Forums >Racing>The Waltons aka Advanced Half Marathon Training Thread - 2022 edition
Mark/James thanks for your efforts and sorry I haven't entered a race this year
Flavio don't abandon us....
Fred cool video and race report.
Keen nice week. Is cordwood a type of wood? Haven't heard that expression before. Oh and holy crap huge week you deserve those eggs !
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 "
Waltons ThreadLord
All done Fred. You've got almost as many PB's this year as the rest of the thread combined!
The advantage of racing so many different distances.
5k 23:48.45 (3/22); 4M 31:26 (2/22); 5M 38:55 (11/23); 10k 49:24 (10/22); 10M 1:29:33 (2/24); Half 1:48:32 (10/22); Marathon 4:29:58 (11/23)Upcoming races: Clinton Country Run 15k, 4/27; Running is Back 10k, 5/12
Resident Historian
A cord is an imperial measure [marky_mark alert!) of how much wood is stacked. A full cord is 8' long x 4' high x 4' wide. To complicate things, a face cord is 8' long x 4' high x 16" wide. More manageable for firewood than 4' long logs.
Keen runs and throws his miles on the stack!
Face cord
Neil
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. - Hunter S. Thompson
Here's my finish line video. It's even worse if you back it up a little. Try not to laugh. Or Cry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtgUYTZ5qY&t=966s
Cobra Commander Keen
Fred - I enjoyed the RR, and liked how you set those three goals. The shorts you wore for the race - are those the ones (allegedly) displayed in the photo you posted a while back in which you were (allegedly) the focus?Also, props for not stopping your watch until after you were passed the second mat.
Longboat - You beat me to the cord description. I figure Mark will go apoplectic just looking at those measurements.
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
Keen - Thank you. Yes, those are the shorts - the group demanded they not be retired, so I wore them in a situation where some sort of digital documentation would be likely. As to watch stopping, that's something I've had to learn. Early on in my racing "career" there are too many photos of my looking down at my wrist and stopping my watch as I cross the line. I've learned to trust the race timing (and even if the timing is off, one or two seconds isn't going to really matter).
Longboat thank you I was wondering what cordwood was but was assuming it was a Chop Wood Carry Water reference.
Mark - thanks for taking over. Looks like I'll run
Nov 12 -Living History Farms (10k trail).
Nov 24 - Turkey Trot (5k)
1600 - 5:23 (2018), 5k - 19:33 (2018), 10k - 41:20 (2021), half - 1:38:57 (2018), Marathon - 3:37:17 (2018)
Longboat - it's obviously imperial with all those 4s and 8s involved. Sometimes I wonder if most of the imperial system was invented by someone who'd had a finger or two amputated.
Zebano - races added.
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"
Sometimes I wonder if our base 10 math is due to having 10 fingers. If we were a 12-fingered species, would we be using base 12? Or base 8 if, as per Mark's scenario we all had 8 fingers? I really don't know enough about math to know whether base 10 is just so much better, or if it's just what we're used to because our brains learned math that way.
Fred those shorts look fine just as these ones do that I wore in a brief 3 month jogging life back in 1990
my eyes!!
those are some great shorts.
Piwi & Fred are long lost Shorts brothers!!!
Fred - Those shorts of yours are taking you from strength to strength!
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
Piwi - do you still have those? They are pretty awesome.
Also, the front page thread now has all races (I hope!) thanks to James dutifully trawling through the thread to collate them all. Any more races to add, let me know and I can add them.
Sorry to burn your eyes guys
Mark alas no the shorts are long gone. I remember buying the shoes from the Warehouse. They were called Turntech or some weird brand and had a plastic window into the midsole which I thought was cool
4 of us from my work did a relay of about 5k each. I think I ran about 22 mins which would have been a pb at the time. I used to write my training times down in a little notebook. I wish I had kept it. I think training was 3km runs for a few weeks
Sorry to burn your eyes guys Mark alas no the shorts are long gone. I remember buying the shoes from the Warehouse.
Mark alas no the shorts are long gone. I remember buying the shoes from the Warehouse.
That's a shame. Lets be clear it's those long white legs that burn the eyes, not the glorious shorts! Have you considered flamingos for you next pair of shorts?