Sat October 22nd - 9mi

Time of day 9:00 AM
Distance 2.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
WUCD Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Distance WU/CD 7.00 mi
Comments Ran with the GRC crew from the store in Georgetown. Went out and back on the towpath. For the last two miles we picked it up to marathon race pace as a group (roughly 6:06, 6:28 - unclear whether the mile markers were exactly correct or not).
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Fri October 21st - 6mi

Time of day 8:00 PM
Distance 6.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Route Georgetown Loop - 6 miles
Comments ran after work. about a mile from home i heard a "pat hughes!" it was micah out picking up some climbing equipment from craig's list.
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Thu October 20th - 16.2mi

Time of day 5:00 PM
Distance 10.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Route CT-NE-MA-WI-Capitol Long Run
Distance WU/CD 6.20 mi
Comments Good workout after work. Approx 3 mile warmup, 10 miles at marathon pace, and 3 mile cooldown. Felt OK. Very hilly couse - up Connecticut to Nebraska, then to Massachusetts, Wisonsin, along the Potomac and the Mall, around the Capitol, then back home.
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Tue October 18th - 6mi

Time of day 6:30 AM
Distance 6.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 10 (16)
Route Georgetown Loop - 6 miles
Comments Easy morning run. Forgot that I had a breakfast meeting at 8:30, so I had to cut it short. Still a little sore, and I think it's from the 15 miler on Sunday, not from the race on Saturday.
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Sun October 16th - 15mi

Time of day 7:30 PM
Distance 15.00 mi
Shoe T5 Racer (yello)
Comments First portion of the run was 9.45 miles in just over an hour - Lusty, Tyle, and Pinto took it our hard, dipping down to just above 5:30/mile pace for the last 3-4 miles, and I was running with Greg Hartnett not too far back. We made it back to Fauver around 9.45 miles and then Mueller, Tyle, and I continued on to run a early worm to make it 15 miles. The worm was slower, which was welcome. It felt good to be back running around Mt. Hope. Perfect weather.

Great to see all the men for the weekend. It's always good to be back in Rochester.
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Sat October 15th - 7.971mi

Time of day 12:00 PM
Distance 4.97 mi
Shoe Zoom Waffle Xc 7 (Orang)
WUCD Shoe T5 Racer (yello)
Distance WU/CD 3.00 mi
Comments Bleh. Not the greatest race. It was raining and had been for days beforehand, so the course was really muddy. I got out relatively well and hit the 1k in 3:30ish, then hit the mile around 5:30ish, but my pace slipped from there. I realized that running in deep mud is essentially a process of accelerating and slipping, over and over. It's hard to get into a rhythm like you can on the roads. Anyway, I'm not too concerned about the performance - it was more like a hard tempo run. Ran back to Fauver with Roosa after the race and had a creamer in the shower before getting lunch with my mom.

Race recap: http://www.uofrathletics.com/news/2011/10/15/MXC_1015112605.aspx

Results: http://www.uofrathletics.com/custompages/UR%20MEN'S%20CROSS%20COUNTRY%20MUGS/RESULTS/XCMen_Results_2011.htm
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Fri October 14th - 8.1mi

Time of day 6:30 AM
Distance 8.10 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 10 (16)
Comments Good morning run with Tyle. Ran up Mass Ave to Wisco, then down through Georgetown to the Mall and back.

Tyle's comments: Run with Pat from his great new apartment. Time and distance a guess. Nice loop by Joe Biden's house, then past the Apple store ...
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Wed October 12th - 4.5mi

Time of day 6:45 AM
Distance 4.50 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Ran on some trails in Rock Creek Park. Right knee/IT band was a little tight.
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Tue October 11th - 16mi

Time of day 5:30 AM
Distance 16.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Ran up to the Bethesda metro stop and back via Wisconsin Ave. before work.
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Fri October 7th - 6.04mi

Time of day 6:30 AM
Distance 6.04 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Route Georgetown Loop - 6 miles
Comments Good morning run. Right foot is less tender today and didn't bother me at all on the run. It was a little sore after the run, though.
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Fri September 30th - 6mi

Time of day 6:30 AM
Distance 6.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Easy morning run with PMurph. Looped up to the Cathedral then down to Nora's and back via Adams Morgan.
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Mon September 26th - 7mi

Time of day 7:00 PM
Distance 7.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Quick run out to Georgetown and back. I raced a bus from the Buffalo to Wisconsin Ave and barely won. Felt good.
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Sat September 24th - 4.7mi

Time of day 7:30 AM
Distance 3.70 mi
Shoe Gel-ds Racer 8 (1)
WUCD Shoe Gel-ds Racer 8 (1)
Distance WU/CD 1.00 mi
Comments Final leg (#28) only an hour after my previous leg (#26). Because we only had 11 men on the team, we had to make up for 3 extra legs. Because legs #5 and #6 were cancelled, only one person had to run 4 legs, and that person was me. Thankfully this was a shorter leg, but that didn't make it any easier. There were a lot of stop lights to contend with, but I did the best I could. At least I didn't have to wear a reflective vest and headlamp.

Approximately 13 kills before handing off to Nolan.

After finishing our van's legs, we handed off to van 2 and drove to the finish line at National Harbor. Team RunPartner.com ended up finishing 8th overall in the race, which means we caught and passed ("killed") 253 teams. We won the race in a course record time of 2:02:05, even with the 37 minute delay from the first two legs. It was a great race, and we all raced hard. I had a lot of fun getting the old crew back together.
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Sat September 24th - 3.7mi

Time of day 6:30 AM
Distance 2.70 mi
Shoe Gel-ds Racer 8 (1)
WUCD Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Distance WU/CD 1.00 mi
Comments Did another warmup, about a mile, with Tyle before my leg.

Too the baton from Lusty just before dawn for a very short leg. The van had to leave before I did to make sure it got to the next exchange zone in time for Nolan to get set for his leg.

I think I got about 11 kills on this leg.
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Sat September 24th - 6.2mi

Distance 5.20 mi
Shoe Gel-ds Racer 8 (1)
WUCD Shoe Gel-ds Racer 8 (1)
Distance WU/CD 1.00 mi
Comments RAGNAR RELAY 2011 - Day 2

I took the baton from Mueller at exchange 15 around midnight for leg 16 -- a rolling 5.2 mile leg, which ended up being the foggiest, darkest run I've ever done. I was wearing my 300 lumen headlamp, but could still only see about 4 feet in front of me. The fog made it feel like I was running through a snow storm. I wore my glasses for the first couple of miles, but took them off after realizing I could see just as poorly without them. Probably the weirdest part about running in total darkness is not knowing when you're going to hit a hill until you're running up or down it and not knowing for how long it's going to last.

I passed off to Nolan after a pretty good run.
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Fri September 23rd - 6.9mi

Time of day 11:15 AM
Distance 4.90 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
WUCD Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Distance WU/CD 2.00 mi
Comments RAGNAR RELAY 2011
1st Place - New Course Record (2:02:05 for 198.1 miles)

Team RunPartner.com:
Patrick Hughes
Ezra Milby
Daniel Mueller
Steve Mutisya
Daniel Lane
Joseph Lust
Christopher Nolan
Jon Pinto
Marek Slipski
Tyle Stelzig
Tim Rusterholz

Great relay race from Cumberland, Maryland through DC to the National Harbor. All of the guys on the team raced their hearts our, and we were rewarded with a course record - breaking the old record (2008) by 1 hour and 32 minutes.

I ran legs 1, 16, 25, and 28 for a total of 16.5 miles.

We arrived in Cumberland, Maryland around 3:15pm on Friday afternoon. After checking in and going through the safety briefing, i jogged about a mile to shake out my legs after a long van ride from DC. We were the only team to show up for the last wave (the other teams that were scheduled to be in our wave had either dropped out or had started early at 2pm), so I had to run the first stretch around Lake Habeeb alone in the rain. Tyle got on the line with me, and we ran the first 200 meters together. I was keeping a good pace around the slippery trails and made it to a mile to go just over 20 minutes, then I took a wrong turn. Or, more accurately, the turn I was supposed to take was not marked. Because we started so far after the next closest team, the volunteers were all cleaning up and leaving their stations, which meant that both Tyle and I made wrong turns. Mine resulted in a 7 minute delay, and Tyle's in a 30 minute delay.

After handing off to Tyle, I jogged around a little bit and hopped in the van for the next check mark where Tyle handed off to Mueller.

Mueller then handed off to Nolan before we had to skip over legs 5 and 6 due to muddy roads. Ezra started running leg 7 around 7:30pm, and we hooked up with them at exchange 7 to drop off walkie talkies and the slap bracelet that we used for a baton. We didn't see the crew again until around 10:30-11pm at exchange 12 after some really hot showers at a local high school.

My next leg did not occur until around midnight, so check tomorrow's RP entry for the rest of the details from Ragnar.
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Tue September 20th - 10mi

Time of day 6:30 AM
Distance 10.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Ran from Coach P's house to PMurph's house for a Ward One Warrior loop, then back to Coach P's house. Good to get on some semi-hilly trails. About 10 miles, but could have been a little longer.
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Sun September 18th - 18mi

Time of day 9:00 AM
Distance 18.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Good long run. Ran up Mass ave to Wisconsin, through Tenley Town and AU, then down to Georgetown and back along the Mall. Picked up the pace as the run went on.
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Sat September 17th - 10mi

Time of day 9:00 AM
Distance 10.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Temperature 55°F
Comments Easy recovery run from the tempo yesterday. I'm a little sore, but not too bad. It has been cold for the last few days. I had to stop for a few minutes for Biden's motorcade.
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Fri September 16th - 10mi

Time of day 6:30 AM
Distance 6.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Distance WU/CD 4.00 mi
Temperature 50°F
Comments Two mile warmup, six miles at tempo pace (no watch, but probably close to 6 min/mile, possibly a little slower, but not much), two mile cooldown. The tempo part felt great, and I was rolling for a lot of it. This helped boost my confidence a little -- I can feel myself getting back into shape.
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Tue September 13th - 5mi

Time of day 7:00 AM
Distance 5.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Easy morning run. Will try to get out for anoter run this afternoon if I'm not stuck at work.
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Sun September 11th - 17.214mi

Time of day 9:00 AM
Distance 6.21 mi
Duration 35:34 @ 5:43 min/mi
Shoe Gel-ds Racer 8 (1)
WUCD Shoe Gel-ds Racer 8 (1)
Distance WU/CD 11.00 mi
Wind None
Conditions Sunny and Dry
Intensity Hard
Overall Feeling Average
Comments Ran 4 miles from my house to the transition area. Stopped at 7-11 for coffee and Cheerios.

Made it to the transition area around 6:30am, then had to wait around a while for the race to start. The first waves went off at 7am (bike, not swim - the swim was cancelled because all the rain we've had had caused sewage overflow and debris in the Potomac), but Dan took off closer to 7:45am. I ran another 2 miles while Dan was out biking a 1:07:35 40k.

I ran the full length of the transition zone, which added about 300m of mud to the run. The course itself was nice and flat. The weather was much nicer than last year, although the sun was out and it got a little hot out on the road. The course looped down Independence to 15th, up to the Washington Monument, then back down to Hains Point where we looped around the tip and back to finish a little sooner than most races on Hains Point finish. I didn't get passed by anyone, and I passed a ton of people, although I think I would have rather had some competition to push me through. I finished my first race since January in 35:34 - 12 seconds slower than the fastest relay runner.

My team finished 1st in the CQ/Roll Call Congressional Challenge Division, and 2nd overall - just 21 seconds slower than the 1st place team that had the guy who beat me by 12 seconds on it.

After the awards ceremony, I ran past the new MLK memorial, then to the Capitol, then home - about 6 miles in all.

Results: http://onlineraceresults.com/race/view_plain_text.php?race_id=21269
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Thu September 8th - 10mi

Time of day 6:45 AM
Distance 4.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Distance WU/CD 6.00 mi
Conditions Showers
Comments good tempo workout. at least 4 miles, but could have been closer to 5. lots of rain.
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Sat September 10th - 10mi

Time of day 8:00 AM
Distance 10.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments easy gtown loop. felt good, but kept it easy due to the race tomorrow.
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Wed September 7th - 10mi

Time of day 6:30 AM
Distance 10.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments easy georgetown loop before work. hard to wake up, but i want to try to run more often in the morning.
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Fri September 2nd - 10mi

Time of day 7:30 PM
Distance 10.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments easy ten after work
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Thu September 1st - 10mi

Time of day 7:00 PM
Distance 10.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments gtown loop
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Wed August 31st - 10mi

Time of day 8:00 PM
Distance 10.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Georgetown loop with 10 x 1 minute striders. First run I've done in a while that has been completely in the dark. Good practice for the Ragnar Relay.
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Fri August 26th - 9mi

Time of day 3:00 PM
Distance 4.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Distance WU/CD 5.00 mi
Comments 4 miles at 15k pace. I wanted to get these down below 6 minutes/mile, but for my first real workout since coming back from my foot injury this wasn't so bad.
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Thu August 25th - 12mi

Time of day 10:00 AM
Distance 12.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Good run - thrice around the neighborhood loop. A little cooler today than it has been. Felt really good after a couple of days off. No foot pain.
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Mon August 22nd - 11mi

Time of day 11:30 AM
Distance 11.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Good run -- two loops. Ran the second loop quite a bit faster than the first one. Added on at the end.
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Sun August 21st - 9mi

Time of day 10:00 AM
Distance 9.00 mi
Shoe Adrenaline Gts 11 (17)
Comments Twice around the neighborhood loop. Felt pretty good, but a little sore. There was some good shade along the way.
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