Racing on Consecutive Days - Best tactics? (Read 668 times)

You're not going to want to hear this... Sounds to me like you have stuffed and addressed the envelopes and only need to drop them in the mail... can you say invitation to injury??? Pick one...ONE and race it at 95%. That way, the order doesn't matter. Why do you want to do this? Are you targeting a sub-15 5k in 6 weeks or something (joke, OK?)? Your training pace is not compatible with back to back days at the pace you are targeting. OK, sorry to preach, but I'd hate to see you go down now. Off my box, Lynn B

You're not going to want to hear this... Sounds to me like you have stuffed and addressed the envelopes and only need to drop them in the mail... can you say invitation to injury??? Pick one...ONE and race it at 95%. That way, the order doesn't matter. Why do you want to do this? Are you targeting a sub-15 5k in 6 weeks or something (joke, OK?)? Your training pace is not compatible with back to back days at the pace you are targeting. OK, sorry to preach, but I'd hate to see you go down now. Off my box, Lynn B

This from a guy planning on running 100 miles over mountaintops, half of it in the dark. What's my worst case scenario? I pull a hammy? Rupture an achilles? Meanwhile, what's yours? Falling of a mountain ... and dying? Being dragged off the trail by a mountain lion and being eaten? Croaking from hyponatremia? Lots of potential death on your horizon. And you're preaching at me? But you're right. Good preaching, Reverend. I'll still run them, but I'll slow at least a couple of 'em down to marathon pace tempo runs or something. But for the record, I may chuckle at the irony if you get eaten by a mountain lion while falling off a cliff because you were stumbling around in a hyponatremic daze .... Thanks for the advice guys!

*sits down with a big bowl of popcorn*

Yeah, but you guys are more fun. k

You do like butter on popcorn, don't you? Please say you aren't one of those weirdos who likes just salt. Ick. k

For the record: THIS IS NOT MY FAULT!!!

Maybe. But isn't it great that I have someone to blame if things go wrong? That's me. Always planning ahead.

"Meanwhile, what's yours? Falling of a mountain ... and dying? Being dragged off the trail by a mountain lion and being eaten? Croaking from hyponatremia?" Yep, but I might miss all that fun if I overtrained running FAST for three consecutive days, oh, and you missed being bitten by a rattlenake, nests of hornets, rabid skunk attacks and much more!

Sure. But I didn't want to scare you. I also didn't mention going blind. As you probably already know, Dean Karnazes supposedly actually went BLIND the first time he ran the thing. Blind. Dude. That's just wrong. You won't even see the hornets, snakes, skunks, and mountain lions coming. Fortunately, you'll probably fall of a cliff before they get you. So that's cool.