"We'll Get There When We Get There!" Mr Incr3dible's journal (comments definitely welcome)

[Mr_Incr3dible]

As mentioned, my goal in the next couple of months is to set some new PRs and qualifying times.
I plan on a 5K on St Patrick's Day and would like to beat the 28:04 time I have from ten years ago.
Yesterday afternoon was nice and I headed to the greenway since it is flat-ish to see if I'm even close to bettering my 5K time. I finished in (drum roll, please) 27:28 per my Garmin!!! More than 30 seconds better!
For me, it was close to a 3 mile long sprint, and I am definitely lung-limited in being able to go significantly faster, but I am pleased with the result and looking forward to an official 5K time. What will I do with said official time? I dunno.

After that, I'm trying to find a fairly flat half for a new PR in that category, and hopefully fast enough for a Disney PoT.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

The week started off rather warm, with temps in the 60's and 70's (!). I ran Monday and planned to run again on Wed, but a closer look at the weather showed that on Wed, the temp was going to peak just after lunch in the low 70's, so I snuck in an easy run of 4 miles. That said, I still shake my head that that is now a casual distance for me. Totally pleasant run, in spite of several deer and I scaring each other; I think we all needed a potty break afterward....
A little after lunch, a front came in and the temps dropped down to 50, and that was without a nasty wind chill and the rain!
That was my last run for this week as I am off to WDW for the wife's conference. Yes there are running paths, but I'm probably going to be putting in at least a half on Sat while she's in her meetings and that much again on Sunday while we are both in the park.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

A bit of a double post from the running thread:
I did my first 5K in ages this past weekend. Why? I dunno. I wanted to see if I could beat my last known 5K PR, which was from ten years ago. And I did! Beat it by nearly half a minute and managed a sub 9-min/mile pace. 27:35:67 for an 8:53 pace.

As I told my son, for me it was a three-mile sprint. I can train harder, but I'm lung-limited and can't breathe harder, so this PR will probably stand for a long while.

 

[jmasgat]

Congrats!

 

[accm]

Congrats on the new PR!!

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

OK, bit of kvetching on my part. Did the 5K two weekends ago, and then went back to my weekday runs and they were... lacking. The weather warmed up and was very nice, and my paces were not too far off the norm, but things just felt a bit off. Why? I dunno. Maybe just more of my lungs recovering from being taxed during the 5k and needing a bit more time than I thought.
But the decision has been made to do the Goofy in '25 and to try to do a qualifying half for that race, so back to training.
Thank you for listening.

 

[Scootin'By]

What you need is Space Ball's Perri-air!

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

Been trying to get back to regular runs as the weather has warmed, and have, but they haven't been anything special. Just what I'd call "maintenance" runs of 3.5 to 4.5 miles, hovering around the 10 min/mile pace.

I did have one slightly out of the ordinary run in that my car was at the shop and the wife had some calls, so I simply ran to go get it. I thought the distance was around 4 miles, and it turned out to be a little under that, so well within my usual afternoon distance. But a two-fer in terms of getting my car back and not missing a run.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

Things are mostly back to normal after Spring Break, parts 1 and 2. Part 1 is with the wife and kids, part 2 is a few days doing my own thing with airplanes. But getting a bit lax on food intake meant backsliding on 3 or 4 hard fought pounds. I really want to get myself down below 200 lbs and to stay there.
Lungs will keep me from getting too much faster, but less weight is less me to lug around the park, and I'll take what I can get.

To that end, back to my regular neighborhood runs of 3.5-4 miles. Times aren't anything special of late, but then again it is getting warmer, plus the air is clogged with pollen....

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

"A minute on the lips, a lifetime on the hips". I so get that now.
I let my guard down and indulge a bit during spring break and 3 or 4 pounds go back on, undoing some hard fought progress. I'm back on the (food) wagon and back to driving the weight back down, plus trying to get back to my training levels. Best I can say is that it is work in progress...

The weather felt great after church today, so I indulged myself going to the greenway to enjoy a flat run. I was originally thinking 4 or 4.5 miles, and the first 3 were best described as "meh". Hovering around a 10-min per mile pace but just not feeling especially good. But things started feeling better in mile 4 and I decided to make it a 10K and finished in just over an hour. So not my worst outing, but not as good as I would have thought given the lower temp and humidity. I mentioned all this to wife and her comment was that it probably had to do with lack of sleep. Could be, as I sleep horribly. (No idea why, but I consistently wake up at 2:30 - 3 am for not explainable reason).

Best I know to do it keep the weight trending down and keep training.
Thanks for listening (reading).

FWIW, as I type this, I'm sitting in my Oswald 10K shirt. Seemed fitting.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

First of all, thank you to anyone who reads this, and even moreso if you comment or leave a "like". And I try to reciprocate.
Last Thursday on the way home I stopped by the greenway for a flat-ish, longer run. I neglected to change before I left work, leading to an unpleasant change in a porta-pottie since the restrooms were closed. Hot, cramped, and not fun. The run itself was also not so fun for the first couple of miles, but then settled down into a nice outing of 5.4 miles and an easy 10:22 pace.
As noted elsewhere, I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane on Sunday. The wife gave me a tandem jump as a b-day present and I used it around a year ago. Her older daughter is the adventurous sort and also received a tandem jump more recently as a gift, and I was voluntold to go along. We had near perfect weather and both had great jumps and save landings.
Yesterday, Memorial Day, started with some very ugly thunderstorms that apparently led to tornadoes elsewhere (prayers to all affected), but by lunch we had some nice weather and I headed out the door for a run. This was a neighborhood maint run, so 4 miles around a 10:15 pace, in part due to a pair of steep hills in the middle of the course.
As we head into the summer heat and humidity, it'll be mostly maintenance runs and trying to get the weight down further.
The son wants to do a 10K to try for a MW half qualifying time, so looking to run a race on June 15 and see how I can do. The DS will no doubt be waiting on me at the finish line, mostly done with any post-race refreshment....

 

[Naomeri]

The DS will no doubt be waiting on me at the finish line, mostly done with any post-race refreshment....

That just guarantees you a cheering section, and quicker access to post-race refreshments, since I assume you raised with manners enough to have yours waiting for you

 

[accm]

First of all, thank you to anyone who reads this, and even moreso if you comment or leave a "like". And I try to reciprocate.
Last Thursday on the way home I stopped by the greenway for a flat-ish, longer run. I neglected to change before I left work, leading to an unpleasant change in a porta-pottie since the restrooms were closed. Hot, cramped, and not fun. The run itself was also not so fun for the first couple of miles, but then settled down into a nice outing of 5.4 miles and an easy 10:22 pace.
As noted elsewhere, I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane on Sunday. The wife gave me a tandem jump as a b-day present and I used it around a year ago. Her older daughter is the adventurous sort and also received a tandem jump more recently as a gift, and I was voluntold to go along. We had near perfect weather and both had great jumps and save landings.
Yesterday, Memorial Day, started with some very ugly thunderstorms that apparently led to tornadoes elsewhere (prayers to all affected), but by lunch we had some nice weather and I headed out the door for a run. This was a neighborhood maint run, so 4 miles around a 10:15 pace, in part due to a pair of steep hills in the middle of the course.
As we head into the summer heat and humidity, it'll be mostly maintenance runs and trying to get the weight down further.
The son wants to do a 10K to try for a MW half qualifying time, so looking to run a race on June 15 and see how I can do. The DS will no doubt be waiting on me at the finish line, mostly done with any post-race refreshment....

You are brave changing in a porta-pottie. They're a part of my everyday working in construction, and being a female, I generally get my own (or share with very few other females), and even still, I try to get out as fast as possible, with as little contact as I can manage.
Good luck to you and your son on the 10k!

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

You are brave changing in a porta-pottie. They're a part of my everyday working in construction, and being a female, I generally get my own (or share with very few other females), and even still, I try to get out as fast as possible, with as little contact as I can manage.
Good luck to you and your son on the 10k!

Thanks. I was going to go behind the cargo box being used for storage until I realized that, while providing privacy from the parking lot and trail, that I would have been fully exposed to all the traffic on the main road!

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

The Possum Trot 10K is now behind us. 7 am running along the Chattahoochee river. It is fairly flat (about as flat as you get in the Atlanta area) and fast, but not quite as fast as it would have been in cooler weather. But we wanted a MW qualifier, so it had to do since the time to submit has moved from September to July 1st.

Younger son finished in an hour and some seconds change. I managed to finish a minute and a half later, so shy of my ten year old PR of 58 minutes, but not too shabby for a warm morning. I did manage to finish right at the mid point of my age group. I updated son's rD entry with his 10K time since he's doing just the half. But since I'm doing the Goofy, it is asking for a qualifying race time for a full. Since I'm running the half with my son, that's the only race where I'm worried about an earlier start corral, so I emailed rD to plead my case. I told them I don't expect anything different for the full. We'll see what happens.

I'm amazed at the people 10 and 12 years older than myself who are so much faster than I am, OTOH, I'm fairly pleased to be able to do around a 10min/mile pace and will be happy with it. If I had one of those "...just one person behind me to read this shirt" shirts, I'd have people behind me to read it. Come fall when the weather cools off, I'll try to find a 10K and see if I can beat a ten-year-old PR; if so, great, and if not, I'll be good with it.

I had a high school classmate who passed away over the weekend, just a month shy of our 40th reunion, and I've heard the medical woes of other classmates, so I'm blessed with the health I have and will continue to be thankful for it.

In one other surprising development, the wife's older child has started getting up and running, and has the other kids joining her! The other lumps usually will be in bed until late morning, but oldest has been getting them out the door. Wow. Still just a mile or so right now, but gotta start somewhere. I'm just happy they are doing it; I may have more company for a race this fall.

YMMV. Thank you for reading.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

Thanks. I was going to go behind the cargo box being used for storage until I realized that, while providing privacy from the parking lot and trail, that I would have been fully exposed to all the traffic on the main road!

Followup on this.

At lunch today I saw a couple of guys in the county Parks and Rec shirts and asked when the restrooms might be open again. "This morning" was the reply. What?! Seems they've been getting them tied into a different sewer system and that work is now finally done. Cool!

 

[garneska]

I'm amazed at the people 10 and 12 years older than myself who are so much faster than I am, OTOH, I'm fairly pleased to be able to do around a 10min/mile pace and will be happy with it. If I had one of those "...just one person behind me to read this shirt" shirts, I'd have people behind me to read it. Come fall when the weather cools off, I'll try to find a 10K and see if I can beat a ten-year-old PR; if so, great, and if not, I'll be good with it.

I know you know this, but don't worry about the older people running faster. Be thankful you are still running. I say this as i am finally getting to run after 6 months and it is very different from what i used to do. Right now I am going slow and easy with my main goal to be able to run another 15 to 20 years and not worry about the time. It's a crappy situation when your (older) body says nope I am not handling this the same, but you get there and say i am thankful for running.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

I know you know this, but don't worry about the older people running faster. Be thankful you are still running. I say this as i am finally getting to run after 6 months and it is very different from what i used to do. Right now I am going slow and easy with my main goal to be able to run another 15 to 20 years and not worry about the time. It's a crappy situation when your (older) body says nope I am not handling this the same, but you get there and say i am thankful for running.

Amen to that. I have a good friend who is 4 or 5 years younger and runs much faster than I do. But he had to have surgery for a muscle tear in his hip or thigh and has been out of commission for over 6 months and then will be slowly ramping back up to where he used to be. Nearly a year without running has to be driving him stir crazy; it sure would be if it were me.
And some of the guys I see out walking when I'm running the neighborhood tell me that they can no longer run due to feet/knees/hips, so I am very thankful that I can continue to participate in AORD (adult onset running disorder). Here I've "rediscovered" running in the past ten years or so and already dreading the idea of when I can no longer do it. I know, worry about today, not the far future, just sometimes easier said than done.

The Possum Trot 10K has medals and t-shirts. The medal makes me smile, so I thought I'd share it.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

Double entry day....
The DD is still going for runs on a near daily basis. Yesterday at dinner she said she wanted to do her mile (still a mile for now) in the neighborhood around 8 pm, and field marshal that she is, got the boys to join as well. I get my watch synced with the satellites and out in the street and haven't even finished saying "go" when Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (both are teens) both take off in a flurry of sneakers and elbows. Did they actually do a mile? Who knows, but should have been close to it. Near as I can tell, they were doing at least an 8 minute mile, probably down in the 7's.
DD fell in behind me and we finished our Garmin-measured mile in 9:10. I don't know about her, but for me that was running nearly flat out and breathing for all I was worth. I know that I recently finished a 5K at a [checks notes] 8:53 pace, but that wasn't on a hot evening 2 hours after eating, so I'll take the W.
DD and I come walking the house and the boys are already back on the couch watching the ball game. Gads. Youth. And it is definitely wasted on the young....

That said, I'm mentally doing cartwheels that my son is doing some runs with me, and that DD is now running and, at least part of the time, pulling her siblings in as well.

 

[col1]

Amen to that. I have a good friend who is 4 or 5 years younger and runs much faster than I do. But he had to have surgery for a muscle tear in his hip or thigh and has been out of commission for over 6 months and then will be slowly ramping back up to where he used to be. Nearly a year without running has to be driving him stir crazy; it sure would be if it were me.
And some of the guys I see out walking when I'm running the neighborhood tell me that they can no longer run due to feet/knees/hips, so I am very thankful that I can continue to participate in AORD (adult onset running disorder). Here I've "rediscovered" running in the past ten years or so and already dreading the idea of when I can no longer do it. I know, worry about today, not the far future, just sometimes easier said than done.

The Possum Trot 10K has medals and t-shirts. The medal makes me smile, so I thought I'd share it.
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A fun medal.

I have a few friends that I met through Disney races who can no longer run who were about 15 years older than me, I’m 54.

Similar to you despite it not being as easy now i definitely am not taking the ability to continue to do so for granted.