tpcb, we're here for you, brother.....back on the roads yesterday for about 32'......no calf problems to report during the jaunt......there was a bit of a knot in the opposite (right) calf last night, but no tightness or discomfort.......the left knee is a tad sore, but I attribute that to age related achiness.......I hope......will go again tomorrow or Sunday......
a friend of mine dared me to do this workout, so i did it this morning:
2 mile warmup
3 mile tempo (5:10ish pace)
rest 5 minutes
2 mile tempo (5:10ish)
rest 5 minutes
1 mile tempo (5:15 felt this one)
rest 5 minutes
6x800 at tempo pace jog 100m after each 800(this was really hard, but accomplished it)
rest 5 minutes
4x800 tempo pace jog 100m after each 800(felt like dying)
2x800 tempo pace jog 100m after each 800 (first one was ok, second one was tiring)
no rest
run sub 60 quarter, if i didn't make it, take as much rest as possible until i did it. Took me two tries.
afirnedddd wrote:
a friend of mine dared me to do this workout, so i did it this morning:
2 mile warmup
3 mile tempo (5:10ish pace)
rest 5 minutes
2 mile tempo (5:10ish)
rest 5 minutes
1 mile tempo (5:15 felt this one)
rest 5 minutes
6x800 at tempo pace jog 100m after each 800(this was really hard, but accomplished it)
rest 5 minutes
4x800 tempo pace jog 100m after each 800(felt like dying)
2x800 tempo pace jog 100m after each 800 (first one was ok, second one was tiring)
no rest
run sub 60 quarter, if i didn't make it, take as much rest as possible until i did it. Took me two tries.
0/10
tpcb,
Hang tough.
Was it Churchill that said " We must hang together or surely we will hang alone"??
festering under a barrage of paper work here.
Neil and I slipped off to the UP for a ski on Weds. 2 hours in the Hancock hills. Great conditions and fast snow at 25F.
Keep the thread in motion. Your clarity is appreciated.
MOARG is on the horizon.
30mins kyak on the lake, 85mins trailriding on the mountain bike and a leisurely hour jog on hilly trails.
Windy and choppy on the lake. Not a single pelican sighting thismorning. Plenty of herons and scores of ducks.
Sunny and quite calm on the bike and run. Temps relatively cool, around 26-28 deg C (mid 80s F). An occassional roo sighting, most of them snoozing under trees. An echidna wandered across the track when I was riding. I spotted a goanna during the run. He quickly bolted up the nearest tree.
Don't worry tpcb we are still out here in cyberspace running with you.
I had 6 days with no internet aagh!!
Interesting times here in my little town.
The other day I return home to find 6 helicopters 15 police cars and dozens of reporters parked across from my front gate.
A missing millionaire (he was a 3.40 marathoner too) was thought to have been dumped down a mineshaft nearby.
Turns out he'd been chopped up and burnt in a suburban backyard in Melbourne.
It certainly had the locals talking for a few days though.
mopak,
old Chinese curse says " may you live in interesting times."
Hacked up and BBQ'D in Melbourne. Now that's an interesting end game.
No news to compare here. Heading off to Badger State Games with Bride and #2 Daughter(bristling with 19yo attitude).
Light snow and 20F, it should be a good ski.
Hello, Rangoon! I got the vibes that I might have been missed on letsrun, so I decided to check in. This thread is about to make history! You guys have been doing a great job keeping this thing rocking. I am so proud of you and humbled to have had a small part in this great thread.
My own running continues to sputter. I've had a few aborted starts, but the "issue" continues to linger. I am hopeful that a few more weeks might do the trick.
In the meantime I will live my running life vicariously through the great folks at DYRT. (I did say only the 'great' folks. Ha ha!)
Keep up the good work, all!
Now, mopak, that's some lively noir narrative
in your posting!
It was much like reading the synopsis of a Cohen brothers film and i was lolling bigtime.
Please excuse me getting a little sentimental at times. As Alpha as one might aspire to be, for some things we just seem to be hardwired...
Anyway, just great to hear from everybody.
AM: Kids Athletics. Good response with some running-in-a-pack drills around the track (the grass was a mud pool), drawing on elements of Samoan ugby rucks-and-mauls and some of the more harmonious choreographies from Momix's Moses Pendleton, all the while running 400m. It just looks like the kids get a better sense of their movement skills if they work with quickly-varying resistance - generated from 1 or more teammates in this case... They really seem to enjoy the challenge NOT to hurt themselves in a mix of pushing, resisting, pulling, obstructing, dragging, barging, ect ect in groups, down the lanes. Then when they run free, they fly.
PM: 1h01m at dusk on the street with shoes, to St. Peter's and back. Real easy.
Might lose connectivity for a couple of snow-fun days. Running might give way to some snowshoeing.
Cheers guys.
1 hour 46 mins running. Along the creek trail, the creek isn't flowing but does now have some decent pools after recent rain. Flocks of rosellas, a couple of herons, screeching cockatoos.Started as a shuffle but soon running along at a reasonable clip.
Across the creek then across the highway and up to the cemetary and beyond pushing it to the top of the hill with the big watertank. As usual a big mob of roos up there, most of them happily dozing under the trees.
Followed the old rail trail back toward Pink Cliffs then up a steep track to Red Hill, working hard up the climb.
Some trail blazing/bush bashing through the back of the cliffs and out to Hird Rd. This caused quite a commotion among the marsupial population of this area.
Back into the bush at Possum Gully/Argyle forest. Found some vaguely familiar sandy trails, nice and shady (temps now 30 plus). Wound my way through the forest striding out on these secondary trails past old gold diggings. Once again plenty of marsupialian commotion.
Across Spring Flat and onto Ring Track. Lots of tree creepers on the ironbarks and grey box through here. Spotted the rare square tailed kite, they have a nest nearby.
Looped around this part of the forest and came back to Spring Flat. Ran down to the highway, stretching out some tiring legs. Crossed over then down to the floodway at the creek. Ran home along the creek on roo trails, the rough footing slowing the pace to a nice recovery jog.
Showered, dressed, fed, off to work. Sitting on a crazy guy while he tried to kick the crap out of us. Breaking up fights in the high needs unit. Grape picking season is just a few weeks away. Mmmm, dealing with crazy psych patients in a claustrophobic locked up building, picking grapes in the sunshine?? Decisions, decisions.
Yesterday,
Classic skied 21k in 1;32. Good enough for 11th/33 OA and age group 2/5. The Bride had a PB doing 10K in 45:12. Daughter #2 went 4k in just over 16 min. One of the neighbor kids is showing some real mastery for a HS Soph covering 4K in 9:38. Good enough to qualify for a Junior Olympics race to be held out in ME next month.
AM. 2 miles with the older Border Collie.
mopak, for me it would be the grapes, even if they were sour.
tpcb, enjoy your Winterland jaunt to the high country, free of connectivity as it were.
Yep Driske the grapes look the better option.
I have just finished a short term contract at the hospital and now have to rummage around for the left over shifts.
At the moment there is an influx of grads and new staff from overseas. Seems the only shifts about are at the acute psych ward -not a fun place at all. That of course is why there are plenty of shifts available there.
I was going to try the grape picking last year but ended up at a condiments factory.
The condiments man wants me back too. I took that on while his main man was in prison.
Every time he got out of lock up I'd get my hours hacked. He'd go back inside and I'd get the "I need you" call then he'd get out and so it went on.
The last time he was released the boss gave him a payrise and virtually made him a partner, go figure.
This time of year he needs a driver and his main man is banned from driving for several years.
I think perhaps he needs to give more thought to how he treats his staff so I'll give that offer a miss.
I'm tempted to share some of the episodes my own bi-polar brother and I concocted. But some things need to be left in the tank for Gimmelwald.
The work you folks do with troubled souls has my total respect.
The condiments man has issues to be sure.
Too bad you're half a world away. I believe you'd enjoy helping with making that condiment known as Maple Syrup.
how is this thread about to make history?
Running Dogg wrote:
Hello, Rangoon! I got the vibes that I might have been missed on letsrun, so I decided to check in. This thread is about to make history! You guys have been doing a great job keeping this thing rocking. I am so proud of you and humbled to have had a small part in this great thread.
My own running continues to sputter. I've had a few aborted starts, but the "issue" continues to linger. I am hopeful that a few more weeks might do the trick.
In the meantime I will live my running life vicariously through the great folks at DYRT. (I did say only the 'great' folks. Ha ha!)
Keep up the good work, all!
a bit of a relapse.....went for a "real" run yesterday in the cold and wind.....was feeling pretty good through the first mile.....then the calf started to tighten up.....walked a bit.....jogged a bit.....walked a bit more.....jogged a bit more.....repeated that all the way home.....still tight but not as bad (I hope) as before.....will take a couple of days off.....sigh.....
O2, Sorry that calf is hanging so far back. I'd sound like a broken record if I advocated my universal cure all (Classic style X-C skiing). Try a new approach maybe??
3 miles on the snowmobile trail with the old Collie. Loose footing made for slow going. Fine morning weather wise at 20F and low Sun breaking open the new day.
very briefly: xcountry skiing with Bride. Just got some air time for email check. Posting very interesting will follow up post snowtime.
c u soon
driske, thanks for the xc ski tip.......I have actually done a little bit of that......enjoy it very much......unfortunately no snow on the ground here now......that could change soon......maybe I'll be able to give it a go this weekend.....
A steady 80mins run yesterday and a relaxed 90min mtn bike ride today, oh yeah also 45min kyak session.
Vintage winter afternoon on the Rib Lake Trails. Classic X-C for 2:45. Just kept feeling better as the sun bathed trail flowed by. Flushed a couple grouse and had a chat with some of the landowners who graciously host the ski/run community on their property.
snowtime almost over.
full recap coming up.
One major theme will be "XC skiing, our frozen minimalist ancestor"...