Road Racing and Training Thread - Week Ending 9-29-19

Lanc - I am not running Paul Short, will come run the 5k with/behind you.

Unrelated, my new watch has wrist HR, looks like most my runs are in the 130s average range. Will be interested to see it in a race.

I'll see you there then RS.

My easy runs tend to be in the 140s... it seems. Races i'm up in the 170s. Whatever that means!

I know a few on this thread are HR junkies... I can't figure it out for me. Just not my thing maybe.

57 in the Ozarks for RRR this morning.

Thank You Jesus!!

Bundle up or you'll catch a cold

Pappy wrote:

Bundle up or you'll catch a cold

At lease consider wearing a shirt with sleeves, RRR.

Smoove wrote:

Pappy wrote:

Bundle up or you'll catch a cold

At lease consider wearing a shirt with sleeves, RRR.

What makes you think the RRR owns any such shirts?

I am at work with a hoodie on ... but yes it is missing the sleeves.

runrincerepeat wrote:

I am at work with a hoodie on ... but yes it is missing the sleeves.

Suns out... guns out.

Or, my other favorite...

Sun rise? Show the thighs...

Temperature has been in the low-mid 70s here all morning, but the dew point has dropped from 70 to 52 over the last six hours. Fall air is coming.

Smoove - Random question, at the Chicago ADP corral is it easy to stow your warmups shortly before the race? Deciding whether or not to pick up throwaway sweats this weekend. If gear check is easy to do 20 mins before the start, I might not bother.

Is Bruin update? Miss seeing his beastly training.

Sub 6- in 2017 they brought us out of the ADP tent pretty early, like maybe 40 minutes before the start. We weren’t in the corral per se (on the other side of the fence) and I was still able to jog back to use the bathroom one more time. But I’d recommend throw aways. As far as bags it was really chill, like just leave whatever in the tent for after the race. Stay legendary

LancRunner wrote:

runrincerepeat wrote:

I am at work with a hoodie on ... but yes it is missing the sleeves.

Suns out... guns out.

Or, my other favorite...

Sun rise? Show the thighs...

Sky’s out, thighs out.

slo-twitch wrote:

Is Bruin update? Miss seeing his beastly training.

Sub 6- in 2017 they brought us out of the ADP tent pretty early, like maybe 40 minutes before the start. We weren’t in the corral per se (on the other side of the fence) and I was still able to jog back to use the bathroom one more time. But I’d recommend throw aways. As far as bags it was really chill, like just leave whatever in the tent for after the race. Stay legendary

Awesome. Thanks! This talk of cold air had me thinking about the prospect of actually being cold for once.

By the way, the knee is probably 85-90%: a little swelling, a little off, but it will probably not be a significant problem next weekend.

Got in a short tempo run this week, planning to still do tomorrow’s 5k, and should hit 70 with a few short doubles.

Sub 6:00 wrote:

LancRunner wrote:

Suns out... guns out.

Or, my other favorite...

Sun rise? Show the thighs...

Sky’s out, thighs out.

Beat me to it.

RRR/Sub 6:00 - Yes, the good weather is finally here. Glad to hear you are almost there with the knee, Sub 6:00. As for me, I still have a pain in the butt. That leg is just not right...piriformis, sciatic...not right.

Learn the pose .. do the pose ... live the pose. I still do it multiple times per day after dealing with both piriformis with sciatica last year. It has not returned. (knock on wood)

Sub 6:00 wrote:

By the way, the knee is probably 85-90%: a little swelling, a little off, but it will probably not be a significant problem next weekend.

Got in a short tempo run this week, planning to still do tomorrow’s 5k, and should hit 70 with a few short doubles.

Sounds like good news to me Sub 6:00.

There was a girl on my high school track team whose last name was badly mispronounced as "Boburg" at a meet once, who was a vocal proponent of this stretch, so much so that we named it "the Boburg." And I still call it that in my head today. Until your post I didn't realize it had an "official" name.

Glad to hear the knee is rounding into shape.

My experience in 2015 and 2018 was the same as Slo's.

I brought a fair amount of stuff and warmed up in my normal stuff, but kept that stuff in the ADP tent and also brought a $10 Tyvek coverall throwaway that I bought from Home Depot. Turns out that both days were on the warmer side, and the rain last year wasn't bad, so I never needed the throw aways.

good stuff