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Please add 5.0 miles for Wed 9/24 and 5.0 miles for today. Love those intervals.
4.3 miles of looong intervals.
Sorry to hear about that hamstring, jfk. Have you thought about kinesiology? Works wonders for dh and me.
I thought so, wrm. You're catching up quickly to my husband, and he's been running for 20 years. But you know, I perform better (times) on hills than on the flat, too. Apparently, you use your muscles in a very different way. Maybe we're (er, not to group my running abilities with yours, but for the sake of comparison...) just better off shortening and elongating our muscles when we run -- like on the hills.
3.1 miles for yesterday. Will try to get in 5 today doing repeats. Will continue working on getting faster.
Hi everyone--5.3 miles on Wednesday, and 8.7 miles today. My run today included my last set of intervals before the marathon (3 X 1 mile @ 5K pace).
I hadn't thought of how exactly I use my muscles while I run--you have a very good point, skinny_kitty. I'm always pleasantly surprised at how I handle hills in the races where I encounter them, especially given my nonexistent hill work. I know enough that I make it a point to shorten my stride when I'm running uphill, but anything else at this point is a mystery.
Personally I despise hills, but I regularly run them when I run outside (which is somewhere between 30-50% of my runs). Usually the adrenaline of race day gets me over the hills faster than I struggle up them during my normal runs!
Regarding cold vs. hot, I'm usually in the minority who prefers warm. I like it to be 75-80 when I run. Colder than 70 and I usually get an earache. So I'm the dork running around in 70 degree weather with earmuffs on! Ha!
Oh, one more thing: there's no way to update our mileage totals here in this group (or at least I haven't found a way). So I started a Victory Lap thread in the Fitness forum. Go there to see Australia totals up through the end of Tuesday, 30 Sept!
4.3 for me today.
Good lands, jenka, I can't stand the warm! Altho...Oregon...yeah...I'd probably die of heatstroke where you live if I tried to run! Today it was 59 degrees and raining and I was still wearing shorts and a sleeveless. Ha!
Please add 5.0 miles today. Seems like everybody hates intervals, but that is all I wanna do on the treadmill anymore. Time goes by so fast (for dreading that next interval :-)
Never even heard of kinesiology, skinny_kitty. Now I have something to google :-)
5.0 miles for Wednesday, 10/01 and 5.25 miles for today. If I get off from work early tonight, I will try to run a 5K tomorrow morning (sponsored by son's cross country team). If I don't get off early, I'll head out there after getting in my sleep and help out with the rest of the races. Picked up 50 cases of 24 pk. waters for tomorrow since we have a pickup truck - husband will be out there early in the am to work the event. Signed up to run a 5K race on the 11th.
wrm - good luck with your marathon.
Original Post by kscout:
wrm - good luck with your marathon.
Thanks, kscout. I have some "taper madness" setting in, now that I am less than eight days from the race. All of these doubt started to creep in, and I find myself wondering whether or not I'm prepared to get a BQ-type performance on the 12th. Did I workout out hard enough? Did I put in enough miles? Did I hit the right paces during the workouts? Have I been eating correctly for maximal performances in workouts and in races leading up to the big day? And what gets to me is that I KNOW that I have done everything I could. I have run almost 1100 miles in this training cycle alone. I have done a mixture of easy run, recovery runs, long runs, medium-long runs, tempo runs, and intervals. I have been able to hit my goal paces on workouts and races. I'm just being crazy here, and as ww told me this week, I just need to trust my training.
Oh yeah, 13.1 miles for me this morning--my final "longish" run before the race.
wrm - I've read quite a bit about how difficult the taper can be - and backing off those miles gives a person a lot of time to think about all of those questions - then one can't go out and run like a madman to get rid of all those nagging questions and the excess energy. That week before my marathon was tough - though for me it was a lot of the "unknown" factor - what was I really up against? I have every confidence that you will do very well in your race.
Had to work a full shift last night so I couldn't race this morning. Was able to get to the invitational just after son's race - he posted a PR for his 5K. I was then assigned to the finish line to log in the runners' numbers as they came in for the middle school and elementary races. A friend of mine is our middle school coach, but we do not have an elementary team. My degree is in elementary ed. even though I now teach in adult ed., so I spoke with our high school coach about volunteering to begin and coach an elementary cross country team. It was awesome seeing first through fourth graders running a 2K race! I have a lot of research to do before next season.
Congrats to your son on his 5K PR, kscout. Thanks for your vote of confidence.
BTW, 5.6 recovery miles this morning.
Sooo, I raced my half today and found out that it was actually a 13.5 rather than the usual amount (measured it in the car the other day and it was 22km, on google it's 21.76...) I hate it when they do that.
However, I'm happy to report that I managed it in 2hrs15min. This is a 20 minute (!!) improvement over the half I did in April (which was 21k even).
My 2-year-old raced her first kilometer along with her brother and sisters. It was pretty darned cute to see her *try* to run (she's not actually running, yet).
wrm, it was hills, hills and more hills today. Huh. Goes to show, eh? Hope your full is hilly, just as your muscles would like it.
kscout: You're going to have so much fun coaching! And congrats to your son -- it must be a proud moment for you.
And jfk, 2 things: again, thanks for the article; it helped today (pump arms, skateboard feet, etc) and I actually thought of thanking you while running. Secondly, you want to google applied kinesiology (guy who wrote the book is Krebs). There are different kinds and it's the applied one that's used for athletes. Works wonders on muscle issues and your local chiro can probably direct you to someone in the field.
I had absolutely the best run of my life this morning. 17.5 miles. Air temp at the start of the run was about 58F. The first 15 miles went by without any problems. The last two and a half were a challenge, but man what a great experience. I enjoyed an incredible sunrise along the way.
wrm - I am pulling for your PR finish next week. Don't psych yourself out on this. You are totally prepared to qualify.
skinny_kitty - kudos on your improvement on the half. 20 minutes off your time is like two light years faster. Your conditioning is really paying off.
Hi, everyone! I don't have much to add other than good wishes to Wrm. The Taper Freak Out is the worst aspect of taper. You will do a GREAT job, though! Boston, here you come!
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