Masters weekend runs and races....

As I'm about two weekes behind in posting, I'll take the early bait...

Traveling around Oregon this week with my wife and dog...stopped in Coos Bay to see Prefontaine's hometown permanent exhibit at their downtown art museum...all of his hardware on display from Sunkist MVP to USA vs USSR to NCAAs to AAUs etc...cool old memorable photos and even an old pair of Puma (yes, Puma) spikes...blue kangaroo skins...musta been HS or early college days...really a "must do" stop by for an old Pre fan.

Been in Bend the last few days and what an absolutely remarkable trail running town...Laura Fritz took us on a 10 miler along the Deschutes that was one of my favorite runs in the past decade...wow!

As good as the Oregon running is, their microwbrews surely keep equal pace...here's to a great end to summer.

MF

microbrews, trail runs, bike 100 milers -- great stuff to start us off.

no travel adventures for me this week but I had a fun week in terms of running -- cut back mileage to 55 with key workouts being....

5 X 1200 (400 jog) sunday averaging 3:58

2 X 5000 (3:00) weds. at 10-mile race pace (intended 18:00, actual 18:02/17:48).

First tuneup race of this 10k training cycle is a 5k next saturday that I ran in 17:05 last year. If Ritz can break 13, I should be able to break 17. From my pacing on the 1200 repeats I think I can definitely do it if they take a bulldozer to the hills on the course, plus allow me to take a 400 jog timeout when needed.

have a great week.

finally feeling like a runner again! however, it's been a little difficult running in the smoke. the town i teach in has been evacuating (to my school's gym) due to the fires that have surrounded it--it sits against the foothills (just north of the pasadena area)of the angeles national forest. our first day of school begins tomorrow though it's probable we'll be postponed due to the many families who have been displaced from their homes.

anyway, i've managed to get back to training full-time now with the goal of racing at clubs with my new team. keeping my fingers crossed that my pf doesn't flair up too badly.

Driske, it's a beautiful weekend for running isn't it? Feels like October. I saw JP yesterday. There was a Mt Horeb HS alumni run. I didn't run. I went to the same high school as " me and my watch ", but I graduated before he came on the scene and led Berlin to state. Anyway, JP is pretty fast for an older guy, but not as old as us. I new he ran marathons and such but didn't know how fast he was. He beat all the high school kids except one and came in about fifth. My sons took first and second which was nice. I ran pretty hard this past week. Did 6.5 miles on Mon,Tues, and Wed. Yesterday I did some hills and I was running past a hobby farm and I saw a cow eating grass and a full grown llama sucking on it. To make sure I wasn't endorphin drunk I stopped and made a loud calf noise and they both stopped and looked at me. That llama was taller than me. Never saw anything like that before. Geez.

Entertaining reading gentleman. Wish I'd come around the corner when you were making your "calf" noises Top Cat....

Decent week for me. I actually felt like myself on several runs. Had a decent 10 mile threshold run late in the week, and just finished up with 22 this morning. Have gotten my mind wrapped around the reality of just making the most of the next several weeks and making the best out of the situation, which seems to alleviate some stress.

Was great fun to watch Ritz run, I'd missed the start and kept wondering who the white guy was back there, fun stuff for sure.

Hope everyone has a healthy, good week.

Way too hot and humid for me. I love North Carolina's coast but August is too hot. Had a couple of good workouts with spinning and a run afterwards but the work week was crazy. Will try and run more this coming week. Next week I will be in Asheville for work and it should be much cooler. A run outside perhaps ?Maybe its my age but the sun and I just don't get along.

It was a very typical Bay Area August week of running, temps ranged between 57 and 97 degrees. I still haven't been able to run hard due to PF. Been slogging most of the miles, I might have to consider (PF) surgery over the winter, but it's been holding steady so I will try to hang on to mainly easy runs until the dark of winter arrives.

Coaching, OTOH, is going extremely well. Lots of good stuff going on in that regard.

62 miles this week with a solid 1000 meter workout on Wed and a nice long run on Sat of 16 miles.

Body is feeling the efforts, and I'm not recovering as well as I want to. Like skin I have October racing to do!

On a down note, San Antonio was in the running news due to one of our local Olympians testing positive, admitting to, and subsequently receiving a 2 year ban for the use of EPO. Not only are we all very disappointed in this lady, as she is a friend to many of us, but now many of us have to answer a lot of questions from the media. After one of my young female marathoners told me someone asked her if all the female runners from our location did this, I realized that I may also have to defend any performances of my female distance runners this fall. I have 4 that are very talented but relative novices to not only marathons but competitive running as well. All I can do is keep working them hard and take on each challenge as it comes.

Really good week for me. Hit 72 miles, which was the first time I've been over 70 as a masters guy. Really good mix of workouts, highlights including 20 x 400 w/ 100 jog on Tuesday; 6 x 400 meter hill reps on Friday and a nice easy 14 miler yesterday. Felt really good on all my runs though I've been fighting off a minor cold. Go Ritz!

Hi all. Long time no post! I have been riding and racing my mountain bikes all summer, with maybe 3 runs per month; plan to get into a running groove again in the late fall, then gear up for the 100th Dipsea run next winter/spring. Good to see the usual suspects are still keeping the hammer down. Cheers.

Good afternoon ~

Just got back home from an incredibly relaxing weekend up at Fairhaven, WA. BEA-U-TI-FUL. Celebrated our 20th anniversary with massages, good wine, in a nice part of the PNW.

Put up a great week of base training this week with 95 miles on 13 runs. Managed at least a 10 miler each day with a short shake-out jaunt for core work in the evenings. Only one workout where I pushed some to "feel" light again.

Weds 12 x 400 w/:60 sec rest (:72) ~ could have kept going but went for beers instead. I love Summer workouts.

Ritz's 5k was very special this week and should really open the door for some more youngsters to break thru.

Cheers ~

ty

Hi All,

Had a horrible half marathon about a week ago, so decided to pitch the idea of a fall marathon. The result on my body was the most amazing week of training i've had in months. A solid 70, with some good cut down runs, a fun 5k, and a solid long run.

hope all are well. i'm running the lewis & clark half marathon in a few weeks with my older sister; it'll be her first. I'm jazzed.

Five of us did our Mt. Hood circumnavigation yesterday, and had a fantastic time. 40.5 miles, with 10,000 feet of climbing and 10,000 feet of descending. We didn't know this at the time, but we were being chased all day. Max King and a friend of his ran us down in the last few miles, after having given us a 2.5 hour head start. Oh well. As my friend Richard said, Max has made "road kill" out of far better runners than us.

Now I'll give myself a few days to recover (my quads are beat up). Then I'll see whether I can introduce any "speed" into my routine.

Tryon, I thought of you while listening to this radio station WNCW. You might like the Thursday night Dead show.

I'm enjoying the cool weather here in Michigan, but those of you who have been laboring in the heat will probably be tougher for it! Had an uneventful but good week of running; avoided speedwork after last week's hard effort at the Crim 10-mile. My best runs were 7 miles Thursday night in rain & darkness, and a 23-miler Saturday that put me over 100 for the week. Took it easy today, running just enough to make sure everything still works.

I will be headed to Buffalo for the Masters 15K on Labor Day. Maybe I'll see a few of you there!

60 miles in 6 days with some doubles and a long one of 14

Tigger is back with

Continuing with my Fall base rebuilding with an 84 mile week. Best run of the week was a 6 mile tempo at sub HM pace on Thursday. I'll back it down a bit this week to try get my legs back for a Labor Day 15K.

Stay healthy everyone!

Dave

Great racing there in Mt. Horeb. Congrats to your sons on their one-two punch.

JP is really quite a guy when you think about it. Running the mag, raising children, and going aerobic on foot,skiis, and bike. Trade shows and competitions across the Midwest. He manages an awesome balancing act, and still maintains a sense of humor and friendly demeanor.

About that llama; it adds to their reputation of being opportunistic. I never turn my back to ours.

"me and my watch"=MH??

No race for me this weekend. Decent week of training all-in-all. 40 total miles run. 2 swim outings, and a 3 hour road bike ride on the Mountain Bay Trail with the Bride.

Core work at the woodpile seems to be helping hamstring health and strength.

Got to get to the track at least once this week to offset all the relaxed trail miles. 5K upcoming this Friday night.

There will be some age group axes being ground.

Glad for Ritz's Golden run. 3 Cheers.

Wasn't much for heat this summer; maybe 2009 will go down as the year we cheeseheads were granted a double dose of Autumn.

Good luck to all those getting buff for the fall races.

No workouts this week after a half marathon last weekend, but I finally got outside to do my runs. My back held up well as I got in 56 miles.

There is a small state park right at the edge of town that had close to 3 miles of single track trail. I have been running there for 30 years. A few years ago, they cleared some horse trails in the back and connected them to the single track. In no time the horses had rutted up ALL the trails making them unusable for running. Now, five or six years later very few people are riding their horses on the trails. I now have about five miles of great trail to run on!!