Savage Culmination
The Aslinger 24-hour Endurance Race is almost
here! I have been focused on this race for months and have great big
hairy audacious goals. Each day it gets closer the excitement builds. I know some folks get nervous about racing,
but I absolutely love it and can’t wait. April will bring another highly
anticipated experience at the Boston Marathon, but I don't have much planned after that.
The quote of the month for January is ‘you need to find some better friends!’.This is the
response from the lady in the post office while Bryan and I were sitting on the
floor munching on snacks, putting dry socks on our gnarly feet, and telling her
that ‘no we aren’t lost or biking but running my friend Kelpe’s age for his annual birthday run’. I think she was impressed at our endurance and
unimpressed at our intelligence (shoulder shrug). I am sure she was shaking her
head as we joined Stan, Mike B, Jason, and Brian J to start running in the snow
towards Vienna IL and our finish. It was
a great and fun run with beautiful scenery and good conversation.
February a pretty good group went over and ran the fly with Eagles. I was kind of slow, but won’t complain. On the way home we stopped at Quatros Pizza and refueled. The quote for February came from Joe ‘isn’t this crust great!’….I had eaten all the toppings and had a pile of crust on my plate.
The ketogenic (fat) diet is going pretty good. I am coming up on a year with only a few of some
let’s say ups and downs. I no longer
have meltdowns at parties where I sob and people hold me back or I don’t get
stopped and eat entire pans of lasagna.
The sugar and carb cravings have pretty much disappeared. I can get up and run 20 miles at moderate
intensity with no food and even go on to lunch or dinner without eating if I
want. My energy levels are great until
8pm, but then I turn into a pumpkin. I got real skinny last summer but put most
of it back on. I will be doing some more
tests in April or May to check my blood and body composition. The 100 miler in December was pretty solid
proof that endurance wise I can run well on the diet. It didn’t seem to hurt my speed at the
marathon in November either, which was a concern. My hope is that I will continue to adapt and
burn fat at higher and higher intensities.
In an effort to heal up and maintain mileage I
started running a lot of my training runs at a heart rate of 180 less my age. This was pretty sucky at first, but now I am
really enjoying it. It has led me to run with some friends I don’t normally run
with and has been a real blessing. Sometimes running is like life, it’s amazing
how much you experience when you slow down a little. My pace at 135 beats started out at 10:00-10:30
and is now 8:45-9:30. Come on 8:00 flat!
It’s all coming together! I can’t wait! A Great
God! Great races! Great results! Great friends and family! New heights! New
places! BEER after Aslinger!
Romans 5:3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance , character, and character, hope.
James 1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sister, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that testing your faith produces perseverance.
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