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Run – Home to H Avenue (day 2)

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1253 days
by in Fitness, Middle-Aged Man, Running

Today, I stretched and went running. My knees felt a little sore, but It was a good run. My breathing was much better then yesterday when it seemed so much more labored. I thought I was holding back until the very end, where I was going add in my kick. I ran well, felt it was my best run for this little circuit, but when I processed the results, it was slightly off from yesterday. My pace was 9:21 (yesterday was 9:16). I am bummed, but, oh well.

Splash and Dash

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1268 days
by in Fitness
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Today, the crew from my church Grace Chapel got up early (we all met at the Standerfer’s house at 5:45am) to make the drive to Ventura Beach to the Splash and Dash. We carpooled together, from Lancaster. From left to right, Chris Johnson (my pastor), his wife Christin, John Standerfer, Steve Standerfer, Carolyn Standerfer, me, and Dave Jackson (our youth director).

Arriving at the beach early, we set up in the transition section and waited to start around 9:00 am. At 9:00 the first group of men did the long course, followed by the women. I was next, the men doing the sprint course followed by the women doing the sprint.

The swim for the Sprint was 400 meters. We were to swim out to the orange ball, turn left, swim parallel to the beach and turn left again at the second ball and swim back to shore. I started and it looked long, I swam the breast stroke. It is strongest stroke and two reasons, I could get me head out of the water to breath and see; and the leg stroke would be different so to save my legs for running. I managed to breath some salt water as well.

The swim was very hard on me. It took a lot out of me. I walked out and walked across the loose sand. My friend Clay told me not to run in the sand, it would hurt my calf. I was trying to recover, so even if I could run in the sand, I would not have.

My Bib

Splash and Dash - Grace Chapel Folks

Made the change to running. The run was 3K, so it was not far. I told myself, I would walk, but then thought, I will run until I feel any pain. The running went OK. I experienced some de-training due to me not running much for a couple of weeks and I also had a side stitch.

I finished the race in 36:52. I think the numbers are off, but that is what was posted. I also, won best time in my age group (45-49). I checked the results, and I was the only one in my age group, so I was also the last in my age group. I won a shirt. The order of finishing from our Grace Chapel group (and age), was David Jackson (25), John Standerfer (16), me (49), Chris Johnson (39), Steve Standerfer (50), Christin and Carolyn Standerfer (the ladies walked the running course).

My daughter Hannah gave me this little note to encourage me.

A Note from Hannah

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