Yup, that was my thought.  This is good timing.  My parents were going to visit us, but now that's off, but that's really the only disappointment here.   And I'm honestly feeling about 90% right now, with my resting heart rate dropping back to normal.

 

My partner and I have both had the full series of vaccinations, including the bivalent booster, and he's now also on an anti-viral.  So hopefully we'll be fine.  I'm much more worried about him than me.

I hope you both have mild cases and get well soon.

 

ahh that sucks, hopefully it's mild. It's Duck Duck Gray Duck.

I did not know you grew up in Minnesota.

DWave - Wishing your and so SO a speedy recovery.

 

Hash: I am just terrible at self coaching, i.e. doing the basics myself? I need a plan that I put in Outlook and follow, otherwise I am all over the place, very unstructured unfortunately. But I agree, at my level in particular, the basics is all I need to do. Although I like to program my watch with some crazy run like 2xE, 3xT w/ 2min, 3x3 at H with 200m jog, 4 Strides, 1xE

 

MJ - You've gotta do what works for you. While I don't use an actual coach, I certainly train to a well-structured plan. My wife enjoys teasing me about being a 'running nerd' (and spending time on this forum only adds to that teasing!) because of the time I spend on my running notebook (which has all my running goals and what I need to do to achieve them). However, because it's designed by me (although stolen from a range of other plans) I don't feel so locked into it, and adjust it whenever I feel the need to.

DW - Stink one! Since my family have all had it, we'd kinda all forgotten about it. However, my sister has just caught it, and it sounds like she's having a miserable time. We all had the mild version, so that was a relief. It did take a few weeks before I felt confident to train hard out again, though.

Zeb - I'm now gonna Google Duck Duck Gray Duck

CK - There's a lot of excited anticipation in our family about your Strava run titles in the lead up to Christmas!

Good luck, Mark!!

darkwave - Hope you & your partner recover quickly.

I did another four-mile tempo Friday, about 5 sec/mile faster than last week’s but still 10+ sec/mile slower than my comparable runs from previous years’ buildups, and shorter than the 5 miles I did a couple of times in previous buildups.  Still my best one of the year, though.  Won’t do anything too hard the next two weeks before my Nov. 19 half but will do one or two short tempos, a set of a few 200s, and some strides.  

I drove short parts of the half I’m likely to run, the locally organized one with the map finally posted.  Nearly all of it is on a bike path that’s screened by trees from the roads, so unless I do a lot of walking, I’ll only be able to see the course at a few intersections before the race.  The other race still hasn’t posted a half course and hasn’t responded to the three questions (one mine) about the course on its Facebook page.  The organizers’ last post was on September 19, which does not inspire confidence.  They have almost 200 mostly out-of-town runners signed up for their half & full, but I think I prefer the much smaller local half, as I assume there’s a better chance that it’ll be back next year on the same course, and I think I do better when I’ve run a course before. 

Sun - 6.2 miles in park too fast @ 8:19/mile

Mon - 37 minutes swimming 

Tues - 6.7 miles in park incl. 6.2 @ 8:41/mile, strides

Weds - 6.5 very slow treadmill (78 minutes) + 0:40 walk breaks/6 mins

Thurs - 37 minutes swimming

Fri - 8 in park including 4 @ 7:01/mile

Sat - 6.7 very slow treadmill (81 minutes) + 0:40 walk breaks/6 mins

Total - 34.1 miles

YTD Average - 35.5 mpw

1:16 and first place. I hadn’t fully grasped that around 7-8km was on trail, so that cost me around 10 sec/km. Beautiful course although it did get hot from around the 10k mark.

Congratulations!

Darkwave - good luck to your both.

James - nice week.

Hash - nice week.

Mark - nice race, congrats on the win.  You slowed down a lot, was it more the surface or the heat, or fairly even.

My  week was good.  Ended up having to shuffle Monday to Friday.  Wednesday intervals were quicker than the week before.  Today's run was the longest since the marathon mid September.  Strength sessions going well.  Volume will stay around this during my strength and speed cycle.

Weekly for period: From: 31/10/2022 To 06/11/2022

Total distance: 42.51km

Mark - Great job at the half yesterday!  Congratulations.

Watson - Nice running.   That's a lot of elevation in your last run there.

Hash - Nothing wrong with a week of easy runs.  They help too.

James - I'm glad you at least have an idea of the course.  Too bad about the other race still not showing anything.

I did some speed work this morning for the first time in three months.  6 x 400m with 400m recoveries.  Fortunately, I brought my son along and we took turns leading the pace.  The laps I led were done in 1:54, 1:53, and 1:50.  The laps he led were 1:52, 1:48, and 1:47.  It was good to have him pushing me.  We hope to do it again next week and try for 8 x 400m.  (He's planning to run the 1-mile race the weekend after Thanksgiving while I'm going to race the 5-miler.)

It was already warm and humid when we were out there at sunrise, and there was a brief sprinkle of rain.  It's going to be a tough day for the 50,000 marathoners in NY today.

ETA:  The guy who lives two blocks from me and came within seconds of a 3-hour marathon at NY last year just finished in 3:48:37.  He was doing well, averaging under 7:00 at the halfway point, but his final average was 8:44.  All four people I was tracking started slowing dramatically around the same time, no matter when they started or where they were on the course.  NYRR changed their status flags from green to yellow about half an hour after the elites finished.