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Marine Corp Marathon (MCM) 10K October 2014

MCM10K October 27, 2013 I completed my third 10K race this past Sunday.  And while I didn't meet my goal of beating last year's time, I still feel pretty satisfied overall. The weather was great while running but when walking to get my medal and to get refreshments, I could tell how cold it was.  Already looking forward to next year's race.

MCM10K October 28, 2012 The weather was pretty good.  Great running weather.  I ran the first three months and then alternated walking and running the last three.  I forgot about the steep hill at the end of mile six.  I decided it would be easier to run the hill than to walk it but I very tired coming across the finish line.  My goal was to beat last years time and I did that.

MCM10K Cold, the Bridges were icy, and there were a ton of people. Well yesterday we had snow, which is a bit unusual for us in October. As a result of yesterday's snow, a lot of roads iced over. In fact, while driving in to the race, the radio station had a laundry list of accidents they were reporting. Part of the course run took us over a couple of bridges and the bridges were icy. Every one immediately starting slowing down and "babying" their steps until they got beyond the bridge. Along with the bridges being very slippery, so were the traffic lines that are painted on the road. After stepping on one of those once, I tried to avoid stepping on any more of them. I should have thought to bring Kleenex. My nose kept running. It was cold but I really didn't feel the cold until the race was over and all the runners were slowly and I do mean very slowly making their way to get their medals and to the finishers area. According to the results page, there were 6867 fi...

The Pro-Form 600 LT Treadmill is HSN and Pro-Form 2011 model treadmill. Each year HSN brings out a new Pro-Form model to sale. On the HSN website the treadmill is called Pro-Form Step Up Personal Trainer Treadmill. The price of this treadmill is $699.95 and the Shipping & Handling is free. I have had this treadmill since May. Assembly is required. It took me and another about an hour, maybe a little less to put it together. The instructions are fairly detail and everything went together as it should. I had the 2007 model of this treadmill, but I like the advertised upgrades so much I decided to get this one. Pre-Program Work outs The 2011 model comes with 16 Pre-program workouts. Of the 16, 4 are distance, 5 are timed, and 7 are calorie burned workouts. The distance workouts are 1 mile, 5K, 10K, and 1/2 Marathon. The time workouts are 20 min, 25 min, 30 min, 45 min The calorie workouts that are broken down by time are 20 min, 25 min, 30 min, 40 min, 45 min, and two 60 min ...