Calling JDF (Read 1026 times)

If JDF wants some help, he'll ask. He's reflecting, per what he wrote in other threads and that is a fine thing. Since this thread exists, I'll offer up one thing. JDF, you like to post all kinds of whizbang graphs from your HRM, and you seem to treat it as THE singular source of information which you can/do rely on. As you've had several poor experiences to date, you might ask yourself if this is possibly a suboptimal way to play. Example: you asked about treadmill training, and I offered up that you should add a tiny bit of incline... 1 or 1.5. This was based on several years of experience on the treadmill, including one training window done entirely on the treadmill that ended in a marathon PR. More importantly, it matches with what pretty much 100% of actual experts (of which I am not) say. You chose to disregard this based on, it seems, what your groovy HRM graph showed you. And, when that groovy graph showed that your HR was low, you didn't come to the rather obvious conclusion "hey, perhaps that is because 0 on the treadmill is easier than a flat road". Instead, you went with option B: "I should speed up!" *and* you decided to insult me and talk shit about it. Maybe, perhaps you should revisit how you are utilizing your HRM. And maybe try another unit. At your race, your HRM didn't match the rest of your body's signals... yet after the race, you still seem to be basing your conclusions on the HR data. Perhaps the data were bad. Also, well, you should expect an elevated HR on race day. It's race day. I'm sorry you had a bad race. If you wish to try again, there will be ample opportunities. And slow down on some of those training runs. A 10 miler a few days before your race with lots of miles below your target MP (and, as it turns out, a target MP that was probably beyond your capabilities) was the last of many red flags. Good luck, and that's sincere.

JDF: If nothing else gets you back to running it should be the four pages of the people who care and hope you BQ at some point. Excluding this point of course:

Instead, you went with option B: "I should speed up!" *and* you decided to insult me and talk shit about it.

I believe they call that tough love.

I'd split the thing you quoted into two parts. The first part (the option B part) is extremely important to the point I was trying to make. The second part (the talk shit part), fair point. That said, he asked for help and I offered sincere help. And it wasn't like I wrote "look at the ostrich". Anyhoo, the first part of that quote is amazingly important to the stuff preceding it that wasn't quoted. Ok then.

The Enquire is a hack paper no doubt. I don't even want to talk about it. Not sure which is worse - Enquire or the Bengals. All I know is thank goodness we have the internet and I am a Patriots fan. srlopez - If I included the whole quote then it wouldn't be nearly as funny! Your a harsh guy but JDF is tough he can handle it. I truly believe JDF will be back with a vengance. I will be his number one fan! Maybe he will come to cincy and run the Flying Pig so that we can either both qualify together or go get a beer together.

logical fallacy

Enquirer.

bingo

Whoa........what ostrich?