Episode 5-505 – Race postmortem with coach
Hello my running friends. Welcome to episode 5-505 of the RunRunLive podcast.
Apologies for being a couple days late with this one, I had a busy week.
This is Mesa Marathon wrap up. Included is a post-mortem chat with my coach. And I’m glad we did this. I’m still learning and trying to figure out what this current version of my machine is capable of. That’s the beauty of racing and the associated training cycle – It’s an experiment and you get to see the results of the experiment.
Went for a run today with the club, just an easy 10K, but my legs felt great. I could feel the training in them.
So – I’ll give you the post-race post-mortem with coach first, post-haste. And them I’ll give you my race report which is a bit long.
Hopefully you can learn something from my experiment.
On with the show!
Featured Interview:
Coach Jeff Kline from PRSFit
Section Two – Mesa Race Report
https://runrunlive.com/mesa-marathon-2025-race-report
Outro
Well my friends, you have raced with much gusto through the end of yet another RunRunLive Podcast, Episode 5-505 – unfortunately you had to walk a bit at the end.
I ran an easy 10K with my club this morning. My legs felt great. I took Ollie with me, and he had a lot of fun. After we run with the club, Ollie and I go see my Mom at the senior living facility.
Ollie loves it over there. He gets so much attention from the residents. He really looks forward to it and they are so happy to see him. I keep him on a very short leash and make him sit and stay while the folks fawn over him. He does a good job, it’s like he understands that he needs to be gentle.
The deep freeze finally broke and the ice will start to recede. In two weeks we set the clock forward. We’re on the exponential part of the curve now and gaining 5 minutes of sunlight a day!
My plan is to get back to base building and strength. My shoulder should be able to do some weightlifting, and that’s good, because I need it!
For my revised list of goals from November to February I did reasonably well. My physical goal was to hold my nutrition and train for this road marathon and race it. Not a perfect result, but I’ll take it and call that one accomplished.
My second goal was to turn off the news and social media and try not to get caught up in what’s happening – I’ll be honest with you – this is not easy. This shit is everywhere and almost unavoidable. I did manage to not let it take over my head, but I can do better.
My third goal was to go on a date night every week. And that worked well for a while, but we are backtracking. In two weeks we’ll celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. And being married that long is inconceivable for most people. In reality it takes a combination of commitment and work.
I also had some vague planning goals around my book project – to build a marketing plan and to get the second book edited – I have taken some steps here, but I can only do so much.
So. Here we are. I’m through a cycle and entering a new one. My next event is a rim-to-rim-to-rim run of the Grand Canyon in the middle of May.
That makes the physical goal easy.
- Train for and run the Grand Canyon R2R2R successfully without hurting myself.
But what’s a good 2 month goal around my Fiction project? I could knock out that second book. Let’s do that.
- Have book two ready and delivered to the publisher by May 16th.
Grand. What else? What’s a good 3rd goal? I think I know just the thing.
- Successfully set up a revocable trust and will with my wife for our kids and move our assets into it.
That should do it, right?
Other things I need to do when I find the time are
- Rebuild and consolidate all my web sites.
- Clean up the yard and prep my garden.
- Work on an article series on how I leveraged podcasting to navigate the novel writing and publishing process and built an audience for my work. Potentially into presentations and get them published, maybe set up speaking slots.
Other than that, I guess I’ll just keep trying to get up every day, stay calm, be balanced and avoid being fed into the angry woodchipper that is our current environment.
Because that’s all we can do, my friends.
I’ll see you out there.