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Tantek ()'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2017 13:27:37 EST Tantek -
Tantek ()'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2017 14:14:36 EST Tantek 🌅 #100DoPP d8: #iwokeuplikethis #NPSF #sunrise6k done! 39:52 in ~42F. #nofilter.
I was finally in town (and not injured!) for a @Nov_Project_SF Sunrise 6k race, and finished, hitting my sub-40-min goal by mere seconds.
This morning was yet another exercise in facing my cold weather breathing demons and stubbornly overcoming them breathing through a buff the whole time til I sprinted to the finish to get my sub-40.
Pretty sure I was the “slowest” with my 39:52 finish (results at https://tracking.november-project.com/events/4504); our speedy co-leader Paddy O’Leary lapped me before I’d even finished my first of three laps! He ran literally more than twice as fast as me 😂. I’m grateful to hangout with such amazing (super)humans.
However, I got the satisfaction of finishing a 6k, and seeing *that* dawn & sunrise before most of my friends were hitting their snooze buttons. #whileyouweresleeping
Next up: In nine days I will race my ninth half marathon, the Surf City Half in Huntington Beach, California for the second time, with my dad (our fourth half together).
Previous recent adventures in cold air running:
* 31:27 TT 5k: tantek.com/2016/329/t1/ran-spartan-turkey-trot
* PR Wed. DNF: tantek.com/2016/335/t1/npsf-pr-wednesday-good-bad
* ECSCA PR: tantek.com/2016/338/t2/thenorthface-ecsca-marathonrelay-done and despite colder start: tantek.com/2016/359/t2/weeks-ago-ecsca-colder-start
* 8:59 track mile: tantek.com/2016/355/t1/timed-track-mile
#dawn #sunrise #6k #race #bay #sfbay #seenonmyrun #fromwhereirace #novemberproject #finisher #raceeverything #raceyourself -
Tantek ()'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2017 16:01:33 EST Tantek -
Tantek ()'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2017 06:25:23 EST Tantek Back on the v5s, after a ~2mile drizzly Embarcadero night run with #NPSF. 📷@ashleyacosta75#latergram#nofilter.
#dogpatchboulders#dogpatch#boulders#boulder#bouldering#v5 -
Tantek ()'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2017 02:56:54 EST Tantek -
Tantek ()'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2016 03:08:53 EST Tantek Got up late for #NPSF, went anyway. Not a bad view for Friday flats. #latergram#nofilter.
Slept badly, didn't want to get up to the alarms. Eventually it was 6amish and I stumbled into running clothes in the dark, grabbed my prepacked work bag and got a ride to Pier 7.
Jumped in and did maybe 10 min of squats, sprints, push-ups, planks. Coffee for breakfast. Went to work. Hard boiled eggs for second breakfast. Took care of a few year end things. Cheese pizza for lunch.
Left work before sunset, got in a 20 minute run back up the Embarcadero to the Exploratorium, down to SFMOMA, then over to Westfield. That'll do for today.
One more sunrise of 2016 tomorrow, the rare 366th day of the year (with an even rarer leap second at 23:59:60Z, 15:59:60 PST).
2016 will have been our literally longest year in a while.
#wakeupthesun#fromwhereirun#novemberproject#justshowup#dawn#sunrise#pier7#embarcadero#baybridge#thatothersfbridge#bridge#pier#boat -
Tantek ()'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2016 19:03:04 EST Tantek 8:59 timed track mile in 42F (5.6C) with #NPSF* runners. Then we made a tree. 📷@butteronadonut#nofilter
This was a tough one. I learned a few weeks ago@nov_project_sfthat I can't run very far breathing low 40s Fahrenheit air (first PR Wednesday DNF after two laps).
Despite several laps and other warmup drills this morning, I had to wear a buff covering my mouth and nose the whole time. Then I ran a mile, breathing through the buff the entire way til it slipped down when I sprinted the final straight with everything I had left.
It took me 7 minutes just to complete the first three laps, each much slower than 2 min per.
I knew that I still had a chance at a sub 2 min lap if I could focus on breathing first and picking up the pace second. I counted down every 100 on that last 400, consciously picking up the pace on each segment.
As I rounded the final curve, another guy doing his own thing on the track passed me, but not running that much faster. Somehow that helped and I picked up the pace another notch.
When I reached the final straight I already knew that fourth lap would be the fastest I'd run today. I was breathing fine so I pushed harder, kicked harder, swung my arms farther and started gaining on that mystery guy.
We had started our timed mile on even :00 seconds on a clock inside the track at the start, and I saw the seconds read :58 as I reached the finish. I heard someone yell “Made it by a second!” As I crossed the finish line.
8:59. A lot slower than my 7:23 PR. But sub-9 was my goal today and I'm happy with it. Never done a mile flat out in 42F before and that was my first since knee recovery. Small victories, but I'll take them.
#run#track#runner#tracktuesday#runners#plank#tree#fromwhereirun#novemberproject#justshowup
*And one #NP_LAXtraverballer (@buckbrennan)
Previous timed mile:
*tantek.com/2015/188/t1/timed-mile-npsf-trackattack-faster-pr
Previously at track:
*tantek.com/2016/334/t2/ran-track-anyway -
Tantek ()'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2016 11:41:59 EST Tantek -
Tantek ()'s status on Thursday, 08-Dec-2016 20:44:33 EST Tantek Rocky terrain this morning, but breathable atmosphere and clean rain. #MozAloha #weatherproof #run #nofilter
#seenonmyrun #trail #trailrun #lava #lavarocks #rainyday #solorun #novemberproject #grassrootsgear #NP_TSA #NPSF #nsg #heysweatdaily #latergram