Sunday, August 23, 2009

Sunday 8-23 Long; ~14 miles

Left around 7:45...already getting hot. Ran ok for the most part, a little sluggish here and there. No real pain, gait was good in the old Mizunos. Final hill up South Boulder to Mcaslin a bit rough. Probably had more miles had I taken another gel. One full pack of the Chomps with about 26 onces of water total.

Switched back to Running Ahead from Connect.Garmin. Garmin is just SOOO slow whereas Running Ahead has all of the functionality including mapping and elevation with direct integration with the Forerunner. Works great!

Ran in the Precisions 8's...they are over 1 1/2 years old. Pretty much forefoot the whole way with no pain on tinges anywhere. Probably going to shoot for 1000+ in these and may even alternate with my original pair of Precisions (red). They are as thin as racing flats and fit me great. I can't seem to get the LunaRacers to NOT give me blisters on the outsides of my big toes. Will use these for shorter races (10K and less) and maybe some tempo runs. Precisions for everything else.

Great post from Tony here on his shoe progression. Bummed for his race yesterday as I was looking forward to him getting the record which could have motivated Carpenter for a repeat visit. May want to check out the new NB trail runners he helped design.

Signed up for the Breck Crest Half Yesterday. Getting Psyched.

4 comments:

GZ said...

Have you done the Crest before?

Chris Lee said...

No, heard great things about it though. There does not appear to be many entrants yet...may 40 guys so far. My parents live in Dillon, so it is a conventient location.

-c

GZ said...

Are you doing the full or the half? Note the course markings have historically been a bit sketchy.

Chris Lee said...

Just doing the half. Have not been able to get enough distance in for the full.