Describe Your Running Today, Part II

Skuj wrote:

I'm reading between the lines here and taking a deep breath......??? "Letsrun.com" reads this thread, believe me. They know "our story". And every time you call ME a stalker, they laugh, among other things. I even show them what I say at CVRR the day before you say the same thing here. You understand.)

Sorry, but I don't understand. I don't think I'm supposed to, actually. I'm not sure what you read "between the lines," but there was no hidden message there. And I don't visit cvrr, so I have no idea what is said there. I hope you and "Letsru.com" (whoever that is) have a good laugh. You and I both know it is a hollow one. At least you heeded by request to drop the silly "starter" claim. Thank you for that.

As promised, here's my report on today's run. I actually went a little further than I had planned as it was a glorious morning. Still building strength here with no plans to alter the basic training at this point. But spring is in the air, so I may get antsy at some point. You'll be the first to know!

Keep up the good work, all! And a hearty "welcome back" to Heres my plan!

Hey Mopak,

it all grokked by chance: taper week, Family Time, amazing weather...today i went for an easy fartlek just before lunch (where our hotel is at 750m a.s.l.) and after lunch we went for a family xc ski lesson. Then my wife and my daughter went for a partial round of this world cup loop and then i went for myself. I love cross country skiing. I cant believe i waites this long to try. It is no impact, feels really smooth and i love the toeing off...i am starting to think that if i lived in a snow area i would just do xc ski during the winter...but it could be this beginner infatuation i am experiencing.

Looking forward to Sunday. This is a good sign. Only problem is the food at the hotel we are staying is amazing and we are "full pension" arrangement (meaning room and full board)...

Oh post all ye workouts,

joyful and triumphant,

Oh post all ye workouts

on DYRT and Letsrun.

Oh Oh Oh, Joy to all Runners

in Resilience faithful,

Oh come lets post our run now,

Oh come lets post our run now,

Oh come lets post our run,

Here on DYRT, for ever, more.

(to a famous xmas tune...)

Today I did 75min easy + 4x100m-ish accels, in my least favourite weather. Wet, windy, slushy.

Cheers

Skuj

DYRT Starter

Not A Liar

2+ mile warmup, 4 x 1600m stepdown 6:21, 6:03, 5:53, 5:43 with 400m recovery 2:10-2:25, 3+ mile cooldown

This in my first post on this string, as I have not felt up to posting my attempts at a comeback from injury until now. Yesterday I ran for an hour for the first time since last century and felt great. Some background about me - 4 months from turning 40, last raced competively about 2000, PB's 1:48.15 800m, 3:43.72 1500m, National championship medallist (Australia). Since then I have continued to run (in between breaking down) with a view of getting back and doing some races. Ran a few fun runs in the mid 2000's placing in top 5 in most, then missed nearly 18 months with a back injury. I have recently left my full time government job to go into business with my parents, leaving me with more time to train/recover when I want. I am hoping to get into some sort of racing shape before turning 40 in July, and am quietly confident of doing so (I hope to compete in the World Masters in Sydney in October). I have done some fast tempo runs in the last few weeks, my first fast running for a couple of years. I have no expectations of running anywhere near as fast as I did, I just want to race again. I still miss itThings that have helped me get back on track to hopefully racing after many years of injuries:-I now only run every second day, with cross training on other days. Many times I have tried to run every day only breaking down-easing into running very very slowly, and not being afraid of backing off if I feel sore-Getting onto any sore spots quickly with massage, ice etc-regular massage, especially self massage using The Stick-Regular stretching and core stability.Thats it for now - hopefully you will hear more from me in the future

Quinlan wrote:

2+ mile warmup, 4 x 1600m stepdown 6:21, 6:03, 5:53, 5:43 with 400m recovery 2:10-2:25, 3+ mile cooldown

7.3 miles - got a little quicker than I wanted at times, and my R knee hurt a bit.

Hopefully we will, gprunner. Welcome aboard the DYRT train.

Skuj

Starter Of DYRT

the nice weather the past two days motivated me to do back-to-back runs again....slowly......but got to 40+' on both.....had a little calf/Achilles stiffness the morn after the first run, but went for it anyway.....the stiffness did not last and the run went fine.....still got some of that holiday poundage that I wouldn't mind seeing disappear.....maybe a few more back-to-backs will do the trick....track chick got it right....

Hi gprunner, tried looking up Aussie rankings lists to see who you were. Of course some dickhead at AA has removed the rankings archives so you will have to remain anon. to me at this stage.

Good luck with the progression back to competitive running.

Sounds like you are on the right path to get back to some decent running.

For me today was a nice gentle 48min spin on the mtb and then 1h 50m of very slow building to just quite slow running through bushland in Bendigo. Legs are a bit the worse for yesterdays last few kms of all out downhill. Took me 40mins to get above a shuffle and all the downhills were uncomfortable.

special O2 wrote:

....track chick got it right....

track chick is u-know-hoo.

Following the supplied link, I found the first post in the DYRT thread to be by one "Adam Locked" on 5/8/2007. The evidence suggests that this was NOT the actual first post of the thread. However, it is impossible to prove that the first post was by Skuj in April 2007 without some help. Perhaps Skuj can use his reported connections with the letsrun.com hierarchy to cull the missing posts from oblivion. Until such proof is provided, the true starter of DYRT cannot be known for sure and any claims to this title must be viewed with skepticism.

Skuj wrote:

DYRT1 began in April 2007. This was the very first post:

"Skuj wrote:

What, When, Where, How and Why?

Young or Old.

Fast or Slow.

This Is A Neverending Thread.

Discuss."

The first few pages of DYRT1 were removed by letsrun, but you can see several people (+ one troll in particular)referencing/quoting this post in the first few pages of DYRT1.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1903398&page=2

Cheers

Skuj

http://www.cvrr.ca

Starter Of DYRT

very biased and poor research, rd.

Not biased, not poor, and not rd. Not Skuj either, though I'm sure you may think so as this was originally his research. I merely took his work and expanded on it. It's all there for anyone to see. No lies, no deceit, just the facts.

Skuj wrote:

And every time you call ME a stalker, they laugh, among other things. I even show them what I say at CVRR the day before you say the same thing here. You understand.)

If RD is the stalker and steals your ideas, how come the "what training did you do today?" thread on cvrr began AFTER the DYRT thread on letsrun was started by RD? Who's the stalker/liar/plagiarist now?

Dammit, a slight relapse on my foot today, due to some pavement pounding yesterday. I couldn't use the soft shoulders yesterday due to water pooling in slush. The foot is a bit sore today so, I'll have a day off. It seems that 5x a week is my thing now. Has anyone at DYRT had "success" with 4-5x a week?

RD fan wrote:

If RD is the stalker and steals your ideas, how come the "what training did you do today?" thread on cvrr began AFTER the DYRT thread on letsrun was started by RD? Who's the stalker/liar/plagiarist now?

Allow me to help you with your "reasearch", RD:

Sunaday, April 16th, 2006.

Of course, you are very familiar with the CVRR forum, having been banned there 3x, and asking to come back about 5x. Check it out guys. One one excursion, RD = nancyrun (pretending to be a girl). And please believe me folks, we've cross referenced IP with "other forums", and WE KNOW.

Today: another xc ski lesson. Learned how to break in the tracks, classic style, one ski out. My technique is way off, partly due to being an alpine kid.

M -6 days.

tmw: going for a run on the snow with the ski instructors early morning.

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Oh post all ye workouts,

joyful and triumphant,

Oh post all ye workouts

on DYRT and Letsrun.

Oh Oh Oh, Joy to all Runners

in Resilience faithful,

Oh come lets post our run now,

Oh come lets post our run now,

Oh come lets post our run,

Here on DYRT, for ever, more.

(sung to a famous xmas tune...)

Skuj wrote:

Allow me to help you with your "reasearch", RD:

http://cvrr.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42&start=0

Sunaday, April 16th, 2006.

Of course, you are very familiar with the CVRR forum, having been banned there 3x, and asking to come back about 5x. Check it out guys. One one excursion, RD = nancyrun (pretending to be a girl). And please believe me folks, we've cross referenced IP with "other forums", and WE KNOW.

Not sure what that post is supposed to prove other than you have some spelling trouble. Ha, ha! Seriously, the only apparent girl posting I see on that page is LadyBug. And I could not possibly have been ever banned from a forum I've never joined. If you really had IP addresses, then you would know this to be true. Alas, I suspect you are pulling our collective legs about that as your chances of getting IP addresses from other forums is slim to none (legal issues and all that). The "L" word comes to mind once again.

As for my daily running, it was time for a judicious day off after consecutive weekend runs. I plan to be back at it tomorrow.

Keep up the good work, all!

Got up this morning and shook out 3 miles easy, and legs felt surprisingly good after the 20 yesterday. Evening went 9 and change, felt even better. There is something to be said for those morning runs... Weather is starting to heat up, and starting to get the urge to pull the shirt (I suppose I should wait until it hits 50 though...)

Also, I don't really know what this whole back and forth thing with RD and Skuj is, but I personally think its time to let it die.

I did run today afterall. And it was a great one. 40min easy + 4x130m-ish grass accels + 10min easy. The end of the accels was faster than any recent accels.I'm dreaming of a 2:16 800m on Apr 18th. Is that too much to ask?......................................................................................................................

Heres my plan wrote:

Also, I don't really know what this whole back and forth thing with RD and Skuj is, but I personally think its time to let it die.

Coles Notes: For 2 years I've been hounded by "RD" on at least 3 different forums. I don't know why. And he comes on here and calls ME a stalker, among other things. "Letting it die" is easier said than done when you are dealing with this kind of thing.