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Week 171
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Warmest Regards, my fellow 50+ grandmasters. The weather has turned for the better this week; it’s been absolutely gorgeous. Managed about 39 miles on 6 days of running. The log reads as such:
Sun: 5 easy
Mon: 4.1 easyish (7:38 pace)
Tue: 7.2 w/5x800+1x400 (259.302,301,259,258,82) 1 lap jog recovery (2:30-2:35)
Wed: off
Thur: 4.7 w/progressive 1st 3. (733,643,604)
Fri: 7.2 easy
Sat: 10.5 steady, easyish (7:51 avg pace)
I think I probably could have stood to inject a little more pace for the week, but Saturday’s long, steady, comfortable run was just feeling too good. Was mostly happy with Tuesday’s track workout; although I was meant to do a second hard 400. I could tell I was mostly spent after the first one, and I’ve been trying to err on the side of caution these days, and not do “that last one” if I think it’ll fully deplete me. Thursday I was trying out some new shoes (Altra Torin), and just wanted to vary the pace a bit to see how they felt. I ended up just continuing to increase the speed until I was beyond current 5k race pace, took a few minutes rest before finishing off the run at easy pace. I generally liked the shoes, by the way. I was looking for a cushioned ride in a flat profile shoe, the roomy toe box and low heel cup agreed with my feet….they are probably a little stiff for some (good for my arthritic big toes.) I’ll let you know if I still like them after a few more runs. I’m not going to do this regularly, but here are the Garmin readouts for Thursday’s and Saturday’s runs.
Thur:
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/588328416
(note the steady increase in my HR)
Sat:
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/589344156
There is something weird with the elevation calculation.: On my home Garmin program, it says there was about 1400 ft of elevation gain for Sat’s run (I know that’s an overestimate), and I’ve checked against RunningAhead, which states that this run has an elevation gain of about 900 ft. I can guarantee this hilly course has more than 500 ft of total elevation gains. Anyone else notice inconsistencies in how elevation is computed?
At any rate, generally happy with the week, hope yours has been as enjoyable. I’ll try to ease back over 40 miles for this coming week.
Missing Alan Bennet’s posts; hope you are well, my friend.
Quote for this week: “My Manchester streak is not a record, and I'm not particularly fast these days. I know many runners my age who are faster, damn them. I don't feel special in any way. Maybe just a little stubborn.
But proud? Yes, I'll cop to that. Because my 50 years at Manchester represent an ethic of sorts. It's what runners do: We keep on keeping on.” –Amby Burfoot,
Cheers!