Henry Rono training for masters mile record. PART II

My earlier post, since deleted was a reply to Rono's 360 minute run up the Mtn.

I said, "Rono you are blowing my mind" ...and "I better not miss tonight's run".

As it turns out, feeling completely tired, I went out for a run anwyay. How could one not...

To Dr. Exag.

Out of 360 minutes,I physically ran 90 minutes the rest was walking,so don't fool your self.That is what I need anyway.You know I was there the day before,but I ran 90 minutes,but it was late afternoon.Yesturday,I started at 9am and finished at 3pm.All day walking as everyone else were doing it.

I met most people walking with pack-bags in it were carrying food and water very smart,and once in while they could jog up and they were soarking sweats every time they make a step.I was soarking too,the sweat comes out of my body in La Luz trail is not the same as running in the lower altitude,it is really coming-out of my bones,not from muscles.That is why I say earlier my hips bones are wracked.

Walking up there is enough to called it a big day for training.Today I'm still rising up my body still rising from this morning aches and pains are coming-out new,perhaps sometimes today,I will wheel my body to the academy track in the evening.Once I'm ready.

Henry

To Dr. Exag.

Out of 360 minutes,I physically ran 90 minutes the rest was walking,so don't fool your self.That is what I need anyway.You know I was there the day before,but I ran 90 minutes,but it was late afternoon.Yesturday,I started at 9am and finished at 3pm.All day walking as everyone else were doing it.

I met most people walking with pack-bags in it were carrying food and water very smart,and once in while they could jog up and they were soarking sweats every time they make a step.I was soarking too,the sweat comes out of my body in La Luz trail is not the same as running in the lower altitude,it is really coming-out of my bones,not from muscles.That is why I say earlier my hips bones are wracked.

Walking up there is enough to called it a big day for training.Today I'm still rising up my body still rising from this morning aches and pains are coming-out new,perhaps sometimes today,I will wheel my body to the academy track in the evening.Once I'm ready.

Henry

You, sir, are an amazing character.

Henry:

I find, as I try to lose 40 lbs., like you and get back to competitive, Masters racing, sometime next year; that although it makes me 'feel good' to think about those years in the 70's and 80's, when I was running everything from a 404 mile to a 218 marathon; before retiring and not doing much throughout the late 80s and all of the 90's, that if I try to compare myself today, with the 140 lb. guy who was running 100 to 120 miles per week with the middle aged slob who has a heart rate of 160 now, just jogging; it is very discouraging and makes me want to quit. It seems like such a long way back. I guess I have to stop comparing the past and present, otherwise I will just be unhappy with things, as I will never measure up to those days, now at age 56. Your positive attitude as you make the same, tortuous journey is indeed, inspiring.

(ps...I beat your old teammate, Josh Kimeto in an indoor 2 mile, back in the 70s...but, to be fair, he ran the first mile in 405 before jogging in around 8:45...lol....otherwise, with an even paced race, he would have won, no doubt. He ran crazy!)

To 70's old timer,

You did beat Joshua,Kimeto,then you are an elite runner.If you are,then you owe us an in-put.It is time to get-up and think about it before you kick your blanket away early in the morning and start jogging,as I have remind my self lately to do so.

Renew your mind if want to as I do on my daily basis nowdays and life is great!You may feel up-tight by abanding your blanket early in the morning but it is worth-while.You get your new thinking.You get your new muscles.You get your new plans.You get your new money and life is worth living.What else do you need?

Henry

Well said, Henry. Makes me want to work less and run more. Currently, I'm working long hours and not training. Gaining wait and losing conditioning fast. How long does it take to get from 160# to 200#? :)

Henry:

thanks for the compliment, but I was hardly an elite runner. I was a good runner who happened to beat an elite runner (Kimeto), one time because he took off at a suicidal pace that not even he could sustain...lol). But, I guess what I was asking or getting at, was how do you use your "glory days" to motivate you today, instead of those younger days depressing you? (compared to now)....or is it best to think as a 'new person' today, in July of 2006 and leave the past behind?

To webby,

Webby get your body in shape first,and work later.You don't know American way? It is a good habit.Me first and you later.That is the spirit of running is.Webby once you meet your right weight which is called proportional working weights, then you work with the proper weight and do proper maintainence. Don't let it get out-of control again.This is the weight we are doing about.

Look at me,I lost control of my weight and guess what,I could also lose my job too because my health is out of order.So I need my athletic weight for my job to be perfect.I can handle work well,everything in life and occassionally master mile record.

How is that sound?

Do you know what is running do to my life?

Henry

To Seidel,

Look Seidel!You are doing it to your self.Abanding your blanket in the morning is not abscene and started jogging make sure it is grandy pace right! And let me know later.

Be patient and take the way of me first and then you know,I'm not making you lazy.

Henry

It is hard to abandon the blanket but once you start running early in the morning, it feels great then and for the rest of the day.

I'm in Tokyo for the week and out the hotel door at 4:45 each morning for an hour run. This is after a night of late dinners and being entertained. It hurts, but there is no option...except to not run....which is not an option.

We all know how difficult it is to balance work and running which makes early morning the best option. How many times does the days events start reducing the afternoon/evening run time? Too many. With AM running, we can control our lives better.

With the weight loss, it sure feels good as the body transforms the fat into muscle. We don't see it right away during the transormation, but once it becomes evident, what a feeling. Like Henry stated, once we get away from the gross feeling of being in poor shape, you never want that again.

We are all runners and have known what it is like to be in perfect condition and fortunately, we know the path back.

1500Master

To 70's old timer

"how do you use your "glory days" to motivate you today, instead of those younger days depressing you? (compared to now)....or is it best to think as a 'new person' today, in July of 2006 and leave the past behind?"

It is easy for me,Looking back the mistakes I did in running I can make correction now.That is why I have motivation now.I see what today runners do and mistakes they encounter in the running world.I'm taking this opportunity to rise up and show the road I should have taken when I was young runner.I don't regret though,I did a good job,however,I let myself down by taking running with the wrong road of alcoholism.I don't fear to talk about it,because it is behind me.It is also written in the book loud and clearly.

Coming back with your opponent Kimeto. Kimeto always runs like a nut case, so to say.That is why you ended up collecting him when he was already a sanwich.I knew him what he was doing so I alway let him do his thing and I pick him-up later before the race was over.He was basically a rabbit so to speak.

I'm very excited with my training and I want to use all-the experiences in my life and channel them into the mile race and you will see it in times come.I feel like a new person every-day and to talk about the past it doesn't hurt me at this age.It takes a long time though to talk about it,but it is good to turn it into a book and I can sell it,you can read it."The Olympic Dream"

Thank you and have a nice night.

Henry

To 1500Master

"we know the path back.it sure feels good as the body transforms the fat into muscle"

The above info, it is encouraging and motivates me.

Henry

Your book will be a big seller, I predict. Sell it in all the running magazines and running websites as well as the regular book stores. My friends and I will all buy it. I want to read the "Men of Oregon" by Kenny Moore. I think it comes out this fall? All my life I have purchased the biographies of running stars, starting back with Peter Snell and Jim Ryun, in the 60's, when I was a kid and through the 70's, when Runners World put out those thin, paperback biograhies, like Gerry Lindgren and Frank Shorter, and of course Pre! (sorry for my nickname...you were the real mr. 3000, with your world record! my teammates started calling me that as a joke, to bug me, when I was in college when I won the conference indoor 3000m, in 8:12...a big joke compared to your time...lol).

Henry, would Senior Citizens benefit by walking for the duration of time you are training for daily?

mr. 3000 wrote:

Your book will be a big seller, I predict. Sell it in all the running magazines and running websites as well as the regular book stores. My friends and I will all buy it. I want to read the "Men of Oregon" by Kenny Moore. I think it comes out this fall?

It's available now. Just finished it. Unbelievable book. Kenny Moore is a genius writer. Henry would he write your biography for you?

To ?

The 56 day of training phase II.I took advantage of the nice weather here in Albuquerque this morning.Breathing the nice air this morning for 122 minutes was an easy task.We never have raining season like this in this part of the states.Always breathing dry air and desert dust hills.This morning was not like that.It rain all-night and this morning was humid and clouds hanging a head of me.It was hard even to see far ahead of a mile.It reminds me the Nyeri training camp in Kenya 1985.

Today was the last day of eight weeks still phase II.Perhaps, I will do trials tomorrow morning to find out, what is the differences I have made sinces my last trials in July 16,2006.Two weeks has gone by.

I feel my body is ready for intervals now.I didn't have feeling burning fires today.My high knees are accepting the pace and perhaps should be ready to take gear number three(PhaseIII).I don't know yet untill the trials is done between now and tomorrow.I think I can run under 6 minutes a mile now.

Henry

Henry

Henry, when will your book come out?

1: Heavy emphasis on time-oriented runs, on hills at altitude. Initial weight loss of 17 lbs.

2: Exposure to speed work during a second workout later in the day. Initial competition for assessment of condition.

This thread is so cool. To be present at the re-creation of a legend.