In my post college age of running, here are my current PR’s
5k- 24:09 - Chocolate Chase Rabbit Race 5k 2009
8k- 41:17 - Shamrock Shuffle 2010
10k - The time was never posted online, I’ll have to get it off my Garmin - Run for the Butter 2009
10 mile - 1:24:37 - Soldier Field 10 Mile 2009
Half Marathon - 1:56:44 - Chicago 13.1 2009
Marathon - 4:33:05 - Chicago Marathon 2009
50K - 6:06:09 - Chicago Lakefront Ultra
My original goal this year was to lower my half to at least sub 1:55, and my Marathon to 4:15, but bombing at the Illinois Marathon didn’t let that happen. That 50K time will taunt me until I do another one, since all i wanted to do was go under 6 hrs but the wind that day just crushed me and I ended up walking a lot. One day I’d like to see my 5K time get back to below 20 like it was in high school. So with the exception of my 10k time, that’s were I stand, and you all know where you stack up against me.
billhinton asked: Hard finding a guy on a website when you're not 100% sure his name is Mike(Michael in this case) and you're 100% sure you don't know his last name haha. I won the internet though.
Yeah, I woke up very impressed this morning when I checked my email. I figured I would find you, since you’re name is pretty obvious. Nice, sorta creepy, work
billhinton asked: What are your current PR's for your races? Kinda nice being able to talk to someone about running, all my friends look at me like an idiot when I talk about it haha
I was just thinking about this the other day. I’ll look them all up and post them. Perhaps it will be some good motivation to lower those numbers, since some are a little too high for my liking.
I’m currently looking up how much a blimp would cost. I think blimp captain has a nice ring to it.
Things look promising
billhinton asked: Do you ever use any gels before running? I don't know if its just me, but I try and get GU rocktain in before my long runs and I usually feel incredible. I don't usually get much caffeine in my system but I really think it helps. Plus the carbs/calories before the run are a definite plus
I use gels on runs longer than 10 miles typically. So usually just my weekend runs. GU Roctane did nothing for me in terms of what everyone says it does, which is make you feel like a god basically. I use the Powerbar gels because that’s what they hand out at the Chicago Marathon, so that’s what I train with so I’m used to the consistency and all that. Not to mention I load up there.
Anyways. I don’t take them before, and I’ll usually only take one or two during a training run (versus the 8 or so I took in Chicago 2009). I like the “train low, race high” mentality. Sort of like getting my body used to being tired, so then when it really is tired, it seems normal. Probably flawed but oh well.
I need to buy some gels actually. Thanks for the reminder.
I have this incredible urge to listen to House music for the rest of the day.
