Masters Weekend Races and Runs

OMBTS, sounds like you're thriving in new environment. Good week here. I came third in an age handicapped 4-miler on Independence Day [75+ women start first, then other age groups at a delay based on WAVA tables, and we all try to hold off the fast young guys who start last -- fun format]and for the first time got a Washington Running Report [covering DC, MD, VA] ranking in open male category [52nd, but i have to start somewhere!], for spring road racing season.

Celebrated Alan Webb's 3:30 1500 by going to watch my club's midsummer night's mile friday night. Lots of good masters performances [incl. 50-y.o. George Buckheit breaking 5 minutes], but to me the highlight was Alisa Harvey running 4:46 at age 41,about 2 seconds faster than in same race last year. She is amazing. Have a great week, all.

Good day all,

Back on the thread after "vegging" w/the family on Maui last week. Managed to still run each morning (slow 10 milers) before hitting the beaches and hanging w/the kids in the surf. Very relaxing getaway.

Got on the track last night for first turnover workout in awhile, felt sluggish. About 70 miles this week, maybe race something this Weds night?

Summer weather in full swing in the Pacific Northwest. 80-85 & sunny. Will start our ritual going to the lakes for nightly dips this week. This is why we tough out the wet/cold fall/winter/spring for!

Sat 2 x 500, 2 x 1k, 2 x 500 (5k pace or faster)

Aloha,

tony

The humidity held off long enough to get in a decent 20 miler today. I was able to do five miles at my marathon pace from 14-19 and then eased off the last one. It was not planned but things felt good so I told my trainning partner I'd come back to get him. The rest of the week was about normal with two tempo runs and a lot of miles. I wish I could predict when I will have a day like today. Last week I felt like crap when I got past ten miles.

How about the comments from Spivey on the Webb thread. I liked the one about when you run a PR you think that next week you could run another and sometimes another never comes.

Dave H., I saw your time in the paper and thought the distance was a misprint.

Have a good week one and all,

Kevin

"Dave H., I saw your time in the paper and thought the distance was a misprint."

they printed the gun times, for me 39:13. The handicap for men age 45-49 was 16:05, so i'd actually run 23:08.

going the other direction......A few years ago I ran a 4-miler on a bike path -- the night before, a big storm had felled a huge tree across the path, so the course was drastically shortened, to something like 3.2 or 3.25. Results were in the paper the next day as a 4-miler, and I was around 4th in 18 something. One of my coworkers [not a runner] came by my office and said "I saw you ran 4 miles in 18 minutes; that's pretty fast". I ended up confessing but was tempted to just say "yeah, it all came together for me pretty well yesterday"

Had a few strong workouts this past week. Ran well on Monday with 300/200/100 x 2 at 90%, then 12 stairs. Tuesday, weights and shot practice, Wednesday it was 105 degrees so my hub and I got up early for a 5 mile run, Thursday it was 108, so I stayed inside for weights, then Saturday I jumped into a small all-comers meet and PR'd in the 800 meters. Just got back from hurdle practice where I concentrated on snapping the trail leg down on my first step. Tomorrow I work on the long jump. Lots of variety for me!

Next week the family and I head for Las Vegas for 5 days of fun. Then the countdown begins for the national meet in Maine.

Happy running to all!

TY, Did you run on the beach or trails ? Your weather sounds great.

Hey OMBTS!

Some all sand runs (very tough), some out and backs in Kealia. Had to get out by 6:30 am or just died. Managed one 20 minute tempo, by the end I was talking to God!

Just got back from my 18 miler in the trails & hills and that felt easier than the runs in Maui.

Starting to feel somewhat healthy again, sounds like you are too?!

Enjoy the Summer,

ty

Greetings all from warm but not oo humid Osaka. Have managed runs both days I've been here so far along a nice river. As usual, out the hotel door at 5:00 to beat both vehicle and foot traffic. It is light out so no trouble. There is a nice paved path along the river. There is a section that will serve as a 400m straightaway for some speed work.

Osaka station has a large countdown clock announcing the World Championships. I'm searching for decent t-shirt but no luck so far. The logo is pretty cool.

Wednesday to Tokyo, home Saturday.

Weekend runs were abbreviated due to the Little League District Champs (which we are not as we lost earlier today). So, ran 10 miles ez today and a brief run yesterday. The break is probably good for me.

2 runs

-10 x 30 seconds barefoot on a grassy incline

-3 minutes vo2max uphill 3 minutes walk 4 minutes uphill in forest part ending at pittock mansion

enjoy the fast short training

lots of mtn biking

Weight 128 , a year ago 132. I am alot stonger so it must be fat.Another 4 will probably get me to the sub 5 percent body fat goal.Yep still working on the CRON stuff.

Another good week. The legs are starting to click. Had to run in Vegas yesterday (well over 100 degrees). Was there for Rich Burn's wedding. Some of you certainly know Rich from masters competition. Dave Clingan was there, too, and we drank a couple Coors from the can, training up for the Simi Valley Beer Mile in August. Okay, hope the coming week treats everybody well!

Greetings OMBTS and all,

I've sworn off ever viewing any thread on Lets Run message board except this one. This is the one place where people are kind to each other. Thank you OMBTS for providing a forum and thanks posters for being cordial.

I'm doing no more than 20 miles a week, but have started some intervals again after years of no speedwork. I'm starting slow and avoiding injury. I'm doing a mile warmup jog and 8x200 with 200 jog recoveries. Once a week. I'll eventually switch to the old tried and true 400's. I'd like to do a sub six mile after I turn 60. It's a goal anyway.

My running streak is now at 46 days.

Best to all,

Mark

Callahan Florida

Had a decent week, but somewhere around 40 miles with no long runs and a scheduled day off. Had some mental anxiety about the Boilermaker on Friday, so I did 4 miles at my anticipated race pace of ~6:00. Probably not the wisest move, but I had only done faster or slower stuff recently and wanted to see if I could handle the pace. It felt pretty good, so no harm done (I think).

Boilermaker went pretty well, not an A+ effort but about what I expected from a pretty lean cardio base for racing a 15k. Hit the 10k in 37:18, right on target, but was slowed by a couple of hills and finished just below 56:30. Beat my 2006 time by nearly 2 minutes and got me into the top 200 - 15th master compared to 32nd last year. Top five master men were:

17 El Arbi Khattabi 40 47:23 5:06

20 Paul Mwangi 40 47:38 5:07

24 Dennis Simonaitis 45 48:08 5:10

27 Gideon Mutisya 40 48:42 5:14

68 James Derick 41 51:50 5:34

Firaya Sultanova won the women's master division handily. I thought Michelle S. was also supposed to run, but I didn't see her name in the results. It was nice meeting chefdrp and Jim Fiore.

I see that tracklover and Spikez have registered for Orono - anyone else?

Good news for Rich! One heck of a nice guy and great competitor. Is his wife a runner?

I've consumed a few Kirin's in training for the beer mile too. These are larger than the prescribed 12oz. ones so I should be able to down the 12oz. with relative ease. Now, if I can just get the speed working.....

I think I have a training session scheduled every night here, followed by good running in the morning.

Got in 59.5 miles with Tuesday off...Closed out my week with a really crappy 8 mile race yesterday. I think I trained too hard Wed/Thur...woke up with dead legs Saturday and really struggled the last 5 miles...oh well...

This week I'm going to cut back on the miles, maybe get a little quality in each day and try to get my legs back. I'm running a pretty big 5K race Saturday in Ft. Wayne. I really think I can get under last years time of 16:36 but my secret goal is to break the masters record of 16:16. If I can get to 2 miles in 10:25 or so I might have a chance. We'll see.....

Good Runnin'

Dave

Taper week for Boilermaker. HOT and HUMID. It felt harder than i thought it would. Did well for not really knowing the course. 57:59 was the time. Not too bad for only been running for 2 years now. Nice to have met you too Scott.

I was a bit lazy this week and passed on the local 1/2 marathon on July 4th -- it seemed to flat, boring and hot, although it was local and relatively cheap. I didn't even run hard on the 4th, and I felt guilty.

So, yesterday I drove to Seattle (almost 3 hours away) and ran a half-marathon this morning. It was hillier, but it was well-organized and had good support. My training partner was doing the marathon relay and I spied her warming up when I was running by mile 3 -- so I got a big boost by yelling over to her and hearing her encouragement.

I started out kind of slow (amazing how many women in i-pods were ahead of me), but by 3 miles, I was hitting my stride and starting passing people. Even though the wheels started to come off a bit in the 12th mile (I have miles in, but not as many longer than 14 mile runs), I held on to a masters win (quite a surprise since I was 3rd master at mile 6). I ran better than I had hoped I would, so I'm really pleased with the race, even though it's my slowest half ever. But at 47, I'm pretty happy to run as well as I did.

Next week, we're on OBX, so OMBTS if you have any runs near Rodanthe/Pea Island, let me know -- we're flying out Friday!

Have a great week.

MG

You're not getting older, you're getting better! Congratulations! And a great job by Patty M. in the Peachtree as well.

No runs in Rodanthe but I will post for Nags Head before Friday !

They had a race at Jockeys Ridge, over 2 miles of sand dunes and two teenagers went 1-2. The local paper didnt give results for the first two other then to say they won but the 3rd plac finisher did the huge sand dunes in 16;01...maybe next year...