2018 3:20 (and beyond) (Read 582 times)

Darkwave:  I meant to ask earlier, your pool-running.  I scanned your blog, wow.   When you say 12 miles in the pool, are you jogging laps, or in place?  I never could figure out if it was better to be in one place, or cruise around.   I like how you computed time to a mile, etc.   I never could figure out if I should be jogging figure 8's or in place.  Ankle weights, no ankle weights.  I would have loved to have found your blog 2 years ago.  It was surprising how little I could find on the internet to help guide me.  It is great to now have your blog for a resource.  I think it was an excellent workout that would kick me in the butt mentally and physically.   Especially when I would take the float vest off.  I almost drowned a few times.

Duke:  Cute kitties!  Maine Coon cats--are they the breed that gets super big?   I think that was the breed of a friends cat that was the size of a small pony.

DW -- yep on the pace variability and on learning to run properly slow. I can get sucked into using average pace for the week as a proxy for gauging overall fitness -- which I know is a mistake. Didn't someone once say that at the end of a 4-6 mile recovery run, you should feel like you could just go out and do it again. That's slow. Of course piling up miles and basically being really tired all the time helps you run slow.

I'll bite -- why is SMax busy? Give my best to DW/my homie.

Dad -- that's a really nice workout. I wish I had that dedication and track/XC background.

On HR -- my first Apple Watch was buggy and the HR was all over the place, but they replaced it and the second one seems to be really solid. I'm happy. That and I found iSmoothRun and give it 5 stars. Runkeeper crashed all the time, it wasn't accurate on splits and it was missing features, but iSmoothRun is working great.

Is JimE out there? Hey PJ, RLK and McB.

Me. I need to find somewhere to run. haha. I go to the main road and if I turn right it goes into the city center (smog, cars, traffic lights) and if I turn left it goes straight uphill. I just keep waiting for it to plateau, but it just keeps going up. Today was 12@8:32 with 1655ft of elevation. wtf. 51 for the week. I'm doing enough miles to have tight muscles, a boing in my glute, tender achilles and chaffing. So that's good.

Also, for those of you not in the DC area, we did end up having a federal government shutdown (this is one of those things that is very big news here, and probably meaningless to everyone else across the country).

As discussed before, many of the local running and racing routes in DC are managed by NPS.  During the last government shutdown, those were formally "closed" to runners, though we just dodged or climbed the gates and ran anyway.

This time, the parks are staying open (yay!).  However...the restrooms are closed and locked (with the exception of one that they apparently forgot to lock).

I would like someone to explain to me how a restroom is not an essential function.

You haven't learned that bathrooms aren't essential from years of riding the metro?

I did the local BRRC 8 mile race this morning.  I told myself to do it at 7 minute pace, and got pretty close.  Not sure I could have gone much faster, so I don't knew what that means.

M - 8 trail, started at 5500 and went up, icy but beautiful

T - 9.5 - still did the workout off 3 days 7 hours of trails: 6x800 somewhere in the neighborhood of 3:10, extra warmup and cool down

W - 5 down in DC on windy Hains Point before dinner with my sister

T - 4.5 easy

F - 5 am easy

S - 10 thought better of the long run and just ran, few miles with a friend at super 9s

S - 8 mile race @7:03, 2 up 7 down for 17 total in lieu of a traditional long run

T - 59

i should go down the block and back this evening, shouldn't I?

Good golly that was a lot of links to follow to get to you guys. Happy new year to everyone. I've been an absolute slacker in keeping up unless you're on the book of faces but since I have a marathon coming up soon I thought I'd be "that guy" and stop in. I'm doing the Rock and Roll in Dark Wave's neighborhood in March and I feel like I have about a 30% chance of getting the elusive BQ. I'm glad to see this thread is still active and full of the same banter as usual. I'll try to stop in a couple times a week to throw in my $.02. For those who don't know me: I'm 39, living in Syracuse with a wife and two kids, 3:18x PR last year at Buffalo, used to be active on the RW forum but kind of lost my mojo when that all shut down. I'm very into hiking, real estate, and bad puns/dad jokes.

Dad: Thank you for sharing your back injury experience,  I can't tell you how much it encourages me to read of others who have "been there" and have been successful in coming back.  I remember my first mile without pain, 8 months out.  You would have thought I broke the tape at the Olympics.

Pepper:  Wow 5500!  Are you out west?  I lived a summer at 5500 ft at Old Faithful pushing a housekeeping cart, much less running.  What is your experience on coming down to sea level for races?   Have you always lived "up"?  The whole altitude training fascinates me in science geek kind of way.

FB:  What goes up must come down at some point?  :-)  It must be difficult to have to chose between the 2 everyday.

For me today, 10 super easy at snail pace with DH.  It was quite enjoyable.  We are different paces so we don't get to chat much running.   Yoga then Massage after, which she said my backside was trashed.  Like FB I was like "oh I must be getting into some good miles".

Ahhh running.

Hi everyone, I'm still around, but seem to have a lot less time to even lurk this year! I wonder why...

slow pace - I've noticed that my slow pace depends on how much mileage I'm running. I do feel relatively comfortable running at 9 min pace if I'm tired, so if running a lot of miles, I'm closer to that. Now, if running with someone else, I can go as slow as necessary.

vo2max - I have it on my garmin, but it seems very unreliable, so I don't pay attention to it. I think accurate HR data is needed to estimate it, but my FR235 does not seem to measure my HR very reliably.

ilana - nice to hear from you, but sorry to hear about your parents. Hope things are better.

omr - sorry to hear that  Hope you feel better soon.

Nice to see turbo around again, and a belated welcome to rozzie and matt!

Some great weeks from dad, PJ, CK and ace!

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention about DD2: she was 9.7 lbs and 21.3 inches at birth! I'm still amazed at what DW did.

My week:

Very good week 7 of modified Pfitz 18-55. On Sunday I was supposed to do a 18 miles LR, and decided to do 13 miles at MP since there was a HM race were I normally run. Did 1.5 miles, then ran the HM, and followed with another 3.5 miles. I felt good and HM was a bit faster than I was aiming for, finishing in 1:27:30. I kept it under control most of the race, but the last 1-2 miles I sped up quite a bit. I also wanted to use this LR to test my racers, the adios 3, and they seemed to work well. I'll try them again in a 20 miler, with more time on my feet, and if they still feel good, I'll probably race Paris in them. I do feel quite light in them.

Alright, have a good week everyone!

Got 55 for the week, all easy except for one brief interval session (4x800m at 10K pace).  This week I'm beginning a McMillan half marathon plan with the hope of finally getting under 1:30 in April.