2022 Advanced Racing Thread (Read 496 times)

I’d certainly pick a faster time over higher placing, but placing is fun. I’ll never be anywhere in bigger races, or in OA placing regardless of race size, but I can be AG-competitive in small/medium local races. It’s an automatic for me when picking races, to look at last year’s results and see where I would’ve placed in my AG. I suspect some of you do the same? Doesn’t necessarily influence my race selection, but it’s nice going into the race to know whether I have a shot at AG placing. Regardless of whether they actually give awards for it, which seems like fewer & fewer races bother to anymore.

 

RP: I can attest to utter stupidity of running the day after a marathon, and the fact that it surprisingly helps getting into easy runs too quickly. I'm curious to find out if I'll be able to keep up the streak after my 40-miler. Kudos for that!

It’s the same, but different.  It takes the same

mental fortitude. Since my ultra was probably 40-50% hiking (maybe less) it might explain the different muscles being used and hurting.  I regret hearing ‘it’s much easier to recover from an ultra than a hard road Marathon’ because I proved to myself it is true IF you train equally. My training was 50 mile weeks running my zip code.  A few dedicated hill runs because I fear hills destroying me because my deficiency in ultras is hiking/climbing big mountains. 

I guess the upside is after the ultra you can set another goal. Just make sure NOT to race the marathon. You will PROBABLY be in sub-3:30 shape. I still remember going after a sub-3:30 (bellow old RWOL mates) and have a lot of experience from this, RWOL I CLUDED, forum for my success and advancement.

 

I assume doubles.

Each run would still be one or the other though. Maybe it’s a run that started in the morning and finished in the afternoon?

 

 

DK/Jmac/Mikkey - I care a lot about placing. I have only ever won one race. It was the day before the city's marathon. It was also part of a series, so there was no podium afterwards.

I would really love to win a race again.

Regrettably every single race around here requires a sub 30 minutes time to win a 10k, even the stupid fun races. There aren't as many races though due to being a small town of 200k people. I guess if I lived in a big city there would eventually be some charity run that would be winnable with my pedestrian sub 18 5k time.

My 5k PR (Parkrun) I ended up in 2nd place overall out of 214 runners…but during the race I wasn’t thinking wow this is marvellous as I’m nearly in the lead…I was actually thinking that I’m surrounded by a bunch of lazy bastards who didn’t put in the training during the week. 

DK - I think the 10 year continuous improvement thing is if you’ve consistently trained for that amount of time. I’m not sure if it’s even true or not, but it always stuck in my head as an incentive to keep going as I didn’t start running until I was 42yo. 

Year end review, with one result pending.

1- I ran my fastest 100 in Feb at the U.S 100 road championship in 14:58 and place 5th male.

2- 7 Weeks later ran a trail 100 miler and finished 4th. This was my 16th 100 miler.

3- Won the Mcckoy flats death race (backyard Ultra style) in 15 hours and 72 miles.

4- Ran a 2:58 marathon for my first road marathon in 10 years.

5- Ran every street in my city. About 1950 streets. Now working on 2 much smaller citys close to home.

6-  I have a 24 hour loop race at the end of the year. Running Across the Years 24.  Hoping to run a new PR by at least 10 miles. Hope to qualify for the U.S. 24 team.

7- This has been one of my lowest years for Krashes. It has to do with all the road I am running and not as much trail running.

8- On track to run my most mile in a year.  3,361 miles would be a PR.

9- Ran 3 marathons in 8 days. All under a 3:33.

Each run would still be one or the other though. Maybe it’s a run that started in the morning and finished in the afternoon?

It was doubles that causes the "both" - Dave was right.  Those stats are off Smashrun.

Although now I am intrigued to see how it counts a run that starts in the morning and finishes in the afternoon.

 

You didn’t really get what I was saying…and I have no desire to explain it to you as your sense of humour is limited to say the least.

Maybe it just wasn’t funny? Anyway I see you’ve resorted to your usual approach when challenged which is just to fire off an insult.

edit: I just noticed you restarted a thread from 9 months ago where you trolled someone for organising a charity 5k… pretty sure it’s not my sense of humour that’s the problem.

Year end review, with one result pending.

 

 

 

1- I ran my fastest 100 in Feb at the U.S 100 road championship in 14:58 and place 5th male.

2- 7 Weeks later ran a trail 100 miler and finished 4th. This was my 16th 100 miler.

3- Won the Mcckoy flats death race (backyard Ultra style) in 15 hours and 72 miles.

4- Ran a 2:58 marathon for my first road marathon in 10 years.

5- Ran every street in my city. About 1950 streets. Now working on 2 much smaller citys close to home.

6-  I have a 24 hour loop race at the end of the year. Running Across the Years 24.  Hoping to run a new PR by at least 10 miles. Hope to qualify for the U.S. 24 team.

7- This has been one of my lowest years for Krashes. It has to do with all the road I am running and not as much trail running.

8- On track to run my most mile in a year.  3,361 miles would be a PR.

9- Ran 3 marathons in 8 days. All under a 3:33.

Now that's a year! Well done KRASH.