Sat-8miles at HM pace(+/-) felt good for a change
Sun-15easy or a least slow anyway! The dogs were tired, as expected.
Skinnbines, last week it snowed & you went on the indoor x-c machine, now that you're in AZ I think it's only fair your ride the trainer with the heat lamp on :)
Best wishes for the season to all.
Not much happening with me...more of the same with weights, elliptical, easy track sessions with gradual increase in intensity over the next 3 weeks. So I'll just say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Very windy where I am today...I violated a cardinal rule of winter running by heading out on an out-and-back 10-miler with the wind behind me, so that when the time came to turn around, I was running directly into it. (Kind of dumb, for sure, but I'm visiting my parents and had my heart set on a particular route that I hadn't run in ages.)
The cold was bearable - I just put back on a layer that I'd taken off - but the effort required was something else. There were times when I felt like a character in a cartoon: legs spinning, arms flailing, and not a bit of forward progress being made.
Greetings from San Diego.
50 miles this week. Hard workout on Tues, left me very tired and run down on Wed. Flew to San Diego on Fri, got in a nice9 miler. Spent all day Saturday in Disneyland with my daughters. Legs were torched by the end of the evening, standing in hour long lines to ride Thunder Mountain, Indiana Jones, Space Mountain, etc kicked my rear end.
12 miles this am with some old running buds, some of the best stories were about skin!
I'm glad skin got in a 2 hour run this am....means he'll be game to help me get ready for Boston this winter!!
Merry Christmas all.
ert,
Sounds like fun - maybe I can make it some year when I pass through to visit my mother. I grew up near Evansville, but didn't run much my junior and senior years. I went to Purdue with a runner from your area who probably just turned 40 - Dave Becker is his name. He wanted to be a pilot, but not sure what happened to him. BNL had a top 10 XC team during that time frame and did some nice pack running in the invitationals.
Scott
[quote]ert wrote:
If your anywhere near Bedford Indiana..come to the high school course on the east side of town..right across from the school. 5K..9a.m.
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GaryB, I enjoy reading your posts each week old buddy. I am still 4 1/2 years and one deployment away from retirement. i am in a great unit and a great small town.
My daughter wrote a letter to Santa, put it in the mail and a few days later recieved a letter back in the mail from one of Santas elfs. small things like that make this town great.
had a good week. did a 6.6 mile tempo run and then ran a 5k in las vegas on sat where i was second overall in 16:49. it was windy and about 30 degrees. why they started a race at 7am in dec is beyond me??
hope everyone has a great xmas and a great new year.
Reading and posting on this wonderful thread has been a Christmas gift I've gotten every week this year. I've had the privilege to have met a few of you great masters and I hope to meet a few more in 2008.
Howdy Masters,
Great sentiments, OMBTS.
Grateful for a lot of things this time of year — and not just the obvious stuff like Baked Ruffles potato chips, reruns of Cheers and the demise of parachute pants as a fashion statement. That blessed family stuff is cool too. And the dog, curled up on the couch next to me here.
Managed 51 miles this week, including a 2-mile tempo run on Thurs. Was going to do hills Tues., but the hilly streets in town this week were icy, then slushy, then icy slushy. Tired this a.m. — work yesterday was a killer — and it was my fourth straight 50-plus week, so I cut my "long" run to 8.5 miles.
This thread has been great this year. As far as I'm concerned you're all great runners, no matter how fast you are.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody.
It's a 3-dog night in this part of Wisconsin. 14 inches of new wind blown snow@ 20 degrees.
I'm a relative newbie to this thread,but I want to thank all the regulars and OMBTHS. This weekly dialogue has opened a new vista for me into the world of Master's running.
Mileage for the year is down 400 to 1250. Got in 19 races,and continued to meet a lot of great folks from the upper midwest and beyond. Best run; Bellin 10K. Best Award; the Scrapbook the middle school kids and mom's put together on our C-C season.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all!!
It's a 3-dog night in this part of Wisconsin. 14 inches of new wind blown snow@ 20 degrees.
I'm a relative newbie to this thread,but I want to thank all the regulars and OMBTHS. This weekly dialogue has opened a new vista for me into the world of Master's running.
Mileage for the year is down 400 to 1250. Got in 19 races,and continued to meet a lot of great folks from the upper midwest and beyond. Best run; Bellin 10K. Best Award; the Scrapbook the middle school kids and mom's put together on our C-C season.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all!!
What about the Tower of Terror :{ (that's the best keyboard barf-face I could find)
Merry Christmas to everyone!
I had a very slothful running week. That dang knitting project took until Friday to complete and I felt like I needed every spare minute to finish it, so my runs were all on the short (5-9 mi) side. Seriously I spent 7 hours on Friday working on it!
Today, however, I got to run in the rain and MUD on the trails with a good friend of mine. We only get run together very occasionally, so it was a real treat. He really inspires me to run an honest pace and we pushed up all the big hills (1/2 mi to 1 mi long) and had a great 16 mile run. I was tired going up those hills, but it felt good to push. (I'm pretty competitive going up them & I was going to be damned if he lost me on any of them! I even made him hurt, too! ;-D) If I could only get in this kind of run every two weeks or so, I'd be in much better shape come February. Since he runs both the sprints and the marathon =:-0, I'm picking his brain for ideas to increase my leg speed.
Anyway, despite the rain and cold, it was a very fun and rewarding sploshing through the mud run. I *still* don't have trail shoes, so now my new "road" shoes are very muddy. Maybe I can buy myself a pair of shoes for Christmas? It's hella dangerous running muddy trails in Asics!! ;-)
Have a great week everyone!
FiftyOne wrote:
Earl Fee says that you get 98 percent of your fitness/speed from 60 percent of your training.That last 2 percent comes from the other 40 percent of your training.He gets alot of satisfaction from that last 2 percent.I am gonna pass on the last 2 percent.The 98 percent for 60 percent of the training is a sweet deal.
Most of the injuries are landmines in that top 2 percent I bet.
In spite of these ideas, a full week of training for this non-Earl Fee with 4 days of some quality. Although newly focused on 400 training, the mile still has a big allure, so I'm doing mile training while also building sprint strength and technique. I now know what a drive phase is yet at the same time, Hartshorne mile here I come! A little bit conflicted for sure. Key mile workout was yesterday:
2x100, 2x200, 4x400, 2x200, 2x100 all slightly under goal mile race pace. Took a lot out of me.
Merry Christmas to all, have fun.
tracklover,
I like the look of that workout. Two questions: What was your rest? And was it at goal pace for spring/summer or for races in the near future?
Another question for tracklover - do you mean that all repeats are at the same (goal) pace? So 16 second 100s = 32 sec 200s and 64 sec 400s?
ExCoastRanger wrote:
2x100, 2x200, 4x400, 2x200, 2x100 all slightly under goal mile race pace.
tracklover,
I like the look of that workout. Two questions: What was your rest? And was it at goal pace for spring/summer or for races in the near future?
Merry Christmas everyone,
Nice and sunny up here in Nor Cal...but cold. Got a nice ez & slow 2hr. trail run on Mt. Tam yesterday. Finally have some time to do some running now that work is over for the year.
Hope to maintain for the coming year...almost on the verge of taking a break from the racing but might have to keep it up for another year...will see how it goes. Maybe San Diego XC? Have never done the winter XC champs.
Since getting a new job in April the training and racing have slowed alot..going to have to figure out how to fit it all in 08.
Nice job Reno at the Christmas Relays...Hope you all have a nice holiday break and get motivated for another year of racing, running, and NO INJURIES.
Do not believe everything you hear. Heck, from that group, do not believe ANYTHING you hear.
tracklover,
Glad that you are looking forward to Hartshorne. Let me know your plans. I guess I'll probably run in the Section I field, but I don't plan to disrupt my base training. I'm on the hook to supply some homebrew for the after race party, so I might as well run. I did crank the dreadmill today up to 12 MPH for two minutes at the end of a 45 minute run, and it felt comfortable. Of course wind resistance means that pace would have been a little slower on the track.
BTW, my wife say my post from yesterday and said that my complaint about low mileage in October could have fooled her since I was apparently racing a lot. Lol.
skinnbones wrote:
Do not believe everything you hear. Heck, from that group, do not believe ANYTHING you hear.
Who you kidding? The stories were all told by Fletcher and Holl. Totally believable!!