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Rocky at Mile 9 of the Orange County Marathon
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Zeb at Mile 9 of the Orange County Marathon
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May 012011
In honor of our first marathon, the OC Marathon, I wanted to post some pictures of my brother and I running which you may or may not have seen yet. Thank you for following our blogs and wish us luck. Today is a big day for The Running Brothers. Our race starts at 6 AM at Fashion Island in Costa Mesa and not really sure where it finishes, but keep us in your thoughts and wish us well.
Apr 302011
Tomorrow is the big day, our first marathon. I spent the past couple of days on a vacation in Temecula and now, I am prepared to run my first ever marathon. My brother picked up all the race information for us yesterday and we are preparing for our race, starting at 6 AM tomorrow morning.
Are we excited?
Yes.
Are we nervous?
Yes.
Are we scared as ______________? (you fill in the blank)
Yes.
We are looking forward to the Orange County Marathon tomorrow. We hope that all of our heroes (and if you’re reading this then that means you) are thinking about us tomorrow. When you wake up, we’ll be at mile 1o or 11 and by the time you’re awake and ready to tackle the day . . . we’ll have completed 26.2 . . . hopefully. (fingers crossed)
Apr 292011
Just got back from a lovely vacation in Temecula . . . well, semi-lovely. Turns out it’s not the greatest place for someone who has quit drinking alcohol. Temecula is known for it’s vast arrays of wineries. As a younger man, I have been there on several occasions and dabbled with a little wine tasting here and there. It was a good experience back then, s0 I figured, what the heck, let’s go back again. While I had a good time in Temecula, it was definitely a different kind of good time.
I do have a recommendation for all of you planning on visiting the wineries or spending time in Temecula. . . Don’t Drink and Drive! Within the first 10 minutes of arriving in Temecula we saw 5 different cars pulled over by police officers and that was the theme of the trip. Every time we left our hotel were cops pulling people over on the side of the road. And not only at night, but at all hours of the day. If you’re thinking about visiting the wineries in Temecula, make sure you have a designated driver, hop aboard a shuttle or take a limo.
Temecula even has it’s own casino . . . well, Indian casino. This indian casino has blown up in the past couple of years and has a wide array of table games and slot machines. A true gambler’s paradise. We didn’t do much gambling, but we did slip in a twenty and won two bucks . . . that’s a ten percent profit!
Overall, we had a great time visiting Temecula and would recommend it. It was great to stop my training altogether the last couple of days and let my legs rest. My brother and I are hoping that we’re ready for the Orange County Marathon, although, to be honest with you, neither of us is sure that we are.
Apr 262011
I’m scared!
Not really, but I quit training for our first marathon in 6 days. My knee was bothering me on each run, so I decided to rest it entirely until we run in the Orange County Marathon.
I have been getting a lot of advice the last few days about my knee and the consensus is that it is a problem associated with the IT Band. Wikipedia had some information on the IT Band which you can find by clicking here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliotibial_band_syndrome. But basically, it is what my sister and my brother’s girlfriend’s sister, an athletic trainer, had told me all along. That I would need to stretch the IT Band and the more stretching that I could do to it, the less likely it would be that it would hurt me in the future.
Starting tomorrow, I think I am going to go to the gym to lightly work out my upper body and stretch my IT Band and maybe do some brief elliptical work. With just six days to go I’m a little stressed about the prospect of running a full marathon, but I’m excited as well. At least I will know that I will have a time to improve on for future races.
Apr 142011
Time is running out and we are about to run our first marathon. I have tried training the last three days, but have had to stop early each time because I get this pain in my knee. Yesterday was my longest run so far. I ran 4.5 miles, but had to stop on account of the knee. My brother and I have decided to go to A Snails Pace, a running store in Brea to see if they can get us properly fitted for some shoes.
I’m excited to see if a difference can be made just by the types of shoes I would be wearing. I really hope that it does, because I want to be able to complete this marathon.
Apr 052011
The race was a success. It was a lot of fun watching Rocky cross the finish line and swimming in the pool. Quite a crowd had developed cheering on people in the pool and my brother entered the pool just as I was getting out, so I got to watch him make the 200 meter swim in the pool. He did a great job and my family and I came to meet him as he crossed the finish line.
Zeb and Rocky Finish The Race on the Base
Afterwards we traveled to a local hamburger shop and were able to talk about the run with our family. It’s great to have such strong supporters and to be able to involve them in our accomplishments together.
We had completed our second event together and with our next event, the Orange County Marathon, we still have a lot of prep work to do, but we are The Running Brothers after all, so I’m sure when May 1 comes we will be ready to complete our first full marathon together. It’s only one month away, but I know that this is going to be the toughest thing I’ve ever done, I just hope I can last.
Mar 302011
I hustled my way over to the pool to perform my 200 Meter swim. And I had been practicing for months and really thought that I was going to demolish my swimming time from the year before. I jumped in the pool and immediately began to pass people, until I got behind some idiot who was doing the breast stroke.
Everyone was swimming at his pace and there was no way that I could get past the guy because his legs were continually spreading out like you would imagine a frog would in the pool of water. I kept trying to get past him and that really sapped my energy.
Zeb Race on the Base Swim
The pool that I had been training in was half the size of the pool that I competed in. I did not think it would make that much of a difference, but it did. Each lap felt so much longer than the laps I had been used to and when I sprinted the last 50 Meters in the pool, it just seemed like the end was never coming. But, eventually I made it, completed the swim and ran into my Dad, Mom, sister and Dusty. They congratulated me on a job well done, but man . . . was I tired.
Now, it was time to wait for my brother . . . who I had not seen since I pushed him at the beginning of the race.
Mar 292011
After reaching the staging area, I was in good shape and rushed out with my bike and took off . . . but that didn’t last long as bicyclists began to pass me left and right. I do remember passing one bicyclist who looked like he was either drunk or had never ridden a bike before . . . as he riding a mountain bike which was wobbling all over the road. Had the police been following him, they would have made him perform a sobriety test for sure.
Overall, people were passing me pretty consistently on the bike, but they were not flying past me like they had the year before. I’m still not quite sure why I was getting passed though. I’m not sure if it was because of my bike or because I am not riding my bike using the proper technique. Either way, I know that my legs were working faster than many of the other riders.
After evaluating my results for the race, I saw an interesting statistic for the race. Almost everyone who finished ahead of me had a better bike time, while my times in the run and the swim were in the middle of the pack compared to those who performed better than me overall. So, it appears to me that my bicycling skills need to improve if I’m going to be able to compete at a higher level in these triathalon events.
I knew that a lot of people had passed me by the time I made it to the staging area for the second time. But, I had a feeling that I was still outperforming myself from the year before and made my way to the pool.