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Week 37
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Greetings fellow 50+er's. Another week in the books, heading somewhere....not sure where, but enjoying the journey nonetheless.
Well, having said that, it was a forced down week for me; suffered through a pretty nasty cold midweek (lotta dripping, coughing, sneezing, headache, etc...). Made myself get out and at least move the legs each day, if only just briefly. Probably not all bad, as I needed a few days to recoup from my hamstring tightness end of last week. Only managed 30-31 miles for the week, with no workouts. Log reads as such:
Sun: 5.3 miles easy, picked up pace on last mile
Mon: 6 miles easy, with 10x 60m strides
Tues: 2 miles easy
Wed: 2 miles easy
Thur: 3 easy
Fri: 4.3 miles easy
Sat: 7.9 miles, steady easy-to-moderate pace.
Felt much better by Friday, but didn't want to overdo it. Saturday was intended to be a hard effort day, but 40's and rainy, and I just wasn't feeling like pushing it, so I ended up just running what I needed to get 30 in for the week then called it a total down week. This week will have a few workouts (knock on wood).
Couple of masters-related things of note in the news:
1) I guess we all saw that Eddy Hellebuyck's tainted masters records are being taken down.
http://www.usada.org/default.asp?uid=3788
Even though he came clean eventually, and despite his explanations, it's hard for me to feel much sympathy for him.
2) Charlie Kern won the Masters mile at the New Balance Grand Prix:
http://www.nbindoorgrandprix.com/events-results/mens-masters-mile/
Looks like he wasn't seriously challenged.
3) It was also reported that Nick Rose (who was also a former Western Kentucky U. runner I might add) showed he's still got some zip in his legs at age 60:
http://www.runbritain.com/little-runbritain/155/
Anybody have any Nick Rose stories?
4) It was also reported in Masterstrack that "Marie-Louise Michelsohn utterly destroyed the W70 American record in the 3,000, smashing the 14-minute barrier with her 13:15.88, beating the listed AR of 14:07.09 by the legendary Toshiko d’Elia in 2001." Kudos to her!
Other news to report? Anyone racing indoors this year? Anyone going to Masters Indoor Nationals in Bloomington, IN? I'm tempted because of the proximity, but I don't feel anywhere near race ready, so I'll probably pass.
Hope everyone is having a good training (or recovery) week.
Cheers.