Competitive Jerks Racing and Training - 2023 (Read 574 times)

 

Complete with the razor blades?

Don't give me any ideas 😂 This reminds me I need to shave my head, my hair is looking like a pigeon nest lately.

 

Absolutely!  I’ll always admit that I’m a cunt when it comes to humour and I’m glad you’re the same!

 

Keep it coming. 👍

Speak for yourself there, potty mouth.

Anyone else see the video of the elite runner follow the police motorcycle off course at the end of a 10k? It lost her $7,000 freedom units.

Yes, reminiscent of the 1994 NYC Marathon where German Silva did the same thing.  Fortunately there was enough time for him to recover and still win the race.  He had more of an excuse  because shortly after his miscue the course did make a right turn, and also the finish line was not in clear sight.

Anyone else see the video of the elite runner follow the police motorcycle off course at the end of a 10k? It lost her $7,000 freedom units.

Yeah. She could literally see the finish line at that point and I think had run that race before so she must've been deeeeep in the pain cave.

And here's my week. As usual the end of the long run sucked, I suppose if I keep at it eventually these won't suck so much.

Also completed my challenge to run every street in Porto. That was a fun challenge and gave me a lot of variety in training.

But now it's time for a change. It's a known fact that pretty much every race I started was either a PR or a positive split 😂 Hell I managed to positive split a 1500m race. I also regularly positive split workouts.

So yeah, patience is gonna be my keyword going forward, and hopefully I'll have a lot of very boring runs going forward.

Weekly for period: From: 07/03/2023 To 07/09/2023

Totals: Time: 08:49:31 - Statute: 66.91 mi - Metric: 107.65 km

My week:

Wednesday was 3x1 mile targeting VO2max. I like this to be under 6:30 pace and ideally closer to 6:20. But all 3 were stuck right around 6:35, I could not go any faster. I was kind of disappointed. Got home and looked at my phone to see the AQI was 144. Can I blame that? I’m going to. Planning a parkrun 5k next weekend; going with the 2 weeks pre-half option. So not sure how this bodes. 

Most of my LRs have been steady pace, so in consideration of longer race distances to come, decided to add 5 MP-ish miles on the end of a 16. I was looking for 7:20-7:30; they ended up around 7:30, so OK I guess. But it was hard. I was not particularly satisfied with the effort required to hit that pace. Oh well, my marathon isn’t for 10 weeks. Although I plan a half in 3 weeks, and another 4 weeks after that. So we’ll see how things go.

Weekly for period: From: 07/03/2023 To 07/09/2023

Totals: Time: 08:39:13 - Statute: 60.23 mi - Metric: 96.90 km

CK - very belated, but congrats on a good mile.  You clearly have much faster in you, but that was a really good first try at the distance IMHO.

Treadmills - love them.  Love running to music.

Marky_Mark - I hope you kick the cold soon.

Flavio- congratulations on completing the challenge.  May your long runs evolve to be less sucky.

Dave - you don't need my permission for anything, but yes, I would absolutely take the AQ into consideration with regard to that workout.

Steve - we runners do have an odd sense of "fun" don't we?  (heavy rains and strong winds)

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My week:

65 miles running, 500 yards swimming, and 90 minutes pool-running.
M: 10 miles, including a track workout of 2x1200, 2x800, 2x400, 2x200 in 5:02, 4:58, 3:17, 3:16, 97, 96, 47, 47. Recoveries of 2:3x-2:4x in between. Followed with leg strengthwork.
T: 6.5 miles very easy (9:51), cheer at a 5K, 3.5 miles easy (8:58), and streaming yoga.
W: 10 miles very easy on treadmill (9:34) and upper body weights/core
Th: 90 minutes pool-running and streaming yoga
F: 10 miles, including 5 Iwo Jima hills (alternate route - this was about 2:30 up, then 60 second jog; 30 second stride, and 60 seconds to bottom of hill.) Followed with leg strengthwork.
Sa: 10.5 miles easy (9:42), plus drills/strides and upper body weights/core.
Su: 14 miles progressive, split as first 5 miles averaging 10:05 pace, next 5.5 averaging 8:17 pace, next 3.5 averaging 7:56 pace, and then a half-mile cooldown. Followed with injury prevention work and 500 yards recovery swimming.

My land mileage is inflated because I moved a pool-running day from Monday to Saturday of the week before.

Just trying to build some fitness/strength before getting serious about marathon training.  The week started better than it ended, but that's probably because the weather got worse as the week went on.

The only other thing of note is that the infamous Iwo Jima hill workout got revised.  Essentially there is a traditional Iwo Jima hill workout that my running team used to do.  The team stopped the workout when the original route was repaved in concrete - I don't mind concrete at all, so I kept doing the workout solo.  But now my coach figured out an alternate route up and down the hill, so I did that one with the team on Friday.

The biggest change from the alternate route is that the hill part is now about 20-30 seconds longer, and the recovery jog before the stride is now about 20-30 seconds shorter.   This makes the workout a lot harder.

Flavio Nice job on the streets running challenge. It seems difficult to determine which streets need to be covered within a given area. How do you go about that?

Dave How has the weather been besides AQ for you? The heat has been messing with a lot of people. Also mile reps are really long for a VO2 workout. I think the effort matters more, but I understand the disappointment.

Steve Nice week. What is the difference between T and LT for you? I tend to think of them as the same.

dw Really well rounded week there.

Fishy Yep, summer training sucks!

Commander Nice go at the mile. In my opinion, run the first lap a little more aggressively next time. I'm sure you can trim lots of time.

My Week:

Totals: Time: 06:37:54 - Statute: 52.34 mi - Metric: 84.21 km

This week left me with my tail between my legs, especially after seeing all of your weeks on here. I'm 8 weeks out from Erie and I feel like I need to get my shit together. I'm going to be a bad sport this time, that 6k race was FUCKING BULLSHIT. I am highly highly disappointed that I ran 24 seconds slower than last year. What the fuck? The heat turned what was supposed to be a 15-16 mile (or ~2 hour) long run into 9 miles of ok running followed by what felt like a death march. Next time I should bring more water or just stop for quick refills and/or start earlier in the day. YIKES. Aiming for a much better week this coming week.