How many miles did you run today?

[Dusty Heaters]

8mi, 7:29/mi, 134bpm — Z2 Base Miles

Feeling pretty spry today. That’s a good pace for me relative to those HR and power meter values.

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Awesome 5k PR @Michigan Planner - That’s a HUGE improvement in just a short period of time.
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@imatlas - If it makes you feel any better, my pack was just a bit lighter than yours (~37lbs without water) when I hiked the Wunderland Trail around Mt Rainier. The pack never bothered me and we were trekking through 90% snowpack with 0 trail visibility. That god for the Garmin Topo maps on my watch or we’d have been screwed.

 

[imatlas]

GPS has bailed ****** put on a couple of occasions. Once we got dropped off in the Yukon 50 miles from our planned destination and the helicopter pilot gave us one of his aeronautical maps, but 1" = 50 miles is useless to a hiker. We wound up navigating with an old school Garmin with a teeny tiny little screen.

The asshole pilot (who couldn't stand us) yelled "You'll have an adventure now, boys!" as he flew away.

We got him back though: we never paid for our flight time. He was so sick of us that when we tried to negotiate a discount (based on getting ditched in the wrong spot) he threw us out and swore he wouldn't accept a dime. So he never got one.

 

[sugarbutch]

GPS has bailed ****** put on a couple of occasions. Once we got dropped off in the Yukon 50 miles from our planned destination and the helicopter pilot gave us one of his aeronautical maps, but 1" = 50 miles is useless to a hiker. We wound up navigating with an old school Garmin with a teeny tiny little screen.

The asshole pilot (who couldn't stand us) yelled "You'll have an adventure now, boys!" as he flew away.

We got him back though: we never paid for our flight time. He was so sick of us that when we tried to negotiate a discount (based on getting ditched in the wrong spot) he threw us out and swore he wouldn't accept a dime. So he never got one.

What did you do to him?

 

[kjb]

that's so awesome @Michigan Planner ! i have a 5k i'm running tomorrow night. i'm hoping to do sub 21, lets see.

another 10 mile bike around town today, in the same 45-ish minutes. it really wild how the tire change has made my riding so much more comfortable. just keeping the legs fresh for tomorrow night.

 

[Fueco]

What did you do to him?

Let’s just say they met at a Waffle House.

 

[jbarwick]

4.9 trail miles before grabbing the kids. I was going to do it earlier but one of the rollers on the garage door just feel off so I had to figure out how to patch that up until we can get a repair man out.

 

[sugarbutch]

16 “miles”

 

[Dusty Heaters]

8.25mi, 6:40/mi, 149bpm

1mi WU, 5mi Threshold, 2.25mi CD

Working miles: 6:21, 6:21, 6:20, 6:20, 6:13

That went well, surprisingly. I wasn’t breathing that hard and felt pretty smooth overall. Solid progress for me.

 

[Fueco]

It wasn’t fast, or pretty, but I did 5.9 trail miles at over 8000’ elevation (58:16). We’re camped at 8150’.

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[sugarbutch]

12 “miles”

 

[kjb]

5K last night put on by a neighboring running club. Just a hair short as I had 3.05 miles on my watch but finished in 20:27. Happy I still would have been under 21 with the extra 5 hundredths.

Flat out and back but so many turns as we snaked along the waterfront. Started waaay to fast with the help of a tailwind, 6:30, second mile 6:40, and flagged super hard from lack of fitness and the head wind the last mile at 6:57. Out-kicked 3 people at the finish.

Wore my endorphin pros which definitely aided me. Would have been curious to see my time in racing flats.

 

[jbarwick]

7.2 miles last night on the trails. Started a little later than normal and it was getting dark under the canopy. When I did pop out at one spot where you can usually see downtown, it was super foggy. Come to find out, it was smoke from wildfires in California and Canada.

 

[Dusty Heaters]

10mi, 8:08/mi, 127bpm — Just a Z1 recovery jog. Enjoying the beautiful weather here. 60f, low dew point, no smoke. A late July gift!

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Awesome work @kjb !! You crushed it!! I’m not a 5k runner…in fact, I hate the distance, but one of the best tips that I got was to hold back as much as you can the first mile and then treat it like a 2 mile race. It’s so easy to blow up that first mile and lock up.

 

[kjb]

thanks Dusty. yeah in a former life i was much more controlled in my pacing, but a year plus of not racing has me really rusty. also my brain totally thinks my fitness is also pre-covid so it keeps writing pace checks my body hasn't entirely been able to cash yet. i am super happy i hit my sub 21 goal though regardless of how the splits played out. but would really like to be more purposeful with them, something to work on.

 

[kjb]

5.25 miles last night with the club. legs felt like trash from the race so a super slow recovery run, 10:35 pace the whole way. feel a bit better today, might do a light spin at some point to try to flush out the last of the soreness.