I'm having another "which race do I do?" dilemma for Super Bowl Sunday ... which I wouldn't worry about just yet except that one of them is near capacity.

A. Half marathon a couple of miles from home, $50, 10 AM start. It's multiple loops of the park and I've done that race several times (they put one on in the winter and in the fall), and I predict that if I do it, I will place second or third because I always do. Possibly of note is the fact that I'm doing a ten-mile race a couple of weeks later on the same course. Snooze.

 

B. Four-mile race ten miles away, $33, 9 AM start. And yes, I'd likely run there, because if I plan to race anything in the winter I need a long warmup. Except that my main purpose in doing this would be to get a stupid A bib, and I'd have to run something crazy like 6:15 pace for that, which is obviously not going to happen... but I might be able to squeak out a PR at least.

 

Why do these people persist in putting on races on the same day??

For me, racing a half is kind of a big deal. I need to be in the right kind of shape and it has to fit into the right place in my training schedule. In that case it will be a no-brainer to pick that distance. Course snooziness is not a factor, but flatness is. If I am not squarely in half-racing mode, it will always be the shorter distance.

Also I get sort of turned off by distances other than the standard four, just because I have nothing to compare the results to.

 

For me, racing a half is kind of a big deal. I need to be in the right kind of shape and it has to fit into the right place in my training schedule. In that case it will be a no-brainer to pick that distance. Course snooziness is not a factor, but flatness is. If I am not squarely in half-racing mode, it will always be the shorter distance.

 

Also I get sort of turned off by distances other than the standard four, just because I have nothing to compare the results to.

Fair enough, but I'm not planning to race that one (when I say "race," I mean "go after a PR"). And it isn't flat.

Four milers are standard here since NYRR has so many of them! The course has apparently changed, though... the West Side hills that always kill me used to be in mile 3, now they're mile 2, which means Cat Hill is mile 3. So the middle miles are the suckiest.

Blue--are you planning to run as many races in 2020 as 2019? It definitely served you well last year.

DavePHammy--rest those hammies

I ran 6 miles at super easy pace. Was aiming for HR < 140.

Question for anyone who has used Beach body workout videos--was it worth the money? I don't care about coaches, shakes or any pyramid schemes, I'm looking for an assortment of 20-30 min workouts to do in my living room that are easily accessible through my smart tv. Beach body seems to fit the bill.

 

I don't have the Beachbody on Demand but have a lot of their workout systems and they were worth it. But have not tried the On Demand to see if the annual price is worth it. I've heard it has everything I own and more.

Thanks, that's helpful.

It's only $59/6 months or $99/12 months so pretty reasonable.

 

Question for anyone who has used Beach body workout videos--was it worth the money? I don't care about coaches, shakes or any pyramid schemes, I'm looking for an assortment of 20-30 min workouts to do in my living room that are easily accessible through my smart tv. Beach body seems to fit the bill.

I got the DVD sets for p90x 1 and 2 and insanity asylum.  They get a bit, ok a lot, repetitive.  I wasn't a big fan of the music.  Shaun T is nice to look at though and he clearly does not own many shirts.

I like Cathe Friedrich's stuff better.  I think you can get a 1 week trial. To me, her stuff has better music, and I like the format better. She has 2 options,  one is for live classes only,  the other is her entire library plus live. She has tons of strength training.

Whiskers, I got my beachbody DVDs from totalfitnessdvds.net. No coach crap involved

Managed to come down with a cold again. My immune system is killing me (more importantly my running) these days. Hopefully I'll be back at it in a day or two. I'm feeling a little better today than yesterday, so progress is good.

Hope you all are doing well!