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drive 3 hours further south for our sunday race up next ironmasters race report posted by chris mcpeake at 6 57 am 1 comment tuesday april 12 2016 around the bay beer and running sad news atb around the bay went fairly well as far as training runs go i would not call this a race report because i did no racing just easy running but some observations there was a great turn out in general as well as a lot of longboat roadrunners at the race i had not planned on actually running atb at all but with longboat renting a bus for the race and a runner friend giving me his bib because he could not run i decided why not it was cold but road conditions were good and the sun was out i find it really hard to put the full winter gear back on when just a week earlier i had been running everyday in shorts but given how nice it was this winter i am going to try and not complain too much i ended up running into my friend ryan wilson for the second race in a row for a guy that says he is not running much he sure is signed up for a bunch of races he was just running it to get kms in as well so we decided to just run along at around 6 minute kms and see how it went for the first 20 kms or so i was really glad that i had signed up its much easier to do the long run in the cold with thousands of other runners instead of by yourself once i got to the last 10km i really just wanted to get finished i was cold hungry and getting tired but we kept the same pace anyway i did end up seeing a lot of road runners and ultra people that i knew many using atb for the same reason i was one big downer was that once again the bigass hill near the end was not on the course that kind of sucks as that is my favorite part of the whole course ryan and i ran together until maybe somewhere where around 28k where i briefly lost him thanks for putting up with me for 3 hours ryan ended up running 3 02ish so pretty close to dead on a 6 minute pace runtobeer lately i have been doing a few of the runtobeer events in toronto this combines my love of beer and my love of running perfectly it also gives me a chance just to run slow with my better half kim which i dont get to do very often these guys have done a fantastic job of putting this group together where you sign up and end up running to local breweries where you often start with a free beer the only draw back is its becoming so popular that events are filling up in hours after being announced which means if you want to join in you better be paying attention at the last event kim as lucky enough to win a box of powerbars which i am slowly devouring on running days which don t have a beer at the end you can check runtobeer here sad news yesterday i was given some very sad news richard leib a runner who i had the pleasure of coaching a number of times for marathons passed away in early april richard was such a nice guy and pretty much always had a smile on his face he was also one of those runners that is very easy to coach he just showed up did the workouts like he was suppose and never complained condolences to his family and friends richard leib far left this past year has been really tough kim and i have lost some very close family members friends and acquaintances i think more than any other time that i can remember in the past one thing that has become clear for me is that we never know how long we are going to be here and healthy enough to do what we want it s a pretty stark reminder that you should do what you love and live full out while you have the chance next up outrace spring warm up posted by chris mcpeake at 10 09 am 4 comments monday march 28 2016 chilly hm and upcoming season kim after the chilly hm chilly half marathon and pikes peak qualifier chilly half marathon was a big success for kim we set a target time of 2 15 which slightly slower than her half pb even though there was really no proper training for the race as kim hadn t started doing any quality runs in her program yet we had a really good day weather wise and the race started off well in the early going we ended up running with our friend ryan and i got to spend the first 5km of the race listening to him explain to kim how sith lords are really not as badass and evil as they should be seriously i kid you not my wife is such a geek sometimes after that ryan took off and we settled into a steady 6 20 pace for pretty much the rest of the race kim ended up running 2 14 46 so pretty much right on the plan and less than a minute off her pb also this was easily good enough for her pikes peak qualifier as some of you know i am not a big fan of vrpro races and lets just say that i am still not a big fan of their races i will continue to try and avoid them in the future that s for sure as i had lots of issues with this race again i really don t want to get into details much here but having runners running in the middle lane of the road with live traffic on both sides for the final 5km of a race is a big safety issue particularly when the sweepers on the out and back course have picked up all the cones that were separating our lane from the outgoing traffic lane live traffic on both sides and no cones separating the traffic on one of those sides golly guys what could possibly go wrong in that scenario racing season looking clearer the plans for this season are starting to take shape what i know for sure is i will be running hynerview 50km pick your posion 50k and seaton 50k as training runs for a return to 100 milers right now i am thinking i will run 100 miles at sulphur springs in may but that will be dependent on where i am at as far as my fitness level goes we have registered for the pikes peak ascent in august and i plan to run 100 miles at lean horse in south dakota the following weekend i fully expect to also run dirty girls creemore and haliburton if my legs are feeling good not sure about distances but i expect that i will do semi long to longer distances the last race of the season has already been decided as kim has signed up to run 50km at oil creek again this year and she is super excited about this it was no easy task to get signed up as the registration was open and closed at random for short windows of time in order to try and keep the servers from crashing when i say short i mean short i am guessing 3 5 minutes i will return to oc as well to try and get myself another 100 mile finish there both of us really love this race the course is beautiful but it s a tough one particularly so late in the season and the 18 000 ft of climb can be challenging oil creek 2014 current training my current training as i work my way back from injury is going about as good as expected i have settled into 100km weeks which feel fairly comfortable now although i m not yet at the 120 130km volume that i usually like to be at i have not started quality workouts yet as i wanted to be careful upping the mileage however starting last week i have added some very hilly runs on the road i also returned to the trails for the first time since the injury nothing gets me back in shape quicker than running some hilly trails things went okay on the trail but i got a lot of work to do the uphills were not so bad but i found that i was having to think a little bit about picking my lines instead of it just happening naturally i was horrible on the downhills though but i am sure that will all come back soon enough still slow and still got some weight to get off but progressing so i can t complain bring on the summer posted by chris mcpeake at 10 13 am 1 comment friday march 11 2016 here is a short update on the follow up after the discovery of my dvt and my attempt to get back into shape most of its good news but also there is some not so great news in december the hematologist that i saw about my calf told me that she suspected based on the blood work that my clot had become scar tissue in the vein and so the symptoms that i was experiencing were most likely not going to change that meant that if she was correct the swelling in my calf would always be there due to the restricted blood flow also the tightening up of the calf when i walk or run would also be with me for life good grief the good news is that she is also a marathon runner so at least i felt like i was talking to someone that actually got how big a deal this was for me she also cleared me to start running as there was no worry about doing any further damage to the leg i was put on blood thinners for the next three months with a follow up after that i immediately put together a schedule to rebuild my mileage a slow realistic build up to begin to get my base mileage up i also really needed to get rid of the 25 pounds that my friend mr beer had given me over the past 6 8 months of inactivity week 1 of running consisted of two 4km runs during the week in all seriousness these may have been the most difficult runs i have ever done in my life i was overweight out of shape and my calf was a maddening painful ball of hate i have not been this heavy and also this out of shape in at least 10 years i was breathing like a freight train while running so very very slowly and at 4km i was completely spent adding to this was a great deal of frustration as i had no idea if my calf would get better or worse as i went to longer distances the reality is that i began to think distance trail running might be a thing of the past oh yeah one other thing i forgot just how hard running can be man this running thing is tough sometimes i found it hard at the end of week 1 to even imagine that at some point in the not so distant past i enjoyed going out for my runs or would enjoy going out for runs in the future here is where i count myself extremely lucky i have the good fortune to have a fantastic support system of other runners in my life my wife kim who is also a distance trail runner was unbelievable over my down time and also dealing with the assholiness that came along with the aggravation and depression that i was feeling besides kim my co coach and running buddy chris h was great at helping to get me out for daily runs as were a number of other runners that i had been coaching last year they were all kind enough to run really slow and listen to me complain about how out of shape i was last week i had my follow up with the specialist as expected the vein is scarred which happens in about 30 of all cases the cause of the original blood clot is unknown which i was told is the case in about 50 of patients they have no reason to expect that there will be a recurrence and i no longer need to be on blood thinners that s great but still with a calf that will probably never feel normal it is a bit scary last week was also my first week of getting in 100k of running for the week as well as my first long run over 30k everything seems to be going okay so far and i have managed to shed 15 of my beer pounds still i am trying to be careful and so far am sticking to building up the base so no quality runs yet and not a great deal of running on hilly courses which are usually a staple of my training the plan is to begin adding more climbing over the next few weeks including some step mill or stair workouts if all stays fine i most likely will ease back into tempos hill repeats in 2 or 3 weeks if things continue as they have been i should be in pretty decent shape by the end of april to celebrate we will be headed back to hynerview pa to run the 50k with the hope of getting into 100 miler shape by mid may thats the hope but we will see how it goes from here up next pacing kim in the chilly half marathon on sunday posted by chris mcpeake at 11 33 am 1 comment friday december 4 2015 seriously scary stuff a wtf moment three weeks ago i sat in the er at st joesph s hospital and had one of the scariest and somehow bizarrely surreal experiences of my life i had given my test results to the doctor and as he read them he asked me do you know what this is yes i did unfortunately do you know how lucky you are to still be here no reply from me as my brain tried to grapple with what was going on you might think your unlucky because you have gotten a blood clot but actually you are very lucky and so my year of running hell continues its been over 8 months since i posted here wow i would like to chalk it all up to laziness but the truth is i have not felt like talking about running at all this past year has been highlighted by health issues and been pretty much a disaster every time i thought i was about to come out of it i got hit by another bombshell western states was a disaster and it was all down hill from there in the next few weeks i will be retracing my steps and putting up an couple of posts on exactly what went on all spring summer and fall i expect that maybe the most boring series of posts in the history of the internet but i want to get it all down somewhere the hope is that i will be able to look back at it all at some point down the road and be glad i am past it so here is the short version of what is happening right now after not being able to run since the summer i was given a preliminary diagnosis of compartmental syndrome in my lower left leg which seemed really bad at the time that means surgery and probably 6 months minimum off definitely not good but it could be worse well turns out it was worse i was sent to get imaging done so i would have those tests to give to the specialist i was going to have to see what those test revealed was that what i really had was deep vein thrombosis dvt you can read about it here essentially a large blood clot in my left calf it was chronic meaning it went undiagnosed for most likely months this might have started last july but maybe it goes all the way back to march from the doctors office it was straight to the er where they started dvt periodicals that meant a visit once a day to the er for multiple injections of blood thinners into my stomach for 8 days until the oral medication could take effect it ends up that a dvt a very serious sometimes fatal condition death rate is 1 in 9 its most dangerous in the first 1 10 days as a piece of the clot can break off and go to the lungs during that time i didn t even know i had it which is why i was lucky that it didn t turn into something worse so where does that leave me now i can start exercising again so i began to ease back into things with a couple of 4km runs this week with any luck i will be able to build things back to where i used to be as a runner but that will be a slow process it certainly doesn t help that i am now really overweight and completely out of shape i will be okay to run as long as there are no more complications how long and how far is another question which i have no answers for at this point the hope is to go back doing all the things i did before but right now there is no way to tell for sure next week i hope to get a little bit more information when i see a hematologist one of the issues is that i don t really fall 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