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I've got a fever...
Do you guys believe in The McMillan Running Calculator?
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
My avatar is the logo from the monkey marathon. I am beholden to that beast. JK is just an ape.
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Imminent Catastrophe
... Any clue how you did it - if you were having trouble recently getting under-4:00? Sounds like you've got a BQ time waiting in the fall ...
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BTW do yo read "Marathon & Beyond"? It's a really great magazine.
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Poor baby
Why is it sideways?
Training: I'm using a plan (more accurately a guideline) from Marathon & Beyond magazine. Basically, a lot more training at tempo pace (7:25-7:45) and goal MP (8:00). I worked into it gradually to avoid injury. Started with fartleks (1,2,3-minute bursts), then tempo runs (warmup, tempo, cooldown), then ran races (5k, 10k, 15k) at tempo pace. The result is that I am MUCH more comfortable running at 8:00-8:30/mile than I used to be. That's both physical and mental. I'll increase my runs to MP runs of 13.1 and 18 miles and add more hillwork. (BTW my log is misleading as I sometimes don't know exactly how to categorize these runs). Plus every run I do is hillwork, just becuse of where I live. I've been working the hills harder, which really helped at the Pig, the hill up to mile 9 didn't bother me at all. Like I said, I just kept an eye on my heart rate monitor to avoid going out too hard.
However, as I clearly demonstrated, there is a risk of doing too much at your goal marathon pace or faster. After three months of running nearly every mile at this effort, my body felt broken on marathon day, even despite a good taper. The high-intensity work needs to be couched in a hefty base of easier aerobic miles to allow the aerobic system to develop and to permit adequate recovery from the intensity.
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However, as I clearly demonstrated, there is a risk of doing too much at your goal marathon pace or faster.
Yes. I clearly demonstrated this in 2005 also, too much fast running resulted in a stress fracture. By a "lot more", I really mean, "some" because previously I was doing almost none. I still do a small percentage of my training at MP or tempo and that's after over a year of almost exclusively slow, aerobic base building.
O.K., I just looked at Perfesser's log and saw that intensity is not really the focus of the training. You've got some hard efforts every week or so, but what you describe makes it sound as though you are out running "a lot more training at tempo pace (7:25-7:45) and goal MP (8:00)." "A lot more" in this case just looks like "a little"--meaning once a week or so. The rest of the week is actually very easy mileage (MP+1:30) with multiple days off. Plus, there are EASY LONG runs, like marathons and over. You say your log is misleading...am I reading your log right?