Thank Crunchie Friday 14th January 2011

gobi · Jan 14, 2011

and a lovely experience it was as well.
 
Rip - that was a mad session
 
I did 3 minutes on a treadmill at 12% in a competition granted I did finish at 10mph but my achillies hurt for hours.
 
I have also run up Alpe D'Huez though so understand what you mean about 12% being easy after 15%(Alpe is plus 10-12 ish for the first 3 bends and settles around 8).
 
8 miles easy this morning followed by a km at the pool. Looking at going over 70 miles this week which will only be the 3rd time since 2009 and my return from the dark times.
 
Have a great day everyone
 
Gobi

ksrunr · Jan 14, 2011

Morning Gobi
 
Thanks for starting us. Enjoy that crunchie
 
10 moh @ 8:00 avg pace. Last mile 7:15
 
McSolar ought to be about crazy by now. Have a good run.
 
Go Ben Go.

Hemerocallus · Jan 14, 2011

Happy Friday!
Hi Gobi! Hi KS!
Nice runs!
 
While I usually have some good sized hills in my runs, I don't tend to go out of my way for them at this time of year. That includes the hill I live on.... 10% grade and 0.5K long. You'd think I'd make better use of it for training, but maybe later in the spring. <img alt="cool.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/cool.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;">
 
5.6 pre-sunrise miles before work today. Felt peppy, but the pace stayed slower than I'd like. Hmph!
 
Go Ben!
 
Have a lovely day everyone!

mcsolar99 · Jan 14, 2011

<mumble mumble>
3mi easy, with some strides. 48 hours to go.
heading to phoenix tonight, 3mi easy on the course near the wall tomorrow morning, then race day.
looking to be 47f at the start but 67f+ at the finish... ugg, that's gonna be warm.
<mumble mumble>

Labduck · Jan 14, 2011

Go mc go!
 
Good luck tomorrow too Tammy.
 
Heme, a 0.5K, 10% hill is a nice little obstacle that I would tend to avoid most of the time. I have a 0.5 mile, 6% grade hill up to my house that I manage to miss by starting and ending most of my runs from the gym which is about a mile away.
 
I ate donuts today; I'll run tomorrow. The donut lady told me this morning I look skinny. I told her how could that be, I eat donuts...

evanflein · Jan 14, 2011

Donuts and Crunchies... must be Friday! And TGIF to all my Kickster friends! I for one am delighted it's Friday. Probably mostly because this is the first day all flippin' week I have NO meetings scheduled. Woohoo! Got tons of little crap to clear off my desk, then a 3-day weekend. <img alt="icon_thumleft.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/icon_thumleft.gif">
 
Go mc Go! Don't worry about the heat, you're good for it, right? Thanks for the description of the day yesterday (it was Wednesday, right?). I was wondering how that would go. Still disgusted by what Sarah Palin posted about the whole event. What a self-serving bag of s... oops. Sorry.
 
I just shake my head in amazement at Rip's runs on the treadmill. Holy crap. That's about all I can say. My 'mill "only" goes to 12% and you know what? I've never even tried it. Might do that tonight just for kicks.
 
Have fun at your race, Tammy! I'd have rearranged my run days too. I've learned to not mind running in the rain, but I don't want to have to come back to work afterwards. Drowned rat city.
 
Lab, I wasn't sure I fully understood OM's post either. Watch out for the damn hole and get over it, right? (yeah, I know, too literal. In the illustrative sense it was intended, I fall in the damn hole all the time... I think.) Oh, and how's the weather? DS2 left this morning for a soccer tournament in Portland. The forecast looks like a lot of rain this weekend...
 
Hey Opie, I thought Brooke was moving on. Getting married and moving or something like that? Sounds like she's still coaching you, must be from afar now? How's things going?
 
Mike, you hit the treadmill for lots of the same reasons I do. Sometimes even when the temperatures are ok, the conditions are bad... like new snow on the road, blown up on the shoulders so it's deep and fluffy and hiding ice. Then the drivers are just selfish with available road space. Grrrr. I'd prefer to run outside but not gonna risk a collision to do it. Or a fall. So... I've been on the treadmill a lot, typical for me in the winter.
 
Nice miles Gobi, even with the new attitude towards training and mileage. {{Mrs. G}} Sure hope she gets that figured out soon.
 
Ok, I obviously feel like chattering more than working. Maybe no meetings but I DO have stuff to do. So... gym day at lunch, hoping for a little run after work. But my oldest child has announced the house it "totally food-free," so I guess I need to go shopping. Who knew two teenage boys eat so much? He goes back to the dorms on Tuesday.

CNYrunner · Jan 14, 2011

9.4 miles this morning on a well plowed route that covers some of the Holyoke marathon course and goes along the CT. river, -5 degrees when I set out and 10 degrees at the finish. Kept it steady at 8:10 pace and happy with that after yesterday's 11 miles with 30 minutes hard embedded in the middle at the Smith indoor track. Moving into the 70 mpw range next month---storms be danged.
 
Good Luck mcsolar----as we yell to the kiddo when he's on the ice: "Wheels! Wheels!" Keep it roaring and make it to the finish before it gets too hot. bring it!
And thanks as well for the descriptions of the memorial service and everything else.
 
A Crunchie would be awesome right about now---went foraging for chocolate that might be lurking in the house and there were just two sad Halls cough drops in the candy dish. Oh well---an apple it is for now. BORING.
 
Thinking of Ben and Econo always.

Tamster · Jan 14, 2011

no crunchie here. no donuts either. nor has anyone accused me of being too skinny. hence the reasons for no crunchies or donuts.
 
i did have a packet of peaches/cream oatmeal and a banana a bit ago. I think I'm ready to run now. gotta keep my pace down though so my legs don't feel tired in the a.m. I need to get my projected paces dialed into my brain too and try and stick with the plan tomorrow. I certainly am not worried about going faster than my plan, just hoping I can keep up with it.
 
just found out that DS's school ONCE AGAIN had to cut days out of the remaining school year due to budget. 11 instructional days they are losing. that is insane to me. He now only has 163 days of school this year. But I guess if there is a bright side to him losing days it's that he now gets out of school on June 9th, instead of the 15th, which means I can be back in MN prior to 6/18 and that's Grandma's Marathon! yay! Probably going to register by the end of the month before rates go up.

Labduck · Jan 14, 2011

Yes Erika, it's going to be wet and windy in Portland this weekend, particularly Saturday. But also warm! We would consider this good soccer weather for January, especially if he's playing on a synthetic turf field.

Opie · Jan 14, 2011

I haven't been on the treadmill much lately but when I do, I'm not experimenting with that amount of incline. Erika, I reached a point this fall when I had to decide what to do about coaching. About the time of Brooke's marriage, her hubby had to move them to Hobbs, NM for a job. It was a leap of faith but I kept her on, coaching me by e-mail, text and phone. I'm glad I did. For one thing, I never would have found the wonderful world of "Bud Coates" circuits without her.
 
Yummy yoga and a 6-mile fartlek planned after I leave here, a little early because I came in a little early.

evanflein · Jan 14, 2011

Lab, I think he's going to be playing in mud. His games Saturday and Sunday are at the 53rd Ave Park and Monday he's at Liberty High.
 
Hey another thought about those long steep treadmill runs, do you need to have the belt tightened up? I wonder if there'd be more slippage at that incline.

OrangeMat · Jan 14, 2011

6.25 miles running errands around town, super slow recovery pace (10:28), didn't fall into any holes.
 
Good luck to mc and Tammy this weekend! Go Ben Go!!

Opie · Jan 14, 2011

I almost forgot, hey skinny bird-legs Tamster.

Better than yesterday · Jan 14, 2011

I guess this is the general consensus of how many of you on this board feel about recent events: 

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Still disgusted by what Sarah Palin posted about the whole event. What a self-serving bag of s... oops. Sorry.
 
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That being the case, and since my own sense is that there are others who could easily be painted as self-serving in this whole sordid affair, though I will not identify them (Nice way to respond to the President's suggestion that we all tone down the rhetoric, by the way) I will just say so long now. 
 
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Labduck · Jan 14, 2011

Well said Brian, I concur with your sentiment. Like just about any tragic event in this county, it immediately becomes politically polarized by factions from each ideological view, and then spun and whipped into a frenzy by various media outlets based on what their loyal audience wants to hear. Sigh.
 
Erika, no mud on those fields, they're all artificial.

Hemerocallus · Jan 14, 2011

Good luck on your races this weekend, Tamster, Peter, Ilene, and MC!!
 
I am a bit proud of one of our local radio stations this week. My favourite alternative rock station made a deal with those Phelps whackjobs to grant them an interview in exchange for them not protesting the Tuscon shooting funerals. While I don't listen much to the morning show that made the deal, as it's normally juvenile, sophomoric schtick that comes across like Howard Stern lite, I love their music. Certainly, it's not an audience that the Phelps message will have any traction with..... in fact makes them even bigger targets for derision (if that's possible). A good trade, I think!
 
ETA: MC, I read your comment at the end of yesterday's thread and thought of an expression going round here at work...."Better to be silent and be thought a fool, rather than to open your mouth and remove all doubt". Thanks for your perspective on the events down there.
 
ETAA: above comment referring to the partisan political statements only...... nothing anyone said here!! 
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Tamster · Jan 14, 2011

slow and easy 4 miles at lunch today.
 
felt pretty mild out there today - to the point that I even took off my long sleeve shirt and just ran in the tshirt I was wearing underneath. probably should have worn shorts too, instead of the long pants, but at least they were lightweight.
 
Brian, don't say "so long", k? I think it's actually really rare that we even mention anything to do with politics on this board, but given the tragedy in Tucson and how it undoubtedly was tied in with politics, it was bound to come up or at least mentioned in passing. We all have differing opinions but you are correct in that it doesn't do any good to name call to either side, when even the POTUS himself is asking to tone down rhetoric and finger pointing and blame game. so, hows about we just wipe it clean and let it serve as a reminder to everyone that if you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing at all. btw, this is a reminder to myself as well because I can think of a few occassions where I, too, have said something political in nature that I probably shouldn't have, and those types of statements just further serve to cause divisiveness amongst our board. This certainly doesn't mean we can't talk about anything non running, because if all we did was stick to running topics, that would get boring too, but religion/politics are the hot buttons and the things people generally feel the most passionate about.

Dove · Jan 15, 2011

Yay! I get to have lunch with McSolar tomorrow! 
That is all.

evanflein · Jan 15, 2011

Cool, Dove!
 
I don't think I've ever minced how I feel about my former governor. I've got a wee bit of an inside advantage on that one. And that's not rhetoric. Look it up.

Opie · Jan 15, 2011

That's awesome, Dove!
 
A mile warmup down to the park. I used to run over there often but not lately so that was fun! I felt sluggish during the fast bits of my run. Since I had a small lunch and nothing to eat since then (until now, immediately after the run), I'm guessing it's the phenomenon of converting fat instead of burning sugar. This time of year that's a good thing.<img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;"> So, I did about 2 min. fast and the same slow, in the grass and dirt as often as I could on the slow bits. <a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/63411713" target="_blank">http://connect.garmin.com/activity/63411713</a> As you can see, I nailed the last couple of fast bits! 1.5 mi. back here, and even though it was easy, I noticed my quads burning so hopefully the cherry juice I just drank will help, and of course now my hammies are tight even though they felt great after yoga earlier. A little over the 6 mi. originally planned.

Thank Crunchie Friday 14th January 2011

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