NotAustin18, how's your training going??

Who?

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Who?

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I've been doing 50-60 mpw. Hitting some of the best workouts of my life. This season I did a series of races, 3rd place at a 10k on a short course in 34:50(was 5.83 miles so worth 37:00) and 3rd with a 17:48 in a super windy 5k during base, then I won a 5k about a month ago in 17:16 winning by 74 seconds, then I took 3 weeks to get in some good training to prepare for an important half marathon which I won in 1:22:09.

I was tactical in the half marathon, drafted til 3.5 miles then took the lead. It was windy and had some hills. My former HS coach said in ideal weather on a flat course with competition I would have been at least 5 minutes faster. And today I have a 3k. Been getting some nasty side aches the last couple days on my runs, so I hope they don't happen on my race today. Then after that, I take about 2 weeks off. I like this program, I've improved a lot on it, and will keep doing it season after season until I'm ready to move up to the marathon.

Cool man. Good to see you having some great results after a rough start to the year after getting burned out with 100 mile weeks.

What's your current program like? What's a typical week when you're training hard?

NotAustinsFan wrote:

Cool man. Good to see you having some great results after a rough start to the year after getting burned out with 100 mile weeks.

What's your current program like? What's a typical week when you're training hard?

Thanks man. And a typical week in speed phase is:

M- 8 miles and 4 strides

T- speed, alternating weeks between 8-12x200 with 200m recovery jog and 5-9 sets of Loyola Workout (400m fast, 100m jog, 200m faster, 100m walk is 1 set; paces are about 400- goal 1500, 200- goal 800)

W- 10 miles

T- 8 miles and 4 strides

F- tempo 5-6k (next build up I might add more volume here, getting up to 8k of tempo, not sure)

S- 12 miles long run

S- rest day, go to church

Where do you live that such slow times win races?

firsttimeonthisputer wrote:

Where do you live that such slow times win races?

Well the half marathon was fast last year. My goal was top 5, I was really surprised by the win. It felt good to win, but I was like "with so little competition, this win needs an asterisk next to it". Last year some guy ran 1:12 at the half. And there were 2 Ethiopians signed up with 1:06 and 1:12 PRs but they had some problem with their visa or whatever so they didn't show up.

And I live in a small town in Oregon. The thing with most road races here, is that its a crap shoot. It comes down to who shows up. There are races where in a 5k one year you can have 3-4 guys in the 1630s and the next year 1740 will win it. Or at a half I did a couple years ago, winner was 1:09 and the top 4-5 were all sub 1:15, the next year 1:25 won it.