Masters Weekend Runs and Races

Happy Father's Day to everyone. I've had a great week so I've celebrated over the last few days.

The highlight of the week (and maybe the year) was successfully taking 8 HS kids, including my 16 year old daughter, on a run across the Grand Canyon. We all flew to Arizona the minute school ended for the year and traversed on Thursday. Temps were only reached about 108 which was a blessing. Although it was described by many of them as 'the hardest thing I have ever done by FAR!' they were all vertical, tired, and happy at the end. For me, it was an experience I will never forget. Besides my daughter, they were all boys I coach. And the emotions were pretty strong for me at the end.

I would say it was a great Father's Day gift but it was much more than that. I'm still celebrating it today and will for a while.

So, the week was excellent. I can hardly walk today and I don't care. The leg pain will eventually fade; I hope the memory doesn't.

Skin

Happy Father's Day to all the dads! Mine passed in 2008. Still miss him. I hope you guys get to have a wonderful celebration (Skin's sounds awesome!)

I'm with Dave: if the elliptical was an Oly event I'd be all over it. Yesterday I ground that puppy out for a full 60 minutes at resistance level 12. I achieved what my old coach would call a 4 Star Sweat. That's where you are drenched front, back, and both underarms. Then I easy jogged 400m on the indoor track and it surprisingly did not hurt. This morning, still no pain. I am feeling hopefull but I've been at this place before and tried to push it, with bad results. Have to continue to be cautious.

Tonight is a hurdle coaching session with my kids from the youth track club. The weather is beautiful!

Happy Fathers Day!

Great messages from father's hearts. Always wanted to run (or just visit) that Big Canyon Skin. May get back to you someday for instructions.

Despite tweaking my hammy on interval #9 yesterday I'm looking forward to a Father's Day shake out run with my two boys gearing up for their fall xc seasons at Adams State & Southern Oregon.

Have a terrific day all you Dads.

KP

skinn, way to go on the traverse - sounds like an epic and meaningful trip.

I raced 1500 (bad) and 5 miles (solid) - I'm right where I should be by age grading, but still a step or two behind last year. Which is deeply frustrating.

But things are looking up - I raced well today - ran negative splits and medalled in my age group.

Now I train...next race a 5k on the track in 10 days. My task is to make goal 5k pace feel comfortable and not suicidal.

Just a great week here highlighted by today's 2 1/2 hour run in the desert. Lot's of hills and just pure beauty of the desert, very few other's out so I had it basically to myself.

Some good treadmill runs and a 6 x 400 track session during the week was all good. For sure I have hit a new level of fitness and ready to keep building.

Have a good week and Happy Father's Day to you all. We are having relatives over which I will introduce to my prickly pear cactus salsa, it is pretty good and hot.

I'm also up for the elliptical/stationary bike event. I've got hundreds (maybe thousands?) of hours on the elliptical and bike the past 15 months.

7.5 weeks post surgery #2; the swelling is finally getting under control. Still no anticipated date to start running though, I'll just have to wait and see how things progress.

Happy Father's Day to the dads. I've got 4 kids in the house this morning, two of which are mine while the others just seem to spend their weekends here.

Happy Fathers Day to all,

I took a week off and laid around the house. Felt great. Now I just need to roll off the couch and get back in shape. Gained a pound or two, but that's what happens when you eat and eat and eat. Watched some movies, did chores, and took a lot of naps. Might be hard to get back out there and start running again, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I get bored of naps and stagnation.

Signed up for 5 races next weekend at the Oregon Masters Championships...we'll see how that goes.

Gotta Run !!!

Ahrlin wrote:

Happy Fathers Day to all,

I took a week off and laid around the house. Felt great. Now I just need to roll off the couch and get back in shape. Gained a pound or two, but that's what happens when you eat and eat and eat. Watched some movies, did chores, and took a lot of naps. Might be hard to get back out there and start running again, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I get bored of naps and stagnation.

Signed up for 5 races next weekend at the Oregon Masters Championships...we'll see how that goes.

Gotta Run !!!

cripes if I took a week off I would have trouble running a 7 minute mile. It's been fun reading about your training and racing Ahrlin - good luck at the championships

Pretty mixed up week....couldn't decide if I was racing 800 or 5000 on Wed night. Left it to the warm up, felt flat so I picked the 5k. Things went surprisingly well with a masters track PR in 15:48. I was pretty much solo the last 5 laps, so there might be a little more in the tank. Aside from that, kept the mileage steady(70) and the sprinting fast(no real 5k work now).

Keep napping Ahrlin...it's the only way the rest of us will have a fighting chance!!!

JC

Very cool. Thank you for sharing that.

Happy Fathers Day!

Yesterday was one of our regional league track meetings. The English summer was at its finest, alternating between howling gales and tropical deluges and sending all the officials scurrying for cover at several points. I'm glad I don't throw hammer or discus. There was literally no visible boundary between the water jump and the entire high jump fan-out.

It turned into one of those never-mind-the-times, each-do-five-events-and-we'll-be-ok meetings. I ended up with my worst 1500 in living memory (4:29, blame the wind and two hours getting soaked first), a brief five minute recovery, then a 2000m steeplechase (made a lot easier by already being wet).

The problem with doing lots of miles and being known for it is that people figure you can aways crawl round one more event. Despite being about twice the median age for the team, I somehow got press-ganged into my first 4x400 in a few decades. All our sprinters had of course stayed home and dry (bunch of wimps..), leaving a junior long jumper, a balding old geezer (me), a pole vaulter and finally a half decent decathlete on the anchor leg. Suffice to say I was not the slowest - pleasantly surprised to do a 61 - and we won the match handily.

I think I have had too many beers and barbecues to do anything decent time-wise in the next month before my summer holiday, and the kids made me a big tub of chocolate brownies which I am getting ready to attack now, which could make things even worse. But there are lots of meetings on - two a week - so the plan is just to show up, do everything going and have fun.

The track is my beach.