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Steve - yes! Nothing like listening to Smashing Pumpkins or Rage Against the Machine on your walkman on a cassette you'd dubbed off your mate.
Dave - can you count the 8k as a 5 miler as well?? Nice work.
a smith - big arms don't help you run fast!
Darkwave - I'm interested to see what happens with my kids generations. My 6 year old defaults to finding videos on youtube kids with voice search. Not my preferred way of doing things but I've refrained from comment thus far!
3,000m: 9:07.7 (Nov-21) | 5,000m: 15:39 (Dec-19) | 10,000m: 32:34 (Mar-20)
10km: 33:15 (Sep-19) | HM: 1:09:41 (May-21)* | FM: 2:41:41 (Oct-20)
* Net downhill course
Last race: Runway5 / National 5k Champs, 16:22, National Masters AG Champ!
Up next: Still working on that...
"CONSISTENCY IS KING"
Hot Weather Complainer
Or sitting next to the radio waiting to hear your favourite song to record...probably more Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Metallica for me in the early 90s. Oh and trying to be caller 9 each hour to win a prized album you couldn't afford to buy. I usually won ones I wasn't that keen on but eventually won INXS, Live Baby Live after a whole weekend of trying. The excitement was huge...
5km: 18:34 11/23 │ 10km: 39:10 8/23 │ HM: 1:26:48 9/23 │ M: 3:34:49 6/23
2024 Races:
Motorway Half Marathon February 25, 2024 1:29:55
Christchurch Half-Marathon April 21, 2024 1:27:34
Selwyn Marathon June 2, 2024
Dunedin Half Marathon September 15, 2024
Mother of Cats
Or spending hours in used cd/tape/vinyl stores, looking for that very rare track or album.
Kids have no idea how hard we used to work for our music.
Everyone's gotta running blog; I'm the only one with a POOL-RUNNING blog.
And...if you want a running Instagram where all the pictures are of cats, I've got you covered.
And hearing a new song on the radio and having no idea what it is, or any way to find out if you had to get out of the car before the DJ called out the last 10 songs or whatever. No digital display, no Shazam, no internet to look up lyrics.
Early in the internet days, there used to be a website called something like KissThisGuy.com, listing the most popular mis-heard song lyrics. Named after Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze”—“ ‘scuse me, while I kiss this guy.” I had a friend who actually referred to those as “Boston Choirs,” based on someone he knew who in the song “I’m Not in Love,” with the line “big boys don’t cry,” thought it was “Big Boston Choir.”
Dave
Merkle any hill in a 5k is a killer. You did well.
Steve thanks for the vote of confidence. I was in pretty good shape when I was doing Hagley but seemed to get stuck around 18.15. We can compare Parkrun notes on Saturday. Papamoa is getting a Parkrun too so that's cool.
Nice job on your exam. You must feel alot of stress is behind you now with house sale, marathon training and exams !
Darkwave I don't think Fishy and I would come to you for fishing advice either but apart from that you are my Wikipedia
55+ PBs 5k 18:36 June 3rd TT
" If you don't use it you lose it, but if you use it, it wears out.
Somewhere in between is about right "
king of the non-sequitur
And hearing a new song on the radio and having no idea what it is, or any way to find out if you had to get out of the car before the DJ called out the last 10 songs or whatever. No digital display, no Shazam, no internet to look up lyrics. Early in the internet days, there used to be a website called something like KissThisGuy.com, listing the most popular mis-heard song lyrics. Named after Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze”—“ ‘scuse me, while I kiss this guy.” I had a friend who actually referred to those as “Boston Choirs,” based on someone he knew who in the song “I’m Not in Love,” with the line “big boys don’t cry,” thought it was “Big Boston Choir.”
Boston Choir lol. my BIL is from there and was visiting saying "where are my khakis?" and im like, you are wearing them! and he's like :"no where are my khakis" and i says: wth do you have another pair? him: "no...my khakis" oh! your CAR KEYS! *snort*
Bridle Trails 50k 1-13-24 5:39
Cottontail 6 Hour 4-13-24
Cougar Long Series (May,June,July,Aug 2024)
Carkeek 6 Hour 10-19-24
Not an 80%er
So the other day I had this song playing in my head and I wanted to find it on youtube. So I went online searching for the lyrics I remembered, something like: "my, oh my, oh my".
Weirdly, there were a ton of results but none close to what I was looking for.
Then I added some more keywords to it like "80's" and "pop song".
Eventually I found a link to a reddit thread where someone was trying to find the exact same song. That person actually found the answer by themselves, and it turns out they, like myself, were remembering the song wrong, the lyrics are actually "Life, oh life, oh liiiiiiife", song is called Life, from Des'ree 🤦♂️😂
I've used midomi.com in the past for situations like this, you can try to lalala/hum your way into finding the song, it actually works for well known songs.
PRs: 1500 4:54.1 2019 - 5K 17:53 2023 - 10K 37:55 2023 - HM 1:21:59 2021
Up next: some 800m race (or time trials)
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Shoutout to Hashiritai on a 1.24 half today only good enough for 9th in 50 to 59 age group
Haha, thanks. Yeah, it's a tough age group! Still, that time was only good for a 77.91% age grading. Interestingly enough, last year's 37:52 10km was 80.02%.
50+ age-group PBs: Half Perish 1:24:24 (June '23 Road Race) - 10km 37:52 (2022 Local Road Champs) - Track 5km 18:49 (Aug '22) - Perish Run 3:17:42
2024 Goals: Boston Perish Run Sub 3:15 - Road/Track 10km Sub 37:30 - 5km Sub 18:20
And being near the top end, I hate the 10-year age groups! But that is a crazy fast field.
Cobra Commander Keen
Piwi - I'm loving the consistency.
Mark - Nice week. Those "trail adventures" do mess with the legs in interesting ways, don't they? Hitting all those supporting muscles you don't typically use much on the roads.
Merkle - I'm in agreement with JMac regarding proceeding towards the marathon.
Steve - Your takes are always interesting. I hear you on the gen y vs millenial thing. I was dang near 30 before anyone ever accused me of being a millenial. Based on DWave's summation, I fall more into the Gen X category despite being a decade younger - I had massive amounts of autonomy growing up (running around the creek, or riding my bike alone for hours), learned to look up books by card catalog, jumped from analog research to digital in my last couple years of HS, etc.
DWave - Finding music used to be a massive undertaking! Even when digital was more available, translating a song you heard on the radio and actually being able to find it again was difficult. For the longest time I kept a little notebook filled with snippets of song lyrics I remembered so I could search for those and locate the full song.
My first decent week in a good while (comparatively speaking). I think I'm used to the heat/humidity now as much as I can be and will likely be ramping up the mileage again soon. Just in time, since RA tells me that with all my reduced mileage weeks after rolling my ankle that I now need to average nearly 85mpw for the rest of the year to hit my arbitrary mileage goal (one more mile than last year).
5k: 17:58 11/22 │ 10k: 37:55 9/21 │ HM: 1:23:22 4/22 │ M: 2:56:05 12/22
Upcoming Races:
OKC Memorial 5k - April 27
Bun Run 5k - May 4
Re-introduced some T and MP work this week. Like commander, I feel like I'm beginning to acclimate. Don't think I'm ready for long uninterrupted periods of MP or T work.
5K 18:36 (2023), 10K 39:40 (2022), 1/2 1:24:37 (2023), full 2:58:36 (2015)
Keen well that 85mpw for the rest of the year is some motivation for you good to see you are coming back.
Fishy nice job. The speedwork will get better for sure.
Hash/Dave the top 5 in the 50 to 59 age group were all sub 1.20 in that race.
Keen well that 85mpw for the rest of the year is some motivation for you good to see you are coming back. Fishy nice job. The speedwork will get better for sure. Hash/Dave the top 5 in the 50 to 59 age group were all sub 1.20 in that race.
First: Thanks!
Second: The part in bold makes me a little queasy.
It was NZ HM Champs, and Wellington has one of the stronger Masters groups in the country, plus conditions were good so probably not a huge surprise.
Awesome stuff Hash!! Well done!!
I know the guy who won the 50+ AG, Troy Harold. He had a great day and ran a pretty big PB. He was pretty broken a year or so ago after getting up to some ridiculous running streak (I think he was over 1000 days?) so he will be stoked with the comeback.
Keen - The king is back! Long live the King.
Hash - That is such a strong field for a "small" race, although big by NZ standards of course. Great result for you too, so fast. I know you didn't get a chance to train as you wanted for ChCh, are you going to take another swing at the full? You're surely very close to a sub 3 guy.
A couple of guys from my coaching group ran PBs in the Wellington half too, sounds like a perfect day (so the next good weather day for the Wellington marathon is due in 2033....).
Hagley - I ran the loop for the Hagley Park Run during my easy run last night. It's so slippery with mud and leaves all over the nicely sealed paths. We haven't seen the sun for 3 weeks, with warmer temps than usual for June (10C/50F or higher) but generally just constant drizzle. That's supposed to change today with a cold southerly and heavy rain, followed by potential clear freezing days later in the week. So the point of all that is it may be very slippery on Saturday, especially in the Endorphin Pros, and with a couple of tight turns. 75% of the path is under trees which will reduce the amount of ice at least.