Describe Your Running Today, Part II

Yesterday, a nice 75 min ride through Knowsley State Forest.

2pm -6pm A wedding.

6.30 -7.45pm drive to Melbourne for brother in laws 50th.

9pm. Attended running buddy's 50th -indoor sports centre -great idea.

11pm back to Bro-in-laws.

12.30-1.45am.Drive home.

2.30am Bed.

This morning. Woken early am. by a car running nose first into a culvert out the front of the house. Drunk,50 something women in mini,suspenders,knee high boots, trying to avoid the police via our back road. First corner she lost it at speed when confronted by a mob of 20-25 kangaroos. Over corrected, missed the next corner. Nose in culvert, back wheels in the air lol. Should send the photos into the local newspaper office.

Anyway, we went off to Kangaroo Flat for a club handicap race. 6.5kms fairly flat trails. Big prize for the handicap winner.

I raced well but could only pick up 4th place. 2k out I thought I was a chance but 2 frontmarkers really kicked the last km and I couldn't close the gap. 500m from the finish the flying Josh, our young backmarker whooshed past all of us for the win. It was a good effort, he was giving me 3mins start.

today: Villa Ada (nice and shadowy) 2x5k standard loop, in 22:15, 1 minute rest, 19:18.

Felt good.

Skuj, quite a suspenseful account. What is your all-time PR for 5K?

btw:

-725 days to Gimmewald 2011.

At this rate, dyrters are going to be in awesome shape by the time the big day arrives.

I love my Sunday early morning runs! This is the one day of the week when I can kick back and enjoy some serious "me time." Today I did my usual route of roads to trails to roads. Ran a little further along the trails this time before turning back. Tallied 52 minutes with progressively faster splits. Don't worry, I started very slowly. Ha, ha! As usual on Sundays, this was done without a sidekick (hopefully Captain Paranoid won't misinterpret that term, too -- ha, ha!). Just me and mother nature. Nice!

Keep up the good work, all!

15:10 on the track. this was pointed out by the announcer when we were in the middle of this run. It made us chuckle.

the point could be wrote:

Skuj, quite a suspenseful account. What is your all-time PR for 5K?

Skuj, for a bit of fun and perhaps a realistic short term goal, check out the age graded tables against your pb's. My low 16min pb gives me an 18.20 5k at 50. I'm currently running low 19s in off road events so it is a realistic target after my 50th birthday. I'm guessing you're not much younger than me. 17mins might be close to the mark for you. It's probably pretty meaningless but we need to chase something.

Biked fast to the gym (5miles), had an intense workout, biked back from the gym and ran 2 miles hard a little after.

7 days to go! I will have my 2:59!!

mopak wrote:

Skuj, for a bit of fun and perhaps a realistic short term goal, check out the age graded tables against your pb's. My low 16min pb gives me an 18.20 5k at 50. I'm currently running low 19s in off road events so it is a realistic target after my 50th birthday. I'm guessing you're not much younger than me. 17mins might be close to the mark for you. It's probably pretty meaningless but we need to chase something.

I have never been interested in the whole "age grading" thing. My philosphy is, this is how old I am now, this is the kind of training I feel like doing now, and these are the results I get now. All-time PRs are fun for "history", but living in the NOW is important.

It's funny though...I'm 10-15% slower than my all time peak in the longer distances, but much less than 10% slower in the short stuff.

Before the peak, it was fascinating to see improvement every year. Call me crazy, but in these so called "declining years", it is fascinating to see what will happen. Not depressing.

I think I could challenge 17:00 this year - give me a couple more months.

Skuj,

having fun is an important aspect of Life. I speculate it can coincide with top performances. In the NOW that is.

Laughing can be seen as "letting go" of existential stiffness and "expanding" to one's outer limits. Outer limits are infinitely timeless.

paradoxically:

-724 to Gimmewald 2011

today: will it happen?

9k+ of trails and roads....longest in several months....how's that for living in the now?.....staying off the track.....aerobic exercise is the fountain of youth......keeping it long(ish)......may try to push for an hour before long, but not much more......striders are my speed work.....:)....

Skuj wrote:

For those who are bored, the sole purpose of that post is because I am called "Sidecar" at a forum where RD has stalked me and has been banned at least 3 time.

I'm guessing you'd like to have that one back. Too bad theres no edit or delete option on letsrun.

runnerchick wrote:

Skuj wrote:

For those who are bored, the sole purpose of that post is because I am called "Sidecar" at a forum where RD has stalked me and has been banned at least 3 time.

I'm guessing you'd like to have that one back. Too bad theres no edit or delete option on letsrun.

Can you give some more details? It's tough to swallow your accusation without some hard evidence.

runnerchick-a friend-RD, only you and I really give a f***. But I just want you to know that I'm not scared, worried, etc etc etc. You exist, you are who you are, I know what I know, and that's all there is to it.

Now make up some new running fibs. Quick.

the point could be wrote:

Skuj,

having fun is an important aspect of Life. I speculate it can coincide with top performances. In the NOW that is.

Laughing can be seen as "letting go" of existential stiffness and "expanding" to one's outer limits. Outer limits are infinitely timeless.

Agreed. It's no good being a Master and constantly focussing on what you used to run and how much training you did and wanted to do compared to now. I ran 17:58 a few days ago and it was all IMMENSE FUN.

Skuj wrote:

runnerchick-a friend-RD, only you and I really give a f***. But I just want you to know that I'm not scared, worried, etc etc etc. You exist, you are who you are, I know what I know, and that's all there is to it.

Now make up some new running fibs. Quick.

For someone who's not worried, etc., you sure spend a lot of space on here obsessing about Running Dogg.

Not a doctor wrote:

Skuj wrote:

runnerchick-a friend-RD, only you and I really give a f***. But I just want you to know that I'm not scared, worried, etc etc etc. You exist, you are who you are, I know what I know, and that's all there is to it.

Now make up some new running fibs. Quick.

For someone who's not worried, etc., you sure spend a lot of space on here obsessing about Running Dogg.

One 5th of the time that you spend, under all your various aliases, over 2 years, and 3 forums.

Today I did 30min jog + 6x75m accels + 10min jog, all on grass.

Since late yesterday I've been tired. I got "2 day syndrome" from that 5k. It wasn't a fast 5k, but it was a fast finish, and 12.5 laps in Zoots, and this is all a shock to the dormant system. (A needed shock!) But I may have to delay my brisk 500m to Wednesday, then perhaps an 8x100m on Friday.

(This is in prep for our Provincial Masters on the weekend - I'm doing 800m on Sunday.)

4 miles today, body was sore and tired. Coasting through this week, marathon on Sunday. I need to make sure I'm well rested and recovered.

"Today my body feels tired, tomorrow this does not matter."

Now, Skuj, you know I've never been shy about telling you exactly what I think of you. I don't need any aliases. Maybe, just maybe, I'm not the only one around here tired of your act.No running today. Long day with several important appointments. Used my "me time" to mow the lawn. Ha, ha! Another busy day scheduled for tomorrow, but at least the lawn is done. Hopefully I can squeeze in some "me time."Keep up the good work, all!

Skuj wrote:

One 5th of the time that you spend, under all your various aliases, over 2 years, and 3 forums.