I say a lot of insincere shit on the internet, Globule. Especially when there's an opportunity to mock geeks. Hell I own a Garmin and yet I mock the Garminites relentlessly. Sadly I know a thousand times more about technology than most people. The good thing about being, for the most part, a non-geek who happens to understand technology is that I tend do a better job applying technology to solve problems, and not to just create bigger more complex problems.

And if you read the quoted words closely you'll see they were not hypocritical at all. I had posted a link to Nate Jenkins' training blog because of what Nate wrote about a race or a workout, and the response I got was something to the effect of "that blog sucks cuz there's no RSS. LOL. "

And if you read the quoted words closely you'll see they were not hypocritical at all. I had posted a link to Nate Jenkins' training blog because of what Nate wrote about a race or a workout, and the response I got was something to the effect of "that blog sucks cuz there's no RSS. LOL. "

Easy there, killer. I'm just fucking with ya. It's easy and fun to do when you selectively quote people out of context.

Interview with Rod Dixon: http://petemagill.blogspot.com/2009/05/rod-dixon-interview.html

It would be great to share a few pints with these guys and just listen to their stories. Can't get over the fact that Dixon looks like he's no older than 40 and still has some serious wheels. I guess running might be good for you after all. Great read on the definition of a tempo run in this week's headline (for those of us newbies that have a hard time seeing the forrest for the trees).

You linked that for me didn't you. First good run in a while today!

Okay, so here's a question. What do you do to reboot the cycle? Is it some lower mileage weeks, and then back into the base phase?

Okay, so here's a question. What do you do to reboot the cycle? Is it some lower mileage weeks, and then back into the base phase?

Keep in mind I'm no expert...and this is one of those subjects I think about a lot but can't really write about all that well. I could talk over beers (or over a long run) for an hour or two and probably get my meaning across better. For me, it's not the overall mileage that's important all the time because unless I'm running peak mileage for a marathon, I'm generally not extending myself in terms of pure mileage anyway. It's he workouts that count. When I'm in the heart of training for a goal race, workouts get pretty intense. When I'm just running base miles, they are pretty easy. And by workouts I'm counting long runs, tempos, hills, intervals...anything but easy runs and strides. So to reboot the cycle, it's more about some low intensity weeks than low mileage weeks. Except that after a goal marathon I do a couple low mileage AND low intensity weeks, just to make sure I'm good and recovered. After Boston I took a few days totally off of running--as I always do after a marathon--then ran a total of 20 miles the rest of that week. The next week was 64 miles but all easy pace except for some 200s at 2-mile pace for turnover on Wednesday and the last 4 miles of the 13 I did on Sunday, I picked it up a bit. A pretty easy week. Now the thing is not all cycles are the same intensity so not all need the same amount of reboot time. After Bay State I took it pretty easy for 2 months (except for the monkey.) Then I didn't train or race as intensely for Boston because I wanted to leave enough in the tank to focus on a 5k racing season in late spring/early summer. I really tried to think of Boston as base-building for the spring/summer. So now after doing a gentle ramp up post-Boston, I'm back to full fledged training. But I'm building the intensity gradually--I'm not unleashing hell in my workouts yet because my goal race isn't for another 7 weeks or so. I've got to try and ramp up the intensity gradually enough to put all the wood behind the arrow on July 12th...and then maybe eek one more good race out on July 19th and beat The Thunder. After that I'll shut it down for a few weeks before turning my attention to a fall marathon. But shutting it down after a 5k-10k season is different than after a goal marathon--I won't need to drop mileage too much, just intensity. I'm thinking after the Luti it will be a couple 70-mile weeks of pure easy mileage and I'll be good to start ramping the marathon type workouts, again gradually. If I time it right I'll be ready to do a build up for a fall marathon that's more intense than I did for Bay State last year, pour everything I have into that race, and then I'll take full month down to recover. It's hard to explain but for me this cycling of training and recovering is as much mental as physical--it's how intensely I'm planning and excecuting my training versus just going out running every day. Part of it is just setting expectations--if I'm still 8 weeks from my goal marathon, I don't want to run too fast in some random 10-miler or half marathon...it's the wrong time to be peaking. I can only run a 100% effort so often and still keep making progress...I'm getting old.

Hmmmm....just thought I should post on this thread...because, well it's obvious to me I'm trying to milk too much out of this training cycle. But I don't have my bike yet! So i can't move on!