Sunday, August 30, 2009

Sunday 083009

  • Today I ran with several folks including two established authors in the running world, (Mike – also a CU letter winner in XC, and Gerry – 2:26 marathoner at the age of 40 and still zippy in his later 60s), the former world record holder in the 10k, a guy who works for Bill Gates (yes, that Bill Gates)and a Buddhist teacher. I was probably the guy with the slowest PRs, the least credentialed, and the youngest. Amazing group.
  • 2:25 up at Heil Ranch, enjoying great conversation, fellowship, and as to be expected - giving each other a hard time. 14+ miles with 1600 feet of climbing. Most of it was pretty easy running. We did do a stretch up a hill for about a mile where the effort was pushed a bit (170s). I had never been to Heil. It is a very pretty spot.
  • Great Sunday run. Month stats update ... this week is 77 miles, ~11 hours. This puts me 254 miles on August with four days off, 2351 miles on the year, 20865 minutes

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  1. Justin MockAugust 30, 2009 at 8:10 PM

    Any idea why the US 10K Trail Championships is called the Continental Divide Trail Race? It's in North Carolina! What am I missing?

    Still no results, but judging by the entries posted on USATF, I'm guessing it was Toni Salucci that won the women's race and Michael Spence the mens.

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  2. Brandon FullerAugust 30, 2009 at 8:49 PM

    Heil is fun. They have a connection to Hall Ranch from there now too. Need to run it but have to setup a shuttle. Let me know if you want to do it. We could park one car in Lyons, head to Heil, run Heil, then Hall, then finish by drinking at OB in Lyons!

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  3. GZAugust 31, 2009 at 4:39 AM

    Justin - I was wondering the same thing. North Carolina folks I guess ...

    I'd be game for that Brandon. How long would the whole loop be? (nice post btw on being the Star Trek enginerd on your car ... )

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  4. UnknownAugust 31, 2009 at 4:47 AM

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  5. RickAugust 31, 2009 at 4:49 AM

    There's an ECD as well for other water run off reasons.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Continental_Divide

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  6. GZAugust 31, 2009 at 4:58 AM

    Ok.

    (but there are hydrologic divides everywhere ...)

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  7. RickAugust 31, 2009 at 6:52 AM

    Yea, I don't know how they determine all of this. There's even a Continential Divide sign as you head North out of Flagstaff, AZ. But I'm pretty sure it's not the same Divide that goes thru CO...

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  8. McDuffAugust 31, 2009 at 10:09 AM

    I'd say that was quite amazing group to run with. Who runs in Crocs by the way?

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  9. Brandon FullerAugust 31, 2009 at 10:52 AM

    8 miles through Heil. A mile to Hall. A loop around Hall is 10 miles. Another mile to town. Call it a 20 miler.

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  10. GZAugust 31, 2009 at 11:38 AM

    MK ... the Buddhist teacher. But they were for after.

    I like the sound of that 20 miler this fall - particularly since you are now a full on mileage whore BF.

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  11. Brandon FullerAugust 31, 2009 at 1:45 PM

    You are just jealous and probably mad because you lost for one month of the year!

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  12. GZAugust 31, 2009 at 1:47 PM

    I'll take the 6-2 W-L.

    You gonna get 400 in September?

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  13. Brandon FullerAugust 31, 2009 at 2:01 PM

    Something tells me that isn't in my best interest with a fast marathon attempt in Oct. We will see.

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