{"id":12467,"date":"2019-11-03T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T02:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12467"},"modified":"2019-11-03T21:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T03:02:44","slug":"a-weekend-of-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12467","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend of Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hEfegE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49003203888_7394a1a6e4.jpg\" alt=\"GLA 5K Race\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Oilwell tank battery across the street from the school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My running and racing life has been off and on the past four years after getting injured on a spill on a race in Turkey Mountain and the long rehab from that and then several others injuries and then getting told that as far as my knee cartilage is concerned, &#8220;Your tread is very thin.&#8221; So I just quit running and I would still enter races but just walk them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hEff3K\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49003206503_2637315f84.jpg\" alt=\"GLA 5K Race\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>The race started at the bottom of a hill  and went uphill for a half mile. Brutal!! (just like i like it)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I have been experimenting with running old fat guy style. Running the downhills and walking uphill or just running for a short ways and walking and then running when I felt like it.  And last week at the Tulsa Run 5K I did it and it worked. I thought I had a decent run so it&#8217;s like wow.  This is great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hEff5d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49003206588_176b42d800_c.jpg\" alt=\"GLA 5K Race\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Down into the frigid colder hollow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This week I signed up for two runs. On Saturday I did the GLA 5K. A first time run put on by a charter school in north Tulsa, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Greenwood Leadership Academy (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/greenwoodleadershipacademy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenwood Leadership Academy<\/a>.  It was a very nice, well organized run with lots of volunteers. I&#8217;m trying to diversify my running to get routes I haven&#8217;t run before and their location in the Gilcrease Hills was perfect. We started running right up a long hill. So I stuck to my walking up and trotting down and it worked fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hEj42H\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49003949887_6786eb3c49_c.jpg\" alt=\"GLA 5K Race\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>The turnaround<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an out and back course with a <s>beer sto<\/s>p turnaround at a church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hEj3xX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49003948277_09f069b16f.jpg\" alt=\"GLA 5K Race\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>An oil well. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We also passed a couple oil wells. Welcome to running in Oklahoma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GLA 5K was a great run, great course, volunteers, organization, and  runner support. What more can you ask for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/embed\/4215619054\" title=\"GLA 5K\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>My second race was Sunday morning. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Turkey n Taters 10K (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turkeyntaturs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey n Taters 10K<\/a>, a trail race on Turkey Mountain that also includes 25K and 50K distances. I have run the 10K a bunch of times, the 25K two years ago, and have volunteered a couple times cooking hamburgers and hot dogs (nobody but vegetarians mess with the cook at these events, and I tell them to just chew on some grass, (actually some of the elite athletes are vegetarians and yes we do have things I cooked for them beside grass).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hEKcsE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49008856046_1b5c62378a.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9357\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>The starting line, and the ending line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I walked the whole length of this race. Yes, I have had success running the the previous day but going twice the distance over some very rough and technical terrain meant that I wanted to be conservative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hEKbVY\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49008854266_754075ac86_c.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9358\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>I just love wooden walkways.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just hung out at the start until everybody else left and then I started walking. I passed these two ladies who said they like doing the race but never enter because they entrance fees are a rip off. I said okay, but I wanted to ask &#8221; You do know this is a fund raiser for the West Side YMCA, right?&#8221; And by the way , the fees are very reasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hELgKb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49009065572_89242de23e_c.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9359\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>I tell you what is slicker than snot. Wet shale rock with muddy shoes. Brutal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was cold, about 37F and I had three layers on which is probably one layer too many but I like being warm so after a half mile I shed my down coat and wrapped it around my waist and was comfortable the rest of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hELdVU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49009056102_24db40283c_c.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9364\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Walk, walk, walk, walk for over two hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After that it was a matter of just walking the course. At some point I got off the course, I didn&#8217;t see any pink ribbons and started having that feeling. And then I ran into some going straight ahead and to the east, so I was like oh no. Officially I should have back tracked until I figured where I went off but I was not sure that I went off and I picked a direction and kept going and met people coming the other way but I wasn&#8217;t too worried because the 50K runners run the 25K course backwards when they finish the first 25K but then I had a guy ask me if he was going the right direction to the race start and I was like, uh you hadn&#8217;t started the loop back and he said no. And then I met a woman who I had been following and I was like oops, so I back tracked to where I made the wrong decision. So I didn&#8217;t run the official route, but I didn&#8217;t win any awards so I didn&#8217;t have any ethical considerations about since I ran the same distance. And you know, its a trail run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hEJYRc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49008813621_b0e1901a12.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF9374\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>One of my former employers pipelines feeding a power plant. I wish they would come and bury a new line. Give&#8217;em a call Enable Midstream Partners. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I finished the race, got my medal, a burger, a beer, a second burger and headed home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A very nice weekend of racing. I had never thought I would be there again. After I quit running, it over a year and a half before my knees quit hurting and I am liking that. I have done lots of yoga, lots of water exercises, lots of bicycling, and elliptical machines and only longer distance walking once a week or so. So I won&#8217;t be able to run longer distances but I can walk a very long ways and I can do the occasional 5K or so and walk the 10K&#8217;s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Win, win, win in my book. Especially at 64 years of age. 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