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ll out for a half i decided to run the first half of the race as if it was my full i wanted to see what the pace felt like almost the entire course is filled with awesome giant trees the first half felt great gliding along enjoying the giant trees i didn t look at my watch i just ran and enjoyed it at the turn around 1 2 way i decided to pick up the pace and try to negative split i ran faster for a mile or two or at least it felt like i did in reality i don t think i picked up the pace at all and then i slowed down and became really quite happy i wasn t doing the full right after finishing the race it poured the kind where i m sure cats and dogs were falling into the trees a drenching downpour that made me even happier i decided not to race the full we had a great trip and saw some amazing forest now it s back to work my new a race where i ll attempt 2 55 is now cal international marathon on december 4 in the meantime i ve got some dirt dog xc races to run with my teammates and a turkey trot to race posted by charisa at 1 04 pm monday august 22 2016 afc half marathon i first ran the afc half marathon in san diego right after college i ran a 1 53 since i ve stopped racing triathlon and started focusing more on running i was excited to see what i could do at this race many years later my dad holds this race course family pr of 1 27 so naturally the 1 goal was to take that down which i was confident would happen i also got old and became a masters runner this year so i was excited to try to rank among those other fast women training has been going well i ve been consistent i ve been nailing my intervals week after week and this was one of the first chances to see where my fitness is heading into my fall marathon the course is hard but i like hard courses from the gun everything felt way harder than it should i reminded myself it might take a bit longer to feel good since i ve been training a lot this is normal for me the downhill felt hard this isn t normal around mile 5 a guy caught up to me and we ran side by side for a bit the effort felt hard but i held on after a bit i figured perhaps i should check my watch to make sure i wasn t going to implode my race it felt like we might be running 6s i looked down and we were running 7 15s that was my first indicator something was definitely not working i ate a gel with caffeine and i got slower within another mile i couldn t hold 8s now i really knew something was wrong but i had no idea what frustrating eric was on course on a bike and around my 8 i started walking and told him i wasn t sure if i was going to make it to the finish i felt awful action shot of me walking i know races are hard i was prepared for my legs to hurt and the effort to feel barely sustainable i was not prepared to want to lay down on the sidewalk and nap mid race i like this photo i had wanted to cry right before this was taken a cop on course asked me if i was ok and i told her i d be fine and then she said well you better start running then before i have to give you a ticket for going too slow it made me laugh and run again photo k c alfred san diego union tribune my friend payton caught me around mile 11 and it was nice to have company and try to help her get her pr i m sure she also got me to the finish line way faster than if i had kept walking about an hour post race i had the chills and a fever and spent the rest of the day in bed turns out you can actually get the flu on race morning but not realize you are getting sick until the race finishes i was happier once i realized i was sick because it solved my problem of trying to figure out why my race was a complete disaster for now it s time to rest up and kill whatever bug is invading my body then back to training i m planning on racing some of the san diego dirt dog cross country races before my marathon october 16 posted by charisa at 2 05 pm location san diego ca usa saturday july 23 2016 grossglockner 30k austria trail race when kiet and i planned this trip to austria i decided we should run a trail race the grossglockner ultra trail race offered a nice short 30k along with their 110k that starts at midnight yikes i immediately signed us up and kiet said he would run a little before austria the website told us we would climb over the highest peak in austria awesome and see some amazing views perfect our morning began at 5 30am with a bus ride up a narrow winding road to the gondola that then took us to our starting point the race starts out by a beautiful blue green lake heading down to the start of the race we had wondered if we might run on snow and within the first 100m we did i figured that might be it for our token snowy run i couldn t have been more wrong standing at the start kiet and i noticed that most of the athletes had hiking poles we felt out of our element only slightly as everyone around us chatted in german first mile before it gets spread out within the first mile we were scrambling downhill over boulders trying not to trip and fall down the mountain i felt like much of the race passed us in this first mile but i didn t really care because i made it down the hill without breaking any bones the views were out of this world see the snowy peak wayyyyyyyy off in the distance yes that is where we are headed to climb directly over the top of it i am horrible at descending technical rocky terrain it seemed like what remained of the rest of the field passed me on the downhills but when we reached that uphill in this photo i was in my element i like to climb and i finally felt like i wasn t going backwards anymore there were a lot of river crossings many of them had log bridges the ones that didn t i seemed to manage to step directly into the river more times than not after climbing over the massive peak we topped out at about 8 500 ft and descending a crazy rock filled mountainside we arrived at the glacier that we needed to descend to get down to the valley below this was by far my favorite part of the race trying to run stay upright ski slide down made me laugh nonstop after this photo which makes it look as if we are skilled at glacier running i managed to slip and slide down half the glacier there were a number of places where we needed to hold onto cables to climb up to a waterfall or around a narrow trail on the edge of a cliff i loved this and thought it was awesome the 30k race had 3 500 feet of climbing and 8 400 feet of descending on paper that sounds incredibly appealing in reality it is so much descending oh my our quads the finish was super fun and kiet and i both agreed we felt we had both just raced an ironman by the time we were done i finished in 4 29 and was the 11th female which i thought was ok for a girl who can t descend on trails thanks to kiet for laughing nonstop with me and being the best travel friend ever and especially for signing up for this crazy adventure and for the ability to see the beauty mid race even when your legs are cramping and you want to kill me for choosing this painful racing venue also all the awesome photos are courtesy of kiet s mad photography skills while staying upright had i tried to be photographer at this race i most likely would have fallen off a cliff while descending of course posted by charisa at 11 58 am location grossglockner 9844 austria wednesday july 20 2016 austria mountain biking kiet and i rented mountain bikes today in search of an epic adventure austria delivered he found a mountain bike app for his phone that allowed us to track our route offline and then proceeded to select the hardest route available we rented some mountain bikes and started pedaling tennis shoes mind you no clipped in pedals for us about a mile into the ride we started climbing up and up and up i have been running 50 60 miles a week for a while my riding consists of about one flat coffee shop recovery read soft pedal ride a week i figured if there was cappuccino somewhere on the route maybe my body wouldn t know the difference it was rather toasty out and even the goats were hiding in the shade i stopped several times to take photos and eat the giant bavarian pretzel i had stuffed into my pack before we left i m fairly certain without that pretzel i might be sitting next to a cow with a giant bell around his neck watching the sunset rather than writing this the views were breathtaking literally my legs hated me i may have walked several times i suppose a 27 mile ride with 5200 feet of climbing might be a tad bit aggressive off coffee shop training but then again i made it so i think my training plan is fairly solid and you know what in austria they have little hüttes at the top of the mountains with cakes that i can t pronounce i think mine was a schwetze strudel that are served with suhne always say yes when asked if you want suhne it s fresh whipped cream i got my cappuccino and then descended the mountain for a very very very long time making my coffee shop ride complete posted by charisa at 11 49 am location 6345 kössen austria saturday july 16 2016 austria trail running two years ago when i raced in walchsee i knew i wanted to come back to explore austria i have done a lot of trail running in my life in some amazing places all over the world and the run kiet and i did yesterday ranks in my top 3 favorite runs of all time it started out with several miles straight uphill the kind where your lungs legs heart and mind are all screaming for you to stopit we dragged our jet lagged bodies up and up and up occasionally turning around to enjoy valley views below and to congratulate ourselves on how far we had come ohhhh look at the tiny trail down there we used to be on as we crested the summit we were surrounded by wild horses and cows with giant bells around their necks the clanging bells added background music to the valley filled with wide open beauty and never ending trails the cows chomped down on fields of grass that sprawled out like a portrait i seriously wanted to don a julie andrews dress and twirl around singing the hills are alive which no doubt would have completely ruined the pristine moment trails sprawled out before us in every direction with not a single person in sight the occasional cow blocked the path that led to our next view we came across a map of a 54k loop that we have already planned to come back and either run or mountain bike on our next adventure amazing adventures like this with one of my very best friends somehow seem to keep me going when the rest of life throws curve balls my way i feel so incredibly lucky to be able to see and experience so many parts of the world on foot the highest point on our climb we both grinned like 5 year olds as we flew down the mountain past the clanging happy cows and the few scattered austrian huts toward the backerei that would no doubt complete the run as i sit here writing this at 4am drinking a cappuccino and listening to the rain outside the long sleepless flight and losing an iphone in an uber and somehow amazingly getting it back while in vienna now seem like small blips on the radar of this adventure on to the next posted by charisa at 9 41 pm location 5324 hintersee austria thursday july 7 2016 crown city classic 12k i raced a 12k and didn t feel slow the 4th of july did not disappoint if you re looking for a fun way to spend the 4th of july in san diego i recommend this race we started by running under a gigantic american flag the parade post race was awesome coronado does a fantastic job and it was super easy to walk over to the main street after the race so the race elliot and i had decided i should try to hold a pace that seemed almost doable for this race i chose 6 20 pace because it seemed really hard but maybe possible for me at this point in time i was lucky in that eric decided he felt good on race day and wanted to pace me this may sound odd but i ve never actually run a race where i looked at my watch and tried to hold a specific pace i have always just run often without a watch so we started out at our desired pace while everyone and their brother went out at a sub 6 pace which was fun because i knew later we would probably re pass many of them at about the half way point i was in 4th female and actually got frustrated because my plan had been to run my consistent pace and focus on my race and now i was running into the small issue of actually racing and wanting to pass a girl to move into 3rd but not get re passed or have her come with me eric can of course chit chat and hold full conversations at my very uncomfortable i can barely breathe pace so as we caught her he told me we needed to pick it up when we passed her i knew this but wasn t exactly sure i had another gear thankfully i started to feel better as the race progressed and was able to pick up the pace a bit around the 5 5 mile mark we joined back up with the 5k which means we were weaving in and out of 5k walkers baby strollers and children it wasn t much of a problem on the main road but at one point we were funneled onto a bike path and it became an obstacle course in the end i finished 3rd in 47 35 i averaged 6 25 for the race and was very happy next week i leave for austria and the next race will be a 30k mountain trail race where we run over the highest mountain pass in austria posted by charisa at 10 19 am wednesday june 29 2016 running this blog was started to share my life adventures and then my triathlon career life adventures have been moving full speed ahead while my triathlon career for now has been replaced with running a lot of running which i love i had foot surgery last september and was pretty uncertain what the future held for my triathlon career i figured i would take it one day at a time the surgery went well other than the infection i got which thankfully we cleared up quickly with antibiotics when it was all said and done i was off running for about nine weeks for someone who has been racing professionally for many years nine weeks seems like an eternity but at the same time it actually passed quickly i focused on the things i could do i got back in the pool when the incision was healed i hiked i spent a lot of time at microscope world working and before i knew it i was cleared to run again just five minutes to start but every single one of those five minutes made me smile the bone that was sticking into my achilles before surgery the more i ran the more i remembered how much i really love running and the more i ran the less i really wanted to swim and bike mostly because i wanted all those training hours to do other things in life surprisingly i still loved and went to masters but only once or twice a week i rode my bike to the coffee shop had treats and rode home i explored running trails all over california my competitive fire never went away and i decided if my foot continued to hold up maybe i would have a bit more balance in my life outside of training and i would simply focusing on run training and chase some of my p...