Friday, December 3, 2010

4000K in the bank ... Last Months Training, Egg Nog Jog coming up.




I officially surpassed 4000k, 2500 miles for you non metric people last Sunday. That pushes me past my running totals for last year with still a month to go. Not as many miles as I had hoped but I lost some time due to injuries so I am very happy with it.

November ended up being a decent training month for me. That in spite of my super cement legs and crunchy ankle….. mmmm… crunchy. I slowly have been building my mileage back up from scratch and ended up getting in 400k for the month. More importantly I am finally starting to feel somewhat normal again with most of my easy runs starting to fall back into my regular pace. Not quite there yet but instead of one good run a week its becoming 3 or 4. I am looking forward to putting some harder workouts back into the mix in the coming weeks.

November was tough for me. Behaving myself is not one of my strong suits. I managed to not race in November. That’s right you heard me, NO racing in November. You have to go back to February 2009 to find the last month I went raceless. Don’t worry though that’s not going to last. Next weekend it will be off to Terra Cotta for the Egg Nog Jog. It will be hilly, it will be cold and we will race the ever popular 10.8 distance because as you all know 10k is just too damn short.

Last year after I finished this race I swore I would never run it again. We ran in horrible weather conditions and the course was, well lets just say it was challenging. Okay actually it was kind of the winter version of hell. You know the saying when hell freezes over? Well it did last year in Terra Cotta. Besides that it was a great race. I bitched and moaned about never doing it again but then in the end all it took was my friend Gregoire telling me he had registered and asking me if I was running it to “convince me” to sign up. Thanks Gregoire? I decided to spread the misery around by getting Kim to sign up as well. Should be a blast, I noticed its sold out again this year.

Ankle is still not right but slowly getting better. Its rarely an issue during runs but I do feel it when I get up over 25k if I am running a hilly route. So of course I have been sure to do all my long runs on the Boston Special route in order to get in as many hills as possible.

There is less then a month left of coaching the Running Room Marathon clinic at Rosedale. I will be hauling my ass over to the High Park Running Room to start doing a marathon clinic there at the end of January. With this location being right in my normal running hood I am going to be able to bring all kinds of torturous workouts and routes to these unsuspecting runners. Crap maybe I shouldn’t put that on my blog some of them might notice. Yeah that’s the ticket, don’t be afraid kiddies sign up now.

Tonight I will be headed out to High Park to run with Longboat as we start up the new training cycle. It’s the return of the every popular Frisky Fridays. I have a feeling this one is going hurt. I expect its going to involve some hard running and me with no fast twitch muscle fibers left after a season of ultra running.


I will be glued to my computer tomorrow morning watching to see if my name gets pulled from the lottery for Western States. I think the email they sent me said I have like a 1 in a gazillion chance. I have made a side deal with JD that I will pace him if he gets in and he will do the same for me. Keep those fingers crossed.

31 comments:

  1. You are a MACHINE!!!! I don't even think I biked that many miles 2 years ago.

    Hope you get picked for Western States!

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  2. Good luck for the race, hope you enjoy it more this year!

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  3. Best of luck for WS! What if you and JD both get in?

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  4. congrats on the 4k year (so far) and good luck with the WS lottery!

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  5. Honestly, the milage is so far out of my zone, I can't even comprehend it. But good for you! Good luck getting into the Western States 100. I just can't wait to read about it.

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  6. W-O-W ! You are definitely a dedicated runner.. Forrest Gump has nothin' on you! Good luck getting into WS.

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  7. Well done Chris. I hope you have a great end to the year and are looking forward to a new chapter in 2011. Keep it going sir.

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  8. That's amazing. Congratulations on logging so many miles. I'm not even close to 1000, so I'm floored by your mileage. Glad to hear your ankle is on the mend.

    Your Egg Nog Jog sounds a little like my trail race coming up. 7.8 miles, which is, what...12.5? (because who likes round numbers)? Lots of hills and a snowy forecast. "Luckily", the below freezing temps should preclude mud on the trail, anyway.

    Good luck with WS!

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  9. I'm with Jen - I can't possibly wrap my brain around that many miles. There aren't enough hours in a day...

    Fingers crossed for Western States!

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  10. Hey Chris! Just popping by for my monthly dose of inspiration. :) And here I was celebrating 40 miles for Nov, lol. Good luck with the Egg Nog Jog. The name alone makes it sound TOTALLY worth running.

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  11. Very impressed with your resilience.

    I'll send good thoughts on Western States!

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  12. ::fingers crossed for Western States::

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  13. 4000km...awesome! I'm just coming on 3000, you are one serious machine! Hope you make it into WS!

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  14. that's absolutely amazing record..congrats...

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  15. Over 4000k in a year! I'm in awe.

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  16. Glad your ankle is slowly getting better.
    Good luck on Western States!

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  17. Congratulations on hitting such a high milestone. Really impressive, Chris.

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  18. i hope you won the lottery! :) nice job on the mileage - part of me DREAMS to run that much but then most days i don't quite feel like running so long. funny how that happens.

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  19. You are amazing! Good luck with your upcoming race! I can't wait for the race report...they never disappoint:)

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  20. Good luck with the WS Lottery! That's a lot of miles you racked up this year. Can't wait to see what you have planned for 2011.

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  21. Damn! That is some big mileage. Here's to a bigger (and injury free) 2011!

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  22. wow. what an accomplishment!! congrats. Hope you got in to Western States!

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  23. That is some serious mileage! That's one thing I failed to do this year, to keep an exact log of mileage. Dangit. Next year I'll get on it. 2000 miles will be the goal. 2500 if I train for an ultra. That could also just be crazy talk.... :) Fingers crossed for WS!

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  24. So did you make it into Western States?

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  25. 2500 miles? 2500? Seriously? And you still have a month to go? Now that's impressive! I'm shooting for 2011 miles in 2011, and it's really great to see what you've done!

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  26. 4000k! WOW. that's amazing! congrats!

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  27. Fingers crossed for your race. I will pray for more race and championships to come your way.

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