Training year 2009
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1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
3. What was your longest run?
4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
5. What were your best and worst race performances?
6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
9. What are your goals for 2010?
10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
(Hmmm, I guess I've been the one starting this thread and was waiting
for someone else to start it. Sorry. Old age.;) )
Dot
Michelle
Dot <aktra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
1,015 miles. About 315 more than in 2008.
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Lowest: 4.2 in August. I was on vacation, and didn't run for almost a
week.
Highest: 36, with two weeks at 35.
> 3. What was your longest run?
20 miles.
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
11. Two half marathons, one 10 mile,one 10K,one 4 mile, five 5K, and one 3
mile.
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Best was the ARR Summer Series #1 5K; it was the first time I won first
place in age group where I wasn't the only runner in the AG, and was my
best PR ever.
Worst were the Summer Series # 3, 4, and 5; even though I came in first or
second in AG in each of them, my times were way off from my previous two
5Ks.
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
The Summer Series #1 and the Iron Girl 10-mile.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Didn't have any crazy weather while running this year.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
My ultimate goal for the year was to run in the Las Vegas half marathon,
and I did it. I came in, in the top 20% of my age group. My secondary
goal for that race was to set a PR, and I did not achieve that.
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
To remain healthy and injury free, and to run the Vegas marathon.
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
"It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse." - Ann Trason.
--
26.2 Because I can
I2Run
| Greetings, rec.runners!
| 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
| 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Highest 74.8 miles and the lowest 30.6 miles
| 3. What was your longest run?
racing 26.2+ miles, training 20.8 miles
| 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
Ran between 20 to 25 races
| 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Best:
1. Narragansett 10 miler in 67:59
2. Hilly St. Patrick's 10K in 41:06
3. a. John Kelly HM in 90:56, b. MHRM in 3:20 (BQ)
Worst:
DNF at Keene after 22 miles as goal time was slipping away
and to save for MHRM two weeks later.
| 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
a) Narragansett 10 miler, cranking up the last miles at 6:30 & 6:18 pace,
passing many in the process.
b) Mojo after mile 20 at MHRM, see the thread on r.r
| 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Most of the winter runs in NE are crazy anyway, but the last New Year's
day 10K race @ 5F and -5F windchill, ice & snow was craziest.
| 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
a) Focus on 1-2 training runs as I enjoy them, was easy to follow.
b) Cut down racing, didn't happen but spaced better (I guess that is the key)
c) Try for 3:15 marathon, didn't happen though BQ'd with 3:20.
(Minor calf issues popped up at the wrong time)
| 9. What are your goals for 2010?
3:15 in Boston and a sub 90 min HM this Spring (later is OK too)
| 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
I follow your quotes, they are all great and no need to search elsewhere.
Doug Freese
"Dot" <aktra...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings, rec.runners!
>
> Please feel free to join this thread and submit any information
> you have compiled regarding your year. You don't have
> to answer all the question - feel free to add any other info
> you'd like.
>
> Have a great, injury-free new year, everyone!!!
>
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
Roughly 2,500 - 2,600. Don' t keep a log
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
0 - 75
> 3. What was your longest run?
100K
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
5 ultras and another 15-20 others.
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
They were all good except the VT50 in the mud.
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
They all had memories most good.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
VT50 - 8 minutes from the cutoff in constant rain and greasy mud.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
Saying healthy and completing the races that I scheduled. Yup!
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
Keep on.....keepin on.
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
Ultra related for rookies - Find a pace that feels comfortable and then
run slower.
-D
Charlie Pendejo
1705 - almost exactly half in the first 8 months and half the last 4
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
76 (with a day off; 82 in 7 days Tu-Mo), a number of zeros
> 3. What was your longest run?
marathon race; 18 miles training
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
Roughly a dozen?
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Best: Reggae Marathon, 3rd masters = cash prize. I'm a professional
now!
Also Queens 1/2 Marathon, very surprising 1:26 on minimal training & a
bit heavy.
Worst: Staten Island 1/2 Marathon; a month or two after Queens, on
something like 1:23 pace through halfway, then got derailed by wicked
stitch pain. Eh, can't complain too much - I gambled by running very
aggressively, and lost. Shit happens when you don't play it safe.
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
Meeting I2 at half marathon in CT.
Meeting Anthony for a run in Jerusalem.
The marathon in Jamaica.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Marathon, temps started above 80F, rose to 88, with very high
humidity, dew point like 76 or 77F.
And then two weeks later, racing a 15k in subfreezing weather with
windchill in the teens.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
Don't recall firm goals. Looks like I wasn't posting at the time of
"training year ending 2008" so I can't reference that.
At any rate, I was quite pleased with the running year, and more than
met goals dreamed up along the way.
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
Eh, let's see.
Run most days of the year. Hopefully no or few zero weeks.
Peak for and perform well in spring races: Brooklyn 1/2 marathon
(assuming it's in May), ideally < 80 min, Broad Street 10M (assuming
it doesn't conflict with Brooklyn 1/2), ideally < 60 min. Those are
aggressive and I shan't be crushed if I don't hit them. Probably a
better chance at the flat, fast Philthy ten miler.
Run under 3 at NYCM, and earn the right to retire from that
distance. :-)
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
"All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal." - Rod Dixon
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great." - Mark Twain
ric...@tahoe.blue
1382 miles
>2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Not sure about weeks. Lowest monthly mileage was 90; highest monthly
was 138.
>3. What was your longest run?
A marathon at the end of September and a marathon the first week in
December.
>4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
5: Bay to Breakers; RTO Relay; Trail 1/2 marathon; Lake Tahoe
Marathon; Donner Lake Turkey Trot; and California International
Marathon.
>5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Personal bests in the Turkey Trot (7.14m) of :53:21 and the cim
marathon of 3:56:22. My Lake Tahoe Marathon was 3 minutes slower than
last year's but still my 3rd best result in that race in 8 attempts.
>6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
Running with the high school cross country team.
>7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
It was all pretty seasonal.
>8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
Always looked to break 4 hours in the marathon, and did it, altho I
had to go off hill to do it.
>9. What are your goals for 2010?
Breaking 4 hours in the Lake Tahoe Marathon.
>10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
A paraphrase: what's amazing is not that I finished, but that I even
started (from Runner's World, I think).
>(Hmmm, I guess I've been the one starting this thread and was waiting
>for someone else to start it. Sorry. Old age.;) )
Yeah, the age thing. I finally get to benefit from it, as the "puppy"
in the 60-64 age group. Ain't life grand!
Happy Trails, everyone.
Richard
Dot
> Greetings, rec.runners!
>
...
> 1. How many miles/kilometers did you run this year?
Time Miles Km Up
Run 348 hr (327) 1267 mi (1167) 2027 km (1867) 94600ft (101200)
Snowshoe 30 (44) 67 (111) 106 (178) 7120 (10700)
Hike 22 (29) 38 (89) 62 (142) 5500 (9500)
Total 400 (400) 1372 (1366) 2195 (2187)107220 (121400)
Numbers in () are last year's.
Adding some miscellaneous stuff, it's about 409hrs in 2009 vs 419 in
2008 and 400 in 2007. As I suspected last year, I think I'm hitting an
asymptote for running volume, at least with this approach to training.
What's interesting is although the volume was similar between racing
years (start about 10/1 of prior year) 2008 and 2009, there's about a
16% drop in hills. Plus, I think the volume in 2009 was lower in quality
(heat, plus maybe over reaching too far in late spring and summer).
While I ended up with similar volumes in 2009 and 2008, 2008 had a more
gradual buildup from Jan onward, while 2009 had a substantial increase
in May-June - got the volume, but not the adaptations.
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
highest: (Mon-Sun) 14.6 hr, 73 km, 45.6 mi, 3350ft (race week)
(7 days) 15 hr, 84 km, 53mi, 6700ft
lowest: 2hr, 13mi while tapering for RP50.
> 3. What was your longest run?
12.5hrs, 38mi (60km), 3500ft.
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
8: 3xc races somewhere in the 5-5.5km neighborhood, 10k, "8"mi, "15"mi,
"HM", 50mi (only completed 38mi) ("" indicate nominal distances, but
most were about 1/2 mi short - hey, they're trails)
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Hmmm, none of the races were particularly good, and none were much worse
than any of the others. Not a good year timewise, but got on 2 new race
courses that I'd been wanting to do plus raced 3 of the xc races in
consecutive weeks, something I haven't done in the past. The best race
(in terms of solid running, not scenery ;) ) was probably my last xc
race with the "stairway to heaven" near the end.
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
I think the scenery on McCarthy-Kennecott HM - at least the middle
4-5miles - was among some of the nicest I've seen in races. We went down
by the Kennecott Glacier forefront, which was especially nice for
someone who has spent a lot of time studying similar vegetation near
other glaciers, plus coming up by the Kennicott mill and those
historical buildings was really nice.
Granite Tors was also a neat run.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Nothing particularly interesting this year other than hotter than normal
- first time we've had many temperatures above 60F when doing long runs
in many years.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
A priority: Finish Resurrection Pass 50 in 13 hr.
Alt goal: at least finish the 50 mi (even if I don't make 13 hr)
No to both.
B priority: Get Seymour 10k closer to 1:33, preferably 1:30, but depends
on snow.
Nope.
B-C priority: Another race in 13-26 mi range.
Hey, I got one! Granite Tors (about 14.5 miles, 3200ft).
McCarthy-Kennecott HM (12.4mi, 500ft)
Plus racing a few of the fall xc series in consecutive weeks was
something I'd wanted to do, but hadn't fit into schedule.
> 9. What are your goals for 2009 (and beyond)?
A priority: Finish Resurrection Pass 50 in 13 hr (may be reaching).
Alt goal: at least finish the 50 mi (even if I don't make 13 hr)
AB: Finish one of the Fall Equinox races (42k or 50k, 50k was new in
2009, but 42k will have its 48th running)
B priority: Get Seymour closer to 1:33, preferably 1:30, but depends on
snow. (This is getting to be like some of my journal articles that were
always on my "do list", but never got done.)
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote or anecdote to share?
Just the usual.
"Be very choosy upon what you set your heart - for if you want it
strongly enough, you'll get it" (Butchered from Ralph Waldo
Emerson, but I prefer the butchered version since it emphasizes the
"wanting" it.)
Dot
Christos Dimitrakakis
> Greetings, rec.runners!
>
> Please feel free to join this thread and submit any information
> you have compiled regarding your year. You don't have
> to answer all the question - feel free to add any other info
> you'd like.
>
> Have a great, injury-free new year, everyone!!!
>
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
No idea.
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Highest... probably 20 km? Lowest: zero
> 3. What was your longest run?
8km
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
None
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
Encountering a large flock of mountain goat-things in Austria and
watching them cross the trail in front of me at dusk.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Trying to avoid scottish bulls in the Dutch wilderness in ice-cold
rain and 60km winds.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
A. Get rid of my heel problems. That was done.
B. Maintain and slightly improve strength. Done.
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
A. Get back to running, break 13" for 100m. (I am a slowpoke)
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
>
Sorry, no :(
Bart Mathias
> [...]
> Have a great, injury-free new year, everyone!!!
I was *going* to do that. <sigh>
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
1048K. Incredibly, that's my best since 1423K in 2000 (my 2nd worst year
ever, to that point).
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Highest 35K, lowest 0K.
> 3. What was your longest run?
10-mile Turkey Trot
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
Six. (I wish I could find someone else to time the smaller club
races--some of my favorites.)
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Best, the best-since-2003 5K on December 6. Worst probably Johnny
Faerber 10K--1:01:03--but I was about a quarter mile from the start when
the gun went off.
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
I guess the Turkey Trot, of which I have already reported beating my
predicted time by 13:08.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
I live and run in Honolulu.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
Keep running every week, no matter how little. Lasted until the 15th of
December.
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
Do a teensy bit better than 2009.
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
Sorry. Demented people have trouble remembering those things.
Bart
Anthony
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
1 200k multi-stage 8 member trail relay
2 x road 1/2 marathons
1 x ~10k cross counrty
1 10k trail
3 x 8k trail
1 5k trail
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Best was the 80k trail ultra. Managed 2nd place overall in a
small field (40), picking up an injury early in the race.
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
The trail ultra was the first time at that distance for me -
stunning scenery, very challengiung course, running injured.
The trail relay was also amazing - but not competitive.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
The cross country race was in torrential rain - great fun.
The trail relay was in blistering heat.
1 1/2 marathon was in tremendous winds.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
Main goal was the trail ultra. Finished well, if not quite
accordingto plan...
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
100k trail ultra. Struggling a bit to get ready due to time
constraints and a very annoying fall off the bike.
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
http://www.leanmeanrunnerbean.me.uk/others/runners.htm
> (Hmmm, I guess I've been the one starting this thread and was waiting
> for someone else to start it. Sorry. Old age.;) )
We were waiting for you...
Anthony. Jerusalem, Israel.
anders
> Have a great, injury-free new year, everyone!!!
Thank you, I will!
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
No idea - or maybe a ballpark figure, but I don't want to think about
it. In any case, the lowest number in my running career, including the
year I "was born". Training hours, OTOH, were UP! from last year
simply due to taking up (road) cycling.
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Highest mileage over 600 km, of which 0 km running:-) Running mileage
reached a high point in December: 6 x 1 hrs. Lowest during the period
between the end of cross-country skiing and the beginning of cycling
season, maybe 15 km.
> 3. What was your longest run?
In duration: 65 minutes. In distance: 14 km. (Not the same run,
though.)
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
2 x 10 km (Nov and Dec). 1 x 140 km (Sept, road cycling).
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Best: Being back in the game and finishing in just under 40 min in
Nov. Missing a pile up by a touch of good luck in Sept.
Worst: None, not even a DNS this year...
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
Perhaps the one during which I was joined (for maybe fifteen minutes
before our routes parted) by a certain female sub-3 marathoner who
didn't seem to be in any hurry to leave me:-)
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Since I had no training plan to follow or no mileage goal to chase, I
could avoid all bad, crazy or unusual weather.
(OTOH on one ride I was cycling happily under a summer blue sky and
the next I was watching a veritable wall of rain move towards me and
in seconds "the skies opened up and let the bathwater out" and as the
rainfall diminished to normal proportions, the temperature fell so
steeply that during the two hours' ride back home I was so cold my
teeth literally clanked.)
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
To return. In a "big" way, if possible. Yes!
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
To continue my return:-) Secondary goal: the big old sub-3.
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
"Turn left after each hundred meters." (An old-timer's advice to a 10
km runner upon his first international championship race.)
Anders
Edward Edmonds
> Greetings, rec.runners!
>
> Please feel free to join this thread and submit any information
> you have compiled regarding your year. You don't have
> to answer all the question - feel free to add any other info
> you'd like.
>
> Have a great, injury-free new year, everyone!!!
>
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
Have no idea.
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Have no idea.
> 3. What was your longest run?
Somewhere between 5 and 6 hours, it was a run w/ my wife through some
pretty tricky trails, couldn't have been to terribly far.
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
None. Well I did show up to one 5k XC race for giggles dropped out after
1 mile, went out way way to fast on loose gravel and got the life sucked
out of me.
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
That XC race, I dropped, I'm not one to believe that if you drop you suck,
but after seeing the time the first place guy came in I should have hung
w/ him because eventually I would have caught him--the little high school
pecker head w/ a headband :)
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
The XC race, when I got there, there was about 200 people mostly military
folks, they were all talking, saying look at that guy he looks like he
could run 15:30 for this... haha, I just laughed inside, that definitely
wasn't going to happen. At the same time it was kinda cool to have people
speculating.
I did a training run on some unfamiliar trails, I was marking off my turns
and was coming back and missed a turn without realizing it, ended up going
almost 10 miles out of the way before getting back to a point I
recognized. Didn't have any water and it was a bit chilly out, came home
and sat in the shower for about an hour and half warming up.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Sub zero temperatures, my CamelBak tube froze, it was 2 or 3 in the
morning, my thingy was blue when I got home and my beard had ice cubes of
frozen snot. Awesome, just a tad bit underdressed perhaps. Good learning
experience.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
My goal was to run everyday w/ no injuries except for my scheduled rest
days. Well I had some minor growing pains w/ my increased millages from
2008. I had some problems with my feet, those went away after running
through them. Had some problems with my Achilles, ran through that as
well. Had some lower quad problems above the knee from doing downhills
and trying to fight them, but ran through that as well. Everything seems
to be in working order, the light jogging I did when I was hurting I think
really was the key to sustained training.
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
Run everyday, and by February be averaging 40k a day, past 2 years I've
been 50% streets and 50% trails, this year I'd like to mostly be on trails
except for the jogging to the trailhead.
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
"Run faster!"
E**2
marko
> Greetings, rec.runners!
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
Run : 853 km 530 mi 73h17'
Swim : 45.7 km 28.4 mi 28h17'
Bike : 3160 km 1963 mi 106h26'
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
highest 85 km 52 mi(only once) lowest 0km (many times)
> 3. What was your longest run?
HM
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
3 :
- 10km 40:10
- 21.1km 1h30:10
- Short tri (400m-12km-3km 48:02)
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
running 21k on the snow in the sun in the bois de vincennes, which is
pretty much uncommon in early january.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
I planned to run a marathon and a triathlon; didn't run the 'thon but
did the tri.
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
in 2008 I wrote that I'd like to run a 2:48 thon in 2010... Since then
I've adjusted my goals and I'd rather stay at the HM level but around
1h23... One of my goal is to race in an olympic distance triathlon as well.
m
Doug Freese
"Edward Edmonds" <edward....@gmail.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:13:38 +0100, Dot <aktra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
>
> None. Well I did show up to one 5k XC race for giggles dropped out
> after 1 mile, went out way way to fast on loose gravel and got the
> life sucked out of me.
Hmmm....
>
>> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
>
> That XC race, I dropped, I'm not one to believe that if you drop you
> suck, but after seeing the time the first place guy came in I should
> have hung w/ him because eventually I would have caught him--the
> little high school pecker head w/ a headband :)
Should have, could have..another Hmmmm. Sounds like you do lots of
miles but haven't a bloody clue about race pace. It's not matter of good
or bad when you drop, that's between you and you, it is a indication
that your running ego pace is above your reality pace. I will also
suggest, although it should be obviuos, the longer the race the more you
go out too hard, the more you will STB. I haven't used STB for a while
so I'll translate - Shit The Bed.
>
>> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
> Run everyday,
Why everyday? Even God rested on the seventh. Yes you are young and
apparently resilient but a total rest day from time to time is not a
automatic path to hell or deterioration. Need I remind you, you get
stronger during rest not always doing more. Another Hmmmmm. :)
and by February be averaging 40k a day, past 2 years I've
> been 50% streets and 50% trails, this year I'd like to mostly be on
> trails except for the jogging to the trailhead.
>
>> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
>
> "Run faster!"
May I suggest "Run Smarter," it will in turn get you run faster.
-D
Charlie Pendejo
>> Run everyday,
Doug:
> Why everyday? Even God rested on the seventh. Yes you are young and
> apparently resilient but a total rest day from time to time is not a
> automatic path to hell or deterioration.
Pssst, E^2 - ask him about his good friend Dick Vincent. ;-)
Tony S.
>
> Please feel free to join this thread and submit any information
> you have compiled regarding your year. You don't have
> to answer all the question - feel free to add any other info
> you'd like.
>
> Have a great, injury-free new year, everyone!!!
>
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
In hours:
2009: 197 running, 80 biking
2008: 160 running, 180 biking
2007: 288 running
2006 257 running
Actually my training was going very well this year until the end of May
when things fell apart, partially due to an ongoing family crisis. That
wasn't a good time for my escarpment (july 26) preparation. Oh well.
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Highest: 7 hrs 23 mins; Lowest 0
> 3. What was your longest run?
Escarpment trail run 4:49
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
5
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
All were average performance wise. I suppose finishing the escarpment
trail under duress was the best and also a draining experience.
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
Training at overlook mountain once in June.
[Not running, but sports related, my favorite and most memorable
experience of the year was a two day off-trail backpacking trip in
June].
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Nothing comes to mind.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
From last year's posting:
"For 2009:
Start a new overall fitness plan, continue to cross-train, but hopefully
get very running-fit for the escaprment trail again, and perhaps some
more Fall races. Still developing specific goals".
So yes and no. I did start a new core workout routine fairly
consistently in the 2nd half of the year and stayed fit at a medium
level all year, but no I didn't get very running fit, though I was
headed that way until life intervened.
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
Same as last year, but with an eye toward even more multi sport
experiences, with less focus on running, though I would like to get
light and fit enough for some good races in late Spring and Summer.
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
No.
-Tony
Doug Freese
"Charlie Pendejo" <charlie...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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That was 34 years of continuous abuse. E squared isn't that whacked
out.........yet. :)
-D
Edward Edmonds
>
> "Edward Edmonds" <edward....@gmail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:op.u5z1e52bh5l7nc@laptop...
>> On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:13:38 +0100, Dot <aktra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
>>
>> None. Well I did show up to one 5k XC race for giggles dropped out
>> after 1 mile, went out way way to fast on loose gravel and got the
>> life sucked out of me.
>
> Hmmm....
Hmm...
>>
>>> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
>>
>> That XC race, I dropped, I'm not one to believe that if you drop you
>> suck, but after seeing the time the first place guy came in I should
>> have hung w/ him because eventually I would have caught him--the
>> little high school pecker head w/ a headband :)
>
> Should have, could have..another Hmmmm. Sounds like you do lots of
> miles but haven't a bloody clue about race pace. It's not matter of good
> or bad when you drop, that's between you and you, it is a indication
> that your running ego pace is above your reality pace. I will also
> suggest, although it should be obviuos, the longer the race the more you
> go out too hard, the more you will STB. I haven't used STB for a while
> so I'll translate - Shit The Bed.
Hmm... that would be correct Mr. Freese, I do do lots of miles and have no
clue when it comes to racing... duh, it's no secret I don't have any
racing experience. I wasn't making a should've could've statement nor
telling a "well sonny 20 years ago I could through a pigskin a quarter
mile..." story, all I meant was that if I wouldn't have gone out so hard I
could have passed high school headband in the later part of the race, if I
would've started out smarter. So big FAIL on my part, but great learning
experience.
Another thing I learned that day was my warm-up was not nearly enough, I
did I think 1 mile of jogging before the gun, I should have gotten there
earlier and run the course for my warm up and then some strides. Anyway
that's all hindsight now, I'm not saying well I wish I could back, I'm
just doing a bit of honest reflecting on what I could have done better,
we'll see what I've really learned the next time I race in the Spring.
>>
>>> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
>
>> Run everyday,
>
> Why everyday? Even God rested on the seventh. Yes you are young and
> apparently resilient but a total rest day from time to time is not a
> automatic path to hell or deterioration. Need I remind you, you get
> stronger during rest not always doing more. Another Hmmmmm. :)
I will have my rest days where I don't do 40k's, and where I'll do maybe a
5k at a more then reasonable pace as my only run. Perhaps we have
different ideas of what rest/work is? I might add that just because our
heavenly Father rested on the 7th day doesn't mean work wasn't being done,
even in Paradise, in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were tending to the
plants and animals, so apparently even in Paradise you aren't excluded
from doing work. I would also go one step further and say that honest
work not overbearing in nature goes a long way to make folks happy, and
when folks are happy they don't quibble and when folks don't quibble with
each other that's Paradise...
Oh I'm not saying I have the talent of Geb, but he said he runs everyday
but Christmas, like I said before no harm comes from easy aerobic running.
> and by February be averaging 40k a day, past 2 years I've
>> been 50% streets and 50% trails, this year I'd like to mostly be on
>> trails except for the jogging to the trailhead.
>>
>>> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
>>
>> "Run faster!"
>
> May I suggest "Run Smarter," it will in turn get you run faster.
That was meant as a joke.
Truly,
E**2
Edward Edmonds
Do tell this story please.
E**2
rick++
ran 282 days and 1793 miles.
No injuries for two years. Hurray!
A long standing ITB ache cleared up after several
months of yoga stretches.
Paul Rudin
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
Not sure - first three months of the year leading up to the Paris
Marathon it was between 80 and 100 km every week - since then it's been
rather variable - partly injury enforced, partly laziness/lack of
motivation sometime. I'd guess maybe 30km per week average for the rest
of the year - so that would be maybe a couple of thousand km for the
year.
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Around 100km and 0.
> 3. What was your longest run?
Marathon.
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
Between 10 and 15.
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Best - PB in the marathon (3:39) in April. Worst - a pretty slow
half-marathon - 1:47 later in the year when I hadn't been running much.
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
Paris Marathon.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Not sure - some runs in subzero rain/sleet/snow at the beginning of the
year.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
I'd hoped to do 3:30 for the marathon, which I failed to do - but I did
a PB, so not too upset about that. I intended to do more running for the
rest of the year that I actually ended up doing.
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
3:30 for the Paris Marathon in April. Enter another marathon in the
Autumn to help provide motivation to run more for the rest of the
year. A decent HM time. I'm not actually sure what my PB for the HM is -
I did a few sub 1:30 in my 20s - I have a feeling that my best was
1:25:xx, but not sure. Maybe a 1:35 HM is a reasonable goal - I
certainly faster than I've done it in recent years.
Lose a bit of weight by the time of the Paris Marathon. (I was 82 kg on
the start line last time - maybe sub 80kg is a reasonable target.)
Doug Freese
"Edward Edmonds" <edward....@gmail.invalid> wrote in message
> Hmm... that would be correct Mr. Freese, I do do lots of miles and
> have no clue when it comes to racing... duh, it's no secret I don't
> have any racing experience. I wasn't making a should've could've
> statement nor telling a "well sonny 20 years ago I could through a
> pigskin a quarter mile..." story, all I meant was that if I wouldn't
> have gone out so hard I could have passed high school headband in the
> later part of the race, if I would've started out smarter. So big
> FAIL on my part, but great learning experience.
Not failure but you need to get to the track or some measured stretch to
start estimating pace.
You can go to race and pay the money to blow up, but wouldn't it make
more sense to do some timed over variuos distances to at
least get a general idea? Use the races to refine your times not
establish them or worse, blow up in the first mile and stop.
If in doubt run a little slower at the start and finish strong, even if
too strong. Once you get some experience under your belt, you can see if
you race best with the go out hard and slowly die technique or
some less b2tw.
>
> Another thing I learned that day was my warm-up was not nearly enough,
> I did I think 1 mile of jogging before the gun, I should have gotten
> there earlier and run the course for my warm up and then some
> strides.
Definintely!! Since you are into heavier mileage in general, it takes
even more time to get warmed up. For a 5k I usually run the course first
to
warm up timing it such you get back to the start a few minutes before
the gun goes off and do some short fast striders. Now your ticker and
legs are ready to go. Don't warm up and then sit for 1/2 hour.
> I will have my rest days where I don't do 40k's, and where I'll do
> maybe a 5k at a more then reasonable pace as my only run. Perhaps we
> have different ideas of what rest/work is?
In your case a 5k is rest but a total day off ain't gonna kill ya. That
approaching OCD? ;)
> I might add that just because our
> heavenly Father rested on the 7th day doesn't mean work wasn't being
> done, even in Paradise, in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were
> tending to the plants and animals, so apparently even in Paradise you
> aren't excluded from doing work.
Then grab Eve and play house using an interval technique. :)
> Oh I'm not saying I have the talent of Geb, but he said he runs
> everyday but Christmas, like I said before no harm comes from easy
> aerobic running.
And many of Kenyans take weeks off and do absolutely nothing. You can
pick your idol but why push so hard on the gas pedal with so little
experience? An easy three will do nothing but add to the laundry and
write a number in your log book.
>
>> and by February be averaging 40k a day, past 2 years I've
>>> been 50% streets and 50% trails, this year I'd like to mostly be on
>>> trails except for the jogging to the trailhead.
>>>
>>>> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
>>>
>>> "Run faster!"
>>
>> May I suggest "Run Smarter," it will in turn get you run faster.
>
> That was meant as a joke.
So was mine but a sliver of truth. ;)
-D
Doug Freese
"Edward Edmonds" <edward....@gmail.invalid> wrote in message
Ran every day for 30+ years. Obviously running through everything to
include a vasectomy. Had some problems last year and tried to run
through it. This time his achilles became totally detached. Surgeon just
reconnected it. It's been three months and maybe another three before
he tries to run. The sad part while looking at the torn foot discovered
the other foot is damn near as bad with years of ugly scar tissue and
little use. Now he needs to decide what if anything to go with the other
foot.
An anecdote that probably has nothing to do with you unless you choose
to follow that path.
-D
D Stumpus
"Edward Edmonds" <edward....@gmail.invalid> wrote
> None. Well I did show up to one 5k XC race for giggles dropped out after
> 1 mile, went out way way to fast on loose gravel and got the life sucked
> out of me.
A good rule of thumb for the highly trained (solid base) is to do 3 x 1 mile
with 3-5 minutes (full recovery) between. Pace is good and strong, but no
strain at the end -- not close to all out.
The average time per mile will be very close to your flat 5k race time.
There are some other "magic" workouts, like 10 x 880 average pace will be
your marathon time, eg, 2:37 average will work out to a 2:37 marathon.
Do the workout after an easy day (non speedwork, but still your typical
mileage). For instance, I used to do 13 easy (7:30 pace) on my recovery
days, and speedwork the next day.
Tom Russo
> Greetings, rec.runners!
>
> Please feel free to join this thread and submit any information
> you have compiled regarding your year. You don't have
> to answer all the question - feel free to add any other info
> you'd like.
>
> Have a great, injury-free new year, everyone!!!
>
> 1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
1485 logged since I began counting on Jan 9th. So possibly slightly
more than 1500, because I know I ran some in the first week of the
year in between ski trips.
> 2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Highest: 58. Lowest,18
> 3. What was your longest run?
26.2 (Bataan Memorial Death March)
> 4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
Seven.
> 5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Best: Run for the Zoo 10K in May
Worst: Mount Taylor Winter Quadrathlon in February.
> 6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
Imogene Pass Trail Run, no bout adoubt it.
> 7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
40 mph winds in blowing snow at the top of Mount Taylor.
> 8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
Goals: "Do more, and better."
Achievement: yes, and no. Ran Bataan 11 minutes faster than the first
time I ran it, did Mount Taylor, even though I was 5th from last
finishing. Ran 4 trail races (Sandia Peak Challenge, La Luz Trail
Run, Imogene Pass, Big Tesuque) -- one a month, but the races I was
running for the second time were all a touch slower than the first
time. So it was a mixed bag.
> 9. What are your goals for 2010?
Run Bataan faster still, by preparing better for the dreaded Sand Pit
at mile 20.
Run my first ultra (Jemez Mountain Trail Run 50k).
Other than that, "Do more, and better."
> 10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
Nope.
Robert Grumbine
> Greetings, rec.runners!
>
> Please feel free to join this thread and submit any information
> you have compiled regarding your year. You don't have
> to answer all the question - feel free to add any other info
> you'd like.
training year 2009: sucked. or at least spent a lot of time with
cramping.
2010: now have PT referral, and will see about finishing resolving that
issue.
--
Robert Grumbine http://moregrumbinescience.blogspot.com/ Science blog
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too much
evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than they
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New Sciences
Daniel
appreciate it.
In 2009 I was ramping up and feeling good (apart from a week or so of inner-ear
trouble in March, which has been under control since then), looking forward to a
target 15K at end of July. But by mid-June I was feeling week and had, ah, to
put it delicately, some intestinal issues. The weeks that followed were marked
by what I now think of as the scoping and the moping. The scoping didn't turn
up anything terrifying, but the moping seemed to continue until October -- no
physical cause, just depressed. Anyway, life has been getting a little brighter
lately. On to the questions!
1. How many miles/kilometres did you run this year?
620.6 miles, fewest since 2004. Also walked (for exercise) about 75 miles.
2. What were your highest and lowest mileage weeks?
Highest 7-day total was 31.2 miles May 29 to June 4. There were several "zero
mile" Training Weeks.
2a. ...Months?
J 58.4
F 37.5
M 56.0
A 74.2
M 100.6
J 71.0
J 39.3
A 23.8
S 18.7
O 47.9
N 45.9
D 50.5
3. What was your longest run?
10.4 miles -- my weekly run got over 10 miles for 3 weeks in a row in late May /
early June.
4. How many (if at all) races did you enter?
Oh wow, let's see... 10! A 4Mi, a 10K, a 15K, the rest 5K's.
5. What were your best and worst race performances?
Best 5K this year was 28:30 (not up to my potential!). My 37:55 for the hilly 4
mile race in April was actually my best effort. Worst -- a DNR Half Marathon
Nov. 8.
6. Do you have a favorite, memorable run that you did this year?
The morning of Saturday May 16, my daughter and I explored trails around a local
reservoir. It was a beautiful day, full of wildflowers (wind poppies!) and
butterflies, accompanied by the sound of loons in the lake. Why I love trails.
7. What was the craziest weather you endured while running?
Not so much this year. No local wildfires or heatstroke or blue lips.
8. What were your goals for 2009? Did you achieve them?
I quote: "Improve the Total Time again -- lots of room in all my times to do
that! Volunteer at at least two races. Run more trails, and do at least two
organized trail runs."
Well I did *get* a Total Time (running club 5K + 10K + 15K) but worse than last
year by a few minutes. Don't really know how trail miles compared to previous
year. I ran Zero organized trail events (April race was cancelled, then I got
blah). And I only volunteered at one race. Stee-rike Threee!!!
9. What are your goals for 2010?
a.) Run a 5K, 10K, 15K in the club races for the Total Time
b.) Volunteer at 2 club race events
c.) Go on more of the running club Saturday training runs
d.) run an average of 25 Km / week (that would be ~808 miles for the year)
e.) Run a Half Marathon
f.) Do at least one organized Trail Run
10. Do you have a favorite running-related quote to share?
"I can not brain today, I have the dumb." There's a picture that goes with it:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/07/07/funny-pictures-i-have-the-dumb/
(Just substitute "run" for "brain".)
--
Daniel ( deltae...@usa.net )