(Road Racing and) Time Trialing and Training Thread - Week Ending 5/17/20

Damn there is some serious bad blood brewing between AJ and Smoove.

Is a boxing match in order?

Rhodium Nights wrote:

Damn there is some serious bad blood brewing between AJ and Smoove.

Is a boxing match in order?

Nah...there's nothing serious about those two jabronies.

All that I’m sure about the last race that I started is that I won beers off of Stone by beating the 9 minute handicap I gave you.

35/6'/175ish

Tough week dealing with plantar fasciitis.

Mon-7 7:40avg with college xc kids over trails and grass

Tues-8 7:06avg

Wed-6.28 7:34avg a couple hard efforts to work on turnover

Thur- 3.5 treadmill

PM-3 wanted to see how the foot felt with a double, awful was the answer

Fri- treadmill double 5/3

Sat-6 8:16avg

Sun-10 7:11avg group run

50 miles for the week. Debating on shutting it down for awhile to let the foot heal or waiting until next month when I have a trip planned and resting it then.

Smoove wrote:

All that I’m sure about the last race that I started is that I won beers off of Stone by beating the 9 minute handicap I gave you.

And I promise I won’t disappoint you with Coronitas whenever you get to cash in on that bet. In fact, if we can drag RRR along to this future bar, he owes me a couple rounds so that I can pass off my tab to you to him.

I’m enjoying that AJ/Smoove banter.

My week was good if unchallenging, though I bailed on a run on Friday due to the 84-degree temps! Would love some input on the VO2 max workout I did on Wednesday from those who know more about training than me.

M: 7 Steady ~ pushed myself to do the full Central Park loop, just have been wimping out on the hills a bit of late.

T: 5.9E

WED: 7.65 ft, aforementioned VO2 workout.**

FRI: Bike ~ 14.5 mile, two loops of Central Park on the slug-like Citi Bike. It was super hot, kept it pretty easy though worked on the hills.

SAT: 13.6 ~ hot again, and my legs were feeling it all run. This was bittersweet as this was supposed to be Brooklyn Half. Instead just a moderate long run where I felt pretty crappy from the heat/sore legs.

SUN: 6.7E

Total: 46.8 miles. Back on the two-workout train this week. Maybe 4 x mile at threshold and then some fun, fast stuff. We’ll see. Got to stay sharp for a 3K TT at some point.

**I scoured the internet and found 6x800 w/ 2’ rest a common workout and an obviously easy to pull off one..

I wanted to run on the best-case substitute to a track ~ Central Park Res. Unfortunately too crowded even in the middle of a workday. Ended out averaging 2:47 on varied terrain/wind of the lower res.

Splits: 2:51.2 (slow opening 400), 2:47.7, 2:44.4, 2:45.5, 2:50.0, 2:45.1.

Wasn’t sure if I hit these right. They started to hurt midway through rep no. 3. That being said I always felt reasonably recovered before each rep and didn’t have to really change gears to hit splits or anything except for maybe on rep no. 5. I rarely, really never do the mid-size rep with sizable recovery so I’d be interested to know any pointers.

The Stone Cutter wrote:

Smoove wrote:

All that I’m sure about the last race that I started is that I won beers off of Stone by beating the 9 minute handicap I gave you.

And I promise I won’t disappoint you with Coronitas whenever you get to cash in on that bet. In fact, if we can drag RRR along to this future bar, he owes me a couple rounds so that I can pass off my tab to you to him.

Smoove talks sh*t And I’m on the hook for rounds.

What the f*ck

The Stone Cutter wrote:

And I promise I won’t disappoint you with Coronitas whenever you get to cash in on that bet.

Ha - my wife, being the thoughtful partner that she is, tried to order me beer as part of our Costco delivery 10 days ago.

She saw a case of Corona, which was all that was available. So she ordered it for an overpriced $31.

Turns out that they were 7 ounce bottles.

Given I am currently enjoying 4 day weekends, that made for a very thirsty Friday and Saturday.

Sounds like a well laid plan to keep smoove sober for Mother’s Day...

Hahaha nothing like a little smack talk!

S - 4

M - 8

T - 10

W - 8

Th - 10

F - Off (lazy)

S - 12

Total: 52 miles

My 60 mile week was spoiled by going back to sleep after my alarm on Friday. It's hard to always follow through when there are no races on the horizon.

Last week of drinking non-diet Dew. The supply will run out by next weekend and then maybe I'll be more serious about losing some weight and getting in shape.

M: off

T: 6 w leg strength

W: 6w strides

Th: upper body strength + yoga

F: 8 w aborted postal race after 15min(I took a wrong turn) + leg strength

S: 6 w picking up litter + 90min bike ride

S: 8 w 4.5mi postal competition (27:30, 6:08 pace) and 3x 30/30

Happy with Sunday. That was a very hilly course.

M: 3

T: 3x4x400, 1:15 rec, 3 min between sets

First set averaging 73. Second set averaging 72, Last set averaging 70.

W: 8

Th: 7

F: 3.5 E, 3.5 M-Half Pace. Windy but the times were 6:05, 6:04, 5:41

S: 3 am

6 pm

Sun: 10

I made the decision to end the season. Starting to feel the burnout. Plan is to take the next few weeks off and start training for CIM or Houston.

First time posting in the training threads, thought why not? I haven't raced in forever, so don't have any PRs from recent dates.

Male- Age 21- 5'9- 136 lbs

Goals: Build up to consistency, and run mainly for health.

M through F were taken off, as the week before. I was rehabbing from a overuse injury on my upper left abductor muscle in the thigh. Really hate these types of soft muscle injuries as they take forever to heal.

F: 8.4 mi @8

S: 9 mi @7:30

S: 8.4 @7:50

Took these runs easy as not to aggravate the muscle. Really don't want to take another period of extended rest from running.

Stone - glad you have some consistency to this week, I am also trying to run ~9 times a week, ideally I would run more mornings but Im just not a morning runner

Mrs Stone - I'm surprised she jumped back into the miles already, I figured a physical mental rest was in order

hhw - Nice week all around, I would say that you are a go for sub 34, its only a bit quicker than your 4 miles on tuesday, would be easier if it was in a real race of course

GT - seriously quick times on those workouts GT

imagebearer - solid progression runs

rucker - I guess you probably have a nice advantage heading into an ultra since from a Tri background you are familiar with proper fueling. maybe sub 7 at JFK (also the price tag will not be a shock coming from triathlons)

GNR1 - have you been able to do any of these TTs with pacers or other people or is it all solo? looks like another pretty solid one

LancRunner - Another good week with the workout/LR/Volume

SuicidePace - Although I'm not familiar with plantar fasciitis, It might be a good time to let it heal since there are no races in awhile

johnfromSJ - Welcome to the thread, I'll be in cape may county this extended weekend putting in some serious miles. (if thats the right SJ)

xperirunner- i forgot to reply last week. im not sure which of those marathons would be more likely to happen. maybe Houston? the whole busing to the start at Cal Intl seems potentially problematic, even though it’s quite a bit smaller field than that combined start of Houston Half and Marathon. I don’t see that state of California allowing large marathons again anytime soon, although LA Marathon somehow happened.

What region of the country are you in? I’ve heard of some other, much smaller, marathons shaping up

Also you could definitely wait longer before registering for Houston. Maybe both, I don’t know if there will be the same demand for Cal. intl. But even last year I don’t think the Houston marathon sold out until December

M43, 5'10

With no real races on the horizon, I’m just focused on basebuilding. I’m using a Virtual Race Series hosted by our local running club as speed work.

Mon - 95 min @ 7:57

Tues - 105 min @ 8:42

Tues #2 - 30 min @ 9:02

Wed - 100 min @ 8:17

Wed #2 - 30 min @ 7:00

Thurs - 90 min @ 7:31

Fri - 90 min @ 7:26

Sat - 15 min warmup + 800m Virtual Race in 2:34 WTF?? Zero Top End… :(

Sat #2 - Long Run 2 Hours @ 7:15

Sun - 90 min @ 7:06

Weekly Totals

Miles: 100.1 Miles

Duration: 12:58

Elevation Gain: 1,184 ft (rained Mon - Thur so was on Treadmill)

Stryd Running Stress Score: 610

Virtual Race Results

Week 1 - 5K (bike path) - 17:18

Week 2 - 400m (track) - 68

Week 3 - 10K (downhill road) - 34:59

Week 4 - 800m (track) - 2:34

Week 5 - 2 Miles - This Week

Week 6 - 10 Miles - ?

Week 7 - 4 Miles - ?

Typically the half sells out in Houston .. and its still open .. so May be able to register for the full really last minute. I would tend to think it has the best chances of going off being in Texas.

RRTT Meetup! 5k/half/full