Chasing an ice cream truck by chance?
Losing a summer and tossing out a fall.
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Chasing an ice cream truck by chance?
THATmanMANNY
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I don’t read too many of these blogs threads
I didn’t know Walt was referring to this Steve because didn’t occur to me he was a runner or in this case doing it cause it’s more the thing ya could do ATMz. Cool. Just saying hi
I didn’t know Walt was referring to this Steve because didn’t occur to me he was a runner or in this case doing it cause it’s more the thing ya could do ATMz. Cool. Just saying hi
I'm not a runner, I just run sometimes.
Foreshadowing?
Turns out this race killed me. I'm still struggling with stairs.
Out of the house at 5am. At 7am we were in Asheville for the start of our team's race. Was mid-40s and very windy. I was shivering waiting the 5-10 minutes for our first racer to go out with the mass start. Then lots of traveling to each next start spot.
Leg #4 - While the race day started off cold it now was getting warm. Started in Fletcher near I9/Cane Creek/Fox if anyone knows the area and finished in the downtown portion of Henderson, NC. Mostly uneventful run, first 6 miles I was out by myself for the most part but as I headed into Hendersonville I passed about 15 dying runners. Got a delicious cinnamon role from a food truck at the brewery as we loaded into the car to the next stop.
Once we got into South Carolina and out of the mountains the weather got really hot. It had that feeling in summer when it's been really hot for a few days straight and you're now really sick of it.
Leg #10 - Now it was really hot. While this leg was less than 7 miles it was all in the sun. Started up with a long uphill and then was nothing but rolling terrain. Last two miles or so was on the Swamp Rabbit Trail. I never realized how not flat that bike path was until running it...
This leg killed me as it was now high 70s and all exposed in the sun. I drank a ton of water pre-run and took no water with me as it was less than 7 miles. I got completely sunburnt, the whole run I just felt the dried sweat on my face and chapped lips. Luckily for me I had someone behind me for the last 2 miles and it provided enough will for me to keep them from passing. Finished in Traveler's Rest at a brewery that was a full on party as tons of teams had racers finished for the day so people were drinking pretty heavy. I don't really road run or ride so I kind of forgot what being out in the sun was like.
@MissJR drove down to Greenville with two friends and met us at the finish line and after party.
Long Hectic day. Not sure I am doing another relay. I don't know if it was the heat, the break in between the two running legs or what, but this took a lot more out of me than the 18+ mile trail run the week before. It makes no sense that I'm so sore.
Stats:
Overall - Chip Time 11:09:20 - Avg Pace 9:07 for the 73 miles. Our goal was to finish at 6:30 with more like a 9:30 pace so that wasn't bad.
My Strava Leg #4 - 7.84 Miles @ 8:16 pace. 1 Hour 4 minutes.
My strava Leg #10 - 6.67 Miles # 8:34 pace. 57 minutes 12 seconds
qclabrat
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How do you get to the next leg? Self transport?
Self transport. We had some borrowed Acura SUV that had one of those 3rd rows that is basically for grandkid child seats. I sat back there for the 20 minute drive to Asheville in the fetal position thinking there's no way I'd be able to run if I road back there the whole day. It then dawned on me once the race started we only needed to fit 5 people in the car since one racer was always on course.
Lots of sprinter vans, etc. There's a bunch of teams that do this every year and go all out. Costumes, decorated vans, etc. A bigger vehicle definitely helps for organizing all the food/clothing/etc.
I randomly got an invite for a spot that opened up in the Smokey Mountain Relay this morning and it's in two weeks. Starts near my house and is 200 miles of trails over two days. I told him NO.
Just a slight update out of nowhere. Didn't realize the last time I updated this was after the Ville-to-Ville race in April.
Signed up for my first bike race since I think Pre-Covid, Pisgah Enduro. I had the car loaded up but ended up bailing after an hour of sleep that night.
Went through Helene down here and my fitness definitely dropped off over the weeks afterwards. Since then I've done a meh 5k in town and an 8.5ish mile trail race in Dupont this past weekend. Trail race was originally scheduled for the nice warm weekend after the storm but obviously was postponed.
For various reasons I'm finding it much nicer just riding my bike for fun and having more running orientated goals. Current calendar events:
-March 2025 : Antelope Canyon in AZ if I feel I'm up for it as January/February come around. A Sedona trip is planned to coincide with this.
-April 2025 : Ville to Ville again. I think everyone on our team is back in except on team member who is due to give birth a few weeks before the race.
I like how this photographer got everyone to look like they're sleeping while running.
Signed up for my first bike race since I think Pre-Covid, Pisgah Enduro. I had the car loaded up but ended up bailing after an hour of sleep that night.
Went through Helene down here and my fitness definitely dropped off over the weeks afterwards. Since then I've done a meh 5k in town and an 8.5ish mile trail race in Dupont this past weekend. Trail race was originally scheduled for the nice warm weekend after the storm but obviously was postponed.
For various reasons I'm finding it much nicer just riding my bike for fun and having more running orientated goals. Current calendar events:
-March 2025 : Antelope Canyon in AZ if I feel I'm up for it as January/February come around. A Sedona trip is planned to coincide with this.
-April 2025 : Ville to Ville again. I think everyone on our team is back in except on team member who is due to give birth a few weeks before the race.
I like how this photographer got everyone to look like they're sleeping while running.
@MissJR pressured me to update this.
Went to Sedona last week. I road a bike on trails. I didn't die. Hiked the other days of the trip. Was pretty awesome to do Camelback in Phoenix on Sunday after the flight in the sun and heat and then the next day did a snow hike in Sedona that got so cold and wet we were forced to turn around.
Antelope Canyon 70k Race Report https://www.strava.com/activities/13828392462 : As mentioned in previous post I had Antelope Canyon as a possibility. Shortly after that post I took an extended Black Friday deal on entry fees and signed up for the 70k which turns out to be 41.6miles. Furthest I think I've gone not using a bike. Course was 30+ miles of ankle deep sand went through at least half a dozen slot canyons including Antelope Canyon and Deer Canyon. Was pretty damn amazing. I didn't sign up for it for any reason outside of getting to do slot canyons I'd have no way of doing otherwise.
I lost lots of time going through some of the slot canyons since there were ladders, ropes etc to get in and out of some of them, plus some were basically obstacle courses navigating through them. Plus I hurt my foot pretty bad around mile 8 and it hurt the rest of the race. Sand killed my ankles and basically couldn't run after a certain point so just kept the pace as high as I could. I was aiming for 15 hours, ended up at 12.5 hours. Ended up in no-man's land for the last few miles as 90% of the runners do the 50k course and much fewer people did the 70k or 50 mile course.
Arizona had a huge snow storm come through on Friday before the race, which was packet pickup day. Luckily @MissJR got us through one of the dumbest roads to drive a car on in the snow which got shut down after we went through. Turns out all the major highways closed most of the day during the storm.
Current calendar for the year:
-April 2025: It's likely I sign up for The Gamble which is a race where they roll dice at the start line 10 seconds before the start to see how far you go. Last year they rolled an 11 which meant 18 miles.
-April 2025: Committed to Ville to Ville again which is the relay race from Asheville, NC to Greenville, SC. 6 Person team, 5 of us are the same as the last time. I'm nervous about this in the fact that I don't have the same fitness as I did last year.
-October 2025: Committed to Grand Canyon Rim2Rim2Rim. Booked flights and some hotels. Need to book an AirBnB once we have people #s figured out. Right now 6 people booked flights, 3 hotels rooms. Looking at 16-20 people doing this which is bonkers to me. I thought it was going to just be me and Joy but people are jumping at the chance.
Went to Sedona last week. I road a bike on trails. I didn't die. Hiked the other days of the trip. Was pretty awesome to do Camelback in Phoenix on Sunday after the flight in the sun and heat and then the next day did a snow hike in Sedona that got so cold and wet we were forced to turn around.
Antelope Canyon 70k Race Report https://www.strava.com/activities/13828392462 : As mentioned in previous post I had Antelope Canyon as a possibility. Shortly after that post I took an extended Black Friday deal on entry fees and signed up for the 70k which turns out to be 41.6miles. Furthest I think I've gone not using a bike. Course was 30+ miles of ankle deep sand went through at least half a dozen slot canyons including Antelope Canyon and Deer Canyon. Was pretty damn amazing. I didn't sign up for it for any reason outside of getting to do slot canyons I'd have no way of doing otherwise.
I lost lots of time going through some of the slot canyons since there were ladders, ropes etc to get in and out of some of them, plus some were basically obstacle courses navigating through them. Plus I hurt my foot pretty bad around mile 8 and it hurt the rest of the race. Sand killed my ankles and basically couldn't run after a certain point so just kept the pace as high as I could. I was aiming for 15 hours, ended up at 12.5 hours. Ended up in no-man's land for the last few miles as 90% of the runners do the 50k course and much fewer people did the 70k or 50 mile course.
Arizona had a huge snow storm come through on Friday before the race, which was packet pickup day. Luckily @MissJR got us through one of the dumbest roads to drive a car on in the snow which got shut down after we went through. Turns out all the major highways closed most of the day during the storm.
Current calendar for the year:
-April 2025: It's likely I sign up for The Gamble which is a race where they roll dice at the start line 10 seconds before the start to see how far you go. Last year they rolled an 11 which meant 18 miles.
-April 2025: Committed to Ville to Ville again which is the relay race from Asheville, NC to Greenville, SC. 6 Person team, 5 of us are the same as the last time. I'm nervous about this in the fact that I don't have the same fitness as I did last year.
-October 2025: Committed to Grand Canyon Rim2Rim2Rim. Booked flights and some hotels. Need to book an AirBnB once we have people #s figured out. Right now 6 people booked flights, 3 hotels rooms. Looking at 16-20 people doing this which is bonkers to me. I thought it was going to just be me and Joy but people are jumping at the chance.
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I didn't do shit for this race. That's not a good thing... I feel with this winter I just never really got in a real training plan and was hardly running or biking.
Stuck with Monday/Wednesday/Friday mornings with hour and a half gym sessions. Wednesday 5.25 mile run-club run every week. But I've hardly biked and did minimal running leading up to it. Some hikes but nothing crazy.
Completely unrelated but I was lagging on yesterday's run and today felt pretty tired just trying to ride as casually as possible. Yesterday I couldn't keep up with a 9 minute mile and dropped down to almost a 10 minute conversational mile. Happened to look at TrainerRoad today and they have the yellow light, red light thing. Yellow is "take it easy" and Red is "Don't do shit". I'm actually surprised it was saying last week was that hard as I thought it was relatively easy hikes and bike ride. I even had a bunch of rest days.
Guess it makes sense as to why Garmin tells me I need 51 hours of rest after my 48TSS ride today...
I'm going to roll into a bit more structure next week actually. I'm committed I guess to track workouts now on Tuesdays as two coaches invited me on their new Tuesday Track Day, Tempo Run on Wednesdays and I'll fill the rest of the week with typical Z2 style runs with a preferable long run on the weekend.
Shit, I just realized Tuesday group rides are starting up, which throws a wrench into these plans.
Been doing at least one good sized hike each weekend. @pixychick 's recent post made me think I should take pictures of flowers and such more often. She's always showing the beautify of life growing out in AZ, and I often just walk past all the blooming flowers on the trails without taking pictures. We just went through the mountain laurels blooming but there's a ton of smaller flowers that I have no idea what they are.
