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Flavio i do believe we are waiting for your Lady Gaga photos from your failed time trial a few weeks ago ?
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 "
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Flavio I'm honestly not worried about being diabetic. I have a friend who was always worried about his A1C (glycerated hemoglobin). "A1C is the best indicator for Pre-diabetis" and his doctor measured glucose. He wanted to know his a1c numbers. "wait....a1c is an indicator if you're PRE-diabetic which is when they tell you to make some changes. you want to know if you are pre-PRE-diabecit? That would be called normal. Yeah, you're normal otherwise your doctor would be talking to you about being diabetic" is about how I handled the conversation. Id' expect a doctor to look at Glucose levels and based off the results decide if testing A1C is necessary. Based on a table I found on the internet website that's probably not medically reviewed I'm a 4-5 for a1c.
Work is ruining my running. I get frustrated over it, and literally everything ELSE I do in life being incorrect, and I just lose all desire to go run. It sucks.
Many of us aren't sure what the hell point you are trying to make and no matter how we guess, it always seems to be something else. Which usually means a person is doing it on purpose.
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5k18:xx | Marathon 2:55:22
Zebano, RP - yeah I cherish the rumble time games. I didn't really mind whether we had a daughter or a son, but I didn't expect a daughter would necessarily be into rough-and-tumble games like that. Probably in a few years she won't be but it's a lot of fun for now!
Piwi - yeah that run reminded me how having someone to chat to and enjoy a run with can really make the miles go by fast. Hopefully do it again sometime soon! Funnily, the next day, Running Events announced that they are adding an ultra (50k) to Tauranga Marathon next year. The extra 8k is all around the Papamoa waterways that we went running on.
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: Waterfront HM, 7 Apr, 1:15:48
Up next: Runway5, 4 May
"CONSISTENCY IS KING"
But it will be an extra 7km onto the 41k "marathon" making it a 48km ultra!
PRs: 5km 18:43 (Dec 2015), 10km 39:59 (Sep 2020), half 1:26:16 (Sep 2016), full 3:09:28 (Jun 2015)
40+ PRs: 5km 19:31 (Oct 2020), 10km 39:59 (Sep 2020), half 1:29:39 (Jun 2018), full 3:13:55 (Sep 2022)
2023 PRs (hope to beat in 2024): 5km 20:34, 10km 41:37, half 1:32:32, full 3:21:05
2024 PRs: 5km 20:25
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I'll just pretend it didn't happen, it seems to work for some guys haha.
Worst case scenario, I remember you did a nice rendition of me in a gaga costume a few years back, but I can't for the life of me find it.
Mark - enjoy the week off. It might be a chance to work harder with the weights .
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) / Also place in the top 20% in a trail race
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I'll do a bit of that, but I'm actually tempted to also try some beginner yoga for runners. My flexibility isn't the greatest and I've wanted to give it a go for a while.
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"Distances are indicative only"
piwi - Yep, for a long easy run it would be great to pass the time with a chat but I don't really know anyone around my training level, living close enough.
JMac - No-one here is in a position to criticise you not wanting to run at 5:30am in December in NYC! Funny how someone running 16 minutes for a 5km concludes they're no good at 5km!
flavio - Nice 5km. That's a good pace in icy conditions! I'm always very slow and careful when ice is around, had a mishap in Dunedin many years ago when I saw a puddle and didn't avoid it only to find it was frozen and meant I took a good tumble.
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
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Flavio - good for you supporting local businesses. I try to do it if I can, but Amazon is just so easy. The one thing I now refuse to buy on Amazon is anything going into my body: eye drops, OTC pills, etc. Can't trust them anymore.
For my 100M I didn't time it because it was just a dumb race with a friend. Can't waste effort trying to hit start/stop in that short of a distance!
Mark - you know I always advocate for down time. In the US, December is always the best month to do that (in a normal year). It's right after the fall racing season has ended, spring season hasn't started, it's the darkest month of the year, and it's the holidays.
Steve - I know all the parents say I have to become a morning person, but I'm still not! I don't mind waking up at 3 am to deal with my daughter, but I still want to sleep in til 9 or 10 every day. We'll have to see what I do next year when we return to the office after COVID is over and I can't just go running at 5:30 PM.
5K: 16:37 (11/20) | 10K: 34:49 (10/19) | HM: 1:14:57 (5/22) | FM: 2:36:31 (12/19)
JMac - the week off thing is not something I've tried before but I'm an entire month ahead of last year's mileage, and my body is telling me about it. Still feels a bit much like hard work out there at the moment so I think it's a good time to refresh. We are only 2 weeks away from Xmas holidays (which last almost a month here!) so a week off now and hopefully I'll be good to start logging some decent training over the break.
I start my new job next week and one of the other senior team members is quite a keen runner too so that's a bit of motivation too!
I personally like training in the dark in winter here but it never gets below freezing and NY in winter is a very different proposition to Auckland!
Watson / Steve- given that ultra's are notoriously inaccurate for distance anyway, there's probably a pretty wide margin of error for the 50k!
JMac You're changes of being a morning person a la covid 19 ending mirror my thoughts on a friend marathon training. Currently it's very easy to get 2 hour marathon training runs in for him. Working from home eliminates 90 minutes of driving each day, and he can use that time to make up the time it takes to run. He won't even go to the office because there is no need. I 100% expect him to blame work for the reason why he cannot train for CIM 2021. I don't think he fully appreciates the time commitment it takes, and I'm confident you'll enjoy the time between 3am and 5:30am once people return to work. Someone once told me "everyone has their preference as to when they want quiet time." I'm VERY much the morning quiet time type. I actually use to run in the mornings because it was so quiet out.
Steve - as much as I'm immeasurably glad that marathon training is over for me, I'm excited for you to get into it. I will say, make sure you stay on top of any niggles or fatigue though. Really important to listen to your body.
Woops, missed this. I'm excited too, although I know there will be tough times. Easy to be excited after 2 recovery weeks when I'm itching to build back up!
RP/JMac I very much enjoy quiet time in the morning. I can't fathom people who are up and at it, crashing around the kitchen, making lots of noise...
Some ultras are inaccurate due to terrain. The Wai2k happened recently and the long event which is pretty much run over the Remutaka ranges and back was 102km to 110km depending on which GPS watch you trust.
I don't think that would be valid for Tauranga though!
SteveChCh My wife says our next house will NOT share a kitchen wall with the bedroom. I am not sure why as I have no problem with her sleeping while I make breakfast on the stove.
RP so magnanimous of you lol. It's odd, when work is going extremely poorly I have twice as much desire to run as it's one of the few things that *I* control.
Mark have fun with the yoga, I hope the time off helps. I've tried that a couple times and always been underwhelmed at what I get out of it. When you combine the minimal strength benefit with the fact that studies show less flexible runners are generally faster so I just haven't thought the time investment was worth it. I've had various flexibility measurements done by physios when I'm injured and they never find anything they consider limiting but that's one case where I could see stretching/yoga to be a worthwhile investment.
I always assume ultras and trail races are off by up to 10% (either direction), and 10% can be a lot at those absurd distances.
1600 - 5:23 (2018), 5k - 19:33 (2018), 10k - 41:20 (2021), half - 1:38:57 (2018), Marathon - 3:37:17 (2018)
Steve - you may find the marathon really helps with your shorter distances. I certainly found that with my first one - had kinda hovered around the same mark for 12 months or so and then a few months after the marathon it was like I went up a gear.
Zebano - heh it’s good to hear my lack of flexibility may not be an issue after all!