Tuesday Jan 1, 2019

[Handsome Jack]

8 miles. Mild day!

[Richard21142]

Weights plus rowing

[Coyote Mas Loco]

9.2 on treadmill, sub 0 outside

[Fast Eddie]

16.5K wind chilled. 

[Ice Cream]

4 mile run, 2 mile walk

[the kenyan]

I did the Revolution Run!  5 hour timed race around the indoor track at Utah's Olympic Oval, where I believe speed skating events were held during the 2002 olympics.  Pretty cool venue;  lots of people, but 442 meters per lap made things a lot less chaotic than they could've been, despite making the math as far as distance completed a little trickier.  I've been wanting to do this race for years and finally got around to signing up, then immediately came down with a nasty chest cold.  Felt a little better the day of the race, but knew after a couple laps that I was expending way too much energy for the pace and scaled it way back.  So 'running' was a very generous term.   Fortunately I had time to work with.   This event gets the whole spectrum from people who show up to walk a couple laps to the hardy souls who go the distance and crank out like 40 miles.   I stuck to my original goal and did 51 laps, figuring that a bunch of people would stop between 47 (a half marathon) and 50 cuz it's a nice round number.  I was right and it was good for top 25% or so and somehow 3rd in my age group.  It just took a lot longer than I wanted.  This format definitely favors the stubborn. 

It was fun and terrible all at the same time.  But I'd love to do it again when I'm closer to 100%.   Going from barely running at all and 2-3 miles at a time to 14 on a hard indoor track probably wasn't one of my more brilliant ideas, but here's to leading the 2019 mileage board!  Feeling pretty good today all things considered. 

[the kenyan]

No course cutting nonsense here either!  Unless you want to get run down by a bunch of speed skaters.