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Time for a century ride, Dave. 😉

Hugs!

The sure way to get back to running: buy a very expensive customized bike.

On 6/6/2022 at 7:16 AM, Dave said:

I'm guessing there'd be more about the diamond hunting if you'd found any big ones.

The word "marvelous" always makes me think of Billy Crystal.  

 

We only found quartz!

Nicely done!

5 hours ago, Run2BFit said:

Being from Michigan.  I am dying to know what is the "The Michigan with 2 mile tempos" ?

The Michigan! https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/training-advice/workouts/workout-week-michigan/

The standard version has 1 mile tempos, but for heavy marathon training mileage you can do 2 mile tempos instead. 

On 4/13/2022 at 6:56 AM, Dave said:

I know I'm excited for Boston. I'll FB message you this weekend and hopefully we can spend a few minutes.

No book matches this time. Any of these you recommend?

Sounds great!

No 5-star books out of those. The best was Closer Than You Know by Brad Parks. In April I highly recommend The Glass Castle!

On 4/9/2022 at 7:33 PM, doug in co said:

 

yes, that's very odd - you are doing plenty of miles, I never did 100 mile weeks, would top out around 60-80.. 

Maybe I need to fuel more for the 50k. I am going to keep working at it! 

On 4/4/2022 at 6:02 PM, doug in co said:

well done ! 

with your marathon PR, sub-3:30 should be very much possible.. my experience with 50k was that it was functionally indistinguishable from a marathon. That might be a distorted view given that a 56k was my primary race each year and I'd run marathons as long training runs.. 

For me, they have been very different races but I haven't figured out why! I only slow down ~15 seconds from half to full marathon, but I'm slowing down 30+ seconds from marathon to 50k ("only" 5 more miles) and still not finishing strong. I'm going to figure it out!

On 3/31/2022 at 9:08 AM, ocrunnergirl said:

Great race report! I can't even imagine eating a gel every 3 miles! Wow!

Congratulations on a great race - even though you didn't hit your A goal.

It wasn't as bad as I expected! UCAN Edge is a lot more doable often than the super sweet ones.

On 3/31/2022 at 7:49 AM, Dave said:

Who'd have thought running out and back in Kansas would sound so exciting?

Haha, I'm not sure it actually was!

On 4/6/2022 at 12:59 PM, Slow_Running said:

Wow! Congrats! Lot's of good stuff here, but I'm most interested to know... Have you solved the missing caffeine mystery? 

Hah! No mystery, my husband just forgot to put the gel in the pocket when he refilled that bottle, whomp whomp.

+1 Anxious People!

No one has ever said, "gee, I wish I'd started that marathon faster." Start slower and crank it down later if you feel good. For me personally, overall volume is the most influential factor on my marathon performance, so I'd be very conservative early on if I was in your shoes.

Yay on the running news! Hope to see you in Boston.

I'm still here! 

My minimum walking temperature is also much, much warmer than my minimum running temperature - same goes for biking and elliptigoing, and really just for leaving the house in general. 😉

Never give up!

Hey, meeting your deductible already means you need to do it ALL!

On 2/2/2022 at 12:54 PM, Slow_Running said:

Glad to see you were able to crush January, notwithstanding the cold temps.  It's been colder than usual here and my running schedule has suffered. 

I think our winter here has been pretty average, for Missouri. We had a big winter storm this week (as did much of the country!), and I was able to get away with only 1.25 runs on the treadmill: 1 full morning run, and another day I had to finish up just my final 3 miles on it because an ice storm started during my outside run and it got very slick.

That puzzle is really great! I pray you find answers about the blood sugar levels and hip and rib pain. Patience is hard and you've had to have a lot of it!

14 hours ago, Dave said:

So very excited for the Boston pro selection. Mrs. Dave and I will be there to see DS1 running his first Boston. Maybe we'll have a chance to touch base for a few minutes. I expect you'll be pretty busy that weekend.

I would love to get together! I'll be there Friday through Wednesday.

Hugs!

On 1/14/2022 at 6:18 AM, Dave said:

March 2009. My first post on the old Loop. First comment of encouragement by Sara.🥰

Love this!

I've read Educated and definitely didn't see that as the norm in your religion.

Keep on keepin' on, Dave! 

Goal: don't get last in the pro field, which will be a tall task! Thank you for the shout out.