After 27 years of sloth, I have like a rusted phoenix risen from the ashes of way too many ... ooops, gotta hold back a bit there.
Completed the first half-marathon of my life last weekend. Target time was anything within 10% of 2hrs. Had completed the course in 2:16 two weeks earlier so... Anyways, chip time was 2:01:28. I'm still grinning. The plan was to go 11km@ 6min and then gradually bring them in faster with each subsequent km. In the end, I went 5:40 for just about the whole thing. I had so much left in the tank in the last 3km that I passed 50-100 people mostly climbing gentle slopes in the last part of the race. The plan for the fall marathon continues.
After 27 years of sloth, I have like a rusted phoenix risen from the ashes of way too many ... ooops, gotta hold back a bit there.
Thanks for sparing our delicate ears.
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Completed the first half-marathon of my life last weekend. Target time was anything within 10% of 2hrs. Had completed the course in 2:16 two weeks earlier so... Anyways, chip time was 2:01:28.
Outstanding, congrats!
What's your training like? And more importantly, how'd you celebrate - or does that also need censorship?
What's your training like? And more importantly, how'd you celebrate - or does that also need censorship?
Just coming off a 4 month training cycle of speed-tempo-LSD that had me doing 35-40miles/week in the weeks before the taper. Tri-training adds 60-80 bike miles/week in 2 sessions with brick workouts and pool sessions as well. As to the celebrations...<cue sleazy sax riffs> it was a _hot_ afternoon
After 27 years of sloth, I have like a rusted phoenix risen from the ashes of way too many ... ooops, gotta hold back a bit there.
Completed the first half-marathon of my life last weekend. Target time was anything within 10% of 2hrs. Had completed the course in 2:16 two weeks earlier so... Anyways, chip time was 2:01:28. I'm still grinning. The plan was to go 11km@ 6min and then gradually bring them in faster with each subsequent km. In the end, I went 5:40 for just about the whole thing. I had so much left in the tank in the last 3km that I passed 50-100 people mostly climbing gentle slopes in the last part of the race. The plan for the fall marathon continues.
I strongly suspect there's no part of your body that ever got anything blown unless you did it yourself.
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After 27 years of sloth, I have like a rusted phoenix risen from the ashes of way too many ... ooops, gotta hold back a bit there.
Completed the first half-marathon of my life last weekend. Target time was anything within 10% of 2hrs. Had completed the course in 2:16 two weeks earlier so... Anyways, chip time was 2:01:28. I'm still grinning. The plan was to go 11km@ 6min and then gradually bring them in faster with each subsequent km. In the end, I went 5:40 for just about the whole thing. I had so much left in the tank in the last 3km that I passed 50-100 people mostly climbing gentle slopes in the last part of the race. The plan for the fall marathon continues.
Good effort! Target achieved and finishing strong.
After 27 years of sloth, I have like a rusted phoenix risen from the ashes of way too many ... ooops, gotta hold back a bit there.
Completed the first half-marathon of my life last weekend. Target time was anything within 10% of 2hrs. Had completed the course in 2:16 two weeks earlier so... Anyways, chip time was 2:01:28. I'm still grinning. The plan was to go 11km@ 6min and then gradually bring them in faster with each subsequent km. In the end, I went 5:40 for just about the whole thing. I had so much left in the tank in the last 3km that I passed 50-100 people mostly climbing gentle slopes in the last part of the race. The plan for the fall marathon continues.
Great job! Hang in there and stay with it. You'll be surprised at how fast you will make progress.
Great job! Hang in there and stay with it. You'll be surprised at how fast you will make progress.
Thanks to both you and Anthony. I have gone through a period of improvement in the latter part of this last cycle. My 10k went from 1:04 to 51:54 in the space of 4 weeks so I'm feeling quite good about the progress. I do know that the real work is yet to come. For some silly reason I seem to be motivated to get to about 3:45 at Detroit or Toronto this fall...hmmm
I drank a half case of beer, smoked a half ounce of sweet cheeba, ate half of a pizza in one sitting, and made it through half of Chariots Of Fire yesterday, but you don't hear me crowing about it.
You know there's nothing worse than a lieing sack of [censored]. Your stupid ass has "plonked" her several times already, if you really did it then it wouldn't happen a second time [censored].
