Yesterday I took Stacy down to the greenbelt for her first trail run. We ran from my buddy Jims apartment to Sculpture Falls, which was the perfect time and distance for her first foray into off road runnin. I think she might have even had close to as much fun as I did.
We ran 3.04 miles in 32:31. Splits:
11:35 – 10:05 – 9:12 – 1:38
-Travis
I woke up this morning and couldn’t decide if I wanted to run or not. I then remembered that we needed butter, and I was jonesin for some toast. So I took the long way to the grocery store and ran home with some butter.
Ran 3.34 miles in 25 minutes. Splits:
7:56 – 7:23 – 7:16 – 2:24
Avg. HR – 139 / Max HR – 159
-Travis
This morning I was back running with Team Rogue. It was an extremely light day in regards to attendance, but that didn’t bother me at all. Ran and chatted with one of the most inspiring and talented runners I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, good ole Paul Terranova. Click on his name to check out his newest mission, completing four ultra races (100 miles each) and finishing out the year with the 2012 Hawaii Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Kailua-Kona on October 13, 2012. Amazing.
This morning was just straightforward running.
Ran 10.56 miles in 1:15:00. Splits:
8:15 – 7:34 – 7:29 – 6:46 – 7:10 – 7:07 – 6:47 – 6:41 – 6:41 – 6:29 – 3:59
-Travis
Forgot to post my run last night. Not much to say, other than I should have waited more than an hour after eating dinner.
Ran 4.32 miles in 30 minutes. Splits:
7:49 – 6:44 – 6:46 – 6:44 – 1:57
Avg. HR – 159 / Max HR – 179
-Travis
Wasn’t able to make it to practice this morning. Had time to eek out a short run with a couple short little pickups in the middle.
Ran 4.34 miles in 30 minutes. Splits:
7:32 – 6:22 – 6:44 – 6:42 – 2:37
-Travis
Today is my most amazingly beautiful girlfriends birthday, and I was lucky enough to get to go on a run with her to cap it off.
Went pretty easy most all of the run, save for a couple little bits of speeding up. As usual a very nice progression run with the little lady.
Ran 5.34 miles in 45:02. Splits:
9:19 – 8:19 – 8:26 – 8:12 – 8:09 – 2:36
-Travis
This morning was the second race in the Rogue Trail Series, and it was at Emma Long Motorcycle park. Running on a motorcycle trail was very interesting, but there were quite a few nicely bermed turns, and a whole lot of rock. If I had to sum up the trail out there it would be lots of rock stairs broken up by short spurts of twisty but flat trail.
The race course was an abrubt turn onto single track (narrow trail, single file style) almost immediately. After the initial shuffle I ended up in 5th place when we went single file, and almost immediately one of the guys right behind me goes down after tripping on one of the many roots or rocks in that section. Right about that time I looked at the front of the pack to see what Warren was doing, and that ended up being the last glimpse of Warren (who one the last race as well as this one) I would get for the rest of the race…he took off to say the least. While part of me really wishes I was in the position to try and go with him, I wasn’t, and the rest of the race just sort of just happened. Within seconds of Warren being out of sight I decided that I wasn’t going to hang out behind the couple guys in front of me so I made a pass or two, which left one more person in front of me. Here is where the race just sort of fell into my grasp, I hear what sounds like plastic bouncing off the ground, and the guy in front of me takes a quick glance towards the ground. I had the thought go through my head that maybe his timing chip (which straps onto the ankle) had fallen off, and right when I decided that couldn’t have happened cause he was still running, a guy behind both of us hollered “did someone loose a timing chip?” which led to the guy in front of me slowing down while saying “YEAH, thanks!” and stopping to retrieve it. After that it was basically a solo trail run for me, I kept thinking I was hearing footsteps behind me but never saw anyone.
Finished 2nd overall!
Ran 5.89 miles in 46:47. Splits:
7:34 – 7:42 – 7:45 – 8:30 – 8:20 – 6:53
Avg. HR – 167 / Max HR – 179
The garmin obviously got a little behind on the timing and mileage (probably due to the tree cover).
Right after I finished my stomach evacuated the small amount of water I had ingested pre-race. So that was nice.
Overall a really great race. I think I’m really starting to enjoy these trail races.
-Travis
