I ran 4 times over the past 6 days, 17.55 miles, and ran 1 race, the Photofinish K.
Monday, 9/22/2014 and Tuesday, 9/23/2014: Straight up rest days ... necessary but boring.
The Fall TV schedule has started up in full force. My darling wife, Christine, and I are taping the following shows: Under the Dome (season just ended), Dallas (season just ended), Madame Secretary (new), Gotham (new), Scorpion (new), NCIS, NCIS LA, NCIS New Orleans, Nashville, The Mysteries of Laura (new), Agents of SHIELD, Person of Interest, Hawaii Five-O and Franklin and Bash.
Wednesday, 9/24/2014: 8 miles, 1:04:17, 8:02 pace, 75F, 47% RH, 7 mph SSE wind, sunny.
Garmin Connect Activity for A nice 8 mile run.
I needed to run so I went out and ran after my usual pre-run bowl of cereal. I started out OK and kept it going when my legs felt good. My splits were: 7:57, 7:59, 8:02, 7:59, 8:10, 8:01 and 8:00.
I had a bit of trouble uploading my data from my Garmin Forerunner 310XT. I had to delete the ANT+ agent, disconnect the ANT+ USB device, reload the ANT+ agent, reconnect the ANT+ USB device, delete the Forerunner 310XT that it already knew it had and let the ANT+ find the Forerunner 310XT again. Then I had wait while it downloaded all the runs again ... which took about 45 minutes. Then I could connect to connect.garmin.com/dashboard. But I couldn't upload to runkeeper.com, dailymile.com or strava.com without uploading a .TCX file. Before I could just upload without the hassle of saving the .TCX file from connect.garmin.com/dashboard first. I know how to get it back ... I just have to find out how I did it about 4 months ago and go through that hassle again.
Thursday, 9/25/2014: 5.25 miles, 42:26, 8:04 pace, 70F, 53% RH, 8 mph SE wind, sunny
Garmin Connect Activity for A Char run
I normally don't do Fleet Feet runs anymore but I had an ulterior motive ... more on that later. My darling wife, Christine, and I headed down to the Strathallan (also home of the Char Steak and Lounge) for the Char pub run. Christine hadn't really wanted to go and ended up just dropping me off ... she promised to pick me up later. I just had what I had on ... no water and no clothes for post-run. About 100 runners congregated outside and off we went!
I chose the 5 mile-ish option (actually 4.3). I headed out nice, easy and in the lead. This run was a bit more dangerous because we are on sidewalk at times, it was downtown and it was during rush hour. So ... I was more cautious. I had to wait for traffic lights twice. Still ... my splits were: 8:25, 7:47, 8:02, 8:26 and 7:45 over the last 0.25 mile (I added a loop at the end).
The post race grub for $12 and cash bar for beverages were on the 9th floor on the roof. I didn't partake of the grub. But first ... I signed up for the brand spanking new Four Season Challenge. That means that I committed to running 4 Fleet Feet half marathons in 2015: the brand new Winter Warrior Half in January, the Flower City Half in April, the Shoreline Half (link not updated with correct date) in July and the Rochester Half (link not updated with correct date) in September. I will get the standard finisher's medal plus a different Challenge medal piece when I finish each one. All 4 Challenge medal pieces fit together to make one monstrous medal ... kind of cool!
I talked with Chris O'Brien and Bill Murphy about their Rochester Full experiences last Sunday. Both said that they didn't really get downpoured on. Chris did get rained but Bill just had a bit of mist. I guess it all depended on where you were!
It was the mid 60s after the run but the combination of my sweaty tech shirt, the fire pit on the roof and a slight breeze in the night air chilled me to the bone. I went down to the street and waited for Christine. She had a headache but did come down to pick me up. A hot shower soon fixed me up.
Friday, 9/26/2014: Rest day before a race
Saturday, 9/27/2014: 2 runs of 1.2 miles and Photofinish 5K of 3.1 miles, 60F, sunny
I was up before dawn at 6AM for my second running of the Photofinish 5K at the George Eastman House. I tried to wake my darling wife, Christine, but since she had trouble sleeping the night before she begged off and went back to sleep. I dressed quietly and ended out for the quick 10 minute drive downtown. I parked at the Rochester Museum and Science Center at 7:15PM in plenty of time for the 8AM start. Then I found that I had forgotten my Garmin Forerunner 310XT. I thought about heading back to get it but I decided to use Strava on my Iphone 5 instead.
I headed out for a 1.2 mile warmup run, 8:04 pace, link here. It was a beautiful morning. It was a bit cool but sunny and calm. I didn't carry water and didn't have any time to get any water before the start. There was some youths at the start so I stayed to the right of them. I saw Jason "Jmac" McElwain before the start.
And ... we were off! I made it up to speed quickly. Jmac was soon out of sight. The youths to the left of me flamed out within the first half mile. I made it sure that I didn't run into them when they stopped in the middle of the road. The first mile passed in 6:40. I think two people passed me during the last two miles as I kept my pace and position. Mile 2 passed in 6:56 and mile 3 passed in 6:48. I passed one runner over the last 0.1 mile at 6:42 pace. And ... done in 21:15 as I entered my passcode to shut down Strava. I soon saw Bob Dyjak who said that it was his last hard run before the West Virginia marathon next weekend.
I looked at the results. Officially, I finished in 21:10, :50 pace, 29th out of 1201, link here. I was 4th out of 74 in my M50-59 age group, link here. I felt good about my race. I would have liked to break 21, like last year's 20:44, but I did the best I could. I walked back to the Cruze and headed home with a brief stop at the ClassyChassy carwash.
Much later, Christine and I headed out to look for another car. We headed to Bob Johnson Chevrolet first. We wanted to look at the Equinox but it was near closing time and no one came to help us. So ... we headed out down the street to Fucillo KIA. We test drove a 2014 KIA Sportage. We liked it and looked into a lease. We will find out whether we get the lease price per month that we want on Monday. However we didn't like the vibe we got from the TWO finance managers that we spoke with. Yes, we would love to be "HUGE" and get that Samsung 51" HDTV for a lease in the month of September but it's got to be a deal that works for us.
We were starved so we headed to Famous Dave's for supper.
Friday, 9/26/2014: Rest day before a race
Saturday, 9/27/2014: 2 runs of 1.2 miles and Photofinish 5K of 3.1 miles, 60F, sunny
I was up before dawn at 6AM for my second running of the Photofinish 5K at the George Eastman House. I tried to wake my darling wife, Christine, but since she had trouble sleeping the night before she begged off and went back to sleep. I dressed quietly and ended out for the quick 10 minute drive downtown. I parked at the Rochester Museum and Science Center at 7:15PM in plenty of time for the 8AM start. Then I found that I had forgotten my Garmin Forerunner 310XT. I thought about heading back to get it but I decided to use Strava on my Iphone 5 instead.
I headed out for a 1.2 mile warmup run, 8:04 pace, link here. It was a beautiful morning. It was a bit cool but sunny and calm. I didn't carry water and didn't have any time to get any water before the start. There was some youths at the start so I stayed to the right of them. I saw Jason "Jmac" McElwain before the start.
 |
| A sweaty selfie after the Photofinish 5K |
Much later, Christine and I headed out to look for another car. We headed to Bob Johnson Chevrolet first. We wanted to look at the Equinox but it was near closing time and no one came to help us. So ... we headed out down the street to Fucillo KIA. We test drove a 2014 KIA Sportage. We liked it and looked into a lease. We will find out whether we get the lease price per month that we want on Monday. However we didn't like the vibe we got from the TWO finance managers that we spoke with. Yes, we would love to be "HUGE" and get that Samsung 51" HDTV for a lease in the month of September but it's got to be a deal that works for us.
We were starved so we headed to Famous Dave's for supper.
 |
| My supper |
 |
| Christine's supper |
