Month: January 2015
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8.85 miles outside – very uneven and slippery – not a fast run but felt good to get out there. Tested out some new Hokas too.
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First outdoor run since the Dopey Challenge a few weeks ago. It felt good to get out and let my mind wander! We had some major thawing yesterday and then a good freeze overnight last night. So it was pretty slippery out there and after 3 attempts to fall on my ass I decided it…
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5 miles in 36:38 – getting the hang of the new treadmill – feels good to be able to push!
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A stronger push tonight – now that I have figured out my goals for 2015, I am feeling a bit more energized and happy to push harder. The new treadmill is helping here too – so far it seems to be able to take everything I can throw at it and not flinch. I started…
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Finally sorted out my 2015 goals…
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I have been thinking for a while now about what my goals should be for 2015. I didn’t want to lock myself down to anything until after the Dopey Challenge was completed and I saw if I met my goals there or not. With the Dopey Challenge now complete and those goals met, I have now had…
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5 miles in 37:20 on a new treadmill – fastest at that distance since October – I have a lot of work to do…
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So tonight was the first real run since the Dopey Challenge finished up a little over a week ago and it was also the first real run I got in on our new treadmill. Bit of strange run. First about the treadmill – a while back I broke our heavier duty treadmill and after a…
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Final Race – Dopey Challenge 2015 – Disney World Marathon race report and pictures!
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Ok – last run of the 2015 Dopey Challenge…up and at ‘em! (see my quick report for the 5k, 10k and half marathon here) So as a warning this report is long 🙁 But it has pictures 🙂 But lots of those pictures have me in them 🙁 Again the wake up call and alarms…
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3 of 4 Dopey Challenge races done at this point and I wanted to put up a bit of a quick recap / race report
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So the quick race reports below haven’t been edited very much – I just quickly dumped out some thoughts about how the races went and what I enjoyed to get something up on the blog. I will update and do more thorough race / trip reports later but for now here is how the Dopey…
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My rough game plan for the Dopey Challenge…
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Alrighty – so I took today off work so I could sleep in and then get my final organization done for the Dopey Challenge before I leave tomorrow morning. And of course I end up waking up an hour before my alarm would normally go off on a work day…and I couldn’t get back to…
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3.1 miles today to finish out Dopey Challenge taper. Unless I decide to run tomorrow to cut the nerves a bit…
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So I did a 3.1 mile run on Saturday and another today. Just plugging away at the last few miles of taper, trying to keep the legs stretched out and not do anything silly (like try to get one last speed run in). Saturday’s run was 3.1 miles in 25:20 and today’s was 3.1 miles…
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Things I want to do at Disney World during the Disney World Marathon weekend, besides run!
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With less than a week to go before I make it to Disney World for the 2015 Walt Disney World marathon and the Dopey Challenge, I thought it would be a good time to sit down and think about what I want to do there (besides run the races and spend tons of money at…