Running Dogg wrote:
I'm not sure who is posting the workouts from "the troll",
o i think i know. hint: get a life?
At least skuj is a runner and has some interesting things
to say about it. Its been proven that you are nothing but a liar and a person who seems to be obssessed with him for whatever reason./ You can stop pasting the stuff from that forum anytime.
Last night 11 miles. Began @ 7:00 min mile pace and gradually got it down to 6:30 min.
Earlier this morning before work, 5 miles @ 6:45 min pace. Hoping to cap off the day with a 8 mile tempo in the evening after work.
Skuj wrote:
http://www.comoxcougars.org/TrackEventsSched2009.htm
I'm doing the 3000m at 9am Saturday instead of the 800m. Heather needs to get to Qualicum before 5pm to pick up a race package for the Tri there the next day, and, the thought of another 800m makes me ill, quite frankly.
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5km + 4x100m + 4x200m + 5km
"I only need 5min to pack my running gear, Dear. Running is simple, unlike Triathlon."
dyrter wrote:
o i think i know. hint: get a life?
At least skuj is a runner and has some interesting things
to say about it. Its been proven that you are nothing but a liar and a person who seems to be obssessed with him for whatever reason./ You can stop pasting the stuff from that forum anytime.
Ha, ha! Good one, Skuj! You remain so predictable by posting here using an alias after promising never to post again. I knew you could not stay away. You've got that 'stalker' mentality.
By the way, remind me again how you "proved" I was a liar. It would seem the shoe is actually on the other foot, n'est pas? Ha, ha!
(C.V.R.R., keep up the good work!)
The weather was really shyte at the Base today, and I had a lot of time during lunch hour, so I decided to drive to the track in Courtenay and run about there today. I'm glad I did because there was much less wind and rain there than the Base.
Oh how I miss Dove Creek Rd. I did my 5k jogs there ("signature session"), out and back. My ham was quite tight on the 100s (on the track) in 24-22-20-19, so I cruised the first 200 in 39. But then I loosened, and did 36, 34, and 33. A full 2mins rest today - walk across the field. (I did the 200s from finish to 200m start - with the wind!) Still, I was somewhat "restricted" because of my hamstring, and this has perhaps been a bigger problem for me this year than I had previously realized. (Yeah I still haven't gone to see Dean.)
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5km + 4x100m + 4x200m + 5km
"I only need 5min to pack my running gear, Dear. Running is simple, unlike Triathlon."
50 minute easy run with 20 minute fartlek in the middle this afternoon. Hot and humid, reached 31 degrees Celsius. Gonna be working on my base and letting that achilles recover fully over the next little while, cutting back from speedwork 3x weekly to just once a week for now. Fartlek every other day.
Tonight I ran 90mins up into the McIvor Ranges again. Probably 16-17kms but included about 400m of accumulated elevation gain. Recent rain has left some sections ankle deep in heavy mud as well. Lovely cool evening about 5-6 deg C. Misty patches, pretty much dark for the last 15mins. Nice to look down at the lights of the town.
Early on I saw a big flock of Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos -perhaps 30 of them. They rarely visit this part of the world but the bushfires have devastated the areas they usually migrate through so, we are blessed with their company for a few weeks. Hard to believe, but people will pay $100s of thousands for these guys on the black market.
Tpcb, I reached black belt level in my late teens. My older brother is something of a martial arts legend so I did the typical little brother thing of following his footsteps. Gave it up at 19. My son trained as a 10-12 year old. Now at 18, 185cm and 68kg of fencing wire muscle and sinew he has come back to it. He is built for the sport side of TKD and now has the mental aspect nailed.
Driske, his bare toes will be frost bitten as he climbs to the top of the Schilthorn, that will be our chance to make the break.
HR, sounds like a sensible move to back off on the speed work until the achilles is ok.
More of the same for me as I again found myself with some free time this morning, so I set out on the same course as my last run. Somehow the Garmin's pace calculator was reset to 'biking' so I pushed a few buttons to fix it near the end of the run. Unfortunately I also indadvertently stopped the timer! Ha, ha! So put me down for another 40+ minutes (I guess).
Keep up the good work, all!
Just came back from a 45 minute run in an all out thunderstorm.
Its nice that its warm enough to run shirtless in the rain, otherwise your shirt clings to you and you can't breath. Also, it cooled down to 73f because of the rain, much better than the humid 90degree (f) weather we've been having.
Mopak, sounds like theirs some pretty cool places to run where you live.
Happy Runner 123 wrote:
Just came back from a 45 minute run in an all out thunderstorm.
Its nice that its warm enough to run shirtless in the rain, otherwise your shirt clings to you and you can't breath. Also, it cooled down to 73f because of the rain, much better than the humid 90degree (f) weather we've been having.
Mopak, sounds like theirs some pretty cool places to run where you live.
That must have been fun, HappyRunner123. Rainy day runs can be therapeutic depending on moods. Wished we get more rain out here in L.A.
Good job with your runs everyone. I'll chime in more often and share my progress.
Glad for HR123; Coach seems to have come around on allowing a window for marathon and achilles recovery.
Agreed, mopak takes us to a world the top half sees seldom, if ever. Mick Dundee has no edge on this family of Aussies.
Put on the Vibram 5's for a 50 yd jaunt across the lawn.
Things are much better,I'll be back in the mix in a day or two.
My sister married into a Swiss family out in CA. As luck would have it they have roots and relation in the Berner Oberland region. Count 2 more couples declared to attend MOARG.
!mopak!
--- that's just all i need: you guys teaming up!! ---
Anyway:
you.are.on. - gentlemen,driske, mopak, - you.are.on.
here's more news.
today: 42 mins wu routine 18x100m on grass barefoot, including quadrupedia. Then i went over to join speed alphamales and did 10x100m in lane 3 (in vibrams as tartan was absolutely scorching) starting with 16.33s progressing to 14.11 (last five all sub 15s)
At some point i'd like to run a sub 60 quarter. Maybe we could measure a stretch in Gimmelwald and driske could park his butt at the end for some "weerok" motivation.
Italy actualy did ok in Beijing 08 TKD. My feet would probably be quite apt right now...
btw,
MOARG -619
Enough 200s for now. Today I did an easy feeling 45mins about the "ferry loop". It felt good.
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5km + 4x100m + 4x200m + 5km
"I only need 5min to pack my running gear, Dear. Running is simple, unlike Triathlon."
My turn to ask for a definition. "weerok" please.
Waited long enough. The hamstring warmed up and gave no problems on this 3 mile trial run. Pleasant evening with temps in the mid 70's.
mopak and the Aussies may have a corner on the wildlife. But if the same ditzy female cardinal starts rapping on our window again at 4:50AM ,I too may be persuaded to take up arms.
I can sympathise Driske,in summer we get very early visits from flocks of very noisy sulphur crested cockatoos. There is a big old oak and a plum tree near our bedroom. These guys just love having a noisy breakfast there about 5.30am. And boy are they noisy!!
I'll happily send them north for a few cardinals (a bird I've never seen)
HR, I try to see what fauna and flora are around me when I run. I suspect many people don't realise just what is about as they run.
Where I live is far from exotic. It's just a little old (former)mining town -now it's more a sheep/wine town. Most of the forests were cut down for timber in the late 19th early 20th century after the gold became more scarce.
My immediate neighbour to the south east of my block is the Heathcote -Greytown National Park. Much of the forest is regrowth of ironbark and grey box eucalypts.
We have one of the highest populations per hectare of eastern grey kangaroos in the state. They are ideally suited to the mix of forest and grazing land.
Wallabies, echidnas, possums and numerous small nocturnal marsupials are common. Koalas and wombats are less common but can be found in a few areas.
Plenty of reptiles such as goannas and many smaller lizards as well as several snake species -red bellied black the most common.
We have an incredible variety of bird life. Emus, various cockatoos and parrots, many different birds of prey, wetland birds. Our "signature" bird is the beautiful crimson rosella -I can see some from here, also can hear some kookaburras as I type.
One thing I don't have in this town are running partners, so I guess that's why Ilook to enjoy the environment that I run in.
tpcb,one of my "twitter family" Matt Mahoney has been climbing mountains in his vibrams apparently.
My actual 100m pb from my 20s sits at 14.4 and I only ever broke 60 once. I'd raced 4 mountain races and a 10miler during the week, had 2 days off and ran a 400m pb., go figure. Then again my 800m pb. came 3 days after a fast 40km training run! ????
From Gimmelwald I could find an ideal course for fast 400s but I suspect there would be a few life threatening injuries along the course.
This afternoon I jumped on the bike and rode up to the summit of (our little) Mt Ida. I returned via the bush tracks behind home. Pretty good fun, as it rained last night. Lots of mud, got bogged a couple of times. All up 1h 50mins of riding -only 30kms but they are quite challenging kms. The first 20kms took 60mins inc 300m of elevation gain. 50mins for the last 10kms!!! Might have been quicker to carry the bike.
driske: obviously, with the well-known respect and appreciation i have for your online existence, as far as the antagonistic kicking-of-your-rear is concerned, i surfed for names of TKD "moves" as we were on the topic with mopak.
"Weerok" seems to have to do with breaking boards with a kick. But it was not so much the "aggression" connotation that attracted me to use. Onomato-acro-peia was more interesting.
I found it telling, in competitively narrative terms, to settle a kick in your butt with a major run-up, 400m worth, to the we-are-dyrt-team sound of !We Rock!, with a set of moves actually called "weerok" (in japanese i imagine) at least according to wikipedia.
I was hoping mopak, with his field experience might want to confirm the accuracy of the source.
You must have gathered, even if you cant be sure, that my competitive side is somewhat rugby/boxing-like. You can get closer after the fight, if it was a sporting fight. In defeat, maybe more so in defeat, high values values can be preserved, upheld, shared.
Howelse can the fortunate, the talented, the blessed, learn to not be afraid of Victory?
mopak: do you have human neighbors?
-618 to MOARG
today: will i go for a run? endorphines flowing just thinking about it...
ps. driske: how were the FF 50 yards? Gotta say i admire your sense of being gradual...
50 yards in the Vibrams was fine. Quite engagaing actually. Getting them on was more of a challenge than I'd have guessed. My toes seem to have adopted a group mentality. Prying them apart to think independently will take time.
Easy three mi. this AM. Red Tail Hawk and Turkey Vulture soaring high we're my distant companions. Temps in 70's had me sweating profusely.
Got some old Pete Seeger albums. He gives yodeling lessons in one song. Never to early to begin mastering the time honored vocals of the Alps.
weerok to the Shilthorn summit.
Local fun run 10K, about half on trails and half on linking streets. 46:06 on a beautiful warm evening.