100k WC 2011

100k WC 2011

Gagarin Half Finish

Gagarin Half Finish
Gagarin Half Finish

Awards Gagarin Half

Awards Gagarin Half
Awards Gagarin Half

Cosmonauts give out the awards:)

Cosmonauts give out the awards:)
Cosmonauts give out the awards

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Skinny Raven Half 17 July

 WET WET WET

Usually, this one is hot and sunny. Right after the fist week of July, things went from drought to record WET. This one was a soaker. My left hammy had been acting up off and on over the last week too. Ice and rest seemed to have taken care of it. I noticed it was grumpy about a week earlier when I was doing a track workout. My goal was not to further aggravate it here ,but I needed this half as a good barometer run and workout for other upcoming things that were on the table. I was going to have to decide very soon what exactly would be on or off the table the rest of the season and which direction I would take my training. I had officially hit that fork in the road. 

I ran pretty even throughout moving up throughout the way eventually ending up 5th/1st masters.Sure, I could have easily won the 10k after seeing the times, but I needed this tempo race to really see where I was endurance wise. I managed to cut a minute off of last year's time rivaling my 2015 performance here despite that nagging left hammy. In 2015, I had just flown in from Moscow and ran this one still tired from that. 












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