Entries from Change of Pace tagged with 'races'
Raw Tomatoes & Fried Runners
I'm a little slow getting to my race report here, but it's been a rough week. The short and sweet of it is that I ate something (possibly, but not definitely, tomatoes) on Friday that gave me an upset stomach...
Splish, splash
Race #2 for the week was meant to be done as a lark. A fun, crazy, devil-may-care romp through the park. Whoo hoo, ain't it crazy to be up before the birds, look at me ma, it's 5 am! New...
In Praise Of Random Races
So I'm not even sure why I signed up for today's 4 miler in the park. I've never done it before and it doesn't count towards club team points. Maybe because it was sponsored by the Japanese government so I...
Shocking Joseph
Ha, shows what he knows... 40:14. I'm not really sure where to primarily place the blame for not going under 40, but I don't want to beat myself up too much over what is still a healthy, competitive time that...
Derby Report
After an easy flight into Louisville, my sweetie met me at the airport and we got ourselves situated at the hotel. There was plenty of time to pick up my race number and check out the small Expo at a...
Blame it on the Taper
Or maybe "blame it on the pollen". I feel like crap. I was gifted with another encouraging race performance today and I'd like to be floating around on cloud nine about how shockingly effortless it was, but instead, I'm flat...
Belated Race Report
The goal is to at least get one race report up before the next one happens and I'm cutting it close on that. I can't help it though. I had company this week and thanks to American Airlines, he stayed...
Science Experiment
I'm sort of using my body as one right now. I feel like I step outside myself a bit as I evaluate what running two or three hours a day does to me. It's shocking how well the actual physical...
On The Right Track
Thank you, thank you for all the kind words and congrats. It's strange how I really hardly "know" most of the runner/bloggers out there, but you guys really are a great community of support. Maybe it's just because I'm pleased...
Race to the Guinness
There's a 5K here that's sponsored by a local bar every year and since this is my last year here in New York, I figured I better not miss the chance to run it one more time. It's a pretty...
Confidence Booster
I've only run this particular half once before and that was back two years ago when it was held in the summer, but it was a great experience that time around. It's the only NYRR race that I've ever won...
Salty Stitches and Pancakes
It's always a treat to get to hang out blogger/runner friends in real life and oddly, it never seems weird. I guess once you've been through taper madness with a person, there is no greater intimacy! So Salty was in...
Week Three: 47 Miles
1/21Rest Day1/228 miles9:21 pace, avg. HR 144, mid 30's1/239.1 miles9:07 pace, avg. HR 551/24Rest Day1/258 miles8:32 pace, avg. HR 167, low 30's1/266.3 miles8:46 pace, 158 avg. HR, low 30's1/2715.6 total, 1/2 Marathon1:30:48, 6:55 pace, 2.5 mile w/u & c/d I...
Week One: 62 Miles
So on a bit of a whim, I decided to skimp on sleep Friday night (I get home from work close to 1 a.m.) and run a five mile race in the park Saturday morning. I actually thought it was...
Where I'm At
That's what races tell you...or what you want, or hope, they'll tell you. Most of the time we torture the raw data to death and add in other outside factors and age grade and adjust for heat/cold/wind/illness, to the point...
Easing In
Even though I can't figure out how to personalize this blog yet, I am managing to ease back in to the routine of running regularly. Eleven steamy miles this morning after approaching 40 miles for last week. Not bad at...
How The Chips Fell
The correct marathon results. More on that later. Anyone who knows anything about my racing history should know better than to believe that I ran even splits. Every marathon, I emerge from my taper cocoon feeling insecure and out of...
It Depends Upon What Marathon Pace Is...
I said I was going to run today's half at marathon pace. I'd like to run a 2:58 in Columbus. However, I wouldn't be averse to running a 2:55 in Columbus. I mean, that wouldn't make me cry if that...
Dead Frogs and Cornfields
Beautiful in a barren and apocalyptic kind of way...a long path stretching through the center of a humid and steaming wetlands preserve, desolate and empty except for the scattered corpses of half-eaten frogs, torn limb to limb and left half...
Spoiled
I better not get too used to this PR-ing every race thing. No complaints whatsoever about my race today. It was a wretched week physically, emotionally, professionally...but I guess my body took the opportunity to rest and recover and it...
A Minor League PR
Talk about payoff. It's just too bad that 3.5 miles isn't a conventional distance so that I could have gotten a WAVA score out of yesterday's race, or at the very least, a PR that means something to anyone else!...
Costs of War
I knew from the beginning that the socks I was wearing were too thick for the tightly fitting racing flats I planned to wear, but circumstances dictated that I had no choice. Besides, I was still hoping that it really...
Week Four: 40 Miles
7/36 miles8:00 pace, felt effortless7/4Rest day, Biked 16+ miles, Played in the surf7/57 miles8:27 pace7/66 miles8:17 pace7/76 miles8:15 pace7/8Rest day7/9Bronx Half1:27:17Well, it wasn't a PR, but it was still a damn fine race. This is the first time I've ever...
Finally Under Forty
I'd hardly say it was easy, but I finally slipped under that iconic 40 minute 10K mark. I knew I'd done the work to get there, but the fact that I had to cut more than half a minute off...
1:27:07
For the record, I did not indulge in any painkillers, synthetic or otherwise, before this morning's half. If the nerve centers were going to be sending out any urgent injury alerts, I wanted to be able to hear them loud...
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