No Talent Drips
I think compression socks are the answer.
You should go get the clap just so you can give it to her. --beef
My goals for spring are: 1.) do something remarkable at the New Bedford Half Marathon on 3/17 2.) break 17 for 5k soon after that. I just turned 43 so I'm well past my prime. I'm stubborn as shit and think I know everything, I'm moody and a wise ass, and I have way too much on my plate in real life. In other words I'm a coach's dream. I'll be accepting bids through, I dunno, next week sometime. Please include in your bid an outline of the training you'd propose, why you think it makes sense for me, and who the hell you think you are. 'Prec.
My goals for spring are:
1.) do something remarkable at the New Bedford Half Marathon on 3/17
2.) break 17 for 5k soon after that.
I just turned 43 so I'm well past my prime. I'm stubborn as shit and think I know everything, I'm moody and a wise ass, and I have way too much on my plate in real life. In other words I'm a coach's dream.
I'll be accepting bids through, I dunno, next week sometime. Please include in your bid an outline of the training you'd propose, why you think it makes sense for me, and who the hell you think you are.
'Prec.
Outline and Reasoning: You seem to run half marathons best when you're pouring yourself into marathon training, no? Why not train like you're training for the marathon in terms of volume, but when you get closer to the race, the workouts are keyed to the HM distance, instead.
Who do I think I am? Well last night I resorted to singing "I Go to Extremes" to put an infant to sleep. So, sorry, I don't know who I am.
A Saucy Wench
My kids were partial to Copacabana. Which of course always led into Lola. Wild Thing was also popular.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
It's really pretty damn simple. Just run more. Some times hard, sometimes easy but just run!
2013 Goals:
As in Ton-Loc?
I like the way you're thinking.
Runners run.
Milktruck say relentless
Looks like Nader is mikeymike's new coach!
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
" ..that corner has narrowed to a half-nekkid egyptian wandering about in the cold new jersey nighttime."~ R2E
Well, unfortunately, that's as far as I'm able to take it, so good luck Mikey!
More Cowbell!
Because fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, you don't want me as a coach for anything, and I'm not volunteering.
Focusing just on the 5k portion of your plan, I'll just throw out this thought: to get over (under?) the 17:00 hump on 5k (and you've been very close repeatedly), I think you should consider incorporating more 5k-race pace or faster running into your training.
For distances 10k and greater, most tempo runs are at or faster than race pace. Not the case with 5k -- half-marathon-style tempo training paces are slower than 5k race pace. The way to get your body to tolerate sub-5:30 pace is to spend some serious time there Not just strides, but actual intervals. Meaning 3x1 mile in 5:30, 6x800 in 2:40, 12x400 in 1:18. Painful stuff, but if you get used to running faster than race pace, then race pace will seem tolerable. That's true for every distance, but sometimes gets lost for 5k when using the train-like-a-half-marathoner approach.
Danger here is that this kind of training has injury possibilities for the aged. Proceed with caution.
When you're on your deathbed, you won't be wishing that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will be wishing that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
of course not. I am old. Troggs.
Run more. Mostly Easy. Sometimes hard.
Done! Please wire payment to my personal account.
Suppose there's this guy, and he's standing on the shore of a big wide river, and the... river's full of all manner of disaster, you know, piranhas, alligators, eddies, currents, shit like that... nobody'll even go down there to dip a toe. And on the other side of the river's a million bucks, and on this side of the river... is a rowboat.
Mm-hmm?
I guess my question's this: What would possess the guy standing on the shore to swim for it?
He is an idiot.
No, see, he's a helluva swimmer. His problem's more like why does he always have to... rise to the challenge?
He is a juvenile idiot.
So you are bidding to be mikeymike's coach?
Horseshit in staggering amounts.
I'll probably sing my kids Gangster's Paradise by Coolio. It's the only song I know all the words to.
How do you keep your feet on the ground, when you know you were born to fly?
break'n three
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