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I've got a fever...
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
Me personally? I'd change my focus to perceived exertion scale as opposed to pace. Make the run feel comparable to your expected pace, rather than be a slave to pace in 100 degree weather.
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I didn't want to hijack another thread. However in this thread I saw a quote that is awesome from RunToWin: "I don't run my long runs at an easy pace; I run them at or near race pace." This is exactly how I feel. Somewhere along the line you have to train your body to efficiently handle the stress you are planning on putting it through on race day. I have been running more easy miles for Columbus then the Flying Pig. Mainly because I am running a lot more miles. The only run I consider hard at this point is my long runs that I have been doing at or near race pace. Like RunToWin I may change my mind for the training of the Flying Pig in 08 but for Columbus I am commited to this. I have no clue how I am going to do an 18 mile run this weekend when the temperature is supposed to be 100 with high humidty. I think the low for Sunday is supposed to be in the mid 70's with high humidity. Would you guys push a run like that off for next week or longer? How do you adjust for such days? I am not overly optimistic that it will cool down anytime soon here in Ohio though.
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
rectumdamnnearkilledem
My problem is that I like to be up an hour and half before I get running. So I am usually up by 4:00 but run at 6:00.
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
Good Bad & The Monkey
How does the heat affect your training?
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Okay first Trent you have to tell me why someone would be avg 25 mile weeks for a while then do a 100 mile week? Then I would love to know why you have 3 runs on one day! Not just once but several times.
Vim
“Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.”
“There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.”