Piwi and Mark - nice weeks.

Piwi and Darkwave - thanks for the Adiós and Takumi Sens feedback.  I would like a 5km-half racing shoe, and I am not sure the budget stretches to a carbon plate shoes - plus they're incredibly hard to find in NZ right now.

Mark - it was a club run, not a race.

But I am racing next Saturday!  Our club has its 1km cross country relay to start the season.

Watson - doh, oh well good luck for the race this week!

Piwi - it looks like it's a country by country decision for parkrun.  There's no reason they can't hold parkrun at Level 1, but they'll need Parkrun HQ to approve it I think.  I'd be optimistic that they should get the green light a week or two after we go to Level 1.  Unfortunately our Hobsonville Pt. Parkrun won't be up and running for at least 8 weeks as part of the course is closed for the remedial work I mentioned.

We visited Bologna yesterday. It's a stunning city, I can't recommend enough. I've also learned a bit about history. Apparently in the middle ages the Pope was not a cool Argentinian guy who likes to tango. He was rather an asshole general who went to other places to take over their towns (much like every other king at the time). The story I heard is that the pope hired Michelangelo (against his will) to build a statue of himself in the city of Bologna after he conquered Bologna. He wanted to leave the statue behind so people would remember who was their ruler. Michelangelo then spent 2, 3 years building said statue. A few years later the Bolognese kicked out the papal forces and took their city back. They then proceeded to melt said statue and built a cannon out of it 

Fun fact, something I had not thought about before: we wanted to visit the city cathedral and there was a lady controlling temperatures at the door. Because we were walking in the sun our temperature had risen, so she asked us to wait in the shade for a bit. 30 seconds later she measured again and we were all back to normal.

Judging by how the streets were packed, COVID is yester-news.

The slow build up continues with another week in the bag. I was able to complete all the strength training sessions + all the running so I must say I'm very satisfied. The paces actually dropped for a few runs, it looks like I'm slowly regaining muscle tone.

I might need to buy new running shoes soon with the Altra Duos over 600km and the Altra Paradigm 3.0s closing in on a 1000km.

I guess I'll try to contact Altra to learn which shoes they have not made unwearable by me by making them narrow like a hot dog.

I've recently bought the Paradigm 4.5 but not only it's narrower, it's also got a plate in the sole which I really dislike and it restricts my feet from doing their thing.

Weekly for period: From: 01/06/2020 To 07/06/2020

Total distance: 37.26km

65 miles
M: Streaming yoga and upper body weights/core
T: 12.5 miles on treadmill, including an alternating hill/tempo workout - two 70 second hills, then 10 minute tempo (6:33 pace), two more hills, 10 minute tempo (6:33), two more hills. Followed with leg strengthwork and streaming yoga.
W: 7 miles very easy outside (9:14), drills and four strides, streaming yoga, 7 miles easy on treadmill (9:06).
Th: Upperbody weights/core in morning; streaming yoga in afternoon.
F: 12.5 miles on treadmill, including a hill workout of 8 repeats of 2:00 strong on 3.0 incline, 1:30 easy, 0:30 fast, 1:00 easy. Followed with some leg strengthwork and streaming yoga.
Sa: 7 miles easy outside (9:11), drills and strides, streaming yoga, and 3.5 miles easy (9:12) on treadmill.
Su: 12 miles progressive, split as first 4 miles averaging 9:08, next 4 averaging 7:41, next 4 averaging 7:08, and then then a 3.5 mile cooldown (this was supposed to be 14 progressive, but I shut down the marathon effort section early, since it felt like I was working too hard and my breathing wasn't great). Followed with leg strengthwork and streaming yoga.

JamesD: glad the ankle cleared quickly. I agree that Canadian Geese are more intimidating than one would expect.
Piwikiwi: hope things continue to progress
Marky_mark: same comments as in the other thread. Also....it's cool that hyou may be able to race soon (and yes, I probably should have made that comment in the other thread).
Watson: excellent on the race! There are a few road miles around this area that I am hoping may happen in July.
Flavio: I really hope Covid is a thing of the past for Italy. Looks like you are nicely on the comeback trail.

I had a stellar week. All my little niggles just dissapeared despite pushing for more volume than I've ever consistently run, possibly because most everything in the back half was at least on crushed limestone if not true trails. I'm going to pull back a little bit the next two weeks as I have two things on the "stupid shit I want to do" list that are suddenly feasible. This week: My Thursday morning 12.2 run will be a duathlon with over 50 miles cycling and the week after that I'm signed up for a 9 hour run =0 despite having never run any  ultras before. I guess that makes this peak week <shrug>

Mile: 70

hey all

just a quick note from me,I'll catch up later but looks like some goods weeks of training out there great job.

I had a an acute attach of Gout last week.  my big tow on my right foot is red and swollen and extremely painful to walk let alone run.

I got in 1.1 miles for the week on Tuesday but nothing since.

hopefully this will be over soon and I can get back to running.

Watson - for what’s worth, heat didn’t save the northern states in Brazil, places that have never seen anything below 20 degrees with piles of bodies.

I think the real number of infections is just huge, perhaps 10 million people, maybe even more.

With a lot of people being more careful, mandatory mask usage indoors and the huge amount of people who are simply asymptomatic it’s possible the worst has passed.

Sweden did fuck all about it and their numbers are also going down. The virus will now come back every winter, however I’m not sure it will overwhelm the hospitals again.

Darkwave - kudos for the discipline in doing all the strength work.

mRakers - Let’s see what the doc has to say. It’s good to perhaps have an x-ray or something to make sure there’s nothing structural going on.

Do note there’s a chance they will tell you never to run again or to take 3 months off of running.

In that case, try to find a local physio specialised in working with runners. If there are running groups locally, they should be able to point you in the direction of a good one.

Zebano - that’s a crazy plan, you are insane. Have fun!!!

Altra is narrowing their shoes to gain market share. It’s a pity cause I’m not sure everybody’s got rockets for feet.

Re: training. I say focus more on effort and just try never to cross the lower bound of speed, that is never train too fast. But it's okay to train a bit slower some days.

Corey - Ugh, my dad has the gout and it’s such a painful disease. Here hopes it does not last long.

Keen another solid week. It would be interesting to see where your current 5k is at without specific training.

Zebano no dont worry about average pace. Heat and hills will slow you down so no point forcing a faster pace.

We actually have no current active cases of covid in NZ and have moved to level 1.