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My lunch break today was an easy 10k on the Inlet Shore course. I finished up the run with my watch reading 6.03 miles. I know it’s not always 100% accurate, but I swear it read 6.20 for this course last week. Oh, that’s right. I forgot about that 0.15-mile side loop at the Allan Treman marina and therefore only covered 97.58% of the ground. Well at least the Inlet Shore 10k overlaps entirely with the Lakefront Loop 5k. I pulled my 5k split from Strava, so at least it counts for something on the leaderboard lol.
The good news is I can confirm there are no closures or reroutes anywhere on the Inlet Shore 10k course. It’s fully open and looks like all construction and resurfacing work is done for now, as of 4/30/26.
The temptation was just too great so I decided to make my long run even longer this morning by adding the Lakefront Loops 5K to the other three courses I’d already completed this morning (two BDs and Taughannock Rim and Gorge. This brought my total milage for the morning up to 26 miles instead of the 24 I’d planned. Well worth it!
My family and I went to Cortland this morning for the Corn Ducky 5K. I raced with Theo in his stroller. Despite a couple of stops to check the course map and pick up a hat that I dropped, I finished just under 20 minutes and won the race. That’s course 1 of 10 for my unofficial personal stroller challenge.
Having been timing the CHES (Cayuga Heights Elementary School) 5K for (more than) several years now - but had never run the course. While this was supposed to be a long run day, I was still recovering from the Taughannock Falls Rim Trail, so a short hard run was an intriguing alternative. Was late arriving to the start line (even though I was 90+ minutes ahead of everyone else!) so had minimal warm up before taking off. Course is sufficiently hilly, particularly in the first mile, which seems to be all up. But then the 3rd mile is all down hill…so much so that the last .1 is all up! All in all, almost got under 10:00/mile pace so was happy with result. Surprise of the morning - despite the air temp in the 30s, it felt much warmer, so much so that I layered down and was glad I did so. Fun part of the run - passing the same dogs and dog walkers I had seen earlier in the month doing the “Sights of the Heights”…dogs still barked at me, of course.. https://www.strava.com/activities/18359037515
This morning I packed my running gear, planning to get in a run after work. I settled on the Lakefront Loops because the course on my way home. The park was busy, full of young ball players and their families. I headed out in my favorite direction, out and back along 89 (what is going on at the Children’s Garden ?!) then past all the ball players and out to the Treman Loop.
It was a pleasant evening for a run, and I was treated to another spectacular sunset on the drive home.
If you have a morning appointment at the Island Health and Fitness, you HAVE to run this course! Or at least I have to!
I was terrified at the start of the run because a squirrel flew from tree to tree RIGHT OVER MY HEAD, and I imagined it landing ON my head. I thought it was neat that I when I passed a small snail on a larger rock … these days I wouldn’t be surprised if a snail passed ME.
I think the edge of the new pavement on the trail that runs along 89 makes the perfect landmark to turn around.
I made a shocking discovery while showering at work; it’s steam shutdown week at Cornell.
I looped the lakefront again this morning. I think the goose daycare was at capacity!! It wasn’t until today when seeing pairs of adult geese with babies that I wondered if the male sticks around, and he does. But I’m sure @Petorius kids know this!
There were so many different age groups of goslings that I reminisced about my kids’ daycare: the Blue room (baby), Yellow room (toddler), then the Green Grasshopper and Rainbow room (PreK).
The fluff from the cottonwoods blanketed the ground like snow.
Ran the Cornell Reunion Run at the Botanic Gardens this morning with Bob C.. Fair number of people, got to go up the steep hill twice, and received a free t-shirt to my wife’s consternation.
We had a relaxed group run on the Lakefront Loops 5K course this morning with a highly companionable crew (all pointing at where the Challenge sign would have been if it were there).
The skies opened up and drenched us during the run, but it was warm enough that no one was too perturbed. Jesse was nursing a sore calf and came back a bit late, so we had to figure out how to get a solo shot of him into the After photo.
ChatGPT did a somewhat decent job, albeit at the expense of Courtney’s left arm.
I ran the Twilight 5k last night. I was hoping to break 24 minutes, a goal I have not managed to accomplish since well before 2019. I came close last year (at Twilight in fact) running a 24:04 but subsequent attempts at other 5ks last year did not pan out. This year started out more promising when I ran a strong Skunk 10k finally breaking 50 minutes. I was revved up and eager to race a 5k. My first 2 attempts (at the Tulip Trot in Mecklenburg and the Women’s Distance Festival in Dryden) were inauspicious at best, I ran in the low 26’s hampered by a lingering cold. My third attempt was slightly better - a 25:30 at the Guthrie Gallop in Sayre. My hopes really soared though when I ran a solo tempo workout on the Waterfront Trail challenge course in 24:32 last Tuesday. Dropping 30 seconds seemed like a big ask but I knew the energy of an actual race would give me an extra boost. So I toed the line last night feeling confident. I ran the first mile in 7:22 and knew that that was too fast for me. My second mile was a more reasonable 7:45. If I could just hold that pace for the last mile I could get under the 24 minute mark. That last mile was not fun but I hung on and finished in 23:38!! It felt so good to turn that last corner and look up and see a 23 on the clock and know I was going to make it! I know my goal of breaking 24 minutes for a 5k is modest by most standards. I have had to readjust my racing goals as I have gotten older - my days of running 6:30 pace for 5ks in my early 40’s are long gone. But I still love racing and chasing goals, so I will keep it up! I want to thank the FLRC for putting on such a great race and to thank all the volunteers - your time and effort allow people like me to keep chasing our dreams, even when those dreams are Olympic-sized only in our hearts. Thank you!!!
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