All Comers mile: Joey Keillor scorched the track running a 4:30 mile in the rain yesterday. Christy Marvin was the fastest female with a 5:11. We haven't had a female mile that fast in a long time. Good running one and all! Complete results on the RTC website including my 'joggers' mile. ;-)
Thursday activity options: Beer Run at Beetles on 2nd at 5:30 PM. Thursday Night Triathlon at Foster Arends at 7:00 PM. I guess theoretically one could do both! I might just go up and swim 400M to get one more open water swim under my belt. I'm theoretically tapering for a marthon on Saturday. ;-)
I went for an easy bike ride this afternoon. Didn't push it at all and tried to just spin in easy gears and enjoy the scenery. The corn has come a long way in the past week. The recent warmer temps and timely rain are no doubt the reason. Someone had cut a field of hay on Saturday and it's still laying there. Doesn't smell like it did when it was freshly cut. :-) There's a farm on the way to Rock Dell with a huge vegetable garden to the west of the house. It'd be fun to be able to walk through it some time. ;-) Tomorrow morning I think I'll try to run a mile or two just to see how it feels. Maybe that will aid me in my decision-making between now and Saturday morning.
Another decision for tomorrow: what kind of cookies to bring to Duluth. I'm leaning toward Monster cookies--lots of peanut butter, oatmeal and chocolate!!
FYI: There's a Blues & BBQ festival on August 22, the same day as the Rochester Half Marathon & 5K. It's from 4-10:30 PM at the Peace Plaza. Cost is $25. Yeah ... I know this is virtually unreadable. But it's a cool poster.
Dinner tonight: Pasta with peppers, garlic, olive oil. It was my recipe of the month in the Running Room eMagazine some time in the last year or so. Easy and delicious. It's from chef Stephen Larson who used to own Gourmet's Garden cooking school.
For the pasta:
4 quarts water
1 Tbsp. Kosher salt
1 pound dry spaghetti noodles (I used Barilla Spaghetti Rigati--spaghetti with ridges)
Directions: Bring the water to a boil in a large pot. Stir in the salt, then add the noodles and cook at a medium boil while stirring often until al dente (about 6 to 8 minutes). Meanwhile, make the sauce.
For the sauce and to finish the dish:
6 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil (I used about 5 Tbsp.)
8 large cloves garlic, peeled and crushed flat (with the side of a chef's knife)
One red bell pepper, cored and seeded and cut into short julienne
1 tsp. Kosher salt
1/2 tsp. hot pepper flakes (use more or less to taste)
1/4 c. finely shredded Italian parsley (I used fresh basil this time)
Cooked pasta from above
6 Tbsp. freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Directions: Put a 12" skillet over high heat. When the pan is hot, remove it from the heat and add the oil to the pan followed closely by the garlic. Let the garlic cook 1 minute until lightly golden in color. Add the bell peppers, salt and pepper flakes then return to high heat. Let cook 1 minute while stirring often, then remove from the heat and stir in the parsley. When the pasta is done, drain it well and toss with the sauce. Divide onto plates then top each with a sprinkling of Parmesan and serve.
Salud!
From Paul Christian:
Beardsley adds new chapter to his life and running story
MCT REGIONAL NEWS
By Kevin Pates
Duluth News Tribune, Minn.
(MCT)
Jun. 16--Even if you think you know Dick Beardsley’s story -- a Minnesota guy becomes a star marathoner, is felled by injuries and addiction, and survives it all -- there’s more.
New chapters continue to unfold for the 53-year-old, who owns the fastest time in Grandma’s Marathon history, which have initiated a screen- play of his life for a possible movie, while a second autobiography is in the works.
Beardsley had a total replacement of his right knee Jan. 7 and, this won’t surprise anyone, he’s back running. He’ll certainly put in a few miles later this week in downtown Duluth when here as a speaker and radio commentator for Saturday’s 33rd Grandma’s Marathon.
“I’ve been told a number of times, since the knee replacement, that I wouldn’t or shouldn’t run again. I haven’t gone back to it to prove the doctors wrong, I just love running,” Beardsley said recently from home in Austin, Texas. “I may be making a big mistake, but I don’t think anyone really knows the effects of running on an artificial knee. Yes, the knee will probably wear out faster, maybe it will last only 10 years instead of 15 or 20, but how will I know unless I try?”
Right now he’s running 40-45 miles a week, squeezed into his life as a sought-after motivational speaker. His longest run with the new knee, nine miles, came Monday.
A nasty turn
A wave rolled over Beardsley as he stood in the Atlantic Ocean off Palm Beach, Fla., last September and his right knee was twisted. It ultimately needed arthroscopic cleaning in November and then the situation became seriously complicated by an infection. The infection ate away the knee joint and, after facing excruciating pain, a knee replacement was Beardsley’s only option.
He underwent a three-hour operation and was hospitalized four days. It was the 12th operation on the knee since his first in 1976, and cost about $50,000. The DePuy orthopaedic rotating titanium knee, with a ceramic surface, made by Johnson & Johnson, is the most up-to-date replacement joint, said Beardsley, and allows for improved side-to-side movement and better wear.
Physical therapy and then biking and swimming were the first steps on the road to recovery.
“I found I loved biking and you can get an aerobic fix on the bike, but it’s still not like running,” said Beardsley, who completed about 30 career marathons, including his course-record in the 1981 Grandma’s Marathon in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 37 seconds.
So, little by little, he’s gotten back to it as he continues to travel almost every weekend as a speaker. An atrophied right quadriceps leg muscle meant slow going at first, as it took nearly 12 minutes to cover a mile. He eventually was able to run without a limp and now can run a mile in under eight minutes.
Beardsley’s wife, Jill, said Dick isn’t one to take the easy route.
“At first, he had accepted that he wasn’t going to run again. And then he said, ’Let me try this and try this.’ He’s going to run and live for today. That’s who he is; he’s not going to limit himself,” said Jill Beardsley, a citizen runner, who helps organize his speaking engagements.
The Next Chapter
Beardsley’s life has been detailed in his 2004 autobiography “Staying the Course: A Runner’s Toughest Race,” which included his battle with prescription pain killers, and in John Brant’s 2006 book “Duel in the Sun,” the story of the 1982 Boston Marathon, a searing race against Alberto Salazar. Beardsley was also featured in the acclaimed 2007 independent documentary “Spirit of the Marathon.”
Yet, not all of his tales have been told, leading to work on a second autobiography and a screen play by film producer Paul Martin of Vineyard Productions of Sonoma, Calif.
Yet whatever new material is produced, running is still at the base of Beardsley’s identity.
“When I retired from running, after the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials, I knew I wouldn’t be back at that level again. But I still like to push myself as hard as I possibly can,” said the two-time Grandma’s Marathon champion, who grew up in Wayzata, Minn. “Even now, I’m at a slow place, but I’m doing more than just shuffling my feet. I’m working at it and I actually feel like a regular runner again.”
Before the knee replacement, Beardsley was still running marathons, including the 2006 Grandma’s Marathon when he finished in 2:47:56 at age 50. He’s not predicting a 26.2-mile race any time soon on his new knee, but there is precedent.
Randy Rendon, also a resident of Austin, Texas, had a knee replacement in 2007, according to the Austin American-Statesman, and six months later completed the 2008 Houston Marathon at age 60 and did so again in 2009.
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US Olympian Kastor to run in Chicago Marathon
By PATRICK HORNE
AP Sports Writer
It’s not a coincidence Deena Kastor chose to take the first big step in her comeback from last summer’s devastating foot injury by running in the Chicago Marathon.
Besides being flat and fast, the course provides a bit of Olympic symmetry since it will be used for the 2016 Games if Chicago wins its bid to host. Kastor, the American record holder, broke her foot at the Beijing Olympics.
“I have high expectations for the race,” said Kastor, who won it in 2005. “I’m really excited to get after it and lower my personal record.”
Kastor set the U.S. record of 2 hours, 19 minutes and 36 seconds at the 2006 London Marathon and believes she can better that mark, and even get below 2:18. Paula Radcliffe of Britain holds the women’s world record, running a 2:15:25 at London in 2003.
The 36-year-old Kastor is the first elite woman to commit to run in Chicago on Oct. 11.
“Chicago regularly brings in a star-studded field,” she said. “I really think that I am going to have my work cut out for me.”
Among those Kastor expects to see in the field is Constantina Tomescu-Dita of Romania, who won gold in Beijing.
Kastor won marathon bronze at the 2004 Athens Olympics and was among the favorites last Aug. 17, but felt something pop in her foot just past the 3-mile mark. She pulled up immediately with what was later diagnosed as a broken foot.
Her training for Beijing had gone well, and the injury took Kastor completely by surprise.
“Everything seemed fine,” she said. “My foot got tight for just 30 seconds before it happened. It was more painful than anything I’d ever been through before.”
That pain extended to her mental outlook. After years of preparing to perform on a global stage, Kastor was left with stores of physical and emotional energy she couldn’t use.
“It was bizarre to feel this pent-up tension and not have an outlet,” she said.
It didn’t take long for that sense of unfinished business to spur Kastor to launch a bid to run at the 2012 London Olympics.
“Being not able to perform to my potential (in Beijing) fired that desire,” she said.
Kastor, who lives in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., didn’t start running again until November, after her foot had time to heal from the break that was attributed to a vitamin D deficiency. She has addressed that problem by adjusting her diet and adding supplements.
By the spring she had resumed her normal training routine and returned to competition in the Bay to Breakers and the Great Edinburgh Run, winning the 10-kilometer race in Scotland in 32:38 to beat three-time champion Jelena Prokopcuka.
Kastor was a prerace favorite to win her second New York Mini 10K title this month, but did not race due to inflammation in her big toe. She saw a foot specialist in Toronto who advised her to temporarily scale back her training, especially on hard surfaces.
That’s fine with Kastor, whose love of running first took root as an 11-year-old on the trails in the Santa Monica mountains near where she grew up in Agoura Hills, Calif.
She laughed when asked what it will take to run 26.2 miles at a 5:18 clip.
“It’s going to take a strong start, a strong middle and a gutsy finish,” she said.
Toodles!
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