Prairie Oaks Metro Park
August 13, 2022
How great is Prairie Oaks? And what a perfect way to end the second week of August with a long run and pancakes. Some photo’s below and a BIG THANK YOU to the our CC Parent Group for making the runners some breakfast.
Moon Shot
It’s time for some adventure and mystery. I’ve been speculating a moon shot effort at a 100 miles ultra marathon. I have 5 marathons under my belt but haven’t ran one since 2014:
Niagara Falls International Marathon - 2005
Boston Marathon - 2007
Chicago Marathon - 2007
Columbus Marathon - 2013
Columbus Marathon - 2014
So I’m a little rusty, not attempting a marathon in almost 8 years, and with just running with the CC team this summer this seems like a mad man’s idea. Maybe but why not? The big question is how to get ready for it, below is the plan:
4 Stacked Runs
A Stacked Run is 2 long runs with in 12 hours.
1 Stacked run every 2 weeks starting August 12-13 and going up till the Canal Corridor 100 (aka CC100) on Oct. 8th, 2022.
After each Stacked run evaluate the feasibility of a 100 miler.
How am I doing so far? I completed my first stacked run this weekend.
Stack 1
Goal: Friday night 20 miles at 8-9miunte mile pace.
Began work out at 6:52pm and finished at 10:19pm
Ave. Pace 9:01 per mile (some walking in the last 2 miles slowed this pace)
Ave. Heart Rate 142BPM
2390 Calories burned
Total Miles 19.85
Total Time 2:59:03
Goal: Saturday morning 10 miles at 8-9minute mile pace.
Began work out at 8:15am and finished at 9:40am
Ave. pace 8:20 per mile
Ave. Heart Rate 153PM
1251 Calories Burned
Total Miles 10.22
Total Time 1:25.10
Conclusion: I did not die and I was not in enough agony to think I can not complete another stack run…. don’t ask me about 100miler yet, please!!!. So in 2 weeks I will do it all over again.
My training partner sleeping on the job!
The next stack:
August 27-28
Work out:
Saturday night 25 miles @ 8:40 pace
Sunday morning 15 miles @ 8:40pace
The next Moon Shot update will be it’s own separate article so be on the look out for that.
Coming up this week…..
Fundraising, fundraising, fundraising! It’s going to be a big topic and push this week. We discussed this last week at the parent meeting, this week is action, action, action.
School starts up on Wednesday and practice moves back to the evenning.
FarmBanks Panther Invitational Information will be pushed out this week along with Ben Logan Early Bird Invitational and Pickerington North Invitational. Expect that information later this week.
Team Preview article will be out this week too.
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