Monthly Archives: July 2011

States – #dailymission

The Daily Mile has a feature called Daily Mission where you are given some type of prompt and you respond.  They’ve had some good ones recently.  I’m going to see about responding to those prompts here.

One over the weekend was “How many states (countries for non-US dailymilers) have you competed in for events?”

Like most people, I responded with a list of the states:

Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Jersey, Arkansas, Georgia, Wyoming

I don’t remember all of the actual race names and dates, but a lot of the races were from my college days and I may have missed a couple!

I grew up in Ohio so did all of my junior high and high school track meets in Ohio, along with a half-marathon, and duathlon.  I’ve not live much of my adult life there so I didn’t really compete much since high school.  Going to college in Indiana I did a lot of cross-country and track meets around the state.  And living there for several years after grad-school I did a ton of races.  At least 2 years worth of the Anderson Road Runners Circuit and the DINO Trail Series, plus numerous other random races. I even was race director for 2 5k’s.  In college we also traveled to Illinois for meets and ran at the Emory Invitational every year which is in Atlanta, Georgia. We also raced at the Kenosha, Wisconsin national race course and much of the Ragnar Relay is in Wisconsin. I went to Grad School in New Jersey and did a few races while I was there including a duathlon (I did a lot of training on a boardwalk next to the Atlantic Ocean).  While I was there I never went up to New York City because their races were so expensive!  One summer I worked in Yellowstone National Park and did a race in Jackson Hole, Wyoming – basically straight up a mountain!  I went with a group of friends and ran a half marathon in Arkansas one year, that was my first post-college race that involved real travel.   Finally, moving to Minnesota, I’ve knocked off quite a few races, including my first Marathon!

What about you?

Weekly Report

Earlier this year I created a triathlon training program for Square Lake this fall – my “A” race for the year.  I wanted to build up my running miles so that I’d still be able to run a variety of races throughout the year, but also be in shape for the tri.  So I chose an Olympic distance training program with a focus on running.  BAD MOVE!

It was too much, way too much.  So this week I started a new plan that I created on BT that was setup for the exact distances of Square Lake and did a more balanced approach 2 bikes, 2 swims, and 3 runs and much more manageable time commitment. So 2 weeks in it is going pretty good.  Here are the stats from Running Ahead:

Bike: 89.4 mi

Run: 13.5 mi

Swim: 0.6 mi

YIKES! 89 miles of biking could be why my legs feel a little burnt.  Only one of those was an actual “training ride” on my Trek, the rest were commuting and riding to places.  Since I’m only training for a 5 mile run don’t expect super high running mileage, which is actually a little hard for me to accept.  It seems like it should be at least in the 25-30 mile range.  With the swim, I only did 1 of the 2 workouts.  I was waiting to hear back on doing an open water swim over the weekend but that fell through.   But still 103 miles of total training is pretty good – it will be getting a little higher in the next 2 weeks probably as the training distances increase and then will drop off suddenly in August when I’m no longer commuting.

Dailymile only said this week was “super” which is disappointing after last week’s “epic” week.

Week Stats All

Total Distance (mi)

103.34

Total Calories

6596

Total Time

02:47

Workouts

13

Friend Leaderboard

n/a

Comments Sent

5

Wish Me Luck – TC10

I opted to enter the TC10 Mile lottery today instead of renewing my USATF membership and joining the MDRA team for a guaranteed entry. The $30 membership fee plus the $65 entry seem a little expensive right now. Hopefully, I’ll get in through the lottery and I’ll be able to enjoy the “shortcut to the capital.”

Ten Mile Logo

Medtronic TC 10 Mile Lottery Registration Confirmation

Dear Nick Cross:

You are officially registered in the lottery for the 13th annual Medtronic TC 10 Mile on October 2, 2011.

Your credit card has been charged a non-refundable $5 administrative fee upon receipt of your application. No goods or services will be exchanged for this fee. If you haven’t already, you should receive an additional email from MarathonGuide.com, our registration provider, with detail of your charges.

If selected to participate in the race through the lottery, you will be charged a non-refundable, non-transferable entry fee of $65 (plus a processing fee) upon selection.

The drawing will be held on Thursday, July 21 and lottery results will be available attcmevents.org by 3 p.m. Friday, July 22.  You’ll be able to search for your lottery results on the event website so we ask that you please do not contact the Twin Cities In Motion office for results.

You will also receive an email on July 22 with lottery results.  Please make sure to check your spam filters if you do not receive the results email.

Good luck!

            

Weekly Report

According to Dailymile, I had an “Epic” week!  See their new weekly report format below.  I don’t like it as much, but they’ve revamped their website to try and monetize it.  Thus a fair amount of stuff has been put behind their pay wall.

Running  Ahead continues to provide the same stats as always and has added some new features and it remains completely free.  Though Eric did add banner ads to try and earn some revenue.  One of the new features is being able to enter your training plan into the log so that you can see what you are supposed to be doing training-wise.  I put an updated training program for the Square Lake Tri in mine. Here are the stats from RA:

Bike: 48.4 mi

Run: 7.9 mi

Swim: 0.4 mi

Daily Mile Weekly Stats All

Total Distance (mi)

56.70

Total Calories

3639

Total Time

01:51

Workouts

7

Friend Leaderboard

n/a

Comments Sent

4

Brad and I did a brick workout on Saturday morning. It didn’t end up being a true brick workout because we had too much downtime in between, but I did a light jog off the bike while he went to round up the Team World Vision runners. We biked 12 miles and ran 7 afterwards and I felt really good on the run, at 8:30 pace. We averaged about 16 miles an hour and when we realized we were late we were over 20 mph. So a pretty good confidence boosting workout.

Another great confidence booster was doing a 700 yard swim at the YWCA. I finally got into the groove at about 500 yards and then had to switch lanes at 600, so just did another 100 and called it a day! There is still a gap between 600 and 800 yards (race distance) but I still have plenty of time until race day.