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[kacie tri-ing]

Great running weather!

I did a half marathon with my mom saturday, and it was her first. We finished in around 2:10, though we stopped three times for a port-o-pottie. Mom planned on that, and it didn't bother me at all, because it was SO great to do the race with her. Great time and wonderful to run with my mom!!!

Recovery run Sunday of 3 miles.

My 50K is 5 weeks from this saturday (December 11th), and i am beginning to feel the nerves creeping in. Today was the first day that I really reigned in my nutrition for the next 6 weeks. I know what to do, I just have to do it

[solobiker]

Congrats Kacie!!! And good luck training for the 50K, I am sure you will do great!!!

[colby]

I guess technically it was on the 31st, but I already closed the tab I had that thread open in, so.... yesterday I ran somewhere approaching 18 miles (my GPS didn't want to stay on or connected so I just ran the same route as last week's 14 miles and added an approximate 5 mile loop, which accounting for how I added them together without overlap comes out to probably under 18 but more than 17). I decided to get as close as I could to skipping 16 and going straight to 18, but I let go of running at race pace for the last 3 miles. I did run them faster, but not at race pace.

It felt pretty good, though it was at my "endurance pace" so I guess we'll see how that translates when the time comes. I wouldn't say it's effortless but it's certainly not what it used to be.

I think my problem with the Bikila are that the toes don't flex as much as I want them to (or as much as the KSOs do). I feel like my toes are frozen in a specific position and can't curl downward because of the extra rubber pattern on the toes and forefoot. Maybe they'll get softer with more wear and my feet will adapt, but as it was they made my toes almost feel cramped by the end of the trip.

I left late again for varying reasons, it was still a bad idea, though I ran into a lot of trick or treaters at the end.

[OakLeaf]

Congrats Kacie! That's so cool to get to run with your mom.

You'll do fine in the 50K, it's got to be a breeze after an Ironman, right?

[skhill]

Just an easy 3 miles this morning. But I noticed something awesome-- all the 6 or so bike commuters I saw had lights! Not all were wearing helmets, tho...

[Bike Chick]

Just an easy 3 miles this morning. But I noticed something awesome-- all the 6 or so bike commuters I saw had lights! Not all were wearing helmets, tho...

That's cool about seeing the commuters but not cool about no helmets

I just had a 2 mile recovery run today so I ran 1.3 miles to the polls, voted, then ran home!

[kacie tri-ing]

Nice 6 miler tonight. Got my last mile down to 8:15, which felt good.

[colby]

20 miles today, in honour of IMFL I ran them relatively flat and faster than usual. Time for some yoga - ankles, hips, glutes, hamstrings tired. I feel pretty good. I still am uncertain about the Bikila. Sometimes I really think they feel too much like shoes - your feet need to be the right shape for the harder rubber pattern in the sole of the shoe and my right foot just isn't. Even my left is rubbing in the arch, which is a problem I have in shoe-shoes, too. I guess I could go down a size, but the left one feels like the right size, just not quite the right fit. I miss my KSOs. I am debating another pair, a pair of Flows (but I'd have to buy the womens, not the mens because they don't make them in a 39), or carefully stitching mine up.

[HillSlugger]

Is running too fast in training a problem? A had a training plan written up for me and today's run was supposed to be at a 9:30-10:00 pace but I couldn't settle into that pace and ended up averaging 9:25. Maybe we just don't know my target paces yet since we've only been working together a week +

[colby]

Is running too fast in training a problem? A had a training plan written up for me and today's run was supposed to be at a 9:30-10:00 pace but I couldn't settle into that pace and ended up averaging 9:25. Maybe we just don't know my target paces yet since we've only been working together a week +

Once you've got them down, generally you want to settle into them because they make for different intensities. Sometimes running slower has its benefits for different things. It's all good feedback to your training plan, though - they can either tell you to slow down, or you can ask more questions about why they want you to slow down.