Training for 85 miles on my 85th birthday

I started my training for my 85 mile run in August. My birthday is on November 14. ( that is the date I claim now Kim). I have a history for my birth day. It is either on the 14 or the 15 and I have been claiming the 14 since my 80th one.
I have been keeping a record of my distances and times om my Endomondo file.
I ran my First 30 mile run on sept. 26. My time was 9 hour and 30 minutes. That is a lot ng time but I made it.. 30+ miles!😀😀😀. Kim wrote on her blog that when a person thinks they can go no more there is always 20% more left. That was my word of strength for the  last 8 miles of the 30 miles.!!
My longest run up to this point is 80 miles on my 80th birthday in 2012. And I have been running fairly consistent since then.
I am running for the local food bank in Sequim to raise funds for a building they are purchasing. Giving can be a certain amount for the 85 miles. Whatever one wishes to give.
My running schedule for the week of October 2-8 is:
     Mon.        4 miles.           Tue.        30 miles.          Wed.      10-15 miles.     Thurs.    0
     Fri.         10 miles            Sat.         15 miles.
I will write in my blog again next Sunday.    

April 19, 2014

If running was easy everyone would be running. Maybe the word running scares people.
Some might think of high school cross country or track meets where they had to run all out and had not trained enough for their effort. Their experience was a memory of pain rather than a sense of accomplishment. Or maybe they just quit to soon. Or did not realize what running could do for them./
Maybe everyone does not need too run but everyone needs to get off of the sofa and do some type of exercise a few minutes a day. Try it you will be the better for the effort!
Well back to my running.
After my long layoff during the winter and recovering from my Hernia surgery i am still working on my training for the running and track events for the summer.
I ran the Tulip run at Mt Vernon, Wa on April 5. it was a 5 mile run on some trails and roads. there was some sprinkles when the race started but that stopped and it was just cloudy for the rest of the race. I ran the course in 1 hour and 5 minutes. not too bad for about 50% of being in shape.

                                           This is one of the tulip fields in Mt. Vernon, Wa.
For the rest of the month of April I have been running from 2 to 5 miles a day.
My next race is The Bloomsday 12K (7,46 miles) run in Spokane, Wa. There will be about 55,000 runners at this race.The run is on the first Sunday of May. One can expect about any kind of weather on that weekend.
Today myself and 6 other people hiked 6.6 miles round trip in the Olympic National Park from Lake Ozette to the Pacific Ocean and back. It was a great trip.
on my next blog I will get caught up on my weekly mileage.

FINIS

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Recovering from my Henria Surgery

March 2, 2014     Running for 80 and beyond!

I don't run because I have to. I do not run because I must. I do not run for other people.
I run because I can! I run for the sheer enjoyment of being able to run. And I thank God every day for my health and that I can still run :) .

Yesterday, March, 1st I jogged and walked my loop run from home. Jamestown Rd to Wilcox to Woodcock to Serpentine to Jamestown rd to home. One and a half miles. Jogged for about thirty seconds and then walked until I was not breathing hard. It was an easy day! 

The wind was blowing from the Northeast. Which means that cold weather is blowing across Puget Sound out to the Pacific Ocean. And that frigid air is coming down the Frazier Valley and dumping cold weather in the Puget Sound area.

Stocking cap, gloves and long sleeved t-shirt weather again. I usually run in the winter with just shorts and long sleeved t-shirt even when the temperature gets down to about 22 to 25 degrees.

But when the wind starts to blow out come the warm clothes
I having been turning out at the Anytime Fitness Gym in Sequim. I am doing a light work out for now. I will continue to build up some of the muscles that I have not used during the winter months.

I have been walking for two miles on the beach which is just across the road from our house. I take our two Pomerania's with me. I let them off of the leash and they run belter skelter on the beach. 

They seem to never wear out.

I am running my four annual races again this year. The first one is a five mile race called the Tulip Run. This race is part of the Tulip Festival of Mount Vernon Washington. Then the infamous dooms day hill run. AKA  Blooms Day run. This is a 12K run which is 7.46 miles long. The Kenyans run this course in about 36 minutes. I run it in one hour and 18 minutes. I guess that is not too bad for an 81 year old geezer!

Then the third run of my four runs is the Rhody Run in Port Townsend, Washington two weeks after the Blooms Day run. Both of these runs are in May, two weeks apart.

Then I will run the North Olympic Discovery Trail Marathon on June  The NODM is run between Sequim, And Port Angeles Washington. 26.2 miles. The race is on June 1st. 

This all for now!

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Hello world!

Time to write another report on my life wonderings.

My hernia surgery went as well as expected. I went to the hospital on January 10. My daughter Kim drove me to Port Angeles from Sequim. We were in the  day surgery at 7:00 a.m. I soon had my backless nightshirt on and in bed. One nurse asked me a ton of questions while her cohort began to jab me with a needle to insert the liquids and other acids into my blood vessel.

After much prodding the one with the needle said nonplussed (this is for Philip) I cannot find that blood vein it keeps jumping around when I try to penetrate it. So I will try the other arm. She managed to find one on my right arm and I was all set to go to surgery.

The anesthetist came into the room and reassured me that I would feel no pain. He would take care of me????????

I was then pushed on the gurney into the surgical room. There were  four people in the room. Dr H., the anesthetist, and two nurses. 

My history was read and everything checked OK on the list. 

I woke up in the recovery room and was wheeled into the room where Kim was waiting for me. 

We then left the hospital and we were home by 12:30 p.m.

It has been 3 weeks and 4 days since my surgery. I started walking on January 26. I walked for 1/2 hour each day. About a mile distance 

I will continue to walk about a mile a day until the first on March and then put in a few days of slow jogging.

I am planning on doing the North Olympic Marathon again this year. It is on the first Sunday in June. 

The exciting sports event that has happened in Washington is the Seattle Seahawks winning the Super Bowl. 

GO HAWKS

  

   

Time to update the events and wanderings in my life. 

I am recovering from my hernia surgery which took place on January 10.

No complications concerning the surgery. I am healing up OK according the Dr. Time to update the events and wanderings in my life. 

I am recovering from my hernia surgery which took place on January 10.

No complications concerning the surgery. I am healing up OK according the Dr. 

I started walking 1 mile a day a week from last Monday. I am planning to start to get back in running shape the first of March. Then I am going to run the Bloomsday race in Spokane and the Rhody Run in Port Townsend in May. These are both 12k runs. 

These races will help me get in shape for the North Olympic Discovery Trail Marathon that is held annually on the first Sunday in June. The route is run from Sequim to Port Angeles. 

I would like to run a 50K trail race sometime in the fall but I will have to wait and see about that event. 

Then I will concentrate on track events for the rest of the summer. 

We are having a cold spell in Sequim this week. the temperature is going to be in the teens at night for several nights.

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Fall 2013

October 15 , 2013

Time on my hands or in my pocket or losing the opportunity to be out running.

Sounds like a runner who has to take time off from running doesn't it?

That's right!

I am suspect of having a hernia or a pulled muscle in my groin. (Inguinal hernia)

So I have been ordered to take it easy until the docs can be certain what the problem is. I have been having some pain in my right groin. I am going to have a C A T scan tomorrow and then I will know what the outcome will be.

I have been doing more speed work to see if I can get back to at least to run a 10 minute per mile pace. My pace has been 12 minutes or slower per mile.

When running a marathon I cannot keep running under even 6 hours for the 26.2 miles at my slow pace. For me that is too slow!! I know my age again but I can train too run  a little faster.

Sometimes I am just too lazy to put out the effort in my training!

It is the middle of October on the Olympic Pennisula and no frost yet. The coldest night here has been 35 degrees.

Maybe we will have another mild winter this year.

I found of all things a free 1/2 marathon in Tacoma, WA that I was going to run but the surgeon said to take it easy until the problem can be taken care of.

The yard and garden are looking very ragged. I need to dead head the Dahlias and other flowers.

Frosty nights will take care of them!

I walked 2 miles on the beach with our 2 poms. It was a sunny day great for a walk.

Trying to wait patiently for tomorrow for the TEST.

June 14, 2013

Wow, time for another post.
I have been doing more in my garden then running. Although I did run a marathon on June 2, 2013.
I have been trying to keep my marathon time under 6 hours. I know all of you fast er guys out there, this time is slow. But for being 80 years old I don't think it is too bad.
I started out at a slow pace at the back of the packl In fact I was lalst at the 100 meter mark. My longest run for the last two months was 16 miles so that I knew that I could not sustain any kind of a pace. So I started out running 10 minutes and then walking for 5 minutes from the beginning of the run. The temperature was 62 degrees when the marathon started and the high for the day was in the low 70's.
My 1/2 marathon time was 13:05 per mile which would have been a 5 hour and 55 or 58 minute time for the race. But I did not keep this pace up. My time for the race was 6 hours and 7 seconds! Seven seconds. My goodness it seems like I could have made up that 7 or 8 seconds and came in under 5 hours. Oh well next time!!!!!!!!
I had asked a sophomore at Sequim High School that was a first year track person if he wanted to run the last 13 miles with me. He did and easily ran the distance. His longest run up to this point was 4 miles. But he did a great job.
Now for the rest of the sunner I am training for the summer Senior Games.
Senior Games are for men and women over 50 years of age. The ages are divided in the following manner. 50 to 54, 55 to 59 and then on up for each age group.
This year I am in the 80 to 84 age division.
I am doing the PV, HJ, LJ, SLJ, 50 M, 100M and maybe 400M.
This is my usual events that do at the meets that I am doing.
These meets are at Bremerton, WA, Greshem, OR, Olympia, WA and Port Angeles WA.
I will be reporting my progress for these meets.
                FINIS