Road Racing and Training Thread - Week Ending 12/30

Steveinalaska-- we got 2 other friends to jump in so itll be 7mi, 6.1, 7, 6.1 legs. "cyhawk" ran the half i think last year didnt find him though. This usually is the race that kickd us into gear for the year after a typically miserable new england winter ( he says to a guy with alaska in his name)

cheers brum! all the best for you too. i don't think i will find it easy though, seen as i havent raced for a while and haven't been putting in serious speedwork since november, but i hope to make the team. i am in the under 20 category so i don't know how it works in terms of how many qualify, but senior/veterans its top 10

Numbersguy - I hear you on the humbling stuff. I guess it helps just a little to know that Mo Farah can barely break 13 on a 100m dash :)

alftupper - Looking forward to your first 10k in 21 years? That's awesome.

oh please - I would have thought having a loop like that would get really, really boring but I found a nice 3-mile out-n-back at my in-laws that I have been running daily when we visit. It helps me relax and just focus on putting the miles in rather than sight-seeing. Do you have a goal race for your marathon?

NJ truth - Sorry to hear about your flirting with the running gutter. Yuck. I hope you are healthy again very soon.

tiger_runner - Sorry to hear about your knee and IT issues. Seems like hamstring tightness and knee issues go hand in hand :-\

NP1112 and Another - thanks for the responses about training and HRs.

des - 5000 is a lot of miles. I'm just floored. How was the 5K?

has been who never was Happy new year! Hope you are well again.

2016 MR - Good luck this weekend!

Darwinian - Yuck! I hope you are feeling better now. I'm with you on the ambitious goals. I'm aiming for an HM PR but I only ran a few seconds per mile in a 5K the other day.

marmite - Sounds like you deserved a week of rest.

GNR1 - what half are you doing in March?

grizz - sounds like everybody had a wonky holiday week. Anyway, thanks for the comment about my journey. I have a baby coming in 11 days (or less) and possibly an interstate move so things could get a little sidetracked but I will be sure to post the progression. I still need to do that baseline 2400 test, which I'll do when I can get a regular 50 mpw in.difficulties.

dcrunner0910 - I hope your calf is healed!

Young Guy - that's are fast times. Good luck on it all!

pablo - I like your goals. Like VF, I'll take #1 and #5 as well.

SteveInAlaska - Thanks for the comment on the pace. I thought for sure I still had 400 speed because I've got good "softball speed" but now I know everyone else is just very slow :-)

oh, and in terms of goals, since this seems to be the time and place:

Races:

5K - 17:59 in spring, 16:59 in fall/winter

10K PR- 35:22 - fall/winter

HM PR - 1:18:45 - fall/winter

Mar PR - 3:07:00 - spring/fall/winter

I mentioned before the marathon is low-hanging fruit and I might bag a marathon in the spring just to get an early goal checked off my list. The others are substantially more difficult!

Right now I'm at:

40mpw, no speed work

18:17 5K

2:23 800m

Other:

No specific mileage goals

Stay healthy

Run almost every day

SteveInAlaska: Should be a fun trip. My cousin lives in Baton Rouge and other family in Covington, just north of New

Orleans. I havent been since I was really young. Hoping to have a good time.

-------Final Report(12/16)--------

---------Honor Roll-------------

1) NP1112- 104

2) kr- 94

--------Provisional Honor Roll-----------------

3) marmite- 84

4) des- 83

5) 26.2 Marathon Runner- 82.5

6) SteveInAlaska- 81

7) grizz- 80

8) CTA- 66.5

9) VF Runner- 65

10) NJ truth- 62

11) alf tupper- 61.26

12) printer- 56.9

13) Young Guy- 55

14) Numbersguy- 52

15) dcrunner0910- 55.5

16) Another- 52.7

17) aaryno- 44

18) Hans E.- 44

19) has been who never was- 37

20) muebele 36

21) cyhawk- 35.5

22) Hopeful runner- 35.5

23) Gmuze- 22

24) running girl 79- 21

25) RunnerFC- 4.5

26) brumrunner- 32:22- Nice time regardless of position!

27) themack- Rest Week

28) pablo- hard luck, I am sorry to hear about the Marathon

------Final Report (12/23)-------

------Honor Roll-------

1) des- 101

2) NP1112- 100

3) 26.2 Marathoner- 100

4) SteveInAlaska- 95.5

5) Hans E.- 95

---------Provisional Honor Rolll------------

6) marmite- 82

7) brumrunner- 81

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8) CTA- 65

9) alf tupper- 60.21

10) dcrunner0910- 59

11) muebele- 55

12) Another- 54.6

13) kr- 54

14) grizz- 53

15) Ghola- 52

16) Numbersguy- 45

17) Chris_NJ- 42

18) VF Runner- 41.3

19) Reg Fields- 40

20) themack- 38

21) Darwinian- 37.7

22) GNR1- 37

23) has been who never was- 40

24) oh please- 31

25) running girl 79- 25

26) aaryno- 24

27) printer- 8

28) RunnerFC- 5

29) pablo- rest week

30) Gmuze- rest week

------Final Report(12/31)------

-----Honor Roll-----

1) des- 109

2) np1112- 106

3) SteveInAlaska- 105

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-----Provisional Honor Roll-------

4) Hans E.- 80

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5) brumrunner- 73

6) grizz- 73

7) cyhawk- 70

8) CTA- 67.5

9) 2016 MR- 62

10) Another- 58

11) Muebele- 56

12) Numbersguy- 49

13) Chris_NJ- 45

14) GNR1- 43

15) Darwinian- 39.4

16) aaryno- 39

17) VF Runner- 37

18) Reg Fields-36

19) pablo- 36

20) dcrunner0910- 33

21) oh please- 26

22) marmite- 25

23) tiger_runner- 21

24) NJ truth- 15 you sound like you are in the same boat as me

25) RunnerFC- 12

26) kr- rest week

27) printer- rest week

28) Young Guy- MIA week- smart goals

alftupper - Looking forward to your first 10k in 21 years? That's awesome.

aaryno just thought i would reply "well i am kind of but!!!

With all your talk of pbs, which races you are all doing,i got carried away and entered one and now i am thinking am i ready.(my first 10k was 33years ago 31:52 and my slowest)But hell never mind.

Just a quick Good Luck to dcrunner0910 with your county champs, and also to brumrunner.

How did your 5k, go it was on new years day?

Des also had a New Year's Day 5K I think. My New Year's 5K 18:17. I was hoping for faster but it's a 12-year PR for me which I'll take... "Bubka-ing" my record, so to speak. I was 5th overall and an age group winner (yeah, small feats!). Small but fast race with the winner in 14:4x. Felt kind of like a small dual HS XC meet...

TIGERRUNNER- sorry 12/23 i hit 72 and the week end 12/31 i totaled 75

Young Guy- I will get that fixed for the final report.

Also, here is the spreadsheet and all of my reports in a document. If you want to edit your weekly mileage feel free to do so. Otherwise, I plan on doing it myself eventually. Also, you can edit any inaccuracies I have made. Not all names are on the list so add yourself.

Document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13V_KW5R0X5obwmr7qPyO7aqYFJmj0G6-vlX3Y235G8M/edit

Spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap8qILviIkrudFcxcXlTeUxXQndldnMzR2hoU1hmZkE#gid=0

Tiger, I got into your spreadhseet... hopefully my changes were welcome. I reversed the order of the columns so that new weeks can be added at the left. That way the spreadhseet comes up with the most recent data in view rather than having to scroll all the way to the right. Just insert a new column in "B" next week (I already added one for this current week).

Aaryno- your changes are welcome and anyone else is free to add their training or chances. I would love to do it all myself and wow you with a special report, but I simply do not have the time. I feel like it will be more accurate this way.

Hey tiger_runner, thanks for doing this weekly list. I am sure it is getting time consuming with more and more people posting. Plus I think you are doing a better job tracking my running then I am right now

One of these days I will have to pick up the slack and give start the list myself, you deserve a week off

Muebele wrote:

Hey tiger_runner, thanks for doing this weekly list. I am sure it is getting time consuming with more and more people posting. Plus I think you are doing a better job tracking my running then I am right now

Hilarious! Yeah, I can imagine how much extra work this is for you, tiger_runner. I don't know the history of this thread but it does seem like a lot of work. It's neat, too, and you should be recognized for putting together a neat report. Anyway, having others contribute will help out a lot. Make sure there is a safe archive of good docs in case someone sabotages it. This is all public, after all.

grizz: I was still in NJ last week. I pushed the envelope a bit with my workouts trying to take advantage of the sea level. I just got back to Denver today.

aaryno: After realizing the avg miles per week that 5000 entails, I agree that it is a lot of miles haha. I'm starting to reconsider the 5000 goal and might adjust it to be a 3rd straight year of 4500+. The 5k went pretty well. I won it in 16:27 (also a pr). I was also hoping for a faster new years 5k time, but I can accept it given a few other factors. I'll talk about the race more in next week's thread. Congrats to you on the 12 year PR and top 5 finish!

Tiger_Runner: nice work on the spreadsheet. I adjusted my weeks (they were shifted a few weeks later), and I added a few weeks that were missing (when I probably neglected posting in the thread). I also added my 15k from a few weeks ago to the word doc. Again, nice job compiling all of this data into the documents. It's pretty cool to look at.

It really does not take that much time if I keep on top of it. I started it as a way to force me to read everyone's report. This part of compiling all the data was meant to be easier, but after it took 5 minutes to do one runner I decided to make it public. It saves to my hard drive I think so I hope I have a backup. only people who read this page have the link so I don't think anyone would be sly enough to mess with it.

tiger runner - thank you. I'm really impressed with your dedication!

dcrunner - I forgot you're a junior! If I don't qualify for Inter-Counties I might go and watch as it's in Birmingham.

Those of you who aren't familiar with the UK set up: inter-counties is the trial for the world cross, but you need to qualify for this through your county champs, so this weekend's races are like a world-cross-trial-trial. If that makes sense!

I concur and meant to thank Tiger last post. Hooray Tiger!

Very nice work tiger!