Honored Teammate Tyler Runs The Mile at LA Marathon!

Team in Training's San Gabriel Valley Honored Teammate earned his medal at the recent LA Marathon. Here's an email and pictures I received from his Mom:

Hi Everyone,

Tyler had the amazing opportunity to run in the LA Marathon today. He did a one mile leg of a relay with Sunshine Kids (a children's cancer organization). As we have been "training", he's been doing a little bit of running and mostly walking (sometimes meandering), clocking in at about a half hour for the mile. But on that marathon trail he caught the fever, and ran almost the entire mile, coming in at 15 minutes. Not bad for a kid who got 4 days of chemo a week ago! He also had the pleasure of crossing the finish line and getting his own medal, which I think he'll be wearing from now on. I'm passing on some pictures from today. Hope you're all doing well!

~ Holly

Tyler Running a leg of 26.2. Good Form!



Relentlessly Positive: Tyler and his Mom



Collecting the Hardware: Tyler and his Medal

The LA MARATHON May 25, 2009

The Spring 2009 Team in Training Season culminated with the running of the long awaited 2009 Los Angeles Marathon. Everyone on our San Gabriel Valley Team finished. For seven long months these people trained. Each person was there for a different reason and there were many challenges overcome. A great personal accomplishment for those who stayed the course. Most importantly this small band of dedicated athletes raised around $100000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to help those dealing with blood cancers. Pretty cool!



Below is a video documenting the LA Marathon. If you're patient you can see my brief interview



video courtesy of:

Steve Mackel, ChiRunning/ChiWalking® Instructor
Sole Runners Head Coach and Program Director
http://www.TriThisCoaching.com
http://www.MarathonTraining.TV
http://www.SoleRunners.net

Follow Up Piece in Local Paper

The Valley Sun wrote up another article on my fundraising and running efforts:

http://www.lacanadaonline.com/articles/2009/05/14/news/lnws-kileyakers0514.txt

Still pondering the distance I want to cover at Mt. Disappointment. I'll decide by tomorrow!

Happy Trails,

Kiley

Decisions

I'm wanting to get back out there and start training again! This week I begin again, but for what?

One maybe is the Holcomb Valley (Big Bear) 33 miler in early June. This one looks fun on paper, but I need to research it a bit more:

http://www.holcombvalleytrailruns.com

On my definite list is the Mount Disappointment Endurance Run in Early August. I've had my eye on the one for two years now. This one is right in my backyard in the San Gabriels. The decision with that is regarding the distance. Do I want to run the 50K course or the 50 miler? I hear both courses are brutal. In terms of weather the race director picked the optimal time of year for this one!

http://www.mtdisappointment50k.com/

Here's a finishline pick from Mt. D from two years ago:



I want to decide by the end of the week.

Cheers- Kiley

LD50 Residue

LD50 Residue:

Official Results are in.

http://www.leonadivide.com/2009_results.pdf

Below I broke down my splits from aid station to aid station:



Aid#0 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 Finish
Mile 8.5 12.9 18.7 24.5 28 32 35.5 38.6 42.6 46.1 50

Mile Btwn 8.5 4.4 5.8 5.8 3.5 4 3.5 3.1 4 3.7 3.9
Gun
Time 1:25 2:29 3:44 5:08 5:52 7:31 8:35 9:25 10:21 11:19 12:04

Between Aid 0&1 1&2 2&3 3&4 4&5 5&6 6&7 7&8 8&9 9 - fin
T Between 1:25 1:04 1:15 1:24 0:44 1:39 1:04 0:50 0:56 0:58
Aid
Pace 10 14:32 12:55 14:28 12:34 24:45 18:17 16:07 14:00 11:32

You can see where the wheels came off (the climb out of aid #5) and you can see where I started to put them back on. I'm suprised that the split between aid 8 and 9was as slow as it was. I thought I was moving faster than that. Perhaps the time indicated is when the runner pulls out of the aid station.... not sure. I'm pleasantly surprised that my split from aid 9 to the finish was as fast as it was. If these splits are correct it looks like maybe I went out a bit fast for my first 50miler. I was feeling good though...

I was able to go out and run for the first time since the LD50 today. Up until today my left shin was pretty sore. A visit to Doctor Smith's confirmed that it was a strain caused by overuse and not a stress fracture as I feared.

Here's another runner's look at the LD50:

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLvJ6H8xEqE

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJL_CPHggyg


Happy Trails,

Kiley