2020 Marathon Training and relevant COVID 19 discussion echo chamber (Read 700 times)

The floor is yours Cal just keep going.. I have never seen someone so fascinated with my every word.

In the old RWOL forum I often had you blocked. so i didnt see you or hear your post. I have no interest in you geez now I understand safe spaces.

Your fascination with me is way too creepy.

 

Not sure what you mean but running sub 3 in 50-54 age bracket is not a big deal - at relatively small CIM marathon I ran 2:59:38 and was 25th. Sub 3 at 55-59 AG would place me 14th and in 60-64 AG sub 3 would bring you just 2nd AG I am pretty sure mikeymike knows about it better than me. I started running late, so, I ran sub 3 in 40s, in 50s (will definitely run sub 3 in 55-59 AG as I am 55 for the next CIM and 2021 Boston), not sure about 60s, of course - too far and too unpredictable at this point of life.

What I MEAN was you've run sub 3 in your 50s so you might know what it takes. Top 14....I could see you actually being top 10 in your 60s and you'd probably still be on my heels the whole time making my accomplishments seem so much easier because I'm so young. 

 

Is that OSR race sanctioned, or just a bunch of runners blocking the street? Caution do not try this at home. Amateur hobby joggers on an open road.

That race is outrageous and what exactly was the health and safety officer thinking? I wouldn’t have allowed it, unless they were all wearing motorcycle helmets, full body armour and steel toe cap boots.

Sub 3 over 50?  Maybe it helps if you started running late and have less miles on the clock. 🤔

Hold up so one of you RWOL'ers has a burner account on here?

Hey all.  Been a busy two weeks.  Lots of work, caring for the kid and pregnant wife.  Mostly 4:50 am runs or 8:00 pm runs.  The workouts the last two weeks have been really easy, which makes me feel like my training is going well.  On the whole easy pace thing.  Granted it matters what your resting (44) and max HR (190ish) are...but my 7 min mile treadmills my HR average is in the 130-136 most days on 4 to 11 miles.  Seems reasonable effort wise, but welcome to feed back.  If you are looking at workouts on my log note that the paces via garmin (7 min pace often shoes up at 6:50 and 5:50 pace shoes up as 6:31....IDK) are usually off, but my notes are correct.  I'll finally read the last two weeks of conversation since I finally have a free night.  Prepare for a comment storm....

Last week 84.5 miles....this week 80-81 miles after my 11 miler tomorrow.

Just copy and paste from my training plan which is a google doc.

How long did it take to create that table?

• Keen Nice week with the 2:13 is a long time to be out there. I try to keep my runs under 2 hours as much as possible.  I usually only do a couple of runs over 2 hours in a marathon cycle.
• Fishyone nice week. I find doubling is a nice way to get in more mid week miles if you have the time.
• JT- Yea fully jumping back in can be rough.  When I restarted a build I was dead man walking for a while even though my mileage was lower after my peak race.
• Katie-welcome to the wonderful world of running again.
• Brewing-Have you every used arm warmers? A decent pair are not super expensive and I just roll them down to my wrist if I get too warm and back up when needed.
• Nimmals-I really want to do a OSR race someday. I hear about them all the time on podcasts
• Calbears-trails expose all sort of lateral and muscle weaknesses. I have been mostly on the treadmill but when I go run in the snow and slush, I have all sort of weird soreness as the slipping, sliding and adjustments to avoid ice gets to me.
• DW-Late to the game, but nice job in Houston. I heard the final stretch back into the wind after being pretty sweaty really chilled some people.
• Cleaver…always good to knock that rust loose
• OMR-That elevation gain is B A N A N A S
• Andreas-Sub 3 is sub 3. Nice job.

 Absolutely, don’t let a race define you. Nice job, Andreas. 👍

Absolutely, Andreas, even if you had ran sub 2, it would be a mistake to let that race define you!

Everyone here uses a thing called yaktrax on their shoes if they need extra grip.

Some slower runners I see in vests usually when it is wind any they have built up a good sweat and then turn into the wind and know they will get chilled. I always play my route to start into the wind, but with racing you can't always. I never see people running sub 20 min 5k in them but lots of 30 min + 5k people wearing them.