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Geat Western Half Marathon

ircsome — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:16:42 +0000

Awesome. Fabulous day. Sunny, light breeze from SW, temperature rising from about 45 to 60 degrees.

Well organized, 800 runners, about 150 no-shows. Organized by Fox River Trail Runners. Nice job!

Pizza, banana, bagels. Nice running shirt.

13.1m 2.06’51″

shamrocks are bloomin

ircsome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:04:15 +0000

Me and Charley Farley did the Shamrock Shuffle today. I love running with the kids!

I’m now in the run-up to the Fox Valley Half-Marathon.

6.8 miles door to door

ircsome — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:46:41 +0000

getting a new rhythm

ircsome — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:57:03 +0000

the thaw is coming

ircsome — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:16:39 +0000

Today it’s gonna get into the mid 50s!!!

So I should be able to get back on the Leroy Oakes trails soons.

It was so nice to get out in the sunshine today, I took off my hat and gloves halfway through the run.

Still had to go carefully over patches of ice – the freeze-thaw cycle is producing some nasty slide zones.

don’t adjust your volume when you’re running uphill

ircsome — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:01:58 +0000

Almost a full month since I ran. The weather has been lousy and it’s been too icy.

So today, for the first time in weeks with the temperature above freezing I got out and ran for 43 minutes – I’m guessing about 3.5 miles.

I’m so glad I broke the spell. It’s only 8/9 weeks to the half marathon.

lake harriet minneapolis

ircsome — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:10:19 +0000

5.1 miles of pretty level running.

snow running

ircsome — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:28:35 +0000

6.1 miles of bloody hard work through Leroy Oakes with about 6″ of untrodden snow.

Signed up for the Fox River Trail Runners half-marathon today.

i have been running … honest!

ircsome — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:58:38 +0000

It’s tough to get the miles in, in the winter.

But if you want to make sure that I’m not slacking you can take a look at the journal.

Sub-zero temperatures, 60′s yesterday, 50′s today, and I think the temperature plunges tonight.

It’s all good fun, and I’ve been playing with the ipod and trying to find tunes that hit my running rhythm – seems like my steady pace is 175bpm.

Gilberts Cross Country Challenge

ircsome — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:46:58 +0000

“Plodging through the clarts”.

That’s what we used to say when I was a kid about this sort of run. You know the sort of thing – it seems like it’s raining upwards. Your shoes get stuck in the mud and you feel as though you are running uphill all the time. It’s a 5 mile course that plays like 6. But it’s fun.

I last did this race back in 2001 (also December 2) when Tori and a bunch of her mates from Purdue Crew came. We had maybe 15-20 athletes crashed around the house – I found this old picture of some of them taken in our backyard after the race.

Here’s the results. My time 57′ 14″. 597/776.