Road Racing and Training Thread - Week Ending 11/24

Stone: very nice! Sounds like a rough day for a beer mile. At least you held it all down and ended up on the podium. What was your beer of choice?

I practiced and raced with standard Heineken 12oz cans. Not the greatest tasting, but fairly easy to go down. Weather was definitely a factor on time but not on place. Unless I get better at drinking/belching Beer #3/#4, I wouldn't have made up 20 seconds today on the next runner.

Nice job on the 5K PR! Sounds like it was competitive to the end, which is all you ever ask for in Turkey Trots. :)

Results still no up yet but I was 9th / 16:46 unofficially. Splits were 5:29-5:38-5:01-38(0.13). First two miles were a mix of gentle/brutal uphills and the last 1.1 was downhill back to/near the starting line. (Guess the RD decided the altitude isn't enough to deal with so they made sure to include all the hills in the surrounding area too)

I think I am the only one on this thread who didn't win anything (unless it was an AG group award that I didn't know about). Although I did get served a nice slice of humble pie - one of the top 3-5 guys dressed up as Flash, and I lost sight of him shortly before 2 miles.

Overall a good run though, and happy that I got in some fast downhill running practice in for my half next weekend. Pretty excited about the level of competition in this town too, gonna be a fun 3-4 years.

Happy Thanksgiving / weekend everyone!

I'm about to post a novel, but here are my comments!

StoneCutter: I like the idea of staying in that sort of shape. That would be awesome to hit that pace for the full marathon! And nice beer mile haha. Sounds very fun.

Ramanujan: Very solid workout on Monday!

Jossman: Welcome aboard. Good luck in the full!

Logan: Good to hear you're feeling better!

Runnersfix: Killer close to that mile reps and 2mile workouts!

Xenon: Nice PR!!!

cmm268: Jeez you were all over the map this week! Solid volume for all the traveling!

erik: Nice long run.

GOLD: I like the 16x100. Do you treat it more like strides, or like a workout?

Diesel: Nice to see you're settling into a faster pace! Love that feeling.

DC: Nice recovery week. Smart to play it safe.

Portland: Great close to your long run.

FlyingKilt: That's a great workout on Saturday!! I might have to try that.

Slartzio: Nice job on the miles on Wednesday. And I like the moderate section in your long run.

Printer: Wow fantastice distance on the long run and a very solid pace!

NJ: Very solid workouts as always. I really like the acceleration workout.

NP1112: Wow. Insane long run. I can't even imagine being on my feet for that long.

Muebele: If you stay consistent than the results will come!

Sauconysean: Good luck with the sub 15. Looks like you're running the right paces during base for it!

Qrkid: Nice cutdown on the Tempo miles.

Nerp: Get better!

Perkunas: Get in the time on your feet during the winter with a mix of intensity and you'll be due for a good mile PR.

Garbage: Nice progression run!

Reed:Nice average for the fartleks! Great race too.

I ran so-so in my 10k this morning. 31:51 for 3rd place out of 14,000 people! Very cold and a bit hilly but I thought I raced pretty well. I'm kinda dissappointed with the time, but I know I'm fit so I'm hoping it'll roll over into indoors.

NP1112 - My marathon PR is 2:53:45 from the NYC Marathon in 1995 (a terrible positive split). After that race, I pretty much gave up regular running and racing until 2009. My next marathon was in 2011 (NYC 2:57:26).

So, I've got two sets of PR's.

A) My "1991-1995 PR's"

B) My "Post 2009 PR's"

I never thought I'd come close to my "A" PR's again, and may not for shorter races, but I feel like I can knock off my marathon PR in Kiawah on 12/14.

I ran so-so in my 10k this morning. 31:51 for 3rd place out of 14,000 people! Very cold and a bit hilly but I thought I raced pretty well. I'm kinda dissappointed with the time, but I know I'm fit so I'm hoping it'll roll over into indoors.

Dude, nothing disappointing about that showing! 3rd out of 14,000?! I think we all know you are probably closer to 31:00-31:20 shape based off your 15:04 5K and solid 8K races earlier this season - sometimes you just have to take what the weather and competition bring you and today it sounds like neither one was a big help. I am sure if you were in that race dcrunner0910 was in a couple weeks ago where you would have had LOADS of competition you would have had a much faster time.

Like you said, take that hard-earned fitness indoors where you can sharpen it with some faster stuff, and then stretch it back out in the spring with some sub-15 and maybe sub-31 performances.