Describe Your Running Today, Part II

After saturday's promising 4k race I backed up again on sunday for my other club.

This was a 5k handicap at Mandurang, on the tough trail loop I sometimes train on.

I started 5secs behind my son and had him covered in the first few 100m.

A few guys starting just behind me caught us and we climbed our way past the first km in a group with me leading.

Terry C pushed up the next steep section and got maybe 10m on me.

A short steep/rough downhill and I blew by him and dropped the group and ran through some frontmarkers.

Tery worked back to my shoulder up the next climb. Hutchy (young and fast)had made up the handicap by 2k and past me up this climb.

Another short steep and rough downhill and I dropped Terry for good and repast Hutchy.

The next climb gave Hutchy a chance to get by me again and also Greg H and Chook.

We then hit a series of very steep and rough downhills.

I was able to charge past the 3 of them.

I also past a few more frontmarkers down this section.

The next short steep climb allowed the 3 of them to pass me, Greg got away but I hung on to Hutchy and Chook.

The short steep descent to the road gave me a chance to get a lead on them, I'd need it as the last km is smooth dirt road.

Hutchy pulled away on the gradual rise once we hit the road.

Backmarker Brendan O came charging past (fastest time for the day)and Chook edged away a metre or two.

The last part of the course is a smooth downhill with just a short sharp 50m dash up a hill to the finish.

I couldn't match Chook's leg speed on the smooth stuff but I did get past a few more frontmarkers and got one more with a desperate sprint up to the finish.

The time was 15secs slower than last year but after really struggling in recent races I was wrapped with the run.

The winner Paul B (a 50+) ran about the time I ran last year, he started 25s ahead of me. Stevo, the club president ran 2d. He missed a year of running a few years back, fighting CA of the bowel. Greg H. charged through late to grab 3d.

Running Dogg wrote:

Much credit goes to AdamLocked who started all of this with DYRT I nearly 3 years ago.

He didn't, and good for you for leaving out all those other lies and slander this time. You won't get deleted for that. Keep it up.

mowed the lawn (a.k.a. recovery run)......self-propelled mower, but I did have to walk behind it.....a couple minor aches and pains left over from Sunday's run, but that's to be expected with this old body.....track meet today, so another day off.....hope to get back to 1 on, 1 off, beginning Wednesday

Running Dogg wrote:

Much credit goes to AdamLocked who started all of this with DYRT I nearly 3 years ago.

Skuj wrote:

He didn't...

In Milan, has been raining for the last 36 hours.

AM

2k walk

Lunch

5k run

PM

2k walk

"junk" miles they call them at the 50+ training thread...and downtownish junk it was. Under the rain, somewhat liberating perhaps. The 5k was pretty brisk, no warmup, just started legs rolling deal; and i have to say that i am relatively enthused about being able to ease in and out of a run without making it a workout production.

Then again, tomorrow i look forward to going out for an hour or so.

mopak, thanks for that captivating race account. It makes you wish for running stories to be written by the athletes themselves much like you did.

Skuj wrote:

He didn't, and good for you for leaving out all those other lies and slander this time.

Do the "lies" include the one where you said you'd run a sub-5 mile before the end of April?

And that shows that Adam Locked started DYRT1 how? (And you can change the handle to Skuj all you want, I don't care, (and that just proves who you really are), just respond to the question tho please.

Proofs in the pudding wrote:

Running Dogg wrote:

Much credit goes to AdamLocked who started all of this with DYRT I nearly 3 years ago.

Skuj wrote:

He didn't...

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1903398&page=0

Oh i get it now. Link to the 1st post in dyrt 1. Notice this:

AdamLocked RE: Describe Your Running Today 5/8/2007 2:08PM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

See the "in reply to" blank? The early part of dyrt1 got deleted. You know why that was dont you running dogg.

Today I did 25min jog + 4 short strides + 11sec surge + 10min jog. In Tofino!!! (Mostly on Chesterman Beach.) I'm quite tired and heavy legged from a couple of "big" days, so I'll take 2-3 "little" days while we are here.

Running Dog you obviously like reposting Skuj's training from the cvrr site, so I'd like to know what you are going to paste if he actually runs a 5 min mile in May (which is what I think he meant, not Apr.) You going to paste that too?

Running God wrote:

Today I did 5km jog (from 17k to 12k on the Half Marathon course) in 25:15, plus 4 x100m strides (back and forth between the 12k and 9k marks), plus 5km tempo (from 12k to 17k), plus 10min jog.

The tempo was 17:55, LOL. (I "raced" 17:47 at Bazan.) Admittedly, this was a net downhill run, but the way I felt, with a last slightly uphill km in 3:30, indicates to me that I am definitely in sub 17:30 shape right now.

km splits were 3:37, 3:39, 3:33, 3:36, 3:30.

I'm very happy with my progress over the last 2 months, and I'm now getting excited about racing.

rd thinks this guy cannot race a sub 5?

Door Window wrote:

And that shows that Adam Locked started DYRT1 how?

I'm guessing the fact that it was the first post in the thread might have something to do with it. Of course, I could be wrong, but usually the author of the first post is the one who started the thread.

did u not read this rd?

Door Window wrote:

Oh i get it now. Link to the 1st post in dyrt 1. Notice this:

AdamLocked RE: Describe Your Running Today 5/8/2007 2:08PM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

See the "in reply to" blank? The early part of dyrt1 got deleted. You know why that was dont you running dogg.

Are you suggesting that RD started DYRT 1 and then got his post deleted? Not likely. In the absence of any reasonable evidence, it must be concluded that AdamLocked started the thread.

Door Window wrote:

Running Dog you obviously like reposting Skuj's training from the cvrr site, so I'd like to know what you are going to paste if he actually runs a 5 min mile in May (which is what I think he meant, not Apr.) You going to paste that too?

He said April. I saw it.

Today I did 25min jog + 4 strides + 30sec surge + 10min jog, mostly on Chesterman Beach, at low tide, in bright sunshine, with no wind. The surge felt much better than yesterday, and maybe I'll go 5min tomorrow.

I should add that I went into the Pacific after the run. 2min of hell, then the pain subsides, and once the first full immersion is done, it's fine. Aaaah....I need this.....

53' yesterday along an old route....had a minor emergency with the team immediately prior to the run.....(all is well).....realized after the run that I did not think of the previously troublesome calf during the entire jaunt.....methinks my mind was preoccupied with other things.....so dare I say my health is at the enviable 100%?.....hoping to get my fitness to the same level soon.....next run Friday.....

In Milan

AM,

5k walk leisurely 1hr before bkfast

2.35k walk to work, 22 mins

Lunch, 12.32k in about an hour (with a break in between to ask info about access to Milan's Arena Civica. Did 8 rounds of the track from lane 8 to lane 1 speeding up a little)

Yesterday

2.46k walk to work, 21 mins

Tuesday

13k morning run, 1h10, under the pouring rain...