Masters Weekend Races and Runs

Greetings from Iraq. I was able to watch my kids open their Christmas present through Skype.

I finished the year out right by winning a 5K here, 17:00. I also ran a nice 18 miler this morning.

Goals for the year: low 16's for 5k, run a full marathon here and get home safely so I can run club cross in the fall.

all's good, Tim

First off, thanks to all for letting hang out in your little slice of LRF. You remind me of the possibilities and provide inspiration.

This week: three runs of an hour each.

Sunday: a birt of struggle to survive an easy run.

Tuesday: a very good tempo; unfortunately, on concrete for much of it and a knee had a bad reaction. Took most of the rest of the week off (easy pool and stationary bike).

Saturday: very encouraging progression run in a pretty substantial rain.

Goals for the new year? Get my running head screwed on straight, trust my hamstring, get in a few good weeks of training, and figure out (by the end of March) what distance my fall season will be built around.

Oh yeah. Get in a "run" (for most of you it will be a jog)

with as many of you as possible.

RUNINTHESUN wrote:

Greetings from Iraq. I was able to watch my kids open their Christmas present through Skype.

I finished the year out right by winning a 5K here, 17:00. I also ran a nice 18 miler this morning.

Goals for the year: low 16's for 5k, run a full marathon here and get home safely so I can run club cross in the fall.

all's good, Tim

Tim,

Thanks for doing what you do! We need to have a beer when you get back!

45 miles for me this week. Got a good speed session and a solid marathon pace progression run. But my legs paid for it the end of the week. My long run today was ugly..

GB

Different training for me in 2011 involves working on speed endurance for the 300m hurdles. I have tons of explosiveness and speed but it's finished in less than 30 seconds. Gotta stretch that out about 20 seconds more.

Oh yeah, and I have to lose 6 lbs before the indoor national championships in NM beginning of March.

Best wishes for a great running week ahead!

Thanks for the good words radio !

Its now snowing like the devil here, gotta hit the trails be back soon !

RUN, glad that you got to watch your kids this Christmas, take care and keep running !

I had a great run today before the snowstorm, 89 minutes. I'll miss the trails for a while. We'll see how well Public Works clears the roads by tomorrow afternoon, they have been plowing the paved trail around the pond by my house for the last couple of years...repetitive, but you take what you get with a foot of snow. I'm pretty sure none of my high school kids ran 12/24, Christmas, today, tomorrow...grrr!

I'm in Key West this week. The weather Christmas day was wonderful and we all went to the beach. Then a front came through last night and it is very windy and cool right now. I ran ten miles this morning before everyone woke up. Tomorrow and Tuesday will be cool, but it still beats shoveling snow.

Have a happy new year everyone!

So I did my trail run and thought it would be a nice quiet run with my trusty German Short Haired Pointer. It turned out to be a Bubba convention. Thats right a Bubba convention. The snow here in Carolina must bring them out, no less then ten 4 wheel drives went by, usually on a cold weekend day maybe one or two trucks go by us. To top things off one Bubba got out of his truck with his high powered bow and arrow looking to hunt down a deer which is fine but he was awfully close in my view to where we were running. Oh well things worked out ok, everyone stay dry and war.

It must be hunting season old man. Makes me nervous running in hunting season. I wear flourescent green and an orange hat. Too many mistakes out there. I need to make some goals for 2011. I achieved some of my goals last year and some not. I wish I lived in a climate that was almost always conducive to training. Oh well. Have a good week all. TC

pretty good week. 71 miles, incl. hill repeats on treadmill Monday and 20 miles with 8 at marathon pace Thursday. So far the snow is minimal here (DC).

Top goal for 2011 will be managing my left achilles and training consistently.

Happy new year,

Dave

I got a Runners World calendar for Christmas and I see the month of September has a quote from Coach Mike Fanelli. Pretty nice calendar. Beautiful pictures

Top Cat , don't leave us hanging what did the our coach have to say ?

" Divide the race into thirds.Run the first part with your head, the middle with your personality, and the last part with your heart." Mike Fanelli, coach

Happy Holidays

Learned a valuable lesson today to NOT start my two hour Sunday trail run with the college kids home for the holidays...damn - WAY too fast the first 10 miles (63 mins!!). They headed back and I had another 8 miles to go. Brutal last 30 mins.

Great Holiday weekend with family visiting and massive turkey consumption happen'n!!

Tested myself with one real workout and slacked with 3 x 3 mile days. Still put up 61 miles for the week and fast approaching my best mileage year in a decade (3600ish).

Goals - as always to stay healthy and run another sub 4:20 mile and break 2:00 in the 800m. Maybe repeat a top 10 finish next Fall in XC?

Friday - 20 x 200 w/10 push-ups between each (40 degrees and raining :(

Looking forward to another "whatever" week.

Cheers and drink responsibly

Tony

63 minutes wins 10 milers here by a landslide. Cheers to you TY.

northwest master wrote:

Friday - 20 x 200 w/10 push-ups between each (40 degrees and raining :(

Let me be the first to say: Wow!....

Dave

After 3 weeks of 60+, I took an easy week of 40 to enjoy the week with my family for the Christmas break. I did get a couple of rainy, muddy trail runs in with a former college team mate and it was like being transported back in time 20 years as we splashed and laughed in the rain like a couple of kids. Ahhh.

On a different note, as I am heading into the new year, I was wondering if there are many of you who have ventured into the 100mpw's in your mid 40's? I was able to handle 100+ quite well in my late 20's and early 30's, but it has been several years since I have really ran much. So, I guess what I am asking is, how did you get back to 100+, was there any benefits to getting back to 100+ and what was the basic break down of your week?

Want to wish all you "youngsters" all the best for the coming year.

I post on the 50+ thread (I'm 53) these days but OMBTS is still tops for starting this whole thing.

I ran 75 miles last week so base is going well.

Tim, thank you and be safe my friend, I registered for Lincoln and hope you will be able to make it too.