Masters Weekend Runs and Races

134 miles of biking. Did my first run in three months after a 20 mile bike on Saturday and Achilles didn't feel bad. Acupuncture has really helped. After 30 minutes Achilles didn't hurt but I felt it. Amazing how easy the biking is on the legs.

Tapping into slightly faster workouts now in hopes to actually run a quick(er) 5k next month.

50+ miles and some Mtn hiking to boot.

Tue - 5 x 3:00 on trail

Fri - 800/400, 700/300, 600/200 alternating 5k/mile effort, 3:00 between sets

soCal Pete has a new book out.... Something to help understand our aging bodies.

Cheers

Tony

Tony, your name is mentioned in a Deseret News article about Brad Barton. Best of luck with your running.

88 miles for the week, three good workouts, and almost over my cold by the end, though still a bit sluggish Saturday morning.

M 12 (10 in 1:18)

T 12 (12x400 (400j)-73 avg

W 12 (10 in 1:14 (40/34)

Th 12 (a.m. 6M-55; p.m. 6M w/4M TMill tempo in 21:48 (5:30/5:30/5:30/5:18)

F 12 (10 in 1:19)

Sa 14 (13 in 1:27 w/6:22,6:16,5:48,5:46,5:30 along the way)

Su 14 (8.5-1:06; 5.5M-43).

That's a great week of running. Do you take any days off ?

Just getting back into running after 4 years of only the occasional run here or there (injuries, work, kids -- not exactly an original story :-)

Now my 1-year-old daughter has decided to start waking up at 6, which actually works out great, since she's happy to sit in the running stroller and look around. So we hit the road between 6:15 and 6:30 and I can run for an hour or more without throwing our normal morning routine off by much.

Mon - 5.5

Tue - 5

Wed - 7.75

Thu - 6.25

Fri - 9

Sat - 7.25

Sun - 11.25 -> 52 for the week

All runs just easy running with the stroller. I'm hoping to put together a month or two of just regular running before starting to do anything faster.

Thanks, Old Man by the Sea. It is good to get some hard training in at this time of year when it is like Mombasa every day. I used to take days off when I was sick or the day before a race, but with the former I just got out of shape and didn't get healthy faster and with the latter, I read that it was supposedly not helpful. I do take days off with some injuries if it will help, though some of them just require strengthening exercises, rather than rest. But with very inconsistent sleep at night with the kids always waking up, I have to get in a nap most days to help recover.

Maurits, enjoy the stroller running. I've probably put in 15 to 20 miles per week with the stroller for a good portion of the last seven years now and if you have a hilly route it might even help, but at least you can fit that in with childcare and eventually they can run alongside the stroller for parts of the trips to parks and the like and just get in the stroller for naps.

Northwest Master wrote:

soCal Pete has a new book out.... Something to help understand our aging bodies.

Cheers

Tony

since you mentioned it tony, here's pete's new website/blog helping promote the book. as it happens, today i'm featured as a guest blogger; read, or don't read, at your leisure:

Thanks for that blog post, which hits it right on the head, and nice reference to George Kersh. Pearl, Mississippi is a place I have heard about in exactly this one context. I believe he broke the very old record set maybe by a Pete Richardson from Berkeley High, who'd run 1:47.

Like it Cush. Although I think you summed up the "secret" in just a few words . . . "a regular dose of suffering."

Cheers to all the other masters out there who are still getting after it.

Socal, Good stuff. I'm just entering the world of road biking and there are plenty of butt kickers on so called crappy bikes but I liked the comments on what makes a good runner. Not so sure about discounting diet though..I bet the farm boy's food was of higher quality or maybe even real food as compared to today's processed food. But I get your point and we need to keep that in mind and not over think this. Thanks for sharing.

90 minute bike ride

30 minute run

ombts, in actuality, i take diet very seriously, and always have (at least since my senior year in college, which, as it happens, coincided with me starting to run fast), so i'm guilty of hyperbole to make a point. probably over 250 days/year when i was competing back in the day, and maybe close to 180 days/year even now, i have the same breakfast bowl of cereal (grape nuts, whole oats, raisins, banana, wheat germ, chopped almonds, chopped pecans, miscellaneous fruit) and tuna fish sandwich/carrots/sea weed for lunch. besides nutritional value, i wanted predictability--i never wanted to have a bad day of training because of what i ate, and i never did (my coach would not have allowed me to have an excuse, anyway). also, in my open days, i was a vegetarian (though i ate eggs, fish, and dairy), and never ate fast food...

Socal, I zoned in on predictability as another reason to eat right. I've ruined a few training days because I tried this or that for lunch. I'm really liking my training right now and I really have to watch my diet. Thanks again for sharing.