with my shield, and on it

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so, finally, the pump-and-run 5k event happened this past sunday morning (which was its own challenge, as i had a 930 puck drop the night before[1])

there's a training maxim that you never want to be the strongest/fastest/best athlete at your gym - it's no surprise that i often am in the vicinity - so it was an entertaining endeavor to be, due to a clerical fuckup DEAD FUCKING LAST in my age group.... and without the fuckup, i'd have only improved my standing by two or three places (out of about a dozen). i passed approximately nobody, of either gender, over the course of the race, and finished with a good hundred yards of empty air both ahead of and behind me, in 26:15 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imIWmRHhZwc) .... subtracting the :15 seconds per bench press rep (90% bodyweight for guys in their 40's meant I was using 170#)... 18 reps knocked off four and a half minutes, putting me at 21:15. the winner hit the 30 rep cap and his adjusted time was something like 14 minutes. *laughs*

The Late Kittens - Walda the Grey and Dentarthur (both female) are three weeks old, just a scosh under a pound each, and increasingly mobile and wiggly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG4kcbF5JHI

[1] i did manage to draw the penalty that gave us a five-on-three power play, and score what turned out to be the winning goal 30 seconds later - CS even got it on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmkaO06FMqU

Comments

[ivy]

Heh. I'm usually dead fucking last, so I guess I'm getting in a lot of good training! Good job, though.

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overall, i was 48th of 71 in the running portion; with the adjustment, i'd have moved all the way up to.... 44th. *laugh*

I suspect that you'd be far from the end of the pack in a shorter event. i can't imagine doing the grueling, how-many-miles-is-this-trail?-type things you partake of.

I really want to do something like this again, just with something I'm better at, strength-wise. and have more training to improve - i've only really been running again for two months, so my conditioning is not what it can be.

[ivy]

I think it's also that everyone who does trail running out here is not a normal person. So it's me and a bunch of (other) loons. [grin] And loons tend to be speedy.

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I'd make a clever remark about their being unencumbered by an excess of brains, but that's callous - and you carry like twenty pounds of survival and repair gear for the other athletes, so you're playing in hard mode. :-D