Random Thoughts Thursday 48
By kilax, September 5, 2013 6:27 am
- The Chicago skyline looked much better during yesterday’s lunch time run, compared to last week’s!
- I’ll be on the Chicago Lakefront trail again this week! I am running the Lung Run 10K with Anne and plan to run a bit before and after to turn it in to my long run. So I can sleep in on Sunday. Ha ha. Anyway. Maybe I will run in to a few of you out there…? Have you ever turned a race in to part of your long run? The last time I did this (that I can remember) was training for the Chicago Marathon in 2010!
- Speaking of the Lung Run… I’ve mostly been bugging you guys to donate to Anne’s donation page this summer, but I have one too, if you want to make a donation! Donations benefit the programs of Uniting Against Lung Cancer. UALC is dedicated to funding innovative research and raising awareness to find a cure for lung cancer.
- More money talk (heh) – the Wisconsin North Face Endurance Challenge is coming up in two weekends (September 14-15) and spots are still open! There is a 50M, 50K, Marathon Relay, Half Marathon, 10K and 5K. I am running the half with my favorite cat lady. You can use code KSKAFF13 for 15% off!!! North Face sponsored my entry to the half – a huge thanks to them!
- Also… I have a code for my FAVORITE race, the Wisconsin Half Marathon and full again this year. Like last year, if 10 wonderful people use my code, I will get a free entry (full disclosure, yo). I think almost 100 people used it last year, which was pretty cool. Anyway, race registration opens September 15 and the code for $5 off is KIMSCODE. The race is May 3, 2014. I will put an ad up in the side bar closer to when registration opens.
- The 5:00 am group strength class starts tomorrow morning! Yee haw! I’ve kind of been overdoing it with the early mornings lately. I try to wake up early to get everything in each day – a workout, work, time to help Steven with packages, time to teach class, time to hang out… we’ll see how much longer this lasts! I may have to make Thursday a “sleep in” (until 6:20 am) sort of day so I am totally fresh for the Friday class! Sigh. I am discovering (duh) that it’s hard to fit in teaching and my workouts, and life, and work. And duh. Duh de duh.
- Thanks to everyone who filled out my 10QRQ yesterday! It’s fun to read your answers!
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Good luck on the Lung Run this weekend (and those extra miles you add on!) And I’ll have to keep the Wisconsin Half in mind…because any logo that incorporates cheese is definitely worth considering 🙂
Thank you!
It would be fun if you did WI! Especially since it’s so close! What did you decide about a HM this year?
But I want to run NEC!!! 🙁 and crap. I want to do that race in Kenosha too. Damn. Does it usually sell out? If I don’t run Boston next year I’ll be looking for a spring race. Hmmmm
I don’t think it sells out! You should do it! I love the half. I have not done the marathon 😉
Wow! 100 people used your code? That is awesome! I’ll be using it again this year. Love that race. Love the North Face race. Love you!
A ton did! It was cray! Thanks for using it! 🙂
We are going to have so much fun next weekend! We should see how long we can make the race take, under the cutoff!!!
Gosh, I’ll never remember that code for WI 😉 I’m deciding between that one and the IL half, since they’re back-to-back weekends again.
What’s funny is that my training plan actually called for 8 miles this week, but I re-worked the whole thing because of the 10k – DUH, could have just tacked on 2 more miles!
I wish Wisconsin and Illinois weren’t always back-to-back. Kim loves WI but I love IL! Although, I’ll probably run IL and then offer to work at WI again. That was fun!
My hometown race (Glass City Half in Toledo, OH) is the same weekend as IL too! So we get the choice of running on Bob’s college campus or mine, or waiting a week for WI cheese, beer and sausage — er, the half. It’s a shame they’re not spread out more!
At least they aren’t on the SAME weekend again! 🙂
I can’t wait to see what you decide! 🙂
LOL! But sometimes I think I will do that at a race and NEVER want to when it’s over. So… it’s good you got your 8 miles in. Or does that 8 need a redo?
No, let us never speak of that 8 miler again. EVER.
The sky looks like that in Maine today too and it makes me want to run SO much!
The Chicago lakefront is my favorite place to run!! Enjoy!
I wasn’t planning on doing a spring marathon but I’m thinking it might be easier to train for one then the other things I was thinking of doing so I might just use your code. All the recaps last year made me jealous that I wasn’t running WI!
Good luck with the 10k this weekend! I’m hoping to tack some miles on to the Chicago Half to make it my long run but I’m not sure logistically if it will work out.
I always feel like trying to find somewhere to run extra miles before or after the Chicago Half is difficult. But if anyone can figure out how to do it I bet it’s you!
LOL! Wait! What are the “other things”?
I really like WI! I hear the marathon course gets a bit quiet and some of it is on gravel… but for some people, they like that 🙂
Thanks! Good luck with the HM and your long run! You can do it!
Thanks! I was hoping to train for a half-iron but I don’t think I’ll have the time if I’m also taking classes. I guess I’ll have to push it back another year!
I don’t know that I’ll see you out there if the race starts too late, but I’ll be running to Belmont and back that AM, but back home by like 6:45am…
have fun at the Lung Run!
Hmm, I am hoping to get to Montrose by… hmm. Crap. Probably just when you will be ending. Do you go north to Belmont and back south?
I’m really looking forward to hearing about the North Face half! One of the women in my running club was going to do the 50 miler but she’s been injured and THEN she won the run the relay with Dean contest so she and her fiance are running the marathon relay with him. Pretty cool, huh?
That is so so so cool! How exciting!!!
Have a great lung run (and long run!)! Such a fantastic cause and I hope it’s mucho successful!
Thanks to Luca for donating to the cause 🙂
Thanks!
Have fun at the Lung Run. I was thinking about running it since it’s so close to home, but it unfortunately doesn’t fit in my marathon training this year. I don’t think I’ve ever turned a race into a long run. I’m usually so tired that I can’t do a short recovery run until later in the day (if at all)!
That’s a great looking skyline from that view. You’ve posted many photos from the same or similar spot. Weather looks great today.
I’ve done lots of races as part of long runs. F2B comes to mind 🙂
Yay for strength class! And YAY for WI – can’t wait already!
Hmm, remind me of this F2B long run… lol!
WI will be so fun, again!
Beautiful picture! I never get tired of the Chicago skyline. It’s so stunning with the lake in the foreground.
Other than warming up for a half-mile to mile and cooling down for about the same distance, I’ve never turned a race into a long run. My husband does it all the time though. Even for 5k’s he runs 3 miles before, runs the race, then 3 miles after so it counts as a good solid run (not really a long run to him). For longer races he’ll sometimes add to make a long run.
Have a GREAT run! Should be a beautiful weekend for it!
Gosh WI reg. is open already? I totally use your code–glad to hear 99 others do as well! Enjoy the Lung Run!
It opens on 9/15! So soon! Thanks for using my code! And I hope you have a fun 5K tomorrow!