Victor Nightingale wrote:
going faster miles an hour wrote:
And Working Harder, too, if I'm not mistaken.
And that beast Slo-twitch.
Slo-twitch!!! I miss him dearly. I must admit that I run all of my races in the hopes of him coming back and calling me “the champ” again.
Comments/Bump
The Stone Cutter - approaching the 'easy interval method' training with all that pacing. 68 miles should help with the weight
Mrs Stone Cutter - still hitting some serious miles, how has the energy levels been?
jewbacca - solid week
darkwave - you may have mentioned but how is the foot? After I suggested it to you I have had to switch to parallel lacing (and taking out the top lace as well)
GNR1 - sounds like a fun experience, solid HM
LancRunner - nice two workouts, think I might start coming to practice and working out if the foot doesn't get any worse
Seppo Kaitenenn - good luck in the HM tomorrow
Hope everybody is having a pleasant and productive week
-RS
RunnerSam wrote:
The Stone Cutter - approaching the 'easy interval method' training with all that pacing. 68 miles should help with the weight
Mrs Stone Cutter - still hitting some serious miles, how has the energy levels been?
The volume has been going up these last few weeks but the weight seems to have plateaued for now. It is what it is at this point. More concerned about feeling fit then the scale giving me a certain number.
Surprisingly, Mrs. Stone has just kept this ball rolling. Energy levels are good. No real aches or pains, knock wood. And she is been hitting her workouts better than ever before.
She seems to be aging like a fine wine. I guess I am aging more like the cheese, haha.
I've been truly productive at work this week, which is good.
Running-wise, my legs have gone through bouts this entire week of feeling strong and like absolute trash (mainly my right leg). Yesterday was one of those strong days where I did a consistent 10-mile midweek LR and even helped pace a friend on his tempo run. Today is one of those days where they're feeling like trash (All things equal, I don't see the LR as a cause since I have been solid on my Friday workouts after midweek LRs before). I had a scheduled hourlong run with accelerations mixed in today, but didn't even try the accelerations and kept it truly easy the entire time. It was supposed to "wake up the legs" prior to my 5K tomorrow morning, but my body had other ideas.
I'm being as positive as I can about it, knowing that eight months ago, I would have been elated to run at all.
I've been pounding water all day and will use all the recovery tools at my disposal tonight in hopes that I'll wake up tomorrow morning feeling rejuvenated and ready to attack that 5K.
Tyler Runs Lifts - best of luck in the 5k
Stone - all good things, based on the location I would guess the marathon would be a go. Any backup plans or build up races? Depending on the foot/fitness level(and covid status) I was looking at Pitt or Grandmas
highhoppingworm wrote:
Ya. It was npurdy.
PURDY YOU OUT THERE? LONG TIME NO SEE (minus strava).
Hey! Still lurk and read most of LRC, but have cut down on posting much online. No real specific reason.
I did enjoy my time with Jenkins. Only stopped because races kept getting cancelled so I decided to save some money until things normalize. Like HHW said I did like the variety of workouts and had no complaints with his system. May join back together when races are back and I am hopefully in better shape.
Keep putting in the hard work everyone.
darkwave wrote:
seriously????? wrote:
DC is totally normal right now outside of a few blocks surrounding the Capitol. Rock Creek, C&O canal, all normal. Main bridges still open.
Different perspectives, I guess. I think DC is far from normal. Hains Point is completely closed, and has been since Friday. I'm told Rock Creek is blocked south of Georgetown also. So that's two of my normal routes. And the street closures caused traffic back-ups last week that spilled over into Virginia, based on the local news reports (I took their word for it, rather than drive there myself).
As for the bridges, while only the Memorial Bridge is currently closed, I'm remembering back to 9/11 - that day Virginia residents who were in DC couldn't get home until that evening - all the bridges were closed to traffic, as was Metro. (A coworker who lived in Alexandria and worked with me at 11th and Penn had to come home with me to Dupont Circle that day).
If anything major had happened in DC this weekend. I'm sure one of the first steps would have been to shut down the bridges. If that had happened, getting home would have required going west until I could find an open bridge, and dealing with certainly nightmare traffic on the way.
So different perspectives , and perhaps mine is tinged by my memories of 9/11 and how quickly things can change.
I think it made sense to stay on the Virginia side and avoid the potential risk and hassle. Most of residential D.C. has been pretty normal, but not downtown and the monumental core. (The Mall wasn’t too bad last Wednesday, but it got tighter.) And I like that stretch of the W&OD for workouts and long tempos, although it’s been a while.
Years ago a co-worker whose second day of orientation was 9/11 told me a similar story about the difficulty getting back to Va. that day. (It was probably prompted by me mentioning that I was running home from Union Station to Alexandria after work.)
RunnerSam wrote:
Tyler Runs Lifts - best of luck in the 5k
Stone - all good things, based on the location I would guess the marathon would be a go. Any backup plans or build up races? Depending on the foot/fitness level(and covid status) I was looking at Pitt or Grandmas
I think Grandma's has already sold out for this year.
RunnerSam wrote:
darkwave - you may have mentioned but how is the foot? After I suggested it to you I have had to switch to parallel lacing (and taking out the top lace as well)
Hope everybody is having a pleasant and productive week
-RS
Thanks for asking - it actually has been improving. There's still a bump, but it's shrunk to the point where it barely interferes with stuff. At some point I'd like to be able to lace my shoes all the way back up - hopefully in another few weeks.
I hope you see similar improvement with yours.
Re: Grandma's - yup, it's sold out. They're keeping it at half capacity this year. They also REALLY tightened up the elite field standards - no more age grading for us older runners. (Not complaining - the race needs to stay solvent, and I totally understand).
Sub 6:00 wrote:
Years ago a co-worker whose second day of orientation was 9/11 told me a similar story about the difficulty getting back to Va. that day. (It was probably prompted by me mentioning that I was running home from Union Station to Alexandria after work.)
It was crazy. Driving home from downtown to Dupont that morning involved a) driving over a median, b) driving up either 9th or 10th St backwards, and c) total strangers banging on my car windows begging for a ride ANYWHERE. People were running in the streets and driving on sidewalks.
RunnerSam wrote:
LancRunner - nice two workouts, think I might start coming to practice and working out if the foot doesn't get any worse
-RS
That’s what I like to hear. Saw you get some work in on the track this week. Would be great to talk trash to your face again than just disparaging you to your Mrs... She tell you a took a few jabs at your poor foot last week?
RunnerSam wrote:
Stone - all good things, based on the location I would guess the marathon would be a go. Any backup plans or build up races? Depending on the foot/fitness level(and covid status) I was looking at Pitt or Grandmas
Not planning on any tuneup races, mainly because there aren’t any really. As far as back up plans, kind of the same situation. If for some reason the race doesn’t pan out, I won’t be heartbroken. I was just using it as a date on the calendar to keep me honest and get back into reasonable fitness. That way I could build momentum and get back into actual shape for the fall, when races should become more prevalent. At least hopefully.
Saw some exceptional performances from thread regulars on Strava today. Looking forward to some race reports!
highhoppingworm wrote:
Saw some exceptional performances from thread regulars on Strava today. Looking forward to some race reports!
Yeah, me too. Any update/intel on Super Seppo and his HM?
Hey Allen - How are you on this fine January evening?