Masters Weekend Runs and Races

A week of tapering and babying my strained hamstring (a couple hill repeats on treadmill monday, strides and form drills weds., otherwise all very easy) got me to start line of my spring goal race Pike's Peek 10k this morning. Good conditions -- no wind to speak of, 50's, drizzle that ended just before race.

Had hoped to break 34:00 but not to be. 34:15. On the plus side, I was first in M45-49 (75 bucks -- not really a living wage for 3 months of training, but I'll take it!), my second best time in about 10 attempts at this course, and hamstring held up fine. I was blown away by a couple of the good local high school runners on final downhill, but nothing I can do about that, as they're maybe 20--30 seconds faster in the mile.

on to an easy week or two to get fully healthy and then start twilighter 8k training program for mid-july.

have a great week,

Dave

Ah, spring time...hamstring kills, missed the Penn Relays, allergies off the charts, taxes reluctantly paid, Dipsea avoidance mode...just LOVE the spring time!

Jogged about 25 for the week...weekly highlight?

The HS frosh that I "mentor" hit 4:49 on Thursday...not too shabbbay!

Next weekend is my lead off on MWR&R and we'll discuss at that time my number two favorite subject (running is number three)...see you then.

stay well,

MF

Tax season is over and since I'm an accountant I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief. I think it was a combination of post-tax euphoria and nice warm weather that pushed me to an outstanding workout this morning. Sometimes you have workouts where everything clicks and it seems effortless? I just had one. Hurdles were flashing under me, my starts were explosive, and my legs had springs. Do you think I could somehow bottle this? I wish!

Unfortunately the weather forecast is rain for early next week, so I'll enjoy the rest of this perfect weather weekend. I think I'll go to the gym and play with my heavy iron toys when the rains come. My next meet is the Manteca Sr. Games on May 15. Hurdles aren't contested, but I'll be able to get a couple of starting sprint times in the 100 and 200 in order to begin tracking my season's progress.

Best wishes for good running.

Ran the same race as dhaaga. Finished in 35:06, 3 seconds slower than last year but a whopping 27 places lower (27th last year and 54th this year). That was quite a quality field this year. 8 guys under 28:50! I was somewhat pleased with my time this year considering I ran pretty poorly 2 weeks ago at Cherry Blossom and have barely managed 40mpw the past 2 weeks. I was expecting worse.

Time for a little break and then maybe I'll look for some shorter races in late May and June. Starting a new job 1 July that will be very time intensive. I will quite possibly be only dreaming of a 35 min 10K a year from now.

All the best everyone.

Oh ~ it's been a couple of weeks but I have a good routine going and most (if not all) body "tweeks" are disolving. Can't complain.

We are getting our usual hit & miss weather up here with a good bout of steady winds as of late. Nice sunny run this morning though.

Another 70+ mile week with a few good efforts in there at different paces ~ usual routine.

Mon ~ 10 x :10 sec hill (all out)

Weds ~ 4 x (800, 400) @ 3k pace

Sat ~ 400, 200, 400, 4 x 200 ~ all @ 800 pace *nothing exploded or ripped!*

Son ran a nice school record in the 800m on Thurs (1:54.0) & daughter pr'd by over a minute in the 3200m - scoring her first varsity point!! Good week.

Cheers

ty

Article on Doug(58) and Dennis(56)Kurtis and running Boston 2010.

Doug has the record for 76 sud 2:20 marathons back in the day.

Dennis is no slouch either.

http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20100425/SPORTS03/4250460/1069/SPORTS/Brothers%20band%20together%20at%20Boston

Ran (jogged) 20 minutes this AM. First run of any kind in five weeks. First pain-free run in six weeks since I injured my knee at work. Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed for you, Pete! I hope things hold up.

Even though my left hamstring/butt still bothers me, I have been getting in really good training the last month and I'm happy with it. I'm a lot slower than I used to be, but I'm handling some very tough workouts and hitting the times (slow as they may be) that I'm supposed to.

About 65 miles this week. The weather was better this week and now it's really nice out (though this morning it was a wee bit chilly for the long run).

2 workouts this week: 4 x 6:40 at tempo effort with 1 min. jog recovery on Wed. and 2 x 1600m at 10k pace, 3 min. rec. and then 8 x 400m at 3k pace (ugh!!!) with 100m jog rec. (the slowest jog you have ever seen ;-) )

Plus, 15 miles on trails this morning with my two friends, though I had to do the last 3 miles alone as they aren't up that far for their long runs.

I was proud of myself for doing the track workout all alone too early on Saturday morning on a track in the 'burbs (son had another doubleheader). I talked myself through it thinking about the Tennessee women and their fantastic DMR and 4x1500m relays at Penn (they won the 4x8, too). On the DMR, they used a different girl than the one who'd anchored their win indoors - a 5k runner - and even though the commentators were saying the Blood of Oregon was gaining, I thought that she was running the 1600m just like a true distance runner. And she just pushed it from 600m out and pulled away for a easy win for them. And so, with 600m to go, I thought of Jackie Areson of TN and pushed myself in to the finish. ;-)

But I have to say, I still hate 400s. ;-D

No races on my schedule, yet (except for HTC and xc), but I feel like I'm getting in better shape and that makes me happy. Now, if I could only lose those pounds in the middle - but it seems like they are very common to most 50 year old women.

muddy girl wrote:

Now, if I could only lose those pounds in the middle - but it seems like they are very common to most 50 year old women.

And to almost 50 year old women as well. **sigh**

Congrats to Auf and Running for another Age Group Track Record. Paul ran a 31:14.21 at Hillsdale on Friday night to break SoCal Pete's 45-49 US Record of 31:27.3. Just running in the fast heat at Hillsdale with the college kids at age 45 is inspiration enough. Wish I could have been there this year!

Another great week of training. 57 miles in 6 days with a bunch of miles under 6:30 pace. My legs were blitzed by saturday which was the goal. Thinking about doing the Wheeling 20k which I last did in 2003.

Go Cavs!!!

That muffin-top thing stinks. Spikez- I must say that the passing of your 4x100 record made me a bit sad. On the other hand, it couldn't have happened for a better group of ladies. And, I'm pretty sure you are on your way to some bigger an better records of your own!

This was my 4th and last rapid-mileage-buildup week. I managed 112 miles, which is as high as I care to go on singles. Still running very slowly, and with just one quality workout, but the mileage itself did not feel like a strain.

Now I'm looking forward to gradually mixing in some quality. Not too much, but enough that my goal marathon (in a much-too-soon 7 weeks) won't be an embarrassment :-)

Hope everyone has a great week!

Maurits

P.S. I will be moving soon, and am purging my book collection a little as I'm packing up. I'm selling a bunch of running books I've acquired over the years. If anyone thinks they might be interested, the list is at

http://www.maurits.net/books/RunningBooksSale.html

; shipping is extra, but media mail is pretty cheap. If interested, contact me at

maurits@uga.edu

800 race on Friday. Started slow, moved up well passed 4 or 5 runners.

Sat. 3x 300 3:00 rest 42.2 to 43 -followed by

3x 200 about 28 flat or just under.

Did some backward sprints, bounding, power-skips, and walking lunges prior.

Next day (Sunday) only made it 3 miles inner thighs were killing me!, must have been the lunges.

Today just 2x30 minute cardio sessions on stationary bike to let legs recover. NO more lunges for me.

...another step in the right direction....

Down week and a race....so...

Mon: 56mins

Tues: 6 x 800m off 3mins (avg 2:13/14)

Wed: 72mins

Thurs: monfartlek

Fri: 58mins

Sat: AM 30mins PM 20mins lus drills/strides

Sunday: 31:23 (split 15:25ish and then began having problems keeping up with the younguns, and then it became mental, as I packed it in big time the last km (24:50/55ish over 8km)... after the race my hip was messed up and I realized it may have been more physical than I had thought)

been a while since i has posted....

running has been slow going. the same hammy that has bothered my for over a year now (but i was thankful for without it i would not have discovered my cancer so early) is getting better but so slowly.

last few weeks have been mixed with some short and long runs. well last week i did a 14 miler along with a 7x800 workout. and it went pretty good considering. started at 2:45ish and went down to 2:33. 47 miles for the week to make my longest week of the year. perhaps i am over some kind of hump?

thinking good thoughts and looking for longer runs and bigger weeks ahead. besides, i have no recruits coming in and i need to get in shape to keep them at least a little humble ;)

Congrats to Aufandrunning on the 31:14 at 45!

I'm finishing up my first year as a female master's runner and it has been so good for me. I'm much more relaxed and have gotten faster again.

Last week was a hard week because my grandmother died and her funeral was on Friday. The 3K was on Saturday. She was a great-great grandmother with about 80 total grandchildren.

So I felt emotionally exhausted but still ran my first sub-9 3K of any kind in years. I timed myself in 8:57.87 and the 3K race timed me in 8:57.14! I was tired and my last 1K was my slowest (about 3:03.9).

I'm wanting to run sub-9 on the track. It is a special event to me that I wish was still run as a medal event in world class athletics outdoors.

In 2010 I have raced every Saturday and a few Tuesdays.

I envy all of you in your running -- and am vicariously training through through these posts. After 33 years of running and racing I have not run a step since knee surgery last Sept in the midst of a 13-month deployment. Recent MRI shows more 'wankiness' in the meniscus...so more surgery...which means no XC for me this autumn. BIG HEAVY SIGH. But I love reading about all the masters workouts and races here on the Boards. Keep it up -- I need the postive energy.