Wednesday, July 25, 2007

To Ketchum, Idaho-- or more specifically, Sun Valley, for a conference with A. The elevation is 5750 feet-- 400 feet higher than Denver-- and you realize it when you try to run. I was about a hundred yards into it when I realized that I was wheezing like a Basset Hound. "I can't be that out of shape," I thought-- "I did intervals last week!" "How high up are we?" I asked my running companion, and that's when I got the lowdown. We managed three miles, but we took a break at the turnaround.

I have four days of this, which is probably not enough to get properly acclimated. Next time I'll bring extra red blood cells.

Monday, July 16, 2007

The Fleet Feet 15k has potential. It's on the Monday of the Labor Day weekend, and I am very much of a mind to run it if I'm around. The race starts on Delaware Ave, near Niagara Square, then North on Delaware to Allen St, East on Allen to Franklin, north on Franklin(Linwood after crossing North) to West Ferry, West on West Ferry to Delaware, South on Delaware to Niagara Square, around the square. Then North on Delaware to Allen, East on Allen to Franklin, North on Franklin (changes to Linwood after crossing North), to Lafayette, West on Lafayette to Gates Circle, around the circle and South on Delaware, finishing in Niagara Square.

It's funny that they are making it a 15k-- I should think that 10 would do it, but it is a more or less flat course, which is interesting. I've never run a flat 15k.


  • Proving that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, Margot X demonstrates that the way to have a good race is to make sure you look good in the photos. Captain X, Judith X-X and I seem to be missing, but Margot makes up for it. We gotta get the kid a singlet.

  • Sunday, July 15, 2007

    What I love about these two pictures is that they tell us pretty clearly what Jim was doing for the entire race, from start to finish. He swears to me that he was coaching.

    Saturday, July 14, 2007

    I'm never going to be fast again, but there's no reason I have to be this slow, so I hit the track today. An easy mile to warm up, then 440 repeats at 7:43 pace, run one, take a lap. Two miles worth, then a mile to warm down. If I can rock the track once a week, I think I ought to be able to a finish in the 23 minute range in the Yalem.

    Monday, July 09, 2007

    The Utica Observer-Dispatch reports that record numbers of Knabs finished the 30th Boilermaker, along with 10,819 others.

    Saturday, July 07, 2007



  • I didn't get an email about the Buffalo Half Marathon photos, probably because mine is unusually bad-- it is possible that the email was mistakenly sent to Free Willy. The rest of the Team looks pretty good, though.



  • Friday, July 06, 2007

    There is a piece in this month's Runner's World about the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project. Hanson's is a small chain of running stores in the metro Detroit area that decided it was going to underwrite a group of runners in order to improve the US success rate in distance racing. They house the team members, and give them jobs in the stores, but the big innovation is that the team trains together. They looked at what the Kenyans and other successful nations do, and determined that training as a group was the trick. The team has been doing pretty well, (this guy won the Turkey Trot,this guy finished fourth at Boston)and it has a snappy name-- anything with "Project" in the title sounds like it should be cool, even if the project turns out to be Alan Parsons' or Joe Perry's. One of the ways that they recruit is to look for runners who had some success at the DIII level. It was kind of a treat to see that a current member is a fellow Geneseo alum

    Thursday, July 05, 2007

    According to the website we started running Boilermakers in 1999, which doesn't seem quite right. In any event, you can now plug in your name, and get a bar graph displaying your times over the years, which is kind of fun. Jim is like a metronome:
    2006» 1:22:23 | 8:50
    2004» 1:18:35 | 8:26
    2003» 1:16:10 | 8:10
    2002» 1:22:07 | 8:49
    2001» 1:19:46 | 8:34
    2000» 1:21:37 | 8:45
    1999» 1:32:27 | 9:55

    Tom is steady, with a burst of brilliance in '03:
    2006» 1:35:22 | 10:13
    2005» 1:39:22 | 10:40
    2004» 1:25:41 | 9:12
    2003» 1:21:15 | 8:43
    2002» 1:26:38 | 9:18
    2001» 1:24:29 | 9:04
    2000» 1:23:56 | 9:00
    1999» 1:33:43 | 10:03

    And I am all over the map:
    2006» 1:42:14 | 10:57
    2005» 1:34:01 | 10:05
    2004» 1:28:26 | 9:29
    2003» 1:30:50 | 9:45
    2002» 1:40:14 | 10:45
    2001» 1:36:24 | 10:21
    2000» 1:37:40 | 10:29
    1999» 1:47:38 | 11:33

    04 was a good year for me-- I kept the training up following Chicago, ran Hamilton, and managed a Utica PR. I have no idea what's in me for this year, but 1:30 is something to shoot for.

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