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Ok. That's enough! Let's help pushing that never ending winter behind us with a more appropriate title.

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Ha! Good move, Gag. I sure am ready!

Congratulations, Merc, for your run in that weather. Way to go!

Hey, Gag and Df, the Mtl half should be way warmer and dryer than last year : a max of 18c and sunny expected so far for Sunday! Woohoo!

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posted Apr-16-2007 07:51 PM            

Since this feels like a new start - both the thread and the weather (kind of) - I think it's an appropriate time to jump in!

I'm new to the forum and a recent convert to running. Amazingly, I started running around Christmas in Montreal and continued running through the winter, minus a couple of weeks because of a flu.

I'm psyched to run this spring now that those -20C days are behind us!

Montreal rocks!

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posted Apr-16-2007 08:09 PM               

Hope you will be able to join us for a run or race sometime and also for our social outings ... next one is April 24 at 7pm at Hurley's Pub on Crescent. Will you be there? Lots of celebrating to do, what with the warmer weather (yes, it'll be here soon) and recent races.

Please don't be shy. I met the gang at a Hurley's gathering several weeks before I ever ran with them! We are a totally unpretentious group of people who love (and sometimes hate ...er, okay, maybe just me) running ... all ages and distances welcome!

Sally

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posted Apr-16-2007 10:26 PM               

Welcome Kingsley Zissou!

Df7.. Yeah.. I didn't give myself enough time to even park and register.. I was going to be late, and then l ike I said.. I never found the place.. Oh well.. I am sure I will still be ready for the next one. I know there will be a lot of races this spring to try.

I wanted to run this morning but it looked windy then.. and now... I guess I could run one direction, toward the river, but I would never make it back against this wind..

Truxx

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posted Apr-17-2007 04:42 AM               

Additional race analytics:

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=2489348

Welcome on board KZ looking forward to meeting you.

RG: Yep, you are correct, food was simply scrumptious.
DR: Plenty of pics to support the comment above. You also forgot to mention BF in your Boston notables. She ran Paris with us flew to Boston following the run and ran the marathon. If memory servers me right, her times were 3:37 and 3:38 respectively. Most importanly, she had to contend with a 25 degree differential. She rocks!

Week of recovery begins, the quads are stiff and I was thinking of taking a tai chi class. With my body so achey, it will feel like an aerobics class. There is already talk of the next marathon: Chicago

Thanks for your support

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posted Apr-17-2007 07:50 AM               

Tell me, did you bring any ACTUAL food back!???? HEHEHE!

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posted Apr-17-2007 08:21 AM               

Welcome back TB, massage as well for those quads ?

Knee, write me, I'll give you a couple of numbers to reach me for the weekend.

Welcome on board KZ .

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posted Apr-17-2007 11:53 AM               

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
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Location: Lachine
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:00 am Post subject: Heartbreak?
I CAN'T FEEL MY HANDS! That was the only thing I could think of as I approached Nattick. Thoroughly drenched fron standing on the start line for 15 minutes at the 10:00 am start time, it was disconcerting that the rain was intensifying. The cloth gloves with handwarmers ($$store) were already soaked, but that was the only downside of the race. Like Michelle related, layers was the key, particulary when boarding the bus at 6:00 am in a driving rain which is when the early corrals were advised to shoe up.

Upon arriving at the village we found our way to an overcrowded tent wher I laid claim to a piece of turf and promptly went to sleep. Awakened some 30 minutes later by someone stepping on my hand, I made my way to the rent-a-potty for what I hoped would be the last time. NOT!

Race start was uneventful. Never did hear a gunshot as in the past, but from the front of the 3rd corral, it took 2 minutes to walk to the start anyway! I tried hard to hold back the pace for the first half, successfully. more or less on pace for a hoped for 3:05 finish, which as it turned out, was a bit unrealistic. I had no business expecting to arrive in that time given the lack of winter training I had done, but we can all dream, can't we?

I think I was around 1:31 at the half or thereabouts which was satisfying, but I think I worked too hard for the third 10K, particularly on the downhills. The hope was to gain a bit of time before hitting the hilly section on Beacon St., but in the end, that was a dumb strategy. As Mikey mentined, the hills are not that bad, it's just where they are situated........at the point where you would normally be "hitting the wall" and struggling anyway, you are now facing a whole series of hills. It's not like I haven't done the course before, but I continued to use the dumb strategy of accelerating on the downhills. The result of it all was that by the time I hit Brookline, the Quads and hip fexors were screaming in agony. I really struggled from that point on!

Weather - wise, putting aside the driving rain at the start, it was a pleasant running temperature and I threw away clothing along the way. There was a point or two where the wind was very strong, once before the Banshee's of Wellesley at later at Nattick. In the latter, a wicked wind almost blew me off my feet, but I tucked myself behind a guy taller than Bill for a bit, until I blew my cover and my wind-shield moved to his left when he saw what I was up too, giving me a dirty look in the process!

What a relief to see the CITCO sign with 3 miles to go! Don't know how I made it down Boylston to the finish but there wasn't anything left in the tank. My time was mediocre but acceptable given the conditions. I was talking to some runners from Trinidad after the race. who related that was accepted by the so-called" experts on TV, that the times for the lead group were off by some 8 minutes, and a bit more the further back in the pack you were. I would like to think that was true, as it would have brought me in a bit closer to my hoped for goal, but I am not so sure about that assessment!

One thing for sure, you can't have success at Boston - or any other for that matter- on speed work alone, but since I want to focus on the Half and 10K this year, I am not overly concerned with the result. I actually had fun this time, not so focused that I didn't get a chance to site-see and drink in the crowd.

Actually, that could be my swan song for the marathon, as it has become painfully obvious that my body cannot handle that distance any more, without surgery. My hamstring was killing me from one hour onwards and at the 20K mark, the neuroma that has been hounding me for the last two years was like walking on glass, increadable burning pain like a searing hot knife being inserted into the ball of the foot. Enough!

At the finish line, I was wobbling all over the place like a drunken sailer and was surrounded by first aid support who insisted that I needed medical attention! I held my ground though and convincd them that I was just an old geezer who, afterall, had just finished a marathon and was tired. The fact that I couldn't lift my feet forward for five minutes justified her having to grab me by the arm to keep me from being crushed by oncoming finishers. Who ever you were......THANK-YOU!

As a final observation, I implore the directors to add MONTREAL in big letter on our uniform. While it was great to be acknowledged by the crowd so often, I hate it that they thought I was from Arizona!

Great work everyone. Great times by everyone!

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posted Apr-17-2007 01:53 PM               

KZ welcome to the group, now what type of running or races are you training for, pavement, trail, 5k's, marathons, adventure racing. ??? We need (want) to know.

Gro you surviving Hellifax. So are we planning another 5 hour training run this week-end, I have a B-day celibration this week-end and Saturday it's Britney's First Communion, so Saturday is shot. Best time for me would be Sunday afternoon, suppose to be hot 18C Sunday.

Edited to add; Just realized I had booked this Friday as a Holiday so I can get in a long run in-between bringing Britney to school and picking her up. So 9:00 am to 2;30 pm if you want to call in sick.

Roly

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posted Apr-17-2007 07:33 PM               

Yes, I made it out this morning before the snow started up again, and I was able to enjoy the trails, thinking it might be the last time with the snow for awhile.. I stayed true to the trails even when the pavement was only a couple feet away. It was a lot of fun sloshing through some of the wet snow, and I even took a little spill on my down hill section but it didn't break the skin or slow me down at all.. It was almost a practice fall, just to make sure I still know how to land it, and then get up quick! haha.. I hope some of this snow lasts through the evening, because I would love to wake up, do it again tomorrow! Perfect spring conditions!!

Have fun this week everyone, and enjoy..

Truxx

KJ.. Did you put away your winter coat?.. I did too!

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posted Apr-17-2007 08:57 PM            

There are people here crazier than me, much crazier. Or passionate, committed, hardcore, whatever...It's super motivating!

You all sound like people who become antsy if you stay in the comfort zone too long, like the comfort zone really isn't comforting anymore.

Thanks for the welcomes. Rolyone, I guess as a little intro, I started this winter pretty much because it's the only activity that I can fit into my schedule. If I have only half an hour free and I'm edgy from work or the dreaded routine, I love knowing that happy times are only a half-hour run away.

For a while I thought I could do the marathon in Ottawa, but quickly understood the enormity of the undertaking. So right now I don't really have any goals other than getting out the door regularly and fitting some sports into a busy schedule. If I can maintain, say 30-50k per week, then maybe I'll try some 10ks or the half-marathon in the autumn. But the real goal is just fitting it all into the crowded 24/7.

This forum is making that a lot easier.

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posted Apr-17-2007 09:53 PM               

Sally, I will be at Hurley's next week. Who else?

Roly, it was nice bumping into you last Sunday while you were doing your 25k and we were *only* doing 18. hehe.

Truxx : no, I am still wearing my winter jacket, thank you very much. I'm checking Meteomedia compulsively every hour to make sure that the sunny 15c announced for Friday is still on. I'm so depending on this.

Df : I will contact you probably tomorow about the Half, thanx.

Merc, extremely interesting report. Wow, I hope you are recuperating well from all this pain.

I have'nt found the time nor the courage to run at all this week, so far.

ok. goodnight now.

kj

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posted Apr-18-2007 08:51 AM               

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Please don't be shy. I met the gang at a Hurley's gathering several weeks before I ever ran with them! We are a totally unpretentious group of people who love (and sometimes hate ...er, okay, maybe just me) running ... all ages and distances welcome!

Sally

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Yeah, I have never even run with them once yet in over a year! I may stop by for another water stop this tuesday!

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posted Apr-18-2007 12:54 PM               

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AT LAST!!! SUNSHINE!! NO WINDCHILL FACTOR!!!

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Woohoo, and now it's time for chaffing and sweat in your eyes.

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posted Apr-18-2007 01:01 PM               

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Woohoo, and now it's time for chaffing and sweat in your eyes.

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I'll take that over -40 with windchill factor...

Besides: ask TB for tips on chaffing of the upper body...

*dragonsrouges runs to hide now...*

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posted Apr-18-2007 02:02 PM               

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Woohoo, and now it's time for chaffing and sweat in your eyes.

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Bodyglide. Cap.

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posted Apr-18-2007 03:42 PM               

Be there or be square. No reason not to turn out, I've given lots of notice!!

So far we have me, Killerchops, KJ, and KingZ ... what are you people doing?!? Sleeping on your agendas? Get them out, check the date and get to replying! I need to know if we have enough people to make a cake (cause there will be a lot of celebrating to do) and then with enough people, we could get "permission" from Hurley's to serve this cake!

Sally

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posted Apr-18-2007 05:18 PM               

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[b]Please RSVP latest Sunday, April 22:

HURLEY'S - TUES, APRIL 24, 7:00PM

we could serve this cake!

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Cake?? Yeah, I am in.. as I always try to be! Thanks for the cake incentive!!

Yes, I did make it out again to the trails for some hills training, and I only found a 15-20 foot stretch of snow. I am glad I got most of it out of my system when I did, the snow was fun, but the mudd is fun too. Wow.. the light was nice this morning. It could have been my colored shades, but wow.... It is looking really nice this afternoon also! I hope some of us are getting a chance to enjoy it!

Truxx

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