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Saturday I jogged 5 miles up to the St. Augustine lot and ran 14.4 miles with Robert and Dewey.  I then lumbered back home from there.  It was a lunch box run.  Wind, rain, and snow mixed in throughout the run, with the best weather found in the last 10 miles or so.  The trails up around Holy Hill were cautious.  At times the wet snow flakes were the size of nickels.  Felt like Al Bundy the first 5 miles on the road, but then did okay on the trails.  The run home on the road was at least 40 seconds a mile faster.  Not sure how that all works, but it is in the bank. 

I spoke to Robert about the runner lean I have to the right at the end of many ultras and especially 50 milers.  The announcer at JFK even mentioned it when bone chipping in, "and here comes a runner with the famous JFK lean."  It does seem common, so I looked up a few stretches, etc.  I guess 5-10 minutes of a routine won't hurt me.  I am also glad to report that a few wall squats every other day have had a positive outcome for my knee.  No pain Saturday at all.  Thanks Dean! 

One hundred percent disclosure on something.  I reviewed my last 6 weeks of training for Ice Age in 2009.  I know every time I'm on here I have a new formula.  In fact let me reach up to the bulletin board here and pluck one off that I created 7 weeks ago that was never utilized.  Okay...that's in the trash.  The year 2009 was the first time in like 4 years I was healthy enough to run well.  I was able to run well in 2008, but my enthusiasm created my first and only stress fracture which required 10 weeks off.  That meant no Ice Age.  So in 2009 a wiser human took over the control tower and came up with the idea to run within yourself.  See your future, be your future.  Run hard when it feels right; in other words a true how far to the barn mentality.  When I felt good I let it go.  I was 47...at some point common sense had to kick in.

At the 2009 Ice Age, true to my word I went out like it was a casual training run.  No pressure.  Like any long event if you stay back you'll start passing people in jimmy stacks.  It just never stopped that day and I ended up 5th overall.  It was also the best I ever felt at the end of a 50 miler.  Had I cracked the Drakos 3?  Everybody twist.  I now held information.  Information that could control the world.  But I didn't have that.  It lead to more of the, "I don't run to take beatings" mentality.  I was after all still myself.  Another bum from the neighborhood.  "This is reality Greg."

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So what did those last 6 weeks look like.  Unless stated the runs are on roads.
Unless stated the dog is Cookie.

3/30 = 8.5 (8:16) w/ dog
3/31 = 8.0 (8:13)
4/1   = 4.5 (9:00) w/ dog
4/2   = OFF
4/3   = OFF
4/4   = 26.0 (9:27) Ice Age course trails (Christine, Robert, Ricker)
4/5   = OFF
Week = 47.0

4/6   = 6.0 (8:31) w/ dog
4/7   = 7.0 w/ 30:00 tempo
4/8   = 6.2 (8:30) w/ dog
4/9   = 5.8 w/ 6 x Lowell Hill
4/10 = OFF
4/11 = 20.0 (9:00) Ice Age course trails
4/12 = 8.0 (8:47) w/ dog
Week = 53.0

4/13 = OFF
4/14 = 7.5 w/ 5k tempo in 19:32
4/15 = 7.0 Lapham Trails
4/16 = 7.7 w/ dog
4/17 = OFF
4/18 = 30.0 (9:00) Ice Age course trails (Bruce, Kirby)
4/19 = 7.2 (9:48) Minooka trails (Clem, Andy)
Week = 59.4

4/20 = OFF
4/21 = OFF
4/22 = 5.0 (8:00) w/ dog
4/23 = 4.0 w/ 15 x Horab Hill
4/24 = OFF
4/25 = 21.0 (8:34) Ice Age course trails (Christine, Ricker, Kirby)
4/26 = OFF
Week = 30.0

4/27 = 5.0 (8:20) w/ dog
4/28 = OFF
4/29 = 6.6 (8:11) Lapham trails w/ dog (Ricker, Todd)
4/30 = 4.8 w/ 10 x Horab Hill
5/1   = OFF
5/2   = 5.4 (9:38) w/ dog
5/3   = 7.6 (9:13) Minooka trails (Clem, Andy)
Week = 29.4

5/4   = OFF
5/5   = 5.0 (9:00) w/ dog
5/6   = 3.4 (8:49) w/ dog
5/7   = OFF
5/8   = OFF
5/9   = 50.0 Ice Age 7:20:57 (8:50)
5/10 = OFF
Week = 58.4

I know Cookie would be up for it. 

Last week was 62.0 miles on 5 runs.