What is Ed Whitlock up to this year?

Thanks for answering our questions, Ed. So sorry to see the rest of the thread disappear; it is erasing history, of a sort. In anay case you have, like Henry Rono, endeared yourself into our hearts, and as in his case, this thread will eventually take on a new life of it's own!

ed just because you're old doesn't mean you have to be paranoid. your thread(s) didn't go anywhere.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/process_search.php?search=whitlock&search_time=90

Just because you are young doesn't mean you have to be obnoxious. Would you talk to your grandfather that way? Show a little respect.

Just because you are young doesn't mean you have to be wrong- but you are. The original thread with this title has been eliminated. The search results are for other, older threads. Ed is anything but paranoid- if anything he is very patient and forgiving, considering the circumstance.

young'en wrote:

ed just because you're old doesn't mean you have to be paranoid. your thread(s) didn't go anywhere.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/process_search.php?search=whitlock&search_time=90

No, for 2 reasons, my grandfather doesn't lash out against people when he can't figure something out. Secondly he knows how to use the internet.

old doesn't equal dumb, only dumb equals dumb.

young'en wrote:

No, for 2 reasons, my grandfather doesn't lash out against people when he can't figure something out. Secondly he knows how to use the internet.

old doesn't equal dumb, only dumb equals dumb.

u are officially the worst poster ever at letsrun. EVER.

Mr. Whitlock:

What made you decide to move up to two-three hour daily runs from what was formerly an hour a day?

Thank you sir.

young\'en wrote:

No, for 2 reasons, my grandfather doesn't lash out against people when he can't figure something out. Secondly he knows how to use the internet.

old doesn't equal dumb, only dumb equals dumb.

Can you explain how he "lashed out"? Perhaps you should refer to a dictionary before using words you don't understand. Dumb does appear to equal dumb in your case.

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curious to know wrote:

Mr. Whitlock:

What made you decide to move up to two-three hour daily runs from what was formerly an hour a day?

Thank you sir.

When I first started running again as a master I concentrated on 800 and 1500m distance races. The interval track training involved aggravated my achilles tendon. So I gradually evolved into training longer and slower which didn't seem to bother my achilles and my emphasis changed to racing mainly longer distances.

Ed, thanks for ignoring the idiotic din that sometimes appears on here and continuing to post. You and Orville make this a better place. Many of us are inspired by your continued interest and achievements.

I agree with Tryon Creek. Thank you for answering,

Mr. Whitlock.

I'm pretty old, 52 and find it motivational for me to read about you. I saw 2 recent different photos and couldn't help think how fluid your stride was. That's all for now. Good luck and good health.

Ed raaces well! In fact, he has been the best we have ever seen in his age groups. I just shuffle along and also try to enjoy myself. I am all competed out.

By the way, as I have said before, I have run Sundays since 1971 with a breakfast group that was established in 1969. This Sunday we celebrate the birthday of two of our members. Both were born on September 9th. One in 1920 and one in 1922!

Enjoy!

Top Cat wrote:I saw 2 recent different photos and couldn't help think how fluid your stride was.

Inpsiring, yet I'll wager Mr. W has no clue just how many people he unwittingly gets out of bed and onto the roads daily.

Thanks, Ed.

Ed:

For the (extremely) interested among us who missed the earlier thread and have stumbled across bits and pieces of your training regimen in various publications, would you mind summarizing, in as brief or extended a form as you're inclined to, what your weekly schedule looks like?

My understanding is that your daily run, pretty much every day, consists of three hours at an easy pace on a paved loop in a local park (or cemetary??).

Is that correct? Three hours a day? At roughly what pace? Does your pace vary in the course of such runs--a brisker last hour or two, for example? Do you ever run shorter recovery jogs? Intervals? Fartlek? Marathon-pace efforts?

KudzuRunner wrote:

Ed:

For the (extremely) interested among us who missed the earlier thread and have stumbled across bits and pieces of your training regimen in various publications, would you mind summarizing, in as brief or extended a form as you're inclined to, what your weekly schedule looks like?

My understanding is that your daily run, pretty much every day, consists of three hours at an easy pace on a paved loop in a local park (or cemetary??).

Is that correct? Three hours a day? At roughly what pace? Does your pace vary in the course of such runs--a brisker last hour or two, for example? Do you ever run shorter recovery jogs? Intervals? Fartlek? Marathon-pace efforts?

As with most runners I suppose training changes over a period of time. When I was in my 40,s I did mainly interval training with a fair amount of brisk distance work. Maybe a 50/50 mix. I was concentrating on middle distance running. Achilles tendon problems caused me to gradually do less and less interval workouts. It has reached the point now that I don't do any workouts on a track.

My training is now done on the roads of a small cemetary on a circuit of about 1/3 mile, mostly in shade. The current objective is to run every day year round for 3 hours at a slow comfortable pace. I don't count or time the laps I run so I don't know my pace with any accuracy. I just try to run easily and minimise impact, starting out very slowly for the first 10/15 minutes but after that not making any effort to change the pace for the remainder of the session. For the 2 or 3 days before a race I would plan to run shorter sessions maybe an hour long and include a bit of a tempo run or a quasi interval session of laps of the cemetary. I have had trouble achieving the objective this year for various reasons, nasal infections, an achilles problem and lately a knee problem. I generally just rest to get rid of these problems and then I start back gradually maybe only 10 minutes initially, if there are no new interruptions it would take at least 2 months to get back up to 3 hours. As a result of the problems I have had this year I am not going to have any extended period of 3 hour runs before the Toronto Waterfront marathon on the 24th September, so I will have to scale back my ambitions accordingly. Although there has been talk of a 3 hour possibility my realistic objective will be more modest than that and the pacing plan will preclude sub 3.

Sorry to hear that, Ed. How was yesterday's race? I paced off of you for a little while since it worked so well at The Docks.