Sub 1:30 Half Marathon in 2020 (Read 618 times)

 my wife's family would stay up all night talking

This sounds like my worst nightmare.

Piwi - one of us had to make an honest living!

Keen - 👊. Good on you for helping out an ultra runner. How did you find the slower pace? I had a group run Monday with two people who paced last weekend and one was thrilled about it, the other ... not so much. It doesn't help that our course had something like 175 feet of gain per mile so there was naturally a lot of walking, especially that late in the race. The coolest bit was a friend of mine (she) overtook 1st female with 2 miles to go and had to sprint her last mile in to secure the win. Your 40 miles is almost as much as I ran.

Mark - you nailed the Introvert/Extrovert explanation there. I've been asked why I run alone so much, and it's not always simply opportunity, it's my *me* time.

James - Glad to hear the good news about your son. I hope he deals with the long term changes well. My wife had that surgery 5 years ago just days before Christmas and she's had to change her diet to deal with her digestive system.

Baseball - My first memory is the 1987 playoffs. =)

I'm also an introvert.  Not shy at all - I'll happily give a presentation or strike up a conversation with a stranger if appropriate.  But being with others drains me, and being by myself recharges me.

I suspect that there's some selection bias.  I suspect introverted runners are more likely to train solo and to participate in boards like this one.

I know quite a few extrovert runners - they are all very big on the group run and struggle doing workouts or even regular runs solo.  And they don't tend to participate much in internet running discussions other than the occasional comment on Strava.

Heh, Flavio has prompted a good discussion here.

Darkwave - you are totally right about self selection in terms of the people on this forum!

Zebano - totally, running is such a great time to think, or actually just be.

Steve - my wife didn't used to quite get either but I think she's learned it - took a while though (the converse of this with me learning about extroverts was also true!).

James / Keen - I used to think I was a fairly extreme introvert but I would say that actually I struggled with the lockdowns/distancing in some regards.  I need a little bit of social interaction (maybe not much though haha).  In some ways it's quite hard having a wife that is the complete opposite but it's been a good thing overall for me.

James- hope your son is doing OK.

One thing I've struggled with several girlfriends over the years 

Showoff  and thanks for the compliment.

I'm keen to dress as Gaga and its pretty likely with Flavios 5k time.

James my 39 year old nephew who I see a lot is married to a Chilean. She is extremely family orientated and social. They have family visiting from Chile regularly. Hope your boy recovers well.

Zebano I think folks with physical jobs don't have the energy to run as well as work whereas those with desk jobs crave the exercise. I'm lucky as my job is semi physical and probably helps keep me a bit stronger in other areas that running doesn't target.

Keen im sorry the coffee sugar thing has halted our relationship 

Watson initially i got results just off your strava where it showed who you ran with. Solid job and first sub 20 post 40 years old right ?

I think our zoom meetings give some clues to who is introverted etc. James was politely quiet whereas I kept butting in 

That reminds me. Where has Calsbear gone ?

Those bloody 100 mile weeks broke him. Thats the danger of a challenge like that.

Piwi - not sure about low 17s again, who knows, but low 18 and sub 18 are very reachable by you at the moment.

I’m not sure how up to date you are with the latest research, but after the cheater fly, now the new trick used by runners to run fast is to dress as Lady Gaga.

I haven’t tried myself, but maybe it works for you? Remember that Mark dressed as a fairy not long ago and then suddenly was running 1h10 half marathons. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

I’m surprised your work is considered blue collar. When I think blue collar I think some dudes doing manual labor at a construction site.

I've grew up on a farm working to help my dad since early ages, then onto various manual labors like tending a tomato plantation, working at a clothing factory until I found a gig teaching the basics of computers to people and then eventually became a software developer.

I still roll my eyes and get annoyed to this day when I see somebody looking down at a waiter or server.

Piwi/Watson - thanks for the info on the restrictions. It sounds like business as usual + you don’t have to care about deniers and no maskers.

Zebano - I have a better answer for you next time somebody asks why you run alone. Just tell them that burning running partners is against the law.

Darkwave - Yeah, extrovert runners are nowhere to be found in boards like this. They’re busy by the water cooler debating the latest from the Kardashians.

In the topic: Americans share stories of their first Baseball memories.

Rest of the World: What’s a baseball?

 me - I seem to be recovered from the 10 with a nice workout yesterday, a good 50 minutes strength session earlier today followed by 45 minutes of easy running. Up next I have a workout this Saturday, then a lot of easy running and race sharpening short workouts next week before the 5k on the first of November. I'm working hard to keep allergies at bay.

The race will be held at this location in case anybody is curious enough. Roughly 6 laps on a 830 tarmac oval.

Piwi - I think the lack of upcoming races is what took out calbears, although smashing 100+ mile weeks didn't help. It's really too bad Boston 2021 is looking unlikely because I was looking forward to meeting up with him and mikkey beforehand. No big race organizer in the US is going to want to pull the trigger on a race until the fall probably.

Flavio - 9+ hours is not good for a 10K. Pick up your training.

Introvert/Extrovert - I think a few of you sound just like me; introverted, but I do need some interaction. WAH has been nice, but I do miss some casual chats with the team. It did take years for my wife to get used to it; she calls it "quiet time" now when she realizes I'm not not entertaining her random questions. But as Steve said that's what makes a good partner: they know that you not talking is not a sign of disrespect.