Here is a better map of the race on Wednesday. The first 2.5 miles is tough the last 3.5 miles is VERY downhill. If you get back on Hillsborough street and you have something left you better just kick it in and hang on. This could be a very fast course if you can make it up that hill and still be on pace. This is the ideal course for the stroller because there are no steep hills and there is a really long downhill. I plan on really tearing it up on the home stretch!. See you guys there.

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I am going to try to do the Oaks marathon but I am afraid my training just has not been there lately. I have some good routes along Cary Parkway and into Umstead if you want to get together for a long run on the weekends. I usually leave at 5:10-5:30 AM to try to escape the heat.

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quote:<HR>Originally posted by RunBobaluRun:
5:30 PM OK, 5:30 AM wow that is early.

Triangle Triathlon July 8th Sunday. I'm ready and willing. Hope to get through in one piece.

Bob

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Yea I haven?t seen many people out there that early. Just a few die hard runners! Good luck on the TRI!


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quote:<HR>Originally posted by jaysoffian:

I plan to do my 14 miler Sunday at Umstead. I'll probably start at N Cary Park and run into Umstead then west gate to east gate and back to N Cary Park. That's a little shy of 14, so I'll just double back once or twice to get in the extra half mile or so I need.

My plan is to run somewhere in the 9-10 minute/mi range if anyone wants to join. I'll probably start around 7:00 AM.<HR>

Jay,

I might be up for a long run on Sunday. Just let me know what time you will get to the park and where you will be exactly. Is the Cary Park entrance the one off of old reedy creek parkway(Near Weston parkway and the lake?)? I will be running from my house up to Umstead so I have to get 7 miles in before I get there.

I have been eyeing the second empire series races so my training has actually been geared toward the shorter races(2nd empire is now 6 5Ks with one 1 mile race). However, I hope to do the Raleigh Marathon also.

I have actually joined a fitness gym for the first time since my son was born. My work now pays for it so it was a no brainer. My hope is to get some of the strength training that I have not done in the last 4 years.

I have only been a member at the gym for 2 weeks but I am already seeing HUGE benefits from it. I have dropped 2 minutes on my 5K time(I wasn?t in peak shape to begin with) and I have gotten back into the weight lifting faster than I thought.

My hopes are to will my way through the Mile run that starts the season and then try to work up through the longer distances. This is going to be an interesting season. Competing through every single distance(1 mile, 5K, 8K, 10K, 10 Mile, Half Marathon, and Marathon). If I make it through this one then maybe I will take a season off! Probably not though.

See you guys at the races!




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quote:<HR>Originally posted by jaysoffian:

I'd like to start at 7:00 am given tomorrows temps. If you'll be running, I can meet you down by the bridge that crosses over the creek from the park to greenway. This is just north of where the greenway passes Cary Parkway. That way you don't have to run up the hill into the park. I can wait for you down there till 7:10 or so since I know it's hard to time a run perfectly.
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Jay,

I will meet you at the trail junction just below Weston parkway. It is just before the 15 mile marker on your course mapping. I will be there at 7:00 AM and I will wait on the trail path under Weston until about 7:20 AM. Don't wait for me I will try to catch you if I don't see you on the trail below Weston. If I don't see you by that time then I will just figure that you got started early or later. Anyway, I am sure we will meet up on the course if we don't see each other there.

I work at the top of that hill on Weston so I will refill my water before I start onto the trail. Do you run with water or is there a place you stop to get some?

See you tomorrow.

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