4/25/2020 Mike Pastva 2020 Ironman VR4 Virtual Duathlon

4/25/2020

Mike Pastva

Ironman VR4 Virtual Duathlon

3 K Run, 40 K Bike, And 10K Run

Finish Time:  2:31:06

Overall Place:  5226 / 1232

Division Place:  505 / 1113

Race Recap By Mike Pastva

This weekend 4 /25-26-27 I completed the Ironman VR 4 Race

A 3k run / 40 k bike/ 10 k run

My completion time was 2:31:06

At this time my finisher position is 5226 out of 12322. And 505 out of 1113 in the 50-54 age category.

A great free event and it was fun.

The VR 4 was an Olympic distance.  A finishers medal is available along with other stuff for a fee.

Ironman did ask for a team affiliation and I put Ohio Team ER.

 

4/19/2020 2020 Team ER Farlek Challenge

4/19/2020

2020 Team ER Farlek Challenge.

The goal of this challenge was to incorporate at least 15 Fartleks (unstructured intervals) into training sessions of any mode of endurance exercise.

Once the Fartleks were completed a silly picture with the title I Farleked And I Liked It was required to be posted on our Team ER Facebook page to complete the challenge.

Team ER members completing the challenge:

Renee Buckus
Kevin Christensen
Jobadiah Christiansen
Christine Churpek
Ken Frankenbery
Loretta Harland
Michael Homula
Asad Khan
Jill Bidwell McCauslin
Molly Menton
Roy Miller
Russ Neubert
Scott Orlando
Mike Pastva
Gretchen Snyder
Amy Stumpf
Mike Williams
Steve Zenar

4/18/2020 Christine Churpek Runs Her Own One Woman Tree City Marathon

4/18/2020

Tree City Marathon

Christine Churpek

Finish Time 3:43:55

Christine Churpek wasn’t going to let the COVID-19 crisis ruin her marathon dreams so she decided to do something about it.  Christine had been training for months to make an attampt at a Boston marathon qualifying run.  When all of the spring marathons were cancelled she decided to create her own one woman marathon.  Sure it wasn’t a sanctioned official race but it was a truly inspiring effort that brought much of the Kent running community together.

Here is a link to an article published about Christine’s marathon:

https://medium.com/the-portager/with-a-single-participant-its-the-largest-marathon-of-the-year-396ef6513e15

Photos, videos, and other information regarding Christine’s Tree City Marathon can also be found on the Facebook event page.

Here is the link to the event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/225407438527143/

4/12/2020 Team ER 4 Mile Prediction Run Challenge

4/12/2020

4 Mile Prediction Run Challenge.

Team ER members predicted their finish time in a 4 mile run / walk.

The goal was to be closest to your predicted finish time.

Results

Place Name Predicted Time Actual Time Variance
1 Ken Frankenbery 0:35:00 0:34:43 0:00:17
2 Gretchen Snyder 0:38:00 0:37:41 0:00:19
3 Mike Williams 0:34:00 0:33:32 0:00:28
4 Mike Pastva 1:13:00 1:13:30 0:00:30
5 Mike Homula 0:38:15 0:37:38 0:00:37
6 Keven Christensen 0:40:00 0:39:19 0:00:41
7 Steve Zenar 0:37:00 0:36:05 0:00:55
8 Jill Bidwell McCauslin 1:13:00 1:14:00 0:01:00
9 Jobadiah Christiansen 0:30:36 0:31:38 0:01:02
10 Roy Miller 0:34:40 0:33:34 0:01:06
11 Scott Orlando 0:31:57 0:30:41 0:01:19
12 Russ Neubert 0:30:00 0:31:53 0:01:53
13 Molly Menton 0:42:00 0:39:24 0:02:36
14 Loretta Harland 0:43:30 0:40:12 0:03:18
15 Renee Buckus 1:20:00 1:16:00 0:04:00
16 Christine Churpek 1:12:00 1:17:00 0:05:00

Congratulations to Ken Frankebery who was closest to his predicted time and is the winner of the 2020 Team ER 4 Mile Prediction Challenge!

4/5/2020 Team ER 15K Challenge

4/5/2020 – 4/12/2020

The Team ER 15K Challenge.

Team ER members had one week to run / walk a total of 15K.

The challenge could be completed in one training session or broken up into several.

Team ER members completing the challenge:

Kevin Christensen
Jobadiah Christiansen
Christine Churpek
Ken Frankenbery
Loretta Harland
Asad Khan
Jill Bidwell McCauslin
Molly Menton
Roy Miller
Russ Neubert
Scott Orlando
Mike Pastva
Amy Stumpf
Mike Williams
Steve Zenar

 

3/29/2020 The 2020 Team ER 5K Challenge

3/29/2020 – 4-5-2020

The 2020 Team ER 5K Challenge

Team ER members had one week to complete two 5K’s with a goal of running the second 5K faster than the first 5K.

Team ER members completing the challenge:

Renee Buckus
Kevin Christensen
Jobadiah Christiansen
Christine Churpek
Ken Frankenbery
Loretta Harland
Michael Homula
Asad Khan
Jill Bidwell McCauslin
Molly Menton
Roy Miller
Scott Orlando
Mike Pastva
Amy Stumpf
Mike Williams
Steve Zenar