Yes Muddy Girl. Am thinking about Bend. Why not, right? And you?
Yes Muddy Girl. Am thinking about Bend. Why not, right? And you?
I don't know. I'm certainly not in very good shape -- but how hard could it be to qualify for the national one? I'm a maybe.
Mon. An hour paddling.
Tue. 12 km run, with 3 pickup kms during 5 on the trotting track, they weren't quick just 4.27, 4.18 and 4.13 which is probably (sadly) about 5 km pace at the moment.
Wed. 12 km up on the rugged hill trails pretty steady in about 1.18 about 400 m of elev. gain.
Thu. 28 km trail riding on the mtb in about 1.30.
Fri. 32 km trail riding in about 1.40.
Sat. An hour paddle on the lake then off to the forest for a 6.5 km club run on the trails. Solid run given where my fitness is at, low 28 min. 12 km total for day.
Sun. Club 6.5 km trail race in the forest, tougher course than yesterday's.
Got into a good battle over the 2d half and ran right on 28 mins. I broke 26 here 2 years ago so not fast but it was the first time in a while that I felt I had pushed all the way. Probably worth a minute faster than the previous day.
All up about 12 km for the day.
Mon. Public holiday here. Some of my crew had decided to tackle Mt Juliet. I used to "run" this track often as a young fella and always told my mate Greg it was the toughest of my trails. Greg after all these years finally decided to experience it for himself.
4 of us tackled it. 4.5 km in length and 900 metres of direct elevation gain. The first km is pretty flat, it then climbs gradually then from 3 km to 4 km 450 metres is gained, that means hands are required, they wondered why I was wearing gloves! This part of the track is barely touched by sunlight, always wet and slippery with lots of deep mulch on it. We reached the top in 1.06.. The descent quickly became hilarious as we all fell over numerous times. Eventually one of the guys gave up on doing it upright and slid past us on his backside. We all followed suit to try and keep up with him.
Eventually we got back to a more orthodox upright method on the less steep sections.
The guys all agreed that metre for metre this was the toughest trail about. A great way to spend a sunny winters morning.
Hopefully, I am getting a little more common sense as I get older. I largely took the past week off after last weekend's 1/2 marathon. I did not exercise last Monday or Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday I walked a couple of miles each day. Friday my wife and I drove up to Northern California to see one of our sons, and I did a very easy 40 minute run with him on Sunday. This week I will build back to my regular mileage and see how things go.
Greetings fellow mid-centurians! Things got a little busy here on the home front, so I missed posting last week.
Ditto on the sore left knee...hmmmmm. Been icing, wrapping, stretching quad. Feel like it is slowly improving. Needless to say, my 5K training I was attempting had to be sidelined for another 2 weeks. But been able to steadily increased slow mileage with no problems this week. I am working out with my training group again, so it may be that I wasn't quite as fit as last year and putting some added stress on body parts that aren't quite ready for it.
Mon: am - 6 mi with training group pm - 4 mi easy
Tues: 9 mi easy
Wed. 6 mi with training group
Thurs: am - 11 mi easy pm - 5K summer series (kickoff race for the season. We meet every Thursday night. 4 ladies are hitting 50 this year and they are all shooting for sub 20 minute 5K times. Yikes! I think I did a 21:51 and was fully done at the finish.
Fri: a.m. easy 3 miler (very tired)
Sat: 12 mi with 3 mi progression ending at 7;45
Sun: 8 mi
So 60+ for the week with only a slight knee twinge. Will see if I can do one of the 5K training runs this week and see what happens.
Glad to see many of the posters are back running, racing. Congrats on the half times posted last week. I only dream of those times....
Last Tuesday's Corp Challenge 1 mile was windy and warm and humid, lovely conditions. Ran a 7:16.4, for 11th in age group, on no speedwork. About what I expected for time, and wasn't too bad, since I went through the 800 in 3:39. 10th place was 4+ seconds in front. Had 44 men in the race, since they combined 60 and 65 age groups. This was about what I expected for myself, interesting that I ran a 6:08 mile 13 years ago for it, and my best mile ever was 30 years ago with a 5:17, though that was indoors.
Happily, my wife is able to run some, and has done 2 x 1 mile now with 0.05 mile walks, then some halves or 3/4 mile, so her slow recovery from adrenal fatigue is going well.
Congrats on the 8 miler, Ken, and the speedwork KP. Would love to be in Oregon right now for NCAA's.
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Week 158
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Salutations, 50+er's. And best wishes on this Father's Day to all you dads out there. Hope that you all get to spend the day with those nearest and dearest to you. Lost my dad 18 years ago to pancreatic cancer; it's hard for me to fathom that I am now only 8 years away from the age at which he passed. Life is precious.
Although it didn't start out very promising, it worked into a productive week. Managed a record (since last July, at least) 38 miles on 5 days of running. The log reads as such:
Sun: 6.3 easy-ish w/1.3 additional run 50-steps/walking 50-steps
Mon: no running, but walked 7 miles in two stints
Tues: off
Wed: 6.1 miles w/ 6x(2 laps "on", 1 lap "off")
Thur: 6.1 easy-to-moderate w/1@6:40
Fri: 5.3 easy-to-moderate
Sat: 14 easy
As I indicated last week, my back was giving me some issues upon returning from North Carolina.....and yes, KP, it was a marvelous adventure to the beach! Sunday, I did some run/walk to see how it would feel as I made my way down to the club's group run; then I thought I'd probably run a little with the club and stop to walk as necessary, but somehow managed to finish up the whole 5-miles and even jog back home. Probably wasn't the smartest move, as Monday it felt worse, so I spent the day walking instead. Still not great, so I opted to just rest it Tuesday, which seemed to do the trick, as the back was feeling much better by Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday's track workout was the most I've done since last summer. The 2 lappers were all around 2:56-2:58 (or about 6:16-6:20/mile pace on this goofy track)---they felt easy at first, but I was pretty well spent by the end. Last year at this time, I was doing similar intervals @2:38....so I'm about 40s/mile slower, which is consistent with the two 5k's I ran earlier this spring (I'm sure my running form has been tweaked to accomodate my abdominal issues; we'll see how much speed ever returns under this "new normal". Losing the added weight will account for about half the difference.) After a couple more days of easy-to-moderate running, went long yesterday. It was an absolutely gorgeous morning (mid-50's, low humidity, no wind), and with several people that were trying to marathon-pace at around 8:00-8:10, it was perfect for me to hold back and run a little easier. The ideal conditions and the glistening morning dew on the horse farms made for a most pastoral setting. I hadn't planned on running 14, but my exuberance got the best of me. I did start to cramp up on mile 13, but thankfully, mile 14 was mostly downhill back to my car. I'm a little sore this morning, so once again, we'll see whether or not I can make it to group run later this evening.
I'm real encouraged by my week, and I gain inspiration from you all (Spikez, WOC, MikeL, Gretehund--nice job on those races the other week) Dave, glad you feel that you've turned the corner...OGII, hope the same will happen for you. AK has been a machine up in Alaska, and good to see most everyone else logging productive miles. MG, hope you find the right shoe to replace your Ronins....I have a few friends that run a lot of trails, and they really like their Inov-8's. And Saucony A5's are dirt cheap right now on Running Warehouse:
http://www.runningwarehouse.com/Saucony_Type_A5/descpageWRS-STYP5W5.html
, especially if you apply the added 15% discount code FB15D.
OK, I hope everyone else is doing well. And for more encouragement, here is an article on a trail-blazing 91-year old woman:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/06/01/4948073/charlotte-woman-91-sets-marathon.html
Any races to report?
Cheers!
Happy Father's Day to you all. Mine passed in September after a battle with Alzheimer's plus just wearing out.
Not sure what the family has planned but as long as I have my little girl and wife around, I am a happy father.
Same story this week, all treadmill. Today will change and there will be some track time. Day 170 of this streak.
Looking forward to racing Saturday, 1 mile on the track.
Have a great week!
Happy Father's Day y'all.
My Dad is declining rapidly with Alzheimers. He's in a hospice place at St Simons Island GA. I just called him and took away a Father's Day gift for me... just hearing his voice, in & out knowing who I was was good enough for me, and a few I love you's. take cares & I'll call you back was terrific.
Had the crud like I'm a 2 pack-a-day smoker this week so had to rest for 3 days. Planning a Sr Games outing next Saturday if for anything an organized fun run on a mondo track. Why not, right? After this its back to base miles and tempo work for the months leading up to XC.
KP
Week 157: 2 hours 4 minutes in 3 runs.
Week 158: 1 hour 5 minutes in 1 run.
Gonna tell you a story, bout the chair-sittin blues.
I came home from yoga one particular evening, and had to admit that my back was killing me. And, the pain was on the left side, where I've never had trouble before. What the? Let's try moderate exercise... Ineffective. How about rest? How about more rest? How about 12 straight hours in bed? Hey that sort-of worked! Oops, only temporary relief. When you have subtracted all "activity" from your life and you are still worsening, it's time to conclude that the problem was never the "activity".
So I got up from my work chair on Thursday night and, as always recently, the first few steps had me hobbling as I worked out the kink in my back. There you go. On 22 May a bunch of us switched cubicles, and in the process I got a different style of chair. I hesitated briefly over the chair switch, but in a quick test it seemed comfortable enough, and I promptly forgot all about it. On 4 June I "hurt my back doing yoga", and all my detective work had been based on the assumption that my troubles started there and then.
Needless to say, I found a different chair in an empty cubicle and made the swap pronto. One day in the newish chair is too soon for a definitive conclusion. But it's dramatically better. The pain went from Thursday's 5 to just a 2 on Friday, with no hobbling whenever I got up from the chair. We're at 0.5 today, life is good again.
Both the Thursday and Friday chairs are expensive models from the same manufacturer. The Thursday chair is heavily padded, maybe one of the cushions was lightly pressing my back in exactly the wrong spot, maybe I had the back panel adjusted wrong. The Friday chair is an unpadded mesh model, and actually seems "less comfortable" than the Thursday chair. Just goes to show ya, what we like in the short run and what works in the long run is not necessarily the same thing.
Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!
I ran in a state senior meet yesterday and it went quite well. I totally sizzled in the 50 meters and kicked that race in the butt, but unfortunately I had a severe sugar drop before the 100m and was feeling light headed and shaky before that race. I had forgotten my gummy bears; oh no! I chugged a little sports drink to stabilize my blood sugar. A friend of mine said I was still shaking in the blocks but I managed to hold it together to run a not spectacular but still decent time. That's the benefit of your races lasting about 13 seconds! Lesson learned: don't forget the candy for the next meet.
So anyway, I'm pleased with my racing progression so far. Nothing is hurting and although I'm not as fast as I was in previous years I continue to make progress each week.
Enjoy your "Dad's Day" and your week ahead!
Long time no post... doesn't necessarily mean long time no run ;)
Things just ain't been the same since prostate surgery but finally seem to be making a little headway.
Good news is that I managed to scratch out a blistering 11:59 3,000 meters last weekend...at age 58 they age grade that to 74.71%...I'll take it.
In other news, I had to bury my very best friend this weekend...he was a 4:16 miler at age 43...teammate, roommate, best man in my wedding and I in his...damn bone cancer...lest ye forget, in the words of another cancer victim, Warren Zevon, "Enjoy Every Sandwich"
Intending to race our regional championships one mile in 4 weeks time...then perhaps an 800/1500 double at a Seniors Games track meet two weeks thereafter...nothing but age group maintenance mode until age 60 and World Masters T&F Championships in Perth as a newly minted sexagenarian...sounds nasty but just means one is really really old!
KP good luck at the Bend meet next weekend...see you in Sacramento for USATFs in a couple weeks?...I'm buying the beers Thursday night following the 10,000s BTW
Train don't strain,
MF
MF,
If you're going to post, then so am I! Good to hear from you on the old guys thread. I like hearing the word 'race' in your post.
My week went as planned; 3 steady efforts at 5:40 pace (4-5 miles) and a long run Saturday. I got to see the gals hammer around Central Park and see Huddle win. That was cool And one of my athletes (that I coach) ran, and won, the Adidas Dream Mile in 4:02. So the week was good but the weekend was GREAT!
All for now. Happy Father's Day to all!
Grant Fisher Grand Blanc, MI 4:02.2 ....16th fastest EVER high school mile...congrats Skin...that is just awesome...oh, and Happy Father's Day!!
59 for the week. Tired most of the week but got in a good tempo on Wed, with 5 miles at about 6:05 pace. Plus some mile pace work on Friday, that wasn't so much fun, but got it done. Four good trail runs too.
Another week of running when it felt right and as much as felt right after the 1/2M two weeks ago. Tuesday 8 miles steady at 9:00ish pace, Wednesday I felt too exhausted to run, Thursday 4 at 9:00 pace, Friday 4 at 9:00 pace, Saturday 6 at 8:00 pace with son and d-in-law, and starting to feel kind of normal again. That's 22 for the week I believe. Today, no running, afternoon wine, cheese and other tasty but unhealthy food treats. My dad was a pretty good athlete who started smoking in WWII, and died of a heart attack shortly after he turned 50. I have tried to learn from all the good things that he taught me and from the bad habits that took his life way too soon. I have had the privilege of seeing my grandchildren and already 16 more years with my sons than I had with my dad. Every day is precious. Happy Father's day to all of us dads!
Happy FD, ran a 5k today, 19:53, last sat 5k 19:42, first time to break 20 since I had to take a year off 3 years ago.
Never say die.
Btw, nice to see this thread I started still going strong. It's in much better hands now. I never could have kept it up. A good idea though.
skinnbones wrote:
And one of my athletes (that I coach) ran, and won, the Adidas Dream Mile in 4:02.
Skin... That's got to be exciting for you. He obviously has a good coach!
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Things getting much better here though I'm still not feeling like I was 3 months ago...So is this just the way old people feel?!
Managed 57 mostly pain free miles. My little 2 mi T run on Tuesday went 601/554, did 6x400 avg 79.6 on Thur, then 16 at 7:11 pace on Sat. Everything else easy runs. Still feel the heal & hamstring every now-and-then...nothing too bad though and no real pain.
Probably do more of the same this week. The harder stuff should start feeling better in a few weeks...
All the Best,
Dave
MikeF; 60 is "really, really old" (?), I know you speak tongue in cheek, but ow! I turned 63 last month. It is a bit harder to get the miles in (30 for this most recent week in 4 hours and 51 minutes), but, as my wife said yesterday "it's not walking". Don't know how often I can run 40 miles/week any more, though I think it'd help my 1/2 marathon time if I can handle it.
It's a month of rebuilding here, runs on hills instead of avoiding them and prepare for the summer heat and humidity that is slowly arriving. Has been an awesome spring.
Great races at NCAA's, jealous of those that were there to enjoy it all!
Happy belated Fathers Day. It was a lovely day - all the kids stopped by and we just hung out and visited.
Here is last week:
Mon: 8 mi easy (storms in am so training group canceled)
Tues: 8 mi easy
Wed: am - 6 mi with training group; pm - 4 mi
Thurs: am - 2 mi (lots of lightning so our run was rudely interrupted as we scattered for shelter); pm - 5K race at 21:14 (5K series every Thurs from June - Aug - HOT, HOT, HOT)
Fri: 4 mi
Sat: 12 mi with 4 mi progression ending at 7:36 mi
Sun: 6 mi easy
I'm feeling much stronger and knees/ankle not bothering me any more. Lots of stretching, icing seemed to help.
Heading to Colorado Springs this weekend - all our kids will join us for hiking, running, climbing the Manitou Incline, and other fun outdoorsy stuff. Can't wait. One thing I always notice on vacations -stiffness and soreness in my back that I have contended with all my working life really subsides. I always attribute it to being active most of the day (oh, and no stress probably helps too!)
I'll post when I get back from vacation....if I come back.....
Best to all!
Des Linden: "The entire sport" has changed since she first started running Boston.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Ryan Eiler, 3rd American man at Boston, almost out of nowhere
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
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