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    Weekend runs thread

    I think we should start a thread for weekend runs. We've got a few runners around here. I'll start.

    In an attempt exorcise (or is that exercise?) my demons from last week's forgettable 26.2 attempt, I put in 8.23 miles @ 8:39/mile pace. Overcast and a little bit rainy, just the way I like it. I did a few fartleks to get a little speed going. It was actually the only chance I had to run this week, and it felt great. I really miss running.
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    I ran a mile with my daughter. Then I ran another mile and a half just to get my weekly total over 50. In other words, I'm taking the weekend off.

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    • #3
      3.5 miles, average 9:45 pace, but with a varied pace. Two miles @ 9:30, .2 rest, .5 @ 8:00, .2 rest, .5 @ 7:00. The numbers are approximate.

      BTW, TDB, I know what you mean. I desperately want to go run another 4 miles right now (I worked out in the morning) but I am forcing myself to rest until Monday lest I injure something. My rest days are the hardest because I don't run.
      Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.

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      • #4
        I can enjoy a planned rest day. It's those days that I keep trying to find time to run and it never happens that get frustrating.

        I like Sundays because I can tell myself "I'm not lazy, it's just that God wants me to rest."

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        • #5
          Originally posted by nikuman View Post
          3.5 miles, average 9:45 pace, but with a varied pace. Two miles @ 9:30, .2 rest, .5 @ 8:00, .2 rest, .5 @ 7:00. The numbers are approximate.

          BTW, TDB, I know what you mean. I desperately want to go run another 4 miles right now (I worked out in the morning) but I am forcing myself to rest until Monday lest I injure something. My rest days are the hardest because I don't run.
          Wow, I really want to fall in love with running like this. After a few miles I just get bored.
          I am a philosophical Goldilocks, always looking for something neither too big nor too small, neither too hot nor too cold, something jussssst right. I'll send you a card from purgatory. - PAC

          You know how President Hinckley said he doesn't worry about those who pray? The same can be said for men who are self-aware enough to know when there's a life to be lived outside of the world of video games. - Anonymous

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Gidget View Post
            Wow, I really want to fall in love with running like this. After a few miles I just get bored.
            I get addicted to the feeling I get a couple of hours after I'm done, where I can still feel it in my lungs. I'm hoping the love affair is something more than a one night stand.
            Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.

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            • #7
              rocked a 9.6 mile @ about 8:30 pace.
              "I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"

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              • #8
                Originally posted by nikuman View Post
                I get addicted to the feeling I get a couple of hours after I'm done, where I can still feel it in my lungs. I'm hoping the love affair is something more than a one night stand.
                That sounds like a good fix. Maybe I just am not sensitive enough to notice it.
                I am a philosophical Goldilocks, always looking for something neither too big nor too small, neither too hot nor too cold, something jussssst right. I'll send you a card from purgatory. - PAC

                You know how President Hinckley said he doesn't worry about those who pray? The same can be said for men who are self-aware enough to know when there's a life to be lived outside of the world of video games. - Anonymous

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Commando View Post
                  rocked a 9.6 mile @ about 8:30 pace.
                  Thats a long weekend run at a nice pace. Are you training for something special?

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                  • #10
                    Go get some Immodium A-D to take care of that. Also, what are you eating different on the weekends?
                    "It's true that everything happens for a reason. Just remember that sometimes that reason is that you did something really, really, stupid."

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Teenage Dirtbag View Post
                      I think we should start a thread for weekend runs. We've got a few runners around here. I'll start.
                      I did 16.5 miles pushing my 1.5 year-old daughter in a stroller over gravel roads in the state forest just to the south. It's a nice run, except miles 8-10 are pretty steep switchback climbs. But the last 6.5 are gentle downhill. I'm no burner - I ran 10-minute miles, except for the uphill push which was considerably slower. But my last mile was just as fast as my first, and I recovered very quickly, so that's all I care about.

                      There was one bummer, though: I promised my little girl we'd go swimming when we were done, since we were running to a little lake where Mrs Solon would pick us up. But we were all pretty sad when the park-ranger told us the water was off-limits until May.
                      "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
                      -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Solon View Post
                        I did 16.5 miles pushing my 1.5 year-old daughter in a stroller over gravel roads in the state forest just to the south. It's a nice run, except miles 8-10 are pretty steep switchback climbs. But the last 6.5 are gentle downhill. I'm no burner - I ran 10-minute miles, except for the uphill push which was considerably slower. But my last mile was just as fast as my first, and I recovered very quickly, so that's all I care about.

                        There was one bummer, though: I promised my little girl we'd go swimming when we were done, since we were running to a little lake where Mrs Solon would pick us up. But we were all pretty sad when the park-ranger told us the water was off-limits until May.
                        Three hours in a stroller. That's impressive. I hope she had a baggie of goldfish with her.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Sea Chicken View Post
                          Three hours in a stroller. That's impressive. I hope she had a baggie of goldfish with her.
                          She's great in the stroller and only lost it for about 3 minutes in mile 14. She ate a whole carton of cherry-tomatoes, though. I paid for this indiscretion several times today as we burned through the baby-wipes.
                          "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
                          -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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                          • #14
                            I did just under 6 on some single track that is way to steep to run, but I managed it and was able to avoid the worst of the 30 mph winds that were blowing. I averaged about 8:00 min/mile with the 600 ft of elevation gain. I need to get my body ready to run some longer distances. I can go out and do 6 miles without blinking an eye, but I am afraid to even try and run 8.

                            Maybe today I can go get something in. I am tkaing care of sick kids and a sick wife. If I can get them settled for an hour I may try and go get a longer run in. And no way am I going to push the kids in a stroller fo rthat long like Solon. They start a mutiny after 5 miles.

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                            • #15
                              you people are animals. When I try and run more than a couple of miles at a time my knees start telling me that I really don't want to run any more. ( I really thing old age is starting to catch up )

                              Saturday I walked 8 miles in about 1:43 and Sunday I went 10 in about 2:10 I really enjoy spring

                              I may be small, but I'm slow.

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