting like its 73 or 83.</p>
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<p>Enjoyed the video.   It must take them guys a lot of time during the day to "eat" the way they do.  I'm fortunate not to be an elite. <span><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;"></span></p>
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<p>Awesome Fred.  Thanks for the link and update.</p>
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<p>Rest day here.  Tomorrow I'll be tracking about 10 friends at Boston. </p>
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<p>Next week a cut back week to about 60 miles.</p>
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<p>My 21 miler Saturday was a good run and a confidence booster.  1st half ran by myself and picked up a training partner the 2nd half.</p>
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<p>That's a good 18 miler Erika.  You're very fit right now!!</p>
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<p>awesome races and some good times by people I'm tracking.  Most seem to be getting faster as they run further!!</p>
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<p>Ilene - nice run cat</p>
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<p>Hi FO</p>
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<p>8 miles this afternoon as I had to help a friend this morning while it was "cool".   91 degrees and 20 mph winds gusting to 30-35 mph.  jtwili</p>
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<p>Thanks Fred</p>
<p>Now have a new computer background.  :)</p>
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<p>Ran 12 today.   8 moderate into a strong wind.   3 at 10 under mp and 1 mile ez.</p>
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<p>1 week out from tomorrow</p>
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<p>Simon, that is bad news.  So young.</p>
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<p>Yes, I had a great race.  I did not hit my goal time of 2:5X but it was raining the whole race, 45 degrees, 10-20 miph winds gusting to 30 for the first 11 of 13 miles.  Hit the half at 1:31 and change.  The half marathoners turned off at 7.5 miles and it was pretty sparse until we met up with them again around mile 20.  The winds hurt much more going out than they helped coming back.   Finished 1st in 55-59 in 3:08:19 and beat second place by a large amount of minutes and 33rd oa.  There were 3K signed up for the marathon but I don't know how many dns. 9500 in the half, and 990 teams in the marathon relay.  We all started together so it had a big time race feel for the beginning of the race.  I had to wait 1 hour for my wife to finish and I nearly froze to death.  Even went to the med tent for help for a while.  On our 6 block walk back to the hotel it began to rain even harder and then actually hailed on us.  All we could do at that point was just laugh.</p>
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<p>There was an art fair and Thunder/Grizzly basketball game going on downtown as well.  The drivers leaving those events were not courteous to frozen runners.  :(</p>
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