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Author: Paul Radcliffe
June 13, 2011
Gear Upgrades?
Now that I’m taking a couple of weeks off of running, I’m in a bit of taper madness. So naturally I’m looking to upgrade my running gear. I know training is the only thing that will make me faster, but new gear is fun to play with. Belt Right now I use a FuelBelt Helium2. I’ve added an extra bottle to it and another pouch. On longer training runs I also clip my cell phone on it. As a result, it gets pretty heavy for training runs. In addition to that, I’ve lost a lot of weight, so the “Large”[…continue reading]
June 8, 2011
Bread and Honey 15k Race Report
This was my last race of the spring 2011 season on June 5, 2011. I’m quite happy with my 1:29:05 because it’s just below my 90 minute goal. However, it was also a great race of lessons to learn. I was a little sketchy about the race at first because the website was ve ry sparse and the posted maps were a little sketchy. Upon doing the race I realized all the information was there and nothing extra. I was very surprised by the turnout when I arrived at the race. I imagined this would be a little community race[…continue reading]
May 29, 2011
Random Thoughts After Ottawa Half-Marathon
I ran the Ottawa Half-Marathon this morning in 2:10:42.3 (chip). It’s a new personal best for me in the 21.1k. A full race report will be done soon, but I’ll post some rather random thoughts I had throughout the race: -Waking up, try to convince myself I’m fine because the Tarahumara party then run the next morning -Realize I’m not Tarahumara -Walking rather slowly, but can run much better than I can walk -Starting line has 17000 people, all running the half -Glad the pace bunny is tall, easier to follow -Not cold at start of race. Bad sign, means[…continue reading]
