She asks me twice a day, and yeah it is part of the fun.

Only twice? She's taking it easy on you, n00b! lol

I ran.  Interesting workout tonight.

 

15 minute w/u

15 x 20 second strides with 40 second recoveries

20 minutes steady

 

50 minutes, 6.6 miles, 7:37 avg pace.  Firing this off two days after my HM tells me I didn't (or couldn't) race my hardest obv obv.

Phil, it just means that you're about 10 years younger than Dave. 

I had to restart my computer to get RA to load properly. I'm sure the noted PC HATER AMONGST US will take glee in that. If such a person even exist.

 

Seems to me that a good hard run like this would be tough to do after racing a HM two days prior, no?  Also, I tend to not know WTF I am talking about most of the time.

When it comes to conditioned athletes in this group, I'm not sure anyone here is on your level...except the MBC of course. lol

God bless him, but LTH used to make the argument that if you weren't hobbling around, barely able to run easy pace for 17 years after a race, it meant you didn't race it hard enough.

You (and him) could very well be correct, I just do not know if that is the manner in which a race should be judged is all. I have no real argument against it, other than to say I never really know how I'm going to feel after a race or tough training run until I get out there.

Some days it's a struggle, and some days I can fly. There is no real rhyme or reason to it on *my* end regardless of what I did in the days prior.

Having said that I think you raced your ass off Saturday. And that's a position I'm not budging off of, yo.

 

Um, that's a normal thing to ask of someone who is running a marathon in a few days.

 

#thatmomentyourealizeyougottaper

I first read that as #thatmomentyourealizeyouforgottaper

How could one forget to taper?

In the ongoing experiment of trying to make running not suck, I decided to start out at a pace about a minute slower than my easiest easy pace. My legs yelled at me for going that slow, but other than that it was the best run I've had in a long time. I ended up just shy of my normal easy pace after 5 miles.  Maybe I need another lung check up.

werd.  I always seem to have a hard time running well for a good 3-4 days after a HM, so I was surprised I ran so well today.  I ain't complaining though.

Well you would know better than I would so again, I concede. Just out of curiosity though, what was your target on the strides?

 

When it comes to conditioned athletes in this group, I'm not sure anyone here is on your level...except the MBC of course. lol

 

God bless him, but LTH used to make the argument that if you weren't hobbling around, barely able to run easy pace for 17 years after a race, it meant you didn't race it hard enough.

 

You (and him) could very well be correct, I just do not know if that is the manner in which a race should be judged is all. I have no real argument against it, other than to say I never really know how I'm going to feel after a race or tough training run until I get out there.

 

Some days it's a struggle, and some days I can fly. There is no real rhyme or reason to it on *my* end regardless of what I did in the days prior.

 

Having said that I think you raced your ass off Saturday. And that's a position I'm not budging off of, yo.

It's an n of 1 so take with a boulder of salt, but the one time that I've raced a half marathon (so far) I felt like I'd bruised my damn lungs and I couldn't even *think* about running faster than easy pace for a good week and a half, and even then my first workout back was a baby workout.

I will concede that things are probably a bit different for a half raced during MRT than for a half that was trained and tapered for specifically, though. And the weather was a factor for Boon's race too - tough to impossible to get up to true half marathon race effort when running in soup, so that probably made recovery quicker too.