Masters Weekend Races and Running

Spikez wrote:

--it's in our finance group so I had to solve some present value income stream comparison problems and write up a hypothetical memo to the CFO with my recommendations. .

cool, did you include a risk or sensitivity analysis? i work in gov finance and have been doing these a lot lately, particularly in terms of sensitivity to medicare/medicaid funding.

Between falling on my knees on a cement sidewalk (walking), a couple 80+ weeks and older shoes, my knees started hurting last week the first couple minutes of every run. Only ran 25 miles but got in a great 3 miles at the end of the run tuesday and a so-so race on saturday after taking 3 days completely off. Warmed up 4.5 miles and probably could have used another couple. Fastest miles in the race (about 4.32 miles) were the last 2.

Ibu, new shoes, and one run a day will hopefully be the cure. I would like to run a couple more races before starting base work over the winter.

Congrats to Malone. One of their runners grew up a few miles from me and I almost went there. Probably should have but I went elsewhere for a year before ending up at Walsh just up the road. Ran 3 meets before an injury knocked me out and I didn't run again for 18 years.

Haven't posted for a month or so....

Nothing has really changed. Haven't gotten sick, no injuries to report, training is going very well. Keeping up the Tues tempo/Thurs speedwork and for the past 6 weeks, I've been doing my Saturday long runs over some killer hills on the other side of the county.

Looking forward to the Turkey Trot on Thursday. There is a new race in town that starts at the park down the street. The 5k course passes by my house twice. Now that's a home course advantage! Actually, I haven't raced in my home town for several years. Should be fun...

Stay well everyone,

Dave

Late to the show ~ just got back from Portland and the Nike BorderClash Dual meet between Washington and Oregon.

http://www.runnerspace.com/NikeBorderClash

Pretty cool event. Washington boys went 1-14 last year and went 1-10 this year. My son was on both teams finishing 8th last year and 5th today. What a dominating group on young men. The Girls went 1, 3-10. Wow!

Busy at work and only one workout. Should hit it real hard this upcoming week to get ready for Nationals.

Weds ~ 2 (mile & 800) 5k/3k pacing

My own bed tonight ~ yes!

Cheers

I've been checking this thread for a bit, but I haven't been a master that long (about 3 weeks). I started my masters racing career with a 4 minute PR at the Philly Marathon today, so it seemd like a reasonable time to chime in. It was a great race for me. Very evenly paced and finished strong. Heck, I even had a kick at the end.

I hope Philly gets it's act together. This is my hometown race, and I've now set two PR's here. I know there were some issues beyond their control this year, but they need to get figure things out so they can put on a smooth event.

dotato wrote:

Spikez wrote:

--it's in our finance group so I had to solve some present value income stream comparison problems and write up a hypothetical memo to the CFO with my recommendations. .

cool, did you include a risk or sensitivity analysis? i work in gov finance and have been doing these a lot lately, particularly in terms of sensitivity to medicare/medicaid funding.

Naw, nothing as sexy as that. Just NPV of different income/expense streams of two equipment purchases to see which had the better return. The salvage value had a wide range so I did a breakeven analysis--hopefully I got extra credit for it!

Snow blew out of a thick icy fog that wrapped around the ridges we ran for 13 miles this morning on dirt forest roads that were buried under several inches of powder. It was just my wife and me. When we turned out of the wind the woods were encased in snow-muffled silence. We saw a couple of moose--one in the middle of the road as we rounded a corner.

This was winter's first big blow here in the Inland Northwest. Like lug, we now face the possibility of not seeing dirt again til April. And the drizzle this afternoon and subfreezing temps tonight mean icy streets in the a.m.

Time to be careful out there.

Hit 86 miles this week, with a 5x880/1 min. jog Thurs. and a little tempo on the 2nd half of a 7 miler Saturday.

Take care everybody. Have a good week and a great Thanksgiving.

A day late and a dollar short, I don't know which is worse. :) Pretty decent week of getting out and just putting in the miles. Feeling much like my self of old on the easy miles. Have been playing it pretty cautious after the summer I had but the body seems to be responding well.

Malone was impressive in NAIA, sorry to hear you were a Cavalier Rip. Wished I'd been a lot less inebrieated when running for Coach Hazen, missed an opportunity there.

First year in many that my wife and I aren't in Terre Haute, fun times, I'm stuck with direct tv so no taping it here.

Have a great week.

I also ran the PA Cross Country meet after a lousy year of training (with one hard tempo and one interval session to try to wake things up in the past few weeks) and a lot of junk miles on a bad plantar. I ran about what I expected, simply wanted to run one last race for my former club, which will merge with a group I coach. They ran pretty well at PA Cross. 'Jeff in Reno' ran yesterday too, he seemed to do OK.

SoCal Pete, you will be in my Dad's neck of the woods. When staying out there for an overnight, I always run the Iron Horse Trail (runs north-south paralleling I-680 but not too close to it); it's a paved bike trail marked every mile with grass/dirt shoulders. I'd run with you but I'm in pitiful shape. For this run, head north toward Danville, Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill. If you have time, drive west on Hwy. 24 to the Lafayette-Moraga Bike Trail (east-west).

Just north of San Ramon is the town of Danville, in which there is a running store -- Forward Motion Sports. They used to host some form of group run on Wednesday ? nights. It was really well-attended in the mid-1990s with a nucleus of guys running 5:30 miles, though I'm not sure what they're emphasizing now.

If you want to jump in with the guys I coach we'll have a good workout in Berkeley for a couple of strong runners headed to USATF Club XC champs.

Oooh, I am so tired that I can hardly remember what I ran this week! ;-D

Oh yeah, I did a workout "with" (or more accurately near and at the same time as) two of my teammates. Since I turned my ankle again last week, I ran it on the track (both clockwise and counterclockwise) as they ran on the grass around me. It was a good workout and it was nice to have the virtual training partners.

On Saturday, I flew to Denver with my daughters for Oireachtas. Since I need to concentrate on their needs before the competition, my running took a back seat. Fortunately, the weather was nice there (actually in the 60s on Saturday), but I had to run on the Cherry Creek bike trail both times. It's nice for a bike trail, running along the creek, but actually not that scenic as it's below street level and has steep concrete sides. Running late in the afternoon, by myself, it was a bit unnerving so pass so many people just "hanging out" down there - especially since it felt so isolated. My body did NOT like the concrete at all and I barely slept that night.

Still, I was happy to get out and run at all as the competitions lasted from 7 am to about 4 and the awards took until 10 pm.

(I did log a 4:30 am run to get the car this morning - with Denver's parking situation, I wound up parking about 3/4 mile away - really nothing, except at that hour, it was pretty creepy being out there alone. I ran with my cell phone to be safe, but momentarily panicked when I couldn't find the right lot and was feeling very vulnerable. Fortunately, I righted myself and made it back just fine.)

Both travel days we had to arise at 4:15 am and on competition day we slept in until 5:45, so I am just zonked. Just about to head on my run now, but who knows how that will go. At least I was doing better than the girls - one had to take a math test this afternoon and the other was back at college for classes!

Looking forward to another run with the teammates this week and perhaps a time trial workout during the weekend. Great job, ty, on Mack's race - that's quite a blowout for WA (again).