Winter Run up Mt. Sentinal

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Jan 2011: A Summary

January is gone and 2011 is already rolling right along. Its amazing how quickly the year gets planned out. Ski trips this month, birthdays in March, Kaylee's first triathlon in April, trail runs in May and June, Jersey Reunion II in July and my 1 yr anniversary with my wife! then addy turns 4 in august..holy garbage.

City Brew is still graciously supplying our family with income, and I've been pushing snow here and there. We finally sold our final mobile home which was miraculous...holy life lesson (read: don't do that again). Addy is talking about learning to drive and what to name our babies, and becoming quite proficient with crayons and markers.

ok...and now pics...

its been cold, and snowy, and I've been trail running...luckily i have ice braces so i don't roll my ankle...

ice!



blue mountain...trails at 4-6,000ft, ten min from my house


another blue mtn shot



addy is making great strides in marker art


i took Addy shopping at a local market and we found mini-carts for kids...so she promptly loaded the entire cart with Dora, Cinderella and Spiderman Fruit Snacks


sometimes Addy gets bored putting babies to bed, so I fill in


i worked a promotional City Brew show in Helena. Boring, I know.


addy and I drew a monster family


new Snow Clothes from Christmas!

and now something you really care about!

fair enough raynor...im sure nobody really cares about my heart rate. as longs as i still have one.

in other news...my run for the day.
15ish miles, 2000' climbing, post-holing Wallman's Ridge and lots of downed trees!
Click to see my run!

a new direction...

this is my first post since decemeber. holy garbage. i've obviously abandoned my blog and therefore forsaken my tiny and withering reader group.

so we are heading in a new direction. this blog will now be dedicated to all things running, training, ultra-marathon, nutrition, heart rates and hundreds and hundreds of trail miles...with a few other life tidbits thrown in.

WEEK 6 Update:
3.29 to 4.4
Miles: 41
Long Run: 14

This week i began experimenting with a heart rate monitor. Instead of running at a certain pace/mile, i ran within a heart rate range. crazy stuff.

endurance training: 130-150 BPM...average at 142ish
tempo/threshold training: 165-180 BPM...average at 170

Turn outs endurance training pace/mile equates to an 8:00-8:20 min/mile while threshold pace/mile is best described as "balls out"...or 5:30-6 min/mile. painful to say the least.

I did my first "threshold" workout this week and did 3x1 mile repeats at 6:00, 5:45, and 5:31 and it hurt. I basically realized that i've built a solid base but have no top end speed, which is ok and to be expected. Also, as im training for a 50k, top end speed isnt my first priority.

Due to some arch/knee issues im backing off on my long run (14 this week) where I would typically go 16-20. I upping my mid-week runs to 8-10 miles and lowering my sunday long run. I also "only" running 40-45 miles a week right now whereas i hope to work up to 60-80 in late april/may.

ejk

life lately

this about sums it up....

Fashion In MT

Apparently i am now a ManPlanetShopper. thats cool i guess.

love you
ejk

see, wed the 4th
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the 31st day of the tenth month

today

woke up at 6:30am, nauseous, after pounding a falafel pita from Pita Pit last night at 1am. skipped b-fast (not really by choice), hopped into my bike spandex and headed out.

9am. Halloween Hustle 5k. (costumes encouraged)
i strap on my carbon fiber aero helmet (see pic above), my 80's tour de france oakleys, gaze at my freshly shaven legs (its was the first and probably last time), lace up my fancy ASICS and wait for the starting gun. as i gazed around at 25 of the jamokiest looking runners perhaps ever assembled, i felt many things. nervousness was not one.

the gun goes off and within 800 meters another "serious" looking runner and i have gaped the field by 150 meters. At the 1st mile marker my watch reads 5:18 and i felt dizzy and disinterested. the serious looking dude begins to pull away, and i start to feel apathetic and increasingly nauseous.

by mile two i am 50m off the leader and cratering. my stomach has thrown up the white flag and my body reacts. VOMIT! i slow to a walk, bend over, hurl up my double espresso along with the standard amount of bile, clear the liquid off my face and gaze around. a pre-pubescent 17 year old high school kid that has probably never touched himself passes me and beyond that...crickets. so, i mount a comeback but realize that "serious" running dude is history and little charlie is moving quickly. so i pulled the veteran card, put my legs into cruiser mode, and glided on in while blowing kisses to the audience.

finishing time= 17:40

i finished feeling refreshed, disinterested, and finally warmed up. (thats the problem with training for marathons and then attempting to run 5ks). the Trick 'r Treat One Mile Kids Runs promptly began and thus did my responsibilities. Addy (Kaylee's daughter/dressed as an adorable frog) toed the start line and looked at me and said "race?". the gun went of and we were promptly left in the dust. eight candy aid stations littered the course but we did barely saw half of them as i created our own course. conveniently we came in 3rd and bested a few other children who had run the ENTIRE course. suckers. we scooped addy's prize and bounced.