Yeah Robin, some amazing places he runs. Too bad as a woman you would have to dress like this to run! Berka and Nikes!

Does this mean the Muslim men have no will power to resist female beauty?  Or are they insecure about retaining their woman?  Okay, I've revealed my antipathy for their form of gender discrimination.  Sad to think that women there lack the freedom we take for granted ...

Perhaps she's covering up to hide her shame over her heel striking.

39.2 is bothering me......69.3 is ridiculous and 19.8 is totally unacceptable. go run to the light and back please!

So you all know that I occassionally drop by and write a sentence or 2 but today I feel the need to express myself a little more then I usually do.  I tend not to write a lot about my runs, I am not a member of the 2500 or 3000 mile clubs or the sub 3:30 club or the sub 19:00 club like others of you but today was one of the those days I just feel like sharing well I guess because I feel good about it so suck it up and let me brag a minute.  We all have come a long way from where we where years ago no matter who we are. It was only a few years ago I couldn't jog around my block which probably is 1/4 mile at best and now you all know where I stand.  I had struggled a lot last fall trying to break the 8:00 pace. It seemed like a pretty good wall to me, I would have days but not consistently where I wold break it.  Today I went to the TM do to some interval for my HM training.  I wanted to do 1 mile repeats at better then race pace or sub 7:20. After a mile warm-up off I go ay 7:13 pace. A mile later I feel like I never picked it up at all. I slow to 8:12 to recover. A year ago there was no recovery at 8:12, that would have been pushing my ass to go that fast.  now my HR slows and I feel like I dragging along at a snails pace.  So I do another 3 1-mile intervals, all easy feelings, no hard breathing, no racing HR just nice steady pace cruising along for a stroll feeling.  I go into my cool down starting at 8:00 and that is to slow so I go faster and faster till my cool down as my at 6:30 for the last 2/10 or so.  Now is that a cool down, I doubt it but IT FELT GOOD.  It is truly a crazy feeling to have run that hard and feel so damn good.  Ok, I know I am rambling but just wanted to share my good run with my friends out there at CN. I miss you guys so much, hope to see you at Hampton Half and every tuesday/weekend after. 

Michael - I don't think I have full perspective on how far you've come, but I'll say that you are a hell of a runner.  You've always been faster than me (the first time I remember racing you was Bob's race maybve 3 years ago and you beat me by 2 minutes as I recall) so I've always thought of you as a good runner. 

 

That said, the way you've been describing your runs over the last few months has been amazing, and it seems to show real progress.  You and I have different thoughts on training, and that's OK, everybody's different.  I have no doubt that you would beat me at a race right now, certainly anything at 10 miles or under.  Great job on the progress and I'm sure it must be a great feeling.  See you in February.    

 I am not so sure our methods are different, I don't really train how I want to, I train in a way that allows me to go to work every 3 months and still be able to keep up the mileage. If I had my way I would run more mileage year around, but I can barely squeek out 55 miles weeks at work so no sense running 70 at home and then losing all that progress over three months and then havign to build it back up.  I just try to hold somewhat even and maintain some reasonable mileage that allows me to build quickly for a full marathon if needed. I am sure if I where home all the time my training would be entirely different but then again I am not so who cares.  Thanks for the support LTrain.  There was the time I beat you but you and Greg_C and Cuch have made some great races over the last year, super fast times I don't think I can grasp yet.  That is why I want to make Hampton so much, just to see where I am.

PS- I just joined another Maine runnin blog here on RA saw your name mentioned by "MilkTruck".  I forget their user group name thogh right now.  They only have a few posts but some are close to us. 

Look who's doubling today -

 

Planned Interval/speed works out - 6x800 at 6:18/mi or 3:09 = 9.5 on treadmill at elevation 1.0. 1 Mile warm up, 2 minute Rest Intervals (RI) and 10 minute cool down. Felt amazingly good, though it was definately tough.

 

FWIW, I don't think I could hit that workout. 

 awesomeness!   look who's comin.

Robin and Lance,

You need to write a book with an introduction by Cremer!!!