Thank you. I am quite proud of that. Each marathon gave me inspiration to find more as I knew it was lurking. It also mirrored some serious weight loss, from 205 to my college weight of 157 at the time of Twin Cities. Second, it inspired me to change my thinking from recreational running to being a more serious and dedicated masters runner. Have a good week!
I'm late to the party because I spent the weekend in KC. I should have hooked up with some LR people to show me the trails but I did not.
No races for me but I ran along a nice Trolley Trail (old RR tracks) that goes right along the state line. It was fantastic and weather was great.
Marathons? I'm batting about .200 in that category. How about we change the subject?
And I am voting Orville for President. Those Boston stories were great.
This thread was fun before I posted and there were some great and interesting posts after. What I noticed is that we have all levels of runners and results among our group. I feel that racing and especially running marathons is a very individual, private and personal activity. It seems that the longer we are around the more experiences we have had and the more interesting the person becomes. I think we all owe BHRR1 a big THANK YOU for bringing us all together. I find this fun.
Hey BHRR1, I am sure there are some good subjects to make the center stage of future threads. At some point we may want to persue stories about runners being stopped or hindered in races by obstructions such as trains, draw bridges, etc. Also has anyone been helped rather than hindered in any way during a race?
Continue keepin' on truckin' and enjoying guys.
Talking with you and Al, right? I also remember seeing you at Breckenridge just a couple months later as we were embarking on nordic ski racing, trying to figure what it was all about.
Yes, you were one of the runners I was chasing and could never catch in the race. Sandrock and Lyndon Ellefson came back, and maybe one or two more, but that was about it. I remember going out semi-conservative, hoping to negative split. Hit half at 1:16 and 20 at 1:55 and change, still on 2:31 pace, and then yes, watched it slip away over the last mile or two in an out of body sort of way.
I had planned for Twin Cities and sub 2:30 that fall but came down with giardia just after Labor Day and ended up having 2 bouts of it and was still not 100% by Rawhide. Skinniest of my life, 132 lbs on race day (at 5'10").
I have photo proof in our files somewhere: red balloon shorts that I had kept from college xc, black dress socks I had to borrow because I'd forgotten my own, and those yellow felt-like work gloves.
1500 master we've also met. If you remember the Rattlesnake Rumble xc race in Ft. Collins. That was the race my wife and I put on. We moved away and they paved the course. Too bad, I miss doing that every year. You have a good range with 400/800 speed and sub 3 marathon.
So that makes five here that I know or have met (including CharlieS).
[postscript: knee is trashed and only marginal improvement in three weeks, MRI was yesterday, physician consult later this week]
oops, 1500master I may have gotten you mixed up with another masters runner on these boards, so I'm not sure if we have met.
my first marathon was at 39 1/2, wineglass (bath to corning, ny; 1999) in 3:47. this qualified me for boston, although at the time i had no idea what that meant. what i did know was that i enjoyed the experience, so i did four more the following year, lowering my time to 3:35 (NYC, 2000) and culminating with a stress fracture five weeks before what was to be my first boston, but was instead a no-go. upon full recovery from *next* stress fracture, i started working with a coach (jzs, who used to post on letsrun) and for the first time began to train instead of just run. with his help, and that of sarah, i lowered my time to 3:17 (philadelphia, 2005) at age 45, my PR. altogether i've run something like a dozen road marathons, as well as a bunch of trail marathons and 50Ks, three 50 milers (two in about 8 hours on trails), and a crash-and-burn 70 miler (14 hrs!). i doubt i'll run another road marathon, because they became increasingly less fun. trails, though, are another story, and i hope to regain my ankle strength and overall sustained wellness to get back into the 50-mile swing of things when i turn 50 in the spring.
a light week of running for me, with my achilles kicking in after a 16-mile progression run last monday. as i readied to leave for vacation in moab (canyonlands and arches national parks) with my husband, i decided to take three days off and did finish line timing at the local turkey trot instead of running it. all worked out for the best, since i'm feeling great this week and am enjoying great hiking, trail running, and incredible scenery.
You did. We have never met. However, it would be a pleasure to at some point in our running careers.
If I recall, you are in Alaska. I spent many a summer in Seward and raced the Mt. Marathon race back in 73 or 74.
Cheers,
Matt