Best advice at a bar that I could run orst 26.2, and a strategy. I had gained my most weight in grad school, and guessed it was impossible.
Worst advice anything by a non-runner too often to pick just 1.
Best advice - At least 80% of your mileage should be run at an easy pace.
Worst - All of the ancillary bullshit. If I spent as much time stretching, cross training, strength training, and doing all the other ancillary stuff I'm "supposed" to do in support of my running, I'd never have time to run.
Short term goal: 17:59 5K
Mid term goal: 2:54:59 marathon
Long term goal: To say I've been a runner half my life. (I started running at age 45).
Best advice and mantra: "Run lots, mostly slow, sometimes fast." My understanding it is mainly attributed to SRL on RA and RWOL, but maybe was actually brought down from the mountain, engraved on stone tablets.
It turns out, we are both wrong.
answer here (a post in the general forums)
The quote (which is "run lots, mostly easy, sometimes hard") is attributable to two people.
A sick and twisted race director and a helpful knight.
mta: I still haven't got the quote right. fixed it again.
Trail and Ultra Running User Group
Is birdwell =Stevy Ray. SRL? From RW? He was my Internet crush over there when I first joined and then he disappeared.
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Traci
Internet crush? I need one of those.
I think Stevie Ray quit RA (don't know about RW since I haven't been there), but these days he is healthy and running lots. I think he's mostly active on Facebook and Marathon Maniacs. He just finished a 100 miler.
no, no, no, not at all.
SRL is over here on rare occasion. In fact, the last sighting was earlier this week, in this thread on the general forums (page 4,5 and 6 mostly)
Oh okay. Glad to hear he is healthy.
Bird, I just stalked your profile and you sound very SRL ish to me.
He wishes!
And my apologies to the original authors of the quote.
Dave
He wishes! And my apologies to the original authors of the quote.
+1
Skirt Runner
SRL hangs out a lot on the Half Fanatics facebook group....I'm pretty sure he is actually an admin.
As for worst advice it would have to be a coworker of mine who also has a DOCTORAL degree in PHYSICAL THERAPY: "if you keep up running your uterus will fall out when you get older."
PRs: 5K- 28:16 (5/5/13) 10K- 1:00:13 (10/27/13) 4M- 41:43 (9/7/13) 15K- 1:34:25 (8/17/13) 10M- 1:56:30 (4/6/14) HM- 2:20:16 (4/13/14) Full- 5:55:33 (11/1/15)
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Are we there, yet?
Worst advice? Almost any of the standard clichés about training such as the 10% Rule and "run slower to run faster". Then you can add any of the typical novice training programs, especially those for the marathon.
2024 Races:
03/09 - Livingston Oval Ultra 6-Hour, 22.88 miles
05/11 - D3 50K 05/25 - What the Duck 12-Hour
06/17 - 6 Days in the Dome 12-Hour.
race obsessed
SRL hangs out a lot on the Half Fanatics facebook group....I'm pretty sure he is actually an admin. As for worst advice it would have to be a coworker of mine who also has a DOCTORAL degree in PHYSICAL THERAPY: "if you keep up running your uterus will fall out when you get older."
No ute, less weight, faster times = sounds like a plan.
Best advice - At least 80% of your mileage should be run at an easy pace effort.
Worst advice - anyone saying "run at x mpm PACE". Easy and hard are efforts, not paces.
Even "MP" should be stricken from the books - it should be a marathon effort run.
Come all you no-hopers, you jokers and roguesWe're on the road to nowhere, let's find out where it goes
Labrat
"Run Lots, mostly easy, sometimes hard" is the best advice I ever saw, and it works for any sort of cardio exercising. I use the same principle on my bike when X-training
5K 20:23 (Vdot 48.7) 9/9/17
10K 44:06 (Vdot 46.3) 3/11/17
HM 1:33:48 (Vdot 48.6) 11/11/17
FM 4:13:43 (Vdot 35.4) 3/4/18