Broomfield BLUE
Well they all don’t go well. Perspective, lesson learned. Heavy work week = poor prep, excuses/lack of effort. Whether you travel 2 time zones away or kick it local – you put on the bib, you give 110%. Marathon limped into November (after an amazing October). Sad face.
Saturday HOME: laundry, toilets & house cleaning – yep, I do that too. Menial tasks provide an unexpected mental lift. Tasks you start/do/complete without much thinking, almost methodical. Let’s the mind relax: Insta-results. Effort rewarded/job well done, no training miles required.
Time change Sunday, an extra hour of life. Body clock still wired early. Reset all time-keepers (even the Jeep), double-walked Pup, purchased groceries, load of dishes AND ran 26.2 miles.
Broomfield Blue, day’s run theme – only prerace thought put into this week’s long run. Running tights, cap, double shirt’d (blue over blue), everything BLUE (dude: RED gloves). Plugged address into Google maps, 18 minute drive – city parked, pinned my bib, 7 minutes ’til Start. Small urban trail event, inaugural marathon – signed up/registered to support my neighboring Flatirons community. Not easy to organize a BRAND NEW MARATHON: gather permits, address tens of emails, secure volunteers. Gotta support your peeps. Much appreciated Broomfield folks!
Overcast & cold. Season’s first run outta shorts. Regrets none, flurries blew second Half.
First mile asphalt, next 7 trail. Steep elevation climb. Hit it hard, hit it fast. Always go out too quick, I’m a lousy pacer. Posted a 7:43/mile – I don’t run that fast. Assume Strava got hacked.
Most of the next 10 miles, blah. Ran the bike path ‘long Highway 36. Exposed, ZERO trees, big truck fumes. Notta fan. Great support/volunteers every 2 miles – just hard to hide the ugly.
Gut blew before Half. No meds. Self-diagnosed myself cured after 4 great run weeks. Entirely avoidable, super frustrating.
LONG 2nd Half, THREE long hours. Wind picked up/cold. Notta lotta opportunities to drop. Last 4-5 miles within city o’ Broomfield spotlighted town buildings, manicured parks – unfortunately mentally shot; adverse weather: head down/fought to finish.
Handed a medal, reclused in the Jeep: HEAT cranked up HIGH. Meds, shower, hour nap. Better luck next week.
Frown upside DOWN? Baseball cap, big comfy sweats & a giant Coke. Movie nite solves everything 😊
Broomfield Trails Marathon
Sunday, November 4, 2018
HAGA K R LOUISVILLE 1035 05:05:32
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- Westminster EXPO
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- week’s ‘long run’
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- inaugural marathon
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- We ARE Broomfield
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, aka ‘Michelangelo’: the greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
October 2018 update: 4 weeks, 4 marathons. Top 2 times of 2018 posted – including a new Canadian PR on Prince Edward Island. Diet on point, training miles met. Never more than 225 previously, this month: 317 – THREE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN miles.
50 State Challenge, down to 9. Canada 2020, on target – 4 provinces remain.
Only 75 days from my BIGGEST RUN ADVENTURE EVER! Funds wired, flights booked, evac insurance purchased. Santiago ✈ Puntas Arenas CHILE ✈️ Antarctica.
DREAM, execute, BELIEVE. ANYTHING is POSSIBLE.
Race ReCap: 4 marathons, 3 time zones, 2nd straight month both US & Canadian runs.
Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota’s Twin Cities; Canada’s smallest provincial capital: Charlottetown; casino-riddled Atlantic City, New JERSEY; and my 2nd largest marathon EVER – Marine Corps, 26.2 miles thru Arlington (VIRGINIA) & Washington DC.
Marathoning Streak: 59 months; FIVE consecutive weekends
Mileage ReCap: ended October at 915 miles (24 miles behind GOAL)
Everyone has the same 24hr day. Prioritize. Ruthlessly. @alexisohanian
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- ended October at 915 miles
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- Mile 915: Hydro, OK
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- my postcard journey
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- stretch goal met ✅
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- IV fail – ouch!
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- movie season begins 🙂
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- 75 days ’til Antarctica
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- 50 States x2 Challenge
Marathon Calendar:
- 11/04/2018 Broomfield Trails Marathon (Broomfield, Colorado)
- 11/10/2018 Nashville Marathon (Nashville, Tennessee)
- 11/17/2018 Magnolia Marathon (Meridian, Mississippi)
- 12/01/2018 Falls 100 Trail Marathon (Falls of Rough, Kentucky)
- 12/08/2018 Kiawah Island Marathon (Kiawah Island, S Carolina)
- 12/29/2018 Run for the Ranch Marathon (Springfield, Missouri)
- 01/01/2019 Texas Marathon (Kingwood, Texas)
- 01/15/2019 White Continent 50k (King George Island, ANTARCTICA)
Union Station
Marathon by morning, Capitol Tour by night.
Can’t take credit for tonite’s MAGIC under lights. Stephen pre-purchased two 7pm tickets while I was still flying DIA to Reagan. Early in from New Hampshire, he half-day toured the Smithsonian History Museum – met up at the Expo. Post-marathon, fancy lunch’d together; Lyft-commuted to Washington’s Union Station quarter-past 6. Life’s BEST moments are oft better shared 🙂
‘Don’t be late’ – first come, first serve seating on Sunday’s double-decker BUS.
Lite rain. Wore Bismarck beanie swag, all part of the adventure. Poncho & a seat in the open air. Ready, ready to see D.C. Element-exposed but BEST spot to soak up our Capitol under lights.
Never EVER toured before at NIGHT. AWESOME experience & Sunday night, notta lotta traffic. Historic DC drive-bys, short White House stop, half-hour Lincoln Memorial walkabout.
LOVE LOVE our country. SUPER FUN nite.
Let it rain, Let it rain. I won’t melt, it’s only water ☂️
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- Jefferson Memorial
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- U.S. Capitol Building
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- WWII Memorial
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- the White House
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- Lincoln Memorial
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- Honest Abe
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- Gettysburg Address
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- National Mall
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- AWESOME at NIGHT
