• Home
  • About

A Runner's Story

A Runner's Story

Tag Archives: USATF

Feet First

12 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by Ed Mahoney in Running

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

USATF

chip time winSee that guy finish seemingly 6 seconds ahead of me?  Do you think his shorts are too short?  Via the technological wonder of Anti-USATF wormhole timing technology called chip time, I beat Chris Mihalik by 13 seconds.  You can’t see them but Mikki and Katja are up across the finish line ahead of me by 16 and 11 seconds respectively, panting like horses after the Derby.  Beat them too by 1 and 12 seconds respectively. Although after cyber sifting through the big race results data, I think the other girl I ran with is Dina Griffin, rather than Mikki, based on their halfway times.  If so, Dina finished strong to outpace me by 3 seconds.

The girls were out getting Ellie’s hair cut in Boulder, so I squeezed in an 8 miler for my first day of training for the Bolder Boulder on Thursday.  And per plan, I recorded the run with my Garmin.  I’m not going to bother linking to it, but the results are on my Garmin site.  I left the timer running about 7 minutes after I stopped running so disregard that pace on the last segment if you review it.  I did a 3 mile jaunt in my minimalist shoes Wednesday but that was a post Boulder Half recovery run in terms of loosening up.  Whenever I run that short, I take the opportunity to run in my minimalist flats.  Today was my first run based on my 7 minute BB training plan.

I went for distance because I had the time and could.  I felt good starting out and felt like I was going to run fast but slowed down after the first mile, mostly running a 9 minute pace.  Not an impressive start to my 7 minute pace plans but the distance was good.  One thing I did was concentrate on my foot work.  Whenever I did, I noticed my speed pick up.  What I mean by this is I would purposely block out all thoughts to focus on how I carried and landed my feet.  I concentrated on keeping my toes pointed downward and landing mid foot.  I could only do it for a few minutes at a time before my thoughts would drift to work or something else, but it was a good exercise.  I’m starting this 2 month training plan feet first and will move to fartleks when I have more energy.  I hope to be able to run fartleks at least once a week.  Maybe twice but I also want to have runs where I start out slow the first two miles and then gracefully speed up to my half marathon race pace.  I plan to run with my neighbors on the Mesa Trail Saturday.  That will focus on distance – likely over 10 miles.  Can’t ignore distance.  A week after the Bolder Boulder, I have a marathon in Steamboat.

40.137598 -105.107652

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • More
  • Tumblr
  • Email
  • Print

Like this:

Like Loading...

Search this blog

  • Boulder Marathon
  • Britt&Eric
  • Colorado Trail
  • Covid-19
  • covid-noir
  • cyber war
  • Ellie Rose
  • Geek Horror
  • Marathons
  • Margot
  • Medical Files
  • Novel
  • Other Stories
  • Politics
  • ReBlog
  • Running
  • Snowboard
  • Snowshoe
  • Storytelling
  • training plan
  • Victoria BC

Buy Full Spectrum Cyberwar at Amazon

Buy Cyber War I at Amazon

Buy on Amazon India for ₹99

Buy on Amazon U.K. for £2.27

English Edition on Amazon Germany

Buy on Amazon Brazil for R$11.29

Archives

Blog Stats

  • 134,559 hits

Girlfriend Cult

Recent Comments

Ed Mahoney on Adelsverein
Cynthia L Finney on Adelsverein
Ed Mahoney on Adelsverein
Ed Mahoney on Adelsverein
A lo Hawk on Adelsverein

Recent Posts

  • Adelsverein January 28, 2023
  • A Runner’s Day January 7, 2023
  • Last Run of the Year December 31, 2022
  • Christmas, for me… December 26, 2022
  • Craft Shopping for Christmas December 10, 2022
  • A Slow, Late Fall Run November 25, 2022
  • November Runs November 20, 2022
  • Tech Debt November 19, 2022
  • The Runner’s Field of Battle November 13, 2022
  • Stealin’ from God October 24, 2022
  • A New Start October 23, 2022
  • Baby Margot Birthday October 9, 2022
  • The City of Flowers September 24, 2022
  • Dog Park by the Sea September 19, 2022
  • The Lane of Pain September 17, 2022
  • Run Rabbit Run August 28, 2022
  • Wild Horses August 21, 2022
  • The Day Running Died August 17, 2022
  • Boulder Marathon Training – Week One August 7, 2022
  • Mount Sanitas July 30, 2022
  • The Trail and Me July 23, 2022
  • Mount Zirkel Wilderness July 13, 2022
  • Full Team Hike July 4, 2022
  • Village to Village July 3, 2022
  • Beaver Creek July 2, 2022
  • Summer is Here June 12, 2022
  • Birthdays May 22, 2022
  • Fall River Road March 25, 2022
  • A Tale of Two Gerasimov’s March 11, 2022
  • The Hero February 26, 2022
  • Full Spectrum Cyberwar February 24, 2022
  • Run Nan, Run February 20, 2022
  • Running Sunrise to Sunset February 13, 2022
  • Cyberpunk Runner February 5, 2022
  • A Winter’s Run January 15, 2022
  • Turkmenistan January 2, 2022
  • Counting Families at Christmas December 26, 2021
  • Austin Boardwalk December 23, 2021
  • Like Christmas for the First Time December 19, 2021
  • Restoration November 27, 2021
  • India Kinks November 15, 2021
  • Run a Little, Write a Little November 6, 2021
  • Horizons October 30, 2021
  • The Vitality Kick and other Abnormal Obsessive Behaviors October 19, 2021
  • The Ten Week Plan October 11, 2021
  • Pearl Street Marathon October 10, 2021
  • Confidence Builder October 2, 2021
  • Margot Faye September 25, 2021
  • Due Day September 12, 2021
  • Beats per Minute September 6, 2021

Colorado=Security

Blogroll

  • Alohawk's Blog
  • Barbie's Blog
  • Boggy Creek Lumpster
  • George Schools Blog
  • I, Cringely
  • Prostate Chronicles
  • Shut Up + Run
  • Sustainable Sunrise
  • The Rogue Botanist

Web Sites

  • Amazon Author Page
  • Austin Marathon
  • Bolder Boulder
  • Brit's YouTube Songs
  • Colorado Marathon
  • Colorado Runner Magazine
  • Colorado Trail
  • Girlfriend Cult
  • Lobo Media Ltd
  • My YouTube Site
  • Race Pace Calculator
  • Shoes & Brews
  • Trail Runner Magazine
  • Zaremba Graphic & Web Solutions

Goodreads

Top Posts & Pages

  • Foot Fetish
  • Day 1
  • Day 3
  • Winter Secret
  • Adelsverein

Top Clicks

  • wordpress.com/?ref=footer…

RSS Feed

  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • A Runner's Story
    • Join 246 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • A Runner's Story
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: