Hi Boomers! Loosing the boomer daily threw my whole day off the other day. Nothing made sense.. Now there is order in the world again. Seeing these changes coming up reminds me of working for the Gov (all 37 years) reorginasation every time the politics changed. Now I hate change. This might also be an age thing Hope the active.com thing isn't going to be to annoying.


I still have a couple of my running logs from back in my old running period. Thankfully I kept detailed records of my Vancouver Marathon training, complete with graphs and comments on how I felt on a given day. I have been following that but will correct some major mistakes. One was that my first 20 miler was right after a 16 miler. The other was running my longest run of 26.5 miles 1 week early and downhill as it killed my legs for a week. I built in cut back weeks + build weeks graphed them but continued to use that as a guide and run by how I felt. I was off by one week on each of my cutback weeks. Vancouver though not my fastest, was my best as my time in the second half was one minute slower than the first half and I never hit that point where I was suffering, in fact I was able to pick it up on the last 10k. There is going to be a major difference and that is when I did Vancouver I was training 5 to 6 days a week, now I am only able to get in 3 days a week.

One of my compensations has been to make all my runs quality runs. Though I run my long run at as slow a pace as possible, my middle distance runs has been a bit harder and atleast one of those runs per week will have to be run at 70-75% while increasing that to half the distance. My concern is burning out like I did last year, but I think I am mentally prepaired now and can avoid that. Something that is different now is that I am determined to run this race in December. The mental aspect and motivation is the most important factor for running a marathon for me. I have a little sticker on my computer monitor with the New Las Vegas Marathon logo, so that I can look at it every day for motivation,.

Good Runs All, Larry




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"If you see a man running up a mountain trail in Montana with a fly pole attached to his back, you are probably lost. LDD

Great news for Tall on the new place and Holly on the Boston getaway.
42.6 miles biking, fairly flat with the club. Beautiful low 50's to start and low 60's at the end. I got a new saddle and had the handlebars raised and it was much improved. Off to lunch

Barb

quote:<HR>Originally posted by DaveinAA:
Seriously thinking of a very long layoff. I've learned you can't train through AT problems, or cross your fingers and hope they go away.<HR>

Dave,

Don't give up. Back off as much as you need to, but meanwhile stay in the best shape you can. Keep an eagle eye on the situation, and plan to ramp up again as soon as ever you can. That's what I do: back off when I have to but never give up.

Dark Horse

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I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course

Congrats to the whole Beer clan on this happy day.

Tramps, that 5k time makes my water, Congrats.
Tall, I hope things work out for you and your family.

Did anybody notice DH caught a coupla feel golds and stumbled on an intraception.... or something like that.

Holly, your DH is so nice.

I got so excited about Nordic and Erika's hill climb yesterday my feet made me go out to run one to celebrate. Half way up the hill I realized garmin was still auto clicking 1 Kilo laps instead of miles, but pacing in miles. I got use to it. After awhile it seemed that Ks do seem to go by quicker than miles. Ummmm.

On a more serious note, noticed that smaller uphills seem more runnable and wasn't stessing aerobically as much. Oh yeah, it was 46F this am.
19K (11.81M) today most on the trail about 5 miles on pavement through Beartree Campground. AHR 149 12:56 min/m.
Nope, no bears.
JJJ

quote:<HR>Originally posted by DaveinAA:
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Seriously thinking of a very long layoff. I've learned you can't train through AT problems, .......
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..........ok dave//.........this will help,,,,,,,,,,

,,but if I hear you're trying to break 5-min miles before you heal up,,,,,,,I'll come up there and Knee-Cap You Myself.........

..............use it wisely,,,,,,,,and don't go for Speed........
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hope it helps

Econo, where are you?

I did a 5 min walk, 30 mins running, and another 5 mins walk. I did this on the treadmill and added lots of low rolling hills. Then lots and lots of stretching! I feel really good now and am pleased with the fact that week 1 of the 60 minute Switzer program is now over. I think that my yoga class yesterday helped me to feel so good this morning on my run. Early this afternoon, DH and I took a short hilly hike with our 2 french bulldogs (about 2 miles) and they did great too.

Tomorrow is weight work & abdominals.

Have a wonderful Sunday evening everyone! Congrats to the Beers on their wedding day! Our 3rd anniversary is coming up shortly and we're going to the Adirondacks for some hiking to celebrate that.

Susan


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Susan, information goddess, from NY