Lunch Walk

 Felt like running Monday and Tuesday even Wednesday.  Went to the Gym on my meal break and wasnt feeling it so I did a 3K walk.  

 2026

2024

2023

2019

2018

2017

Endur Stage 7 - Full Marathon, RIM park, Waterloo

 5 X 8.4K laps at 5:30 am on a Sunday morning in Waterloo and it was a wrap on the Endur 2026 adventure. I wasn't really sure how things would glo I just knew I would get it done.   Crossed the finish line in 4:55:54 an average of 7:01 / km or 8.6 KPH.   I am pretty sure all my splits were slighlty under and hour.   The first 3 laps I kept the HR in the 120's.   Laps 4 and 5 the HR was in the high 130's low 140's.   It really felt like a repeat of the 2024 Marathon crossing the finish line in 4:56:57.   

My 2026 combined time was 19:36:09 compared to 2024 19:23:42, 2023 18:15:20, 2022 18:56:19, 2019 16:57:11, 2018 16:59:12, 2017 16:22:07.  

Endur Stage 6 - 10K Track - St. David's, Waterloo

 2nd last stage completed in 1:00:46 a 6:04 pace.   Beat 2024 time by 2 seconds,  1:00:48.    Held the HR to the high 130's through the first 5K then let it climb into the 140's the second half.     The start was a little tentative as a result of running all week but it came around a few laps in and I put forth a moderately hard effort...no walk in the park! 

Endur Stage 5 - 25.6K Alpine - Baden

 Stage 5 at Baden didn't disappoint,  1,000m vertical more or less 20 hill repeats.   Its a 2.6K loop done 10 times.  I thought I had a good hydration plan until things got allot harder doing the 8th lap.  I was 3 hours into the run and had only consumed 1.5L of water ,   I was 0.6L behind.  It was getting warm as the race progressed heading out on the 9th loop I upped the water intake and took an extra S cap.  Consumed a GU and an S Cap at the start of laps 3,5,7 and 9.   The 10th lap was a tiny bit better crossing the finish line in 3:54:49  a couple of minutes faster then my 2024 finish.    So an OK day,  felt harder then it should have been then again nothing has been easy...that why I do it. 

17.8 at the start ,  27 at the end...should have run faster and finished sooner! 

Endue Stage 4- 10 Mile Hill - Walter Bean Trail, Kitchener

 Stage 4 went better then anticipated ,  it was a 4K look done 4 times.  First loop was a little rough however things smoothed out quickly and I just had a dun laps 2,3 and 4.  Walked the uphills and ran super fast on the down!   Temps were s wee bit arm but felt better the Mondays Stage 2.  Hydrated with water from the AS ,  no fuel.    Finished in 1:56:01 A 7:12 pace a wee bit better then I thought.

Endur Stage 3- 30km Cross Country - Shades Mills, Cambridge

 30K stage 3 done in 3:49:34.  It was 6 5K loops, total elevation came in somewhere around 600m,  felt like a wee bit of climbing!   Wasn't into the first loop at all ,  ran super slow.   About half way through the second loop I felt more into it and by third it was trail business as usual.  Watched the HR through the run ,  high 120s,  lots of 130s and the occasional 140+.   I wasn't  able to reel in the pace very well in stage 1 and 2 more or less running my 6:30ish pace.   I was really looking forward to a lazy 30K trail run and that is what I did.