Wrong Way wrote:
jiggymeister wrote:
16:49
Nice. It was 16:47.
That’s good. I will argue this: your weight gain cost you 90 seconds and your change in training bought you 30 seconds. Call it an extended taper, you responded very well to an easy schedule after all that higher mileage and hard workouts.
Cut the weight sensibly and you could go 15:30 on 40mpw with one workout.
Hurray!
You gained almost 3 pounds a week for six weeks running 42 miles a week? Were you constipated from all that pigging out? Drunk all time? Was it a beer 5k. DIscusting .
You've probably already posted your time, but I'd say 17:22.
15:09
The downtime did your legs some good
Wrong Way wrote:
It was on the road. I’ve been between 15:20 - 15:25 four times. I ran “14:53” at a road race once, but my Garmin had 3.02 so I don’t count it as a PR.
WTF are you talking about, if you ran 14.53 you ran 14.53. What does it matter what your personal watch says?
HITHEREYOU wrote:
Wrong Way wrote:
It was on the road. I’ve been between 15:20 - 15:25 four times. I ran “14:53” at a road race once, but my Garmin had 3.02 so I don’t count it as a PR.
WTF are you talking about, if you ran 14.53 you ran 14.53. What does it matter what your personal watch says?
My watch was right. It was short. It was a lowkey event that certainly was not certified and every other runner I spoke to had it short on their watch and ran a significant "PR".
To the person asking about my rapid weight gain - up until Saturday, I was drinking 2-4 craft beers daily in addition to having carry out a couple of times per week and dessert every night. Not a great way to live long term, but it was pretty cool while it lasted.
(This is me... I am just on a different computer and it would not let me use the same username)
what did we learn wrote:
Wrong Way wrote:
Nice. It was 16:47.
That’s good. I will argue this: your weight gain cost you 90 seconds and your change in training bought you 30 seconds. Call it an extended taper, you responded very well to an easy schedule after all that higher mileage and hard workouts.
Cut the weight sensibly and you could go 15:30 on 40mpw with one workout.
I think that the weight cost me significant time, but maybe not 90 seconds. I believe I could run sub-16 just by getting skinnier and staying around 40 mpw, but I am not going to find out. I put in a 15 mile long run yesterday and have decided to "knuckle down" so to speak. I am going for 60 this week and then will add about 5 per week. 1 workout and 1 long run with a little speed thrown in will be the plan. I would imagine that I will lose 5-6 lbs this week and will be back to near race weight within the month. Hoping for 15:47 when I ran my next time trial the last Saturday in December.
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