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What a fun race! I was blown away by how many people showed up to run. Unlike anything Ive been part of before. The smaller 5K, 10K races I have done around town dont draw nearly the same number of entrants or fans. Almost the entire 13 miles of the course had people lined up [...] The Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon and miniMarathon arrive this weekend as the latest excuse to get me out of bed at an obscene hour on a Saturday.? Unlike the races in the Triple Crown of Running (5K, 10K, 10M) which started at 8:30 and were situated where you could park and walk … this race [...] Week one of my training is complete, only 19 more to go until the big day.? Its been a pretty standard week, mainly just getting used to the new schedule and the increased hours.? Been trying to stay on top of recovery nutrition, get at least 7 hours of sleep and stretch after my workouts [...] Today started the first of 5 triathlons this year beginning with the Max Performance Sprint race in Shelbyville, peaking at Ironman Louisville and ending with the USA Triathlon Age Group Short Course National Championships two days before my 30th birthday.? Despite the rainy 40F temperatures outside I was able to best my time from last [...] Anybody can do an Ironman.? Dont ever think its something that your body cant do … its your mind that wont try.? Entering the first of 21 weeks of training, I realize that Im facing much more of a mental challenge than a physical one.? Its not the distance, but the six days a week [...] The prologue to the 2008 training season is now over with the completion of the Papa Johns 10 Miler and therefore the completion of the Louisville Triple Crown of running.? There is still the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon at the end of April, but by that point Ironman training will be in full swing.? Ill [...] My goal was to break 45 minutes which would be about 4 minutes faster than I ran it in 2007.? Using the McMillan Running Calculator? I plugged in my time from the 5K I ran two weeks earlier to see what pace it would suggest for me to run the 10K.? Lo and behold out [...] “Count on atleast 2 mental break downs in a 30 week training plan. It's just all so intense I think it's kind of normal to go thru a week or so of, crap, I just don't want to do this anymore, this is all too much and I'm not ready and so on and so [...] It was very crowded at the start and it took some crafty maneuvering to keep a clear path ahead of me. The first half of the race was done almost exclusively on the sidewalk dodging walkers, first timers and slower people as the race organizsers did not line runners up by pace this year. My [...] So Im almost done with the Honduras trip … just two more days to go after the latest installment that I just posted in the My Travels section.? Check it out as our trip comes to an end and we get geared up to spend some time resting and relaxing before heading back to the [...] |
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