Tomorrow will be my first race of this year’s season. I am nervous, I must say, but I am also getting very excited to do my longest trail race ever!
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Manage road half marathon today, wanted to go slow ans easy, breathing through nose and all.
Very hot weather, the whole #lyon population was probably hanging out in park Tête d'or.

Disappointed to find out I was over 150 BPM most of the time, which explains the heavy legs near the end.
#trailrunning
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#running

Just one more week until Tatton Park 10k and a 60 minute progression run in the bag. 25 minutes easy, 25 minutes tempo and 5 minutes race pace. Wanted to keep pace as steady in the sections as possible so allowed hr to rise on the inclines #running #progressionrun #onehourrun #tattonpark10k #polarrunning #runnersofmastodon

Missed out on a run yesterday so made it up with a double album run today. Started off with the joyful Stakka Bo - Supermarket, lyrics are still apt today as it was back in '93. This helped me through the forest and the sandy tracks to the beach. Where Rage Against the Machine as always kicked butt, serious air drums and screaming along to Killing in the name, Bombtrack and Bullet in the Head etc was only heard by the wind and the waves as I did nearly 3.5km all alone on the beach.

Beautiful sunny morning. Had a few muscular twinges and aches going out. They are all still there, but nothing got much worse on the run.
24 miles done, so my longest run before the marathon (and ever!) It's still 4 weeks out, so I'll still keep the miles up, but spread them out over the week.
Pleased I've got this far, I always thought these distances were beyond me.
#longrun #MarathonTraining #firstmarathontraining #running #runnersofmastodon
#garmin #beatyesterday

Easy trailrun in again beautiful weather. #ijsselloop is in one week so taper has begun .
I found my old chest strap hart rate monitor and tried out today. I got some pretty strange readings, from running through the grass at 6:15 pace with a heart rate dropping below 100 to running at ease with a heart rate of 192 (both of wich are impressive at my age ). Maybe it's time for a new one.

Somehow, my fall last week wasn't without consequences. Apparently, I overstretched the ligaments in my left ankle a bit. It feels very stiff during the 1st km. So I'm going to slow down a bit now. @WTL I was in zone 1 for almost the entire 10k. I'll mark that red in the calendar.
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Today I finished my last #run of 15 weeks of training for the #halfmarathon in #Bonn. I'm thankful that I had no issues with my knee the whole time. This year, I won't aim for a new personal best (1:33:45), even though both #Garmin & #Stryd predict almost the same finish time as last year.
I think anything under 1:39:59 is fine. The big goal this year is the #Marathon in #Cologne — and for that, I still have many limits to push
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Shake out run 4km @ 6’30/km, 32m EG

#MilanoMarathon: day -1

More progress on my GPS , GPX comparison tracker!

Still not what I want, but I am getting close!

To do:

I want to move the data labels to a table
Calculate the difference between them
color the faster day
change the day to a colored dot matching the track
sort them the fastest on top
….

So close and yet so far!

My goal will be to try to finish. I am not interested in a finishing time.

That is why I will start on Sunday without any form of registration: no watch, no chest strap or Stryd footpod. Just running on my feeling.

Just have fun and walk at the water points, making sure not to spill any water.

#hardlopen #running #runnersofmastodon #MilanoMarathon https://mastodon.nl/@wheel/114280685038736469

A relaxed 15km trail run with 500m EG very close to where I live. Even though I've run here many times, every season has its own special magic There's no doubt that spring has finally arrived here in the mountains as well!

Tomorrow till Friday I'm off to #London for #QConLondon, which I'm really looking forward to. Let's see how much running I get to do here

#Garmin #BeatYesterday #QCon #TrailRunning #Running @running #RunnersOfMastodon #Tirol #Laufen

My fueling strategy for #MilanoMarathon looks like this:

Yesterday and today a drink mix.

Tomorrow: a drink mix and a bar.

Sunday: drink mix and two or three bars for breakfast.
Just before the start a gel and during the race a gel every five kilometers. From km 25 alternated with a caffeine gel.

If anyone has experience with the marathon and has a better alternative, I'd love to hear about it.

Short and sweet easy 3 in d sunshine - I luv 2 run in d sun stopped on d park for a swing and a - Mrs didn’t get d memo (I never sent it ) about no cake ah well lol #Running #runnersofmastodon #Health #fitness #Sport #athlete #runner #sunshine #Music #april #Friday #Weekend #cake #mentalhealth #mindfulness #2025 #earlyretirement
#smiths that was for KDB #CTID

I just picked up my bib..

#MilanoMarathon: days -2

Just a quick round this morning not much time. Packed calendar. #tgif #runnersofmastodon #run #running

On March 31, I ran the Grand Canyon R2R2R with a coworker.

We started at the South Kaibab trailhead at ~6:30 AM, made our way north to the Colorado River, crossed the bridge to Phantom Ranch, headed north through Cottonwood towards Manzanita, then made the eastward turn towards North Kaibab. Once we reached the north rim, we retraced our route back to the south rim, finishing ~9:00 PM.

44 miles, 12,000 feet elevation gain, 14.5 hours.

I RAN IN SHORTS TODAY

Which is especially surreal considering we had a snow storm about 24h ago

It’s also VERY windy, so I felt especially tired, sometimes like the wind was carrying me away. Gusts up to 64km/h here.

I survived but it wasn’t my best run. Just glad I could wear shorts!

Today I ran in the park near #Kockelscheuer On the flat asphalt track around the pond, many runners do their interval training during their lunch break. I love intervals... especially when I can watch others doing it.
#running #runnersOfMastodon #Luxembourg

30 minutes recovery was today’s planned run, managed to keep both hr and pace nice and slow which was good considering the route was quite undulating. #running #recoveryrun #slowrunning #easyrunning #adidasrunning #runnersofmastodon #RunningCommunity