OKC Half-marathon - 2.1 hours - 04/27/2008 April 27, 2008
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Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 04/27/2008
- Total Time: 2:08:46.00
- Distance: 13.1 miles
- Average Pace: 9:50.16/mile
Running 168 for 168 April 26, 2008
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Have you heard this amazing and inspirational story? A Senior Airman, Brenden Burstad is running 168 miles in memory of the 168 victims of the Murrah Building bombing. This Sunday is the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon and there will be over 16,000 runners participating in this run which benefits the Oklahoma City National Memorial. If you’ve not taken the opportunity to come to Oklahoma and visit this outstanding memorial, the OKC Memorial Marathon is a perfect time to do so!
Brenden Burstad is doing more than his fair share to honor the memory of those whose lives were taken from them. He’s running 141.8 miles from where he is stationed at Altus Air Force Base and then the full marathon to equal 168 miles. Amazing.
Check out the article ( http://www.okrunner.com/airman-burstads-run-underway ), and really, come visit and I guarantee you’ll be surprised by the hospitality of our city, the professionalism of the marathon, the emotion of the Memorial and the great city of Oklahoma City!
April 19, 1995 is a day I’ll never forget. The sound of the blast, the news coverage afterward, the overwhelming accounts of charity and kindness, standing at the base of the Murrah building looking up at complete devastation and now the field of 168 empty chairs…those emotions, sights and sounds will keep me coming back to run year after year.
We will never forget.
Eeek. April 24, 2008
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I’m looking forward to Sunday. Really, I am. There are some cool features for the OKC Memorial Marathon (and half marathon) that will make it different this year from last. Namely the 20 mph north wind we’re supposed to have. 
There are some other things, like the live updates available online or sent to your cell phone and the fact that the official time is the chip time instead of gun time. There’s also a couple more thousand participants this year compared to last!
Is it really 2 days, 15 hours, 7 minutes and 40 seconds until race time? Woo Hoo!
Live marathon updates! April 24, 2008
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For the first time, the OKC Memorial Marathon is providing LIVE updates online and to registered cell phones! Here’s the story from newsok.com:
Live marathon updates sent for the first time
By Blake Jackson
Staff Writer
Alison Cohen usually waits until mid-afternoon on Sunday to make the call.
For the past six years, her brother Adam has run the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon. And for the past six years, she has dialed long-distance from her home in Cambridge, Mass., to find out how he finished.
“It can be really nerve-racking actually,” said Alison Cohen, a marathoner herself. “There’s always a piece of you that wants to be out there running. Normally, I have to go find out how he did an hour or two after (he runs).”
This year, Adam’s results are coming to her in real time.
And a Tulsa-based company is bringing them.
For the first time in the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon’s eight-year history, live results and updates will be available online and via cell phone alerts during the race.
“It works like a Pikepass, only it’s miniaturized,” said Tim Dreiling, owner of Fleet Feet Sports and Fleet Feet Timing, the company charged to keep up with 16,000-plus runners Sunday morning. “It’s RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. They use it in all types of timing and tracking systems.”
Each runner is outfitted with a tiny microprocessor housed in plastic. The “ChampionChip” is attached to the shoe of single marathon runners with a zip-tie. Relay teams will be equipped with transferable anklets.
Radio receivers built into FieldTurf mats at five separate course check points activate as the runners pass through, sending an individual signal back to the results tent near the finish line, where the results are funneled in mass to OKCmarathon.com and — for an added fee — cell phones.
The technology prevents cheating.
“It’s important to know that people have run the entire course,” said co-founder and marathon president Thomas Hill. “You have to cross that mat with the chip or we know you cut the course.”
It aids the medical crew.
“There’s a database updated in real-time at the medical tent,” Hill continued. “They can find out where people are on the course and if someone is taken into medical care out on the course they can communicate it that way.”
It streamlines dissemination of the final results.
“We can make minor adjustments and clean it up and have it turned around and on the Web site in less than a minute,” Dreiling said. “It’s real-time and it will be faster and more accurate than we’ve ever had.”
And it’s cheaper, too.
The Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon has implemented some form of “ChampionChip” technology each of its eight years. But out-sourcing the timing services to a company based in Georgia came at a high cost.
Hill says switching to Fleet Feet made sense from both a financial and communal standpoint.
“Because the marathon is about what happened here in Oklahoma City and the city and state’s response to that, we have tried very hard to utilize local companies to fill our needs,” Hill said. “(Fleet Feet Timing) is relatively new, but they’ve demonstrated in other races that they are extremely capable and have pushed the technology farther than a lot of other timing companies have.”
That push in the technology — the ability to follow runners live throughout the race with little or no delay — puts Oklahoma City in some very prestigious company.
Only the largest races in the world, like the Chicago, London, Boston, New York and Los Angeles marathons, have implemented the technology.
“It’s something that you would see at only a handful of the absolute top-notch marathons in the world,” said Adam Cohen, who lives in Norman but won’t be waiting for his sister’s call on Sunday. “In terms of races Oklahoma City’s size, you do not see this. This is a big, big plus for the marathon.”
Top Three? March 5, 2008
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“Running with my kids”, “Does diet soda make you fat” and “Cycle with a purpose”: All three are great blogs, but am I the only one who would like some new content on the top of the homepage?
Yesterday was a really short run to try out my new shoes. Asics GT-2130s is what I went with. Every runners’ feet are different, and Asics fit me best. I trained for and ran my first marathon in Asics and then was convinced to buy a pair of Sauconys. My first 30 miles in them went okay, but after that I started feeling pain in my knees. After asking around at my last race to see which running shoe store came with highest recommendations, I went to Elite Feet in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Taking a parking lot run (as any great shoe store should let you do!) in their top three recommendations for my foot (Mizunos, Asics and Brooks) the Asics just felt right. The Brooks had too narrow of a toe box and pushed on my little toe, the Mizunos, although cush and comfy, didn’t seem to have the support I needed.
Finding a shoe store you trust is one of the greatest assets to a runner. From personal experience, here are a few tips:
* Ask other runners in your area.
* Shop around.
* Look for people who know about the shoes’ support, cushion, durability etc.
* Ask them the best way to tie the laces if your heel slips or if you need more room across the top. They should be able to show you several different ways to lace your shoe specific to your needs.
* Ask them the difference between shoe “A” and shoe “B”.
* Bring in your current running shoes and they should be interested in looking at them!!!
* Tell them you’d like to jog around the parking lot for a bit. They SHOULD let you.
Any other tips I’m forgetting?
Runner’s High: A myth substantiated March 3, 2008
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As a runner and a scientist, I’ve always wondered about runner’s highs. Highs, not Thighs! Maybe I get them (the highs, I definitely get the thighs!), maybe I don’t, but I do know that after 7+ miles I feel like I could run forever. Is that what a runner’s high does?
After any distance of running, I feel happy. Maybe my knee hurts a bit, maybe my muscles are tight (especially after hills), but I feel good, both physically and emotionally. I run to thrive. Getting a runner’s high though? For myself, I can’t say one way or another.
However, via Scientific Blogging …
Up until now, it was widely believed and accepted that endorphins released during exercise were responsible for a runner’s high, but it was not PROVEN. These studies involved 10 athletes, 2 hours of jogging, positron emission tomography (PET) and a radioactive material that binds to opiate receptors in the brain. Using the PET they could compare images of the athlete’s brains before and after the 2 hours of jogging and noticed an increase of opiates in some areas of the brain!
Get out there and get your high today!
(I’m also extremely curious to know if you get them, how long it takes, how it makes you feel, etc!)
Be specific! February 18, 2008
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Set your goals. Long term and short term ones, and make them specific!
I will exercise more. Is that really a goal? Sure. Kind of. Okay, not really.
How are you going to exercise more? Ride 3 times a week? Walk to the park 2 times a week? Swim every day? What are you going to do this week?
Motivation is so often a key to starting and continuing a project but my experience has taught me that I need to be specific with my goals. You can find tons of reasons to stay on the couch, but make a list of why you shouldn’t! Find a training plan, set a date for a race, SIGN UP for said race and work toward a healthier you.
Why? Because you can do it!
Friends - some help, some sabotage February 18, 2008
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An invite just hit my e-mail box…brisket and card games this evening with a group of friends. The best part was that it started off with this phrase: “While not as beneficial as running…”
I missed a long run on Saturday, in part due to the weather but mostly due to a hurting left knee, so I’ve GOT to get out there after work and enjoy the beautiful weather and get in the 4 mile training run for the half marathon. There’s also the issue of needing to shop for a new pair of shoes (I’m blaming my newish Sauconys for the knee pain).
However, it may be beneficial to let my knee have one more day of rest and that brisket sounds awfully good, and I’ve got an itch to win a few games of Rook…
Luckily my running partner will be counting on me to be there…unless her mouth is watering for some brisket…
It’s all about the heart February 14, 2008
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Valentine’s Day is about your heart, right?
Avoid the consumeristic trap they call Valentine’s Day and do something that actually benefits the heart…EXERCISE!
Today’s run will be a 3 miler. What will you do for your heart today?
Run - 0.8 hours - 02/09/2008 February 9, 2008
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Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 02/09/2008
- Total Time: 00:47:50.00
- Distance: 5 miles
- Average Pace: 9:34.16/mile
