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<p>Good luck to KS running the marathon this morning. There are 29 marathons listed this week in the U.S.</p>
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<p>Fantastic race OM!! Go run a 5k and smash your pr now.</p>
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<p>I took another trip yesterday to the hills of West Virginia for a 20k trail race. It was smaller than the half I ran a couple weeks ago with 36 runners finishing compared to 177. The race was at a huge campground where most of the campers were built in to stay year around. They even had an area people built houses so kind of a gated community. I got there a little early, signed up and had a chance to drive around a little. The race started and I counted runners to keep track of what place I was in. At one point early, I was in 11th. I got around a couple runners pretty quickly as we made our way to the dam. We headed into the woods where the whole race was on rocky single track trail. I kept passing runners for the first 3 miles until I moved into 5th place. At that point, I ended up not seeing another runner for about an hour. We ran uphill from about 3 miles to 6 miles where it leveled out a little. We also had a section through a grove of pine trees. The pine covered trail was a relief from dodging rocks but there were a lot of turns you really had to concentrate on to stay on the trail. Once out of the pines, we headed straight down the hill mostly on rock covered trail sometimes through a few inches of water running off the top of the hill. I only had one fall until about 10 minutes to the finish when I did a faceplant cutting my nose and knee. It's the first time in 30 years I fell so fast I had no chance to catch myself. I got up and started running again and a short time later finally saw another runner. Hoping he was getting tired, I picked up the pace up a hill but after a couple minutes I wasn't catching him anymore and now I was starting to get tired. I cruised into the finish in 1:36:00 in 5th place overall. I moved up to 1st in my AG when another runner my age was 2nd overall.</p>
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<p>This race was very similar to the race I did a couple weeks ago as I ran virtually the same pace. The difference was that it wasn't quite as hilly (1 big up/down compared to 2) but it was all on rocky single track compared to some small portions of the other race on asphalt and fire roads. It got mentally exhausting watching every step for over an hour and a half. My foot held up real well as I could always feel a little pain but it never affected my pace. I finally isolated the pain and did a little self diagnoses on the internet. Good chance I have sesamoidiitis that is an inflammation of the sesamoid bones (actually the tendons around them) between the big toe and ball of foot. I am going to try to cut the running down to a couple times a week and see if it will eventually go away without totally stopping running. Off to the fitness center for an eliptical workout this morning.</p>
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<p>Fantastic race OM!! Go run a 5k and smash your pr now.</p>
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<p>I took another trip yesterday to the hills of West Virginia for a 20k trail race. It was smaller than the half I ran a couple weeks ago with 36 runners finishing compared to 177. The race was at a huge campground where most of the campers were built in to stay year around. They even had an area people built houses so kind of a gated community. I got there a little early, signed up and had a chance to drive around a little. The race started and I counted runners to keep track of what place I was in. At one point early, I was in 11th. I got around a couple runners pretty quickly as we made our way to the dam. We headed into the woods where the whole race was on rocky single track trail. I kept passing runners for the first 3 miles until I moved into 5th place. At that point, I ended up not seeing another runner for about an hour. We ran uphill from about 3 miles to 6 miles where it leveled out a little. We also had a section through a grove of pine trees. The pine covered trail was a relief from dodging rocks but there were a lot of turns you really had to concentrate on to stay on the trail. Once out of the pines, we headed straight down the hill mostly on rock covered trail sometimes through a few inches of water running off the top of the hill. I only had one fall until about 10 minutes to the finish when I did a faceplant cutting my nose and knee. It's the first time in 30 years I fell so fast I had no chance to catch myself. I got up and started running again and a short time later finally saw another runner. Hoping he was getting tired, I picked up the pace up a hill but after a couple minutes I wasn't catching him anymore and now I was starting to get tired. I cruised into the finish in 1:36:00 in 5th place overall. I moved up to 1st in my AG when another runner my age was 2nd overall.</p>
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<p>This race was very similar to the race I did a couple weeks ago as I ran virtually the same pace. The difference was that it wasn't quite as hilly (1 big up/down compared to 2) but it was all on rocky single track compared to some small portions of the other race on asphalt and fire roads. It got mentally exhausting watching every step for over an hour and a half. My foot held up real well as I could always feel a little pain but it never affected my pace. I finally isolated the pain and did a little self diagnoses on the internet. Good chance I have sesamoidiitis that is an inflammation of the sesamoid bones (actually the tendons around them) between the big toe and ball of foot. I am going to try to cut the running down to a couple times a week and see if it will eventually go away without totally stopping running. Off to the fitness center for an eliptical workout this morning.</p>
