How's your training these days, Ed? Hope you're doing well.
How's your training these days, Ed? Hope you're doing well.
Last year was a bad year recovering from a broken rib in November 2011. Only managed 3 races, the last a marathon in October. About a month after that my hip got sore and I took some time off for that. This year I have trained off and on because of knee issues. I thought I was making progress in March and ran in the Canadian Masters indoor championship. Ran too many races and had to take more time off. I have been training again now for about 6 weeks and at the moment I am stuck on 90 minutes a day due to fatigue and heavy legs, hope to get up to 3 hours again before the fall. Hoping to get in a number of races over the summer.
As always, Ed is so very modest. Another world record in March at the Canadian Masters Indoor Championships, this time as part of the Ontario M80 4 X 400m team.
Ed:
We can't say this often enough. You are a true inspiration. You'll never know how many people you inspire with your running. Awesome stuff. Keep up the great running.
How did you break a Rib?
Go ED!
[quote]RuKiddingMe!! wrote:
How did you break a Rib?
I fell down the front steps of my house around 6am. It was dark and raining. What I didn't realize was that there was a layer of ice under the wet surface of the steps. My feet went from under me and my side landed heavily on the steps.
Yikes that is painful. I'm glad you recovered well and are back with your running again. Best regards.
Hi Ed,
Are you related to Harold Whitlock, Olympic Champion in 1936?
No relationship with Harold Whitlock. Ed
Thanks, Ed, I hope your running is coming along well.
All the best to you Ed, and congratulations on the recent 4x800m record!
Ed--
"stuck on 90 minutes a day...hope to get up to 3 hours again"
Do you mean 3 hours a day? Every day? Ed, WTF? Just out of curiosity, what would one of your 3-hour workouts look like, and how fast would you run it?
My objective is to run (jog really) for 3 hours every day. I run multiple laps and I don't time them or count them so I don't know my pace or the distance run. In the past when I have achieved that objective for a period of a couple of months or so I have run my best races I don't get to my objective that often. It takes time to work up to that objcctive so that at the moment I am at 2 hours a day and it will take me at least another month to get to 3 assuming no problems come up as they often do.
Ed, so I know that you know, myself (and most probably others) have been training the same way, because of you and your success. That must seem strange..
Ed--
Amazing.
I'm still curious: assuming 3 hours a day, do you do it all at once or break it up, and if all at once, how do you manage water intake?
Also, when you do race, what is your perceived level of effort relative to your training jogs?
I don't know where you are right now, but I hope your course didn't get flooded out!
If it did, there'd be a lot of dead bodies floating by.
You're right, that's "unfunny".
Often such places have a creek or water feature included.
Have you seen any photos from T.O.? Google Toronto flooding
I do not think a change at this point in Ed's training life would be a good idea. He has run marathons miles faster than each age group as he ages. He knows what he is doing and it works for him. The older runner, age 65 and above, can develop all kinds of problems. We all have our weak points and it is better not to tamper with many of them. Also, I find the rate of deterioration accelerates as one ages.
Wish you all the best, Ed. You're a great inspiration.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
I'm still curious: assuming 3 hours a day, do you do it all at once or break it up, and if all at once, how do you manage water intake?
Also, when you do race, what is your perceived level of effort relative to your training jogs?
I don't know where you are right now, but I hope your course didn't get flooded out!
3 hours is done in a single session. I do it like that for reasons of convenience and also that to some extent a marathon race is just like every other day. Since I just run laps providing water would be easy but in fact I do not drink on my training runs even in the hottest weather. Typically I do not drink in races, if it is hot I will drink a bit in a half marathon. I generally drink a bit in a marathon, more if its hot.
I don't know how I would assess my level of effort in training versus racing, its much less. My running style is also different. in training I shuffle along with short strides minimizing the bouncing to ease the strain on my knees. In a race my stride is relatively long.
The particular storm that deluged Toronto missed us although we have had a lot of rain recently.
Ed