Masters Weekend Runs and Races

WG, Sounds like a nice weekend of running. I took my old retriver out for a long walk yesterday along the Chesapeake..he enjoyed it but is still tired

Geez, that's a hell of a 3x1600. Reminds me of being...30.

Taper week 2 brought me 82 miles, a 3m tempo, and a brief up-tempo track workout (2x200, 2x400, 2x200 with 200 jogs).

2 weeks to go and my body feels young.

OMBTS, agreed, the warm weather in the northeast this weekend was delightful. Good week here. Manageable aches permitted me to rack up 70 miles with some decent quality, the best I've been able to do in quite awhile.

Sat.: 9 with 4 mile AT run, some hill repeats and strides.

Felt smooth and powerful for a change. I may finally be showing some signs of getting faster. It would certainly be long overdue, as I seem to have less to show for hard training than anyone I know.

Sun: About 14 very easy, mostly on wet, muddy trails which kept me from going very fast.

Have a good week fellow masters!

I was visiting my second home of Naples, FL for the last six days and I managed to get in some great running in absolutely perfect weather. Actually, it was perfect for the first four days and then it started heating up big-time (85+ degrees) the last two days. Anyway, I got in 40 miles in 6 days including a couple of quality days. Fortunately, when I returned to the midwest today, it was warm here too - although I'm sure that won't last!

46 miles this week, one fartlek run of 2 miles of 1 min on/off. Ran a 4 mile race today, wanted to run 5:30 pace but just couldn't get rolling. 22:56.

Good weather last couple of days. Was really nice to be running in shorts and singlet. Actually had to hit an aid station today for a cup of water to pour over my head to cool off!!

Hello from freezing San Fran. 50 miles this week w/ my first track workout..4x1200 on Tues & a 8k today 27:32. I think I was the 7th master...have not seen the results yet.

Cold but no rain or snow...the sun came out just in time.

Ran my first race w/ my Ipod Nano..interesting..it didn't help as much as I thought. I run w/ it almost every day but racing needs a bit more focus and concentration and i took away a bit. Heading up to Portland and Seattle for work this week...looking forward to getting on Wildwood again...hopefully not as muddy as last month.

Friday: During the cool down portion of an 8 mile run, just after entering a short trail that finishes close to where I was parked, I noticed two very large wild turkey about 15 feet away. I slowed to watch them and immediately they came after me. I turned and ran. Much to my dismay, they continued their pursuit and had little dificulty keeping up with me. I stopped and tried to scare them off with swinging arms and screaming but they continued to come after me. Again I took off at a full sprint with these gobbling dinosoar descendants continuing to chase me. At this point I was moderately freaked out by what was happening and was having visions of tripping ,falling and then having these large birds peck holes in me. I stopped again for another round of screaming and arm waving, with no success at dicouraging them. Once more I ran another hundred meters or so and finally found an eight foot long tree branch on the ground, which I used to fend these creatures off. It took another 3 minutes of jabbing at them with this tree branch before they finally left me alone. I returned to my car flooded with adrenaline. This was absolutley the most bizzare experience I've ever had while running. Took several hours and a few beers before I calmed down.

Saturday: Two hours on a road bike. All the sprinting and fighting for my body integrity on Friday left me worn out!

Sunday:1 hour running on muddy trails with no wild life encounters!Good week to all.

I had my first Wildwood experience Sat. A very nice trail...

Fri was a half hour in Nisqually, Sat 75: in a certain Portland park and Sun 35: in Discovery Park. Your basic NW tour.

Some very impressive times being laid down by some of you. Keep it up!

ankleosis, what a story !..why do you think they had it in for you ?

After reading some info on the web, I must have encountered them during their "strut". This is when they are competing for females. Apparently my white baseball cap triggered a threat response. It was not pleasant. Its laughable now, but not while I was in it!

Ankleosis...that had me laughing good too. There must be some good headlines that could be created with your story.

Thanks to all of you for your kind comments and motivation tips last week. I managed two runs on the treadmill and felt good. Overall I just think I needed a break, let the new job settle in and get going again. Maybe 3-4 days this week will be good and just build from there. I look at the weight I put on and it just feels horrible and I want to dispose of it.

I too have designs on Italy in '07, I'll be 50, a new punk in the age group.

Brazil was a good experience, those people eat way too much beef though, and I look forward to my return in August.

1500Master

Hi everyone. I had a bit of a down week this past week after a very busy and tiring five weeks or so of both work and running. Ran a beautiful (albeit slow) 15-miler yesterday, however, and felt like my old self. I hope I'm back to the point where I'm rested and ready to go.

Still pointing toward "The Relay" down in California next month. It should be a blast. I'll find out the hard way whether this old body can still recover well enough to run three six miles races over the course of 15 hours or so.

Best to all.

[quote]ankleosis wrote:

Friday: During the cool down portion of an 8 mile run, just after entering a short trail that finishes close to where I was parked, I noticed two very large wild turkey about 15 feet away. I slowed to watch them and immediately they came after me. I turned and ran. Much to my dismay, they continued their pursuit and had little dificulty keeping up with me. I stopped and tried to scare them off with swinging arms and screaming but they continued to come after me. Again I took off at a full sprint with these gobbling dinosoar descendants continuing to chase me. At this point I was moderately freaked out by what was happening and was having visions of tripping ,falling and then having these large birds peck holes in me. I stopped again for another round of screaming and arm waving, with no success at dicouraging them. Once more I ran another hundred meters or so and finally found an eight foot long tree branch on the ground, which I used to fend these creatures off. It took another 3 minutes of jabbing at them with this tree branch before they finally left me alone. I returned to my car flooded with adrenaline. This was absolutley the most bizzare experience I've ever had while running. Took several hours and a few beers before I calmed down.quote]

ankleosis:

Very cool! The turkeys are gettin' too thick! If they had caught you you would have had to ring one's neck to show you ment business!

A so-so week for me. I successfully fought off a case of the cruds early in the week (my daughter was not as successful), then ran an OK 8K with Tim in 27:18 yesterday. My back was a bit sore which kept me from running relaxed and keeping up with the lead masters group.

Debating this week whether to do the Across the Bay 12K this weekend. I've never done it before and would like to run since I'm in good shape, but I'm also tired.

Jeff

1500Master wrote:

Brazil was a good experience, those people eat way too much beef though, and I look forward to my return in August.

1500Master

A good bit of beef won't hurt you. Mind you knock it back with a pint or two. Cheers! RD

djtiki tim wrote:

Ran my first race w/ my Ipod Nano..interesting..it didn't help as much as I thought. I run w/ it almost every day but racing needs a bit more focus and concentration and i took away a bit. Heading up to Portland and Seattle for work this week...looking forward to getting on Wildwood again...hopefully not as muddy as last month.

Tim,

I noticed that. Were you aware that I was coming up behind you? I think you give up one of your key senses if you can't hear someone coming up behind you.

Jeff

Rob Lonergan is the mysterious Canadian who finished first in the 40+ part of St. Patrick's Day Dash yesterday. Remarkably, he's 46!

Tryon , a bit off topic but I wanted to share with you that I bought Dylans blonde on blonde..I had heard most of the the cuts but never sat down and listened to the album as a whole. No wonder its a classic...anyway just wanted to share that with you

So I'm sitting in the waiting room at my chiropractor's office reading this on my phone and I'm laughing my rear end off. Everyone looked at me like I'm crazy!! Great story!