Forums >Look What I Can Do!>I Would Run 500 Miles...
Lynx, it's still 1.6km. We're also in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, so I'm pretty sure planning for evacuation is one of those things we only do because we have to.
NoKenyan, I have embarrassingly little of anything resembling a training plan. I had done a few long runs (around 8-10 miles) then thought, "Hrm, I wonder if I could do 13.2 today." That began my week-ending long runs. I run almost daily because I like it, but I don't run if anything hurts. If running fast makes me feel sore or painful, I slow down. If I'm still not feeling it, I stop. If I ever feel a tweak or pain, I take a day off (either dumb luck or fast recovery times--this hasn't happened in over three weeks). After long runs and hard runs, I take it easy for a couple days. ...I generally don't know how many miles I'm about to do when I go out for a run. I just let my legs and lungs guide me, with some general plans that I sometimes abandon. I had tired calves and quads for about two days after the twenty, but no pain. It was gone today, so I did a little interval training (which I decided when I walked out the door to run) and it felt great. Mile 5 was my best training mile so far!
Whimsy is what guides my training.
zoom-zoom, I love the recess running club. I don't mean to make all our kids sound lethargic. One of my coworkers and I are running a trail marathon in November, and we've got a decent number of the kids who want to come out and do the 5K that's at the event.
moneyman, as a teacher, I completely agree with you. If I could tell you some of the things I've heard at conferences...
Bonkin, it had to be very, very hard to avoid laughing!
"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek
Believe
I attended a parent meeting for the cross country team at my daughter's middle school. I almost busted out laughing when the coach said "you do NOT need to take your son or daughter to the hospital when their leg muscles are sore". I'm glad I didn't, because I could tell by the "deer in the headlight" expressions on many of the parents' faces, that maybe it DID need to be said.
I am quite certain that it did need to be said. And can you also imagine the kids whining when they get home because they were a little sore. I mean whtever happened to the President's Physical Fitness test?
I mean whtever happened to the President's Physical Fitness test?
( questionmarks flying around my head)
There is a PresidentÄs Physical Fitness test in the USA??? what is that?