2023 The Waltons: Racing & Training Thread (Read 301 times)

 

Right, not truly cadence lock, but locked in on something else.  Sometimes, my heart rate graph will be a line sloping up from left to right, then flattening out - again, the watch just fabricating data.

Mine will occasionally go a little odd if I don't have it tight enough on my wrist.

Chest-straps can be susceptible to electrical interference (e.g. from transformers) but that shouldn't impact wrist-based HRMs.

My watch is generally pretty good.  It will often be wrong the first 5-10 minutes if the weather is cool, I have hands that get cold easily so the blood flow is not great early on a run when it's cold.

Steve -  I hope your partner is improving.

Mark - nice week.

Darkwave - nice RR.  You're always interesting with your shoes.  It was going to be the Edge+, then it was going to be the Adios Pro 3, and then you changed to the Rocket X2! I suspect the Pro 3's would have been fine in the rain.  I use my teeth to open gels as I find it's much easier than the hands, although I've never used Marten's, my recent marathon I used Torq.

Anyhow, sorry for being AWOL.

Week before last, one strength session, one mobility, and:

Weekly for period: From: 10/02/2023 To 10/08/2023

Totals: Time: 01:35:37 - 🦅Imperial: 0.00 mi - Metric: 0.00 km

Last week, two strength session, one mobility and:

Weekly for period: From: 10/09/2023 To 10/15/2023

Totals: Time: 04:15:14 - 🦅Imperial: 10.11 mi - Metric: 16.27 km

I will add a little more running this coming week.  I have quite a few niggles, which have improved a little over the next few weeks.

 

 

Darkwave - nice RR.  You're always interesting with your shoes.  It was going to be the Edge+, then it was going to be the Adios Pro 3, and then you changed to the Rocket X2! I suspect the Pro 3's would have been fine in the rain.  I use my teeth to open gels as I find it's much easier than the hands, although I've never used Marten's, my recent marathon I used Torq.

 

Yeah, this is because I have yet to find a shoe that I feel really comfortable in, if that makes sense.  Basically when the dystonia flares, it makes my footstrike weird, and I can sometimes control it and sometimes not.   So I need a shoe that works for me no matter how my feet hit the ground, which also fits my foot well, and that is a big ask.    The Hoka comes the closest to what I feel comfortable in, so far.

I'm actually now thinking of swapping back to the Adios Pro 3, if you can believe it or not.  I was running in a men's size 6.5 as that was the smallest size that I could find (I wore super thick socks and cranked the laces).  But I finally tried on a size 6 and that feels a lot better on my foot, so...the saga continues.

James - did you decide to tempo because your legs were sore?  Or did you decide to shorten your scheduled tempo because your legs were sore?

Watson  -good luck with the ramp up.

Mark - I hope your legs perk up.

Half-Crazy  - nice week last week.   WRT airports - my preference is DCA, then BWI, and then IAD.  DCA is great because it is 10 minutes from my house by car and an easy airport to navigate.  It's close enough to my house that I could theoretically walk home if necessary.   BWI is great, but a bit of a drive from me.  I despise IAD and will only fly from there as a last resort.

Steve - good job taking care of the horse.

My week was boring:

16 miles and 6 hours pool-running.
M: 90 minutes pool-running
T: streaming yoga and sports massage
W: 90 minutes pool-running and core
Th: 90 minutes pool-running and streaming yoga
F: 90 minutes pool-running and weights/core.
Sa: 7 miles easy (9:39) and streaming Pilates
Su: 9 miles very easy (9:52) and leg strengthwork.

Only thing of note is that I'm bumping up my focus on lower body lifting for the next few weeks.  I deemphasized it a bit during marathon training in favor of mileage + rest + PT for my running gait.  However, I think that what I now need to improve most right is my stride length, and in order to do that I need to improve the power my legs can generate.

I had a pretty good week.  64 miles / 103.0km / 10:48:59.  The 64 miles is the most I've ever run in one week.  In a different context, I ran slightly more miles than Mark in 50% more time. My last long run, today, was even faster than the same route 2 weeks ago, though maybe I pushed it to be faster than a long run should have been, but sometimes I get it in my head that I want to beat a previous time even if it's not ideal for training.

In other news, I got my confirmation information from the NYCM.  I am, indeed, starting in the 2nd wave (barely - 16th of 18 corrals in the wave) and will be running across the upper level of the Verrazano bridge this time, which I'm happy about.  The 2nd wave starts at 9:45, but being at the end, I'll probably cross the start closer to 9:50 or 9:55.  Since the race is the day after the time change, it will feel like starting at almost 11:00.  Too early to start stalking the weather.

Steve - that's a good week with study on top!  Sorry i missed it, but what are the exams you're doing?

 

 

James - did you decide to tempo because your legs were sore?  Or did you decide to shorten your scheduled tempo because your legs were sore?

 

 

 

The latter.  I hadn't done any faster running since my 5K two weeks ago, so wanted to do a tempo.  I may have done a bit much in the previous four days between the long run, a treadmill run, the 8-miler at a fastish steady pace (slightly progressive), and my longest swim in a couple of months, and it felt like a 3-mile tempo might've been risking injury or overtraining.  I figured that a short tempo would still give me the neuromuscular benefits of faster turnover and a little lung benefit.

I don't have a watch that gives me misleading (or any) HR data, but the HR hand sensors on our building gym's treadmill also seem to switch randomly to a reading that's something like steps per minute every so often, maybe 5% of the time.  After every six minutes of slow running, I take 40-second walk breaks during which I check my HR, which is almost always in the 90s or low 100s, except when it's in the 170s every so often.

 

 

 

DW, so not really running, but what's wrong with IAD? We were debating branching out to other airport for better flight selection (Philly or IAD), but with this last trip just went with BWI. It's just over an hour to Philly (or at least with DH driving). Suppossedly it is about that long to IAD, I don't believe it.

I live close to DCA, and not so close to IAD (though it's closer than BWI).

I have found that when arriving at DCA, it takes me more time to get from the gate to the terminal entrance than it does for my partner to drive over and pick me up.  This is because we live close to DCA.

I have found that when arriving at IAD, it takes me more time to get from the gate to the terminal entrance than it does for my partner to drive over and pick me up.  This is because IAD is a massive and unwieldy airport to navigate.   I'd rather navigate O'Hare.

At IAD, most of the gates are in separate buildings from the main terminal.  So, you arrive, go through security, and then usually have to take either a train or one of these shuttles to get to your gate.