Posted on 10 January 2012.
Here is a look at my the finisher’s medal from the 2012 runDisney Kids’ Races that were held on January 6, 2012 at the Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Florida.
Events included a diaper dash, 100m, 200m, 400m, and 1-mile race.
[medal submitted by my son who ran the 200m]
Posted on 04 January 2012.
I decided to end my best year of running by trying to attempt two races, separated by over 200 miles, on the same day.
The first race would be a 50K trail/cross country race in the morning with the second race being a road 5K later on that night.
I travelled down to Huntsville, Alabama the night before the Recover from the Holidays 50K to stay the night, catch up with my friend Naresh Kumar (who was running the race as well), and get some grub.
It’s always great spending time with Naresh, trading war stories, and exchanging Vol State 500K horror novels. It’s truly amazing the 2011 that Naresh had in his Vibrams. He did several amazing races that many runners will never be brave enough to enter much less finish.
The Recover from the Holidays 50K is a great event that had exploded with runners this year to a near-max of 150. It’s $15 and features a cool finisher’s medal. The race is always on the last day of the year, New Year’s Eve.
The RFH course is on a cross country course, which was more trail than XC in my opinion. It consists of a 1 mile loop to start, followed by 10 three mile loops. There is an aid/water table at the start finish that you circle every three miles.
The weather was great this year as I quickly shed my long sleeve shirt after the first loop. I felt good early on and went with it. I kept an eye on my overall pace as I continued to run the race one mile at a time using the lap pace on my Garmin set to 1-mile laps. This helps me focus on the mile I’m on and not getting lost in the big picture. It helps me to not throw miles away.
As each loop disappeared into 2011 I remained strong and kept trying to stay consistent without fading.
I ended up having a great race. I had only run a 50K twice before. Each time being the same trail race in Memphis. My 50K PR was 5:59:59 coming into RFH. On Saturday I finished the Recover from the Holidays 50K in 4:53:22. It was a good running day so I was pleased.
After the race, I received my finisher’s medal, grabbed some pizza, changed clothes, and was on the road within 15 minutes.
It took about 3.5 hours to drive the 200 miles back to Tennessee. I didn’t really eat too much on the way as nothing tasted that good. I think I ate half a piece of pizza and a small bag of potato chips.
I made it to my house around 5:20pm. I had time to take a shower and lay down for about 15 minutes. I couldn’t sleep but didn’t feel great at the moment. I felt tired and worn down. My wife asked me, “Are you sure you should run this race (5K)?”
I still was determined to run the Downtown Dash 5K that night in Jackson. Jeff Keas was the race director of this race. He was my youth minister as a teen. He’s a good friend and one of my running mentors. We have lunch about once a week to talk running, and I really wanted to be at his race to support him and this first year event.
As I left the house I prepped myself mentally to run a 25 minute or slower 5K. I usually run a 5K in 19:45-20:30. I knew after running 31 miles that morning that I’d be a good bit slower than my usual 5K times.
Nuun, Sport Beans, and a Roctane seemed to be the right combo. That along with seeing many friends before the start of the race seemed to return my system to normal. I had done much harder running events than tackling a 50K and 5K in the same day, but I actually wanted to perform well at the 5K. I didn’t want to just show up and jog an easy 3 miles.
The race started at 7pm and the field of nearly 150 runners took off into the cool night air. I took off as I normally do at a 5K. I was about 1/3 mile into the race when I checked my pace at around 6:40. I wanted to run hard but play it smart. I kept the pedal mostly down throughout the race, but was smart to ease off enough at points as to not pass out and crash into the asphalt.
I was running strong when I got to the 2.5 mile part of the 3.1 mile race. I decided to up the intensity and see how many runners I could catch in the last half-mile. I was able to track down 4-5 runners before finally reaching the finish line. I had finished with a time of 21:07 officially and 20:58 according to my Garmin.
I was beyond pleased and excited that the race was over. I hung around for the awards ceremony to applaud some friends I knew had won their age divisions. I was surprised when my name was called out for having won my age division. The division wasn’t that deep in runners, but it was a great cap to a wonderful day of running.
It wasn’t my most challenging day of running, but my most successful of 2011. I had PR’d the 50K that morning by 66 minutes and won my age division at the 5K that night by running a 6:49 pace.
I hope all of you had a great 2011 and that you make new goals that you reach in 2012.
I also want to give a big thank you to everyone that supported Run It Fast in 2011 as it really gained speed and a nice following.
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Posted on 01 January 2012.
Huntsville’s DeWayne Satterfield was all business wear, while being his jovial self, in winning the 2011 Recover the the Holidays 50K yesterday in Huntsville, Alabama.
Satterfield beat out Tim Vinson with a time of 3:50:59. Vinson was less than 6 minutes behind Satterfield in 3:56:35. Finland’s Kari Salomaa took third place with a time of 4:10:01.
The female winner was Tammy Tribett who finished the course in 4:25:30.
The course consisted of a 1-mile out and back, followed by 10 loops on the Huntsville Cross Country 5k course.
Top 40 Recover from the Holidays 50K Results
Congrats to all who ran yesterday in Huntsville and across the world! May your 2012 be full of many more miles and successful races.
[photo: Winner DeWayne Satterfield (Angus Young look) with Joshua Holmes]
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Posted on 30 December 2011.
We asked on Twitter (@runitfast) where you were running this weekend and 22 of you responded!
Joshua Holmes – Recover from the Holidays 50k in Alabama and Downtown Dash 5k that night in Tennessee.
Kristen Jones – new years eve race in Rehoboth De and new years day race in Bethany beach! Racing in to the new year!!
Stanley Peyton – Harrisonburg Va #FirstNight 5k
Anwen Edwards – Running tomorrow morning with the girls around Llogerheads and Cilcain in North Wales. Hope the rain holes off.
Naresh Kumar – Recover from holidays 50K 🙂
Jeanie Olinger – doing my first New Year’s Run!
Lisa Ford – a 6mile new years day race x
Monkey Trent – Dirk’s FA 50k!
Jason Buike – to the liquor store : )
MAXIMILIAN – Deployed AF new years 10K, Kuwait
Lisa Hamilton – Halifax NS
Susan Eastman – 7.5-mile run tomorrow in Centerville MA; 5-miler on Sunday in Barnstable Village; next race Jan. 8 – winter Grand Prix series
Jaim – New Years Resolution Race, Rochester, MN! Supposed to be really windy….
RMP – at viveros México city
Lisa Gonzales – I’m running in San Francisco at the New Years One Day 12HR!!! Woo!!! Sorry, I’m just a little bit excited. 😉
Evan Gilead – I had the #needforspeed but my jet plane is in the shop. Second alternative, I went running.
Lionel Garcia – no races this week but #rundisney next weekend!
Ian Richards – Running from home probably 8 miles steady on Sunday.
Jared Friesen – 2 double digit back to back runs this weekend for a total of 32 miles in cold Alaska winter weather!
Erin Donovan – Albany, ny! Hangover half marathon
Aaron Johnstone – 14 mile training run tomorrow for the @austinmarathon! Just hit 1000 mi. for the year this morning!!!
Kiwi – Knoxville, TN
Steve Carleton – South Mills Recreational Trail, South Mills, NC
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Posted on 28 December 2011.
Ashley Hicks and Toni Carey created Black Girls RUN! (website) in 2009 to tackle obesity, disease, and workout apathy in the African-American community for women.
Black Girls RUN! Mission Statement:
The mission of Black Girls RUN! is to encourage African-American women to make fitness and healthy living a priority. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 80% of African-American women are overweight. BGR! wants to create a movement to lower that percentage and subsequently, lower the number of women with chronic diseases associated with an unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle.
The group has now grown to over 60 local clubs across the United States in a relatively short amount of time.
The ladies told the The Tennessean some of the obstacles African-American women face when it comes to wanting to run:
The message faces multiple obstacles: cultural perceptions, ingrained food and beauty customs, lack of a receptive environment or safe place to be active, and the belief that recreational running is simply not something black people do.
Carey even told the newspaper a reason her mom told her she was scared to run that is actually pretty funny.
“She told me black women don’t run,” Carey recalls. “And then she told me all the reasons why, including my uterus was going to fall out, which happens to be this myth that prevails. It’s crazy.”
Often though we are told myths or reasons why we can’t or shouldn’t run or do something we are curious about doing. Often that excuse or reason is planted within us by someone who is afraid, scared, or sometimes even jealous that we want to do something so ‘foreign’ or ‘extreme’ to them.
Carey didn’t hold back in telling the newspaper another reason African-American women are sometimes timid to try running is their ‘hair.’
And though they often feel strange saying it, hair also impacts activity. Because of the products black women use to style their hair, they often don’t wash it every day. Sweating and then having to re-do their hair is a deterrent.
“As silly as it may sound, it really is a huge issue for black women,” Carey says. “Hair is supposed to look a certain way, you are supposed to fit in this certain stereotype. There’s a lot of apprehension going natural.”
Another reason Carey listed was that it’s not always safe to run through some of the neighborhoods that some women live in.
She concluded though that the biggest reason African-American women often don’t run is lack of an example or positive role model when it comes to athletics and running.
Every community of every ethnicity needs strong women like Ashley and Toni to lead, inspire, and motivate women and men alike to take better care of their health through education and being active.
Congrats to Ashley and Toni on what they’ve been able to accomplish in the African-American community in the past couple of years.
[image: Black Girls RUN!]
Posted on 27 December 2011.
Here is a quick look at the cities and largest markets where Run It Fast was viewed the most in 2011.
Posted on 27 December 2011.
Bryon Powell over at IRunFar.com got his hands on a preview pair of the upcoming New Balance Minimus Amp MT1010 trail shoes earlier this week and wrote an impressive and detailed review of the minimal trail running shoe. The shoe will be a descendent of the New Balance Minimus MT10 that was released in 2011.
The quick lowdown on the New Balance MT1010:
I see the New Balance MT1010 as a low-to-the-ground, lightweight (at 7.7 ounces for a US men’s 9, it’s the exact same weight at the MT110) trail shoe that’s protective and supportive enough for everyday trail running shoe for those of us who aren’t waifish, who don’t run like a gazelle, and who don’t always run on buffed out, rock-free trails. In other words, it’s a trail running shoe for most of us whether we’re training (20 or) 100 miles per week or running a 100-mile race over rugged terrain.
READ IRunFar.com’s Full Descriptive Review + Many Photos of the MT1010
Posted in Reviews, Running, Shoes0 Comments
Posted on 26 December 2011.
So it seems that Santa was good to many of my fellow running addicts!
Here is what you said you received for Christmas:
Casey – Got a @lululemon run jacket & winter run tights + a stocking full of GU!
Jonathan Bobbitt – NewtonGravity, calf sleeves, Nuun, Electrolyte Caps, shorts, compres’n arm sleeves and 365 days of potential runs in 2012…
Monkey Trent – none 🙂
iluv4kds – we got a lot here..several new tech shirts, Yaktrax, running gloves, hand held water bottle, high tech ear buds(if those count).
Gerard Pescatore – awesome @newbalance technical shirt!
Mindy M – a Garmin405! and FitDeck cards for cross-training days. and a stocking full of gels, fuel and bars!
Simon R – garmin forerunner 205
Karen French – I got shoes!
PA Dutch Dude Abroad – Two Nike Dri Fit running tops
Caitlin – a new HRM, running gloves and a @lululemon gift card!
Lisa Gonzales – Sadly, none. 🙁 But got gift cards to REI fr my staff & bought Merrell Trail Gloves. Used them on Fri & they were great fun.
Joshua Holmes – NB MT101 trail shoes and Brooks Puregrid trail shoes.
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Posted on 24 December 2011.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Run It Fast family to you and yours this weekend and holiday season.
(Pictured above is Kiki at the Santa Hustle 5K in Indianapolis last weekend. You can follow Kiki on Twitter @CapnKeeks)
Fabrizio Colella running the Christmas Trail at River po Park ,trail di Natale nel parco del po di trino( italy ). Follow him on Twitter @CollellaFabrizio
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Posted on 23 December 2011.
We asked on Twitter (@runitfast) where you were running this weekend and 9 of you responded!
Slow weekend of races due to Christmas, but many of you are still going to get out there and get some training miles in. Best of luck and Merry Christmas to you all!
Joshua Holmes – Hopefully more and more and more trail miles this weekend.
Lisa Gonzales – Hey @runitfast! Heading 4 some sweet single track today & chasing Santa on Sun. IF you were wondering where I’ll be running this wkend. 🙂
Jared Friesen – Multi-use trails by my house, 24 miles in fresh snow!
Christina Kaighen – The gorgeous Gulf beaches of Okaloosa Island. Training for #Destin50BeachUltra!
Gerard Pescatore – Wilkes-Barre / Scranton area. Down time.
Nolan Holloway – Do my running at Stone Mountain Park in GA.
Cousin Eddie – I’m working on a new route: south out of Birmingham (England) along the Grand Union Canal and back.
Jonathan Bobbitt – a little road and a bunch’a single track/sloppy trails
Christine W. – Running at least 8 miles tmrw on the “dreadmill”. 🙂
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