Training Week Ending December 2, 2007

Doug Freese

"anders" <hop.allez@suomi24.fi> wrote in message
news:4676a838-d8a2-41be-ae27-22edb72f634a@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On 2 joulu, 04:05, "Tony S." <email_to...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings rec.runners! Please tell us about your training week and
>> goals.
>
>
> Four one-hour runs (MON, TUE, THU, SUN) and one four-hour bike (SAT).
>
> Body and soul on the upswing.
>
>
> In place of further notes and reflections, here's a few YouTube links
> for anyone interested in or curious about ultrarunning, more precisely
> indoor 24-hour events:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAlfflBrpDE
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3qCi86Qdeg
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP3_1TGmbEo


I know it's different strokes for different folks but indoor 24 hours in
my mind would be absolute torture. If anyone has ever run indoors the
classic dry air raises havoc on your lungs if the thousands of little
loops don't drive you nuts. Even outside on a 1/4 or even two mile loop
would miss the dry air but still make one loopy. I do a 5k loop 10 times
for 50k and that's about the extent of the monotony I can tolerate.

Some like spending a summer running some long trail would be something
more intersting. As long as videos is the genre takea look at David
Horton's 2,700 mile Pacific Coast trail run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejs0...feature=related or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDy...feature=related

and if you're still bored an interview With Scott Jurek before the
sparathlon 2007.

Tom B.

On Dec 1, 9:05 pm, "Tony S." <email_to...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings rec.runners! Please tell us about your training week and goals.

Mon - indoor row (C2), 40 min, moderate
Tue/Thu - bike to work (3hr30 total)
Wed - run, 6.1 mi, 43:xx, very easy
Fri - rest
Sat - rest
Sun - 26.2k race, 1:36:48 (5mi splits: 29:40, 30:18, 29:32)

Goals:
Dec 15 - Celtic 5mi (maybe)
spring - possible marathon

Had a better race on Sunday than I expected. 3 seconds faster than
last year, which had already been a good race. A good recovery from
the crappy 10k on Thanksgiving. Thanks to Anders for the positive
thoughts.

I2Run

"Tom B." wrote
| Sun - 26.2k race, 1:36:48 (5mi splits: 29:40, 30:18, 29:32)
nice splits.

| Had a better race on Sunday than I expected. 3 seconds faster than
| last year, which had already been a good race.

You were really ecstatic about last year's race:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec....9d2409a8c2a5f5b

Awesome to beat that, congrats!

Teresa Bippert-Plymate

Tony S. wrote:
> Greetings rec.runners! Please tell us about your training week and goals.

Goals: Recover from Marathon so as to start the new year fresh and ready
to tackle the 2008 Grand Prix. Including speedwork this year.

Mon: Rest Day
Tue: 3.5 mi on the treadmill, 9:40 oa pace, started slow and increased
to 8:30 pace.
Wed: Same
Thur: Same but slower.
Fri: DNR, home late from work, and it's POURING outside...
Sat: 3.5 mmi on tread, slow. Worried about tomorrow, weather still
sucks....
Sun: Tucson Marathon. Made primary goal of "under 4". (3:59:30). Was
running pretty steadily until 24, then my hip/ham on the right side
started cramping up. Unfortunately I then dropped down to 12's,
whereas I had been under 9 up until then. Was 527/1017, 7/33 in AG,
158/400 women. Age-grade looked much better, I was 186/1017. WIll
try to find some time to write a report later. BTW, the weather was
fantastically beautiful after all, near perfect. Oh, it was still a
BQ at least.

Total: 33.7 mi

Teresa in AZ

Teresa Bippert-Plymate

Michelle wrote:

> Sun: DNR
>
> I was supposed to run in a ten mile race on Sunday, but I came down with
> a cold on Thursday, and it's still lodged in my chest, so I opted to
> stay home and heal instead. I've been looking forward to this race for
> the past nine months. Well, there are other races...

Bummer! I know you'd been wanting to do this one for awhile!!! But yes,
we're still in prime race season, so lots available. Good luck with that
cold!!

Teresa in AZ

gym.gravity

Weekly Distance Totals (miles)
Jun 25, 2007, to Dec 3, 2007
Week of
Jun 25, 2007 39.45
Jul 2, 2007 37.75
Jul 9, 2007 29.87
Jul 16, 2007 27.17
Jul 23, 2007 40.05
Jul 30, 2007 36.51
Aug 6, 2007 34.04
Aug 13, 2007 40.65
Aug 20, 2007 44.92
Aug 27, 2007 40.04
Sep 3, 2007 21.74
Sep 10, 2007 48.48
Sep 17, 2007 44.77
Sep 24, 2007 32.30
Oct 1, 2007 38.47
Oct 8, 2007 51.10
Oct 15, 2007 47.23
Oct 22, 2007 49.49
Oct 29, 2007 50.16
Nov 5, 2007 29.70
Nov 12, 2007 20.34
Nov 19, 2007 60.17
Nov 26, 2007 50.39

Last month, daily:
Daily Distance Totals (miles)
Nov 1, 2007, to Dec 3, 2007
Date
Nov 1, 2007 9.50
Nov 2, 2007 10.17
Nov 3, 2007
Nov 4, 2007 13.10
Nov 5, 2007 9.50
Nov 6, 2007 9.50
Nov 7, 2007
Nov 8, 2007 5.20
Nov 9, 2007
Nov 10, 2007 5.50
Nov 11, 2007
Nov 12, 2007
Nov 13, 2007
Nov 14, 2007 10.17
Nov 15, 2007
Nov 16, 2007
Nov 17, 2007 10.17
Nov 18, 2007
Nov 19, 2007 9.50
Nov 20, 2007 10.17
Nov 21, 2007 11.96
Nov 22, 2007
Nov 23, 2007 14
Nov 24, 2007 6.65
Nov 25, 2007 7.89
Nov 26, 2007
Nov 27, 2007 9.50
Nov 28, 2007 9.50
Nov 29, 2007
Nov 30, 2007 9.50
Dec 1, 2007 7.89
Dec 2, 2007 14
Dec 3, 2007

I2Run

"Teresa Bippert-Plymate" wrote:
| Sun: Tucson Marathon. Made primary goal of "under 4". (3:59:30). Was
| running pretty steadily until 24, then my hip/ham on the right side
| started cramping up. Unfortunately I then dropped down to 12's,
| whereas I had been under 9 up until then.

Still not far from 9 min/mi with around 9:08 min/mi overall pace.
Congrats on BQ and the under 4 goal. How do you feel now?

Michelle

In article <fj1n97$h1g$2@onion.ccit.arizona.edu>,
Teresa Bippert-Plymate <teresa@as.arizona.edu> wrote:

> > I was supposed to run in a ten mile race on Sunday, but I came down
> > with a cold on Thursday, and it's still lodged in my chest, so I
> > opted to stay home and heal instead. I've been looking forward to
> > this race for the past nine months. Well, there are other races...
>
> Bummer! I know you'd been wanting to do this one for awhile!!! But
> yes, we're still in prime race season, so lots available. Good luck
> with that cold!!

Thanks. I checked the results last night; I would have been the only
finisher in the 65-69 age group had I not caught this cold. I'm just
starting to get over it; I haven't been out of the house since getting
back from Thursday morning's run.

I've registered for a three-mile race New Year's Eve in Phoenix, and for
the Lost Dutchman half marathon on Feb 17th. I'm going to volunteer to
help out at the Rock and Roll in Phoenix in January.

Congrats on making your primary goal and achieving a BQ in the Tucson
Marathon.

-- Michelle

--
13.1 Because I can

Tim Downie

"Tony S." <email_tonys@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:CSE4j.1985 the
group.
>
> -Tony, who is wondering what ever happened to David Hamilton...

He did rather disappear from the face of the earth didn't he?

Amazing what you fine when you google. Looks like it was me wot did it.
;-)

http://preview.tinyurl.com/39jccu

Of course Charlie started it but it seems that my last post was the one that
finished him off. His company that organised races
(www.absolutelyaccurate.com) seems to have died a death, any races that were
organised by it now no longer seem to exist. (Can't claim credit for that.)

Tim
(Not proud of this in any way, but hoping to shed a little light about his
disappearance from rec.running)

steve common

Goals : run >40mins 6d/7, lose 10kg

Last week : 2 x (0:40, 6k, 4mi) Heavy going.
____________________
Total = 1:20 12k 8mi 83kg

This week :
Mon-Thu DNR
Fri 0:42 7k 5mi 80% HRav Middlin'
Sat 0:00
Sun 0:45 7k 5mi 80% HRav Barf.
____________________
Total 1:27 15k 10mi 82kg

joe positive

On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:30:21 +0100, steve common
<steven.common@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>Goals : run >40mins 6d/7, lose 10kg
>
>Last week : 2 x (0:40, 6k, 4mi) Heavy going.
>____________________
>Total = 1:20 12k 8mi 83kg
>
>This week :
>Mon-Thu DNR
>Fri 0:42 7k 5mi 80% HRav Middlin'
>Sat 0:00
>Sun 0:45 7k 5mi 80% HRav Barf.
>____________________
>Total 1:27 15k 10mi 82kg

well, you ran, anyway. yay!

Keep going.

Karen



live! vicariously!

Michelle

In article <5rjd2vF14vn27U1@mid.individual.net>,
"Tim Downie" <timdownie2003@obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> > -Tony, who is wondering what ever happened to David Hamilton...
>
> He did rather disappear from the face of the earth didn't he?

There is a David at the runner's forum of Live Journal who is doing the
same weekly thing; his introduction to the thread is identical to what
is used here.

--
13.1 Because I can

Tim Downie

"Michelle" <michelle@michelle.org> wrote in message
news:michelle-84F44A.16290903122007@news.east.cox.net...
> In article <5rjd2vF14vn27U1@mid.individual.net>,
> "Tim Downie" <timdownie2003@obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> > -Tony, who is wondering what ever happened to David Hamilton...
>>
>> He did rather disappear from the face of the earth didn't he?
>
> There is a David at the runner's forum of Live Journal who is doing the
> same weekly thing; his introduction to the thread is identical to what
> is used here.

Looks like I missed some later posts of his when he changed address. Last
one here was Aug 20th 06 (I think). Guess he just got bored of the trolls.

Tim

Dot

steve common wrote:

> Goals : run >40mins 6d/7, lose 10kg
>
> Last week : 2 x (0:40, 6k, 4mi) Heavy going.
> ____________________
> Total = 1:20 12k 8mi 83kg
>
> This week :
> Mon-Thu DNR
> Fri 0:42 7k 5mi 80% HRav Middlin'
> Sat 0:00
> Sun 0:45 7k 5mi 80% HRav Barf.
> ____________________
> Total 1:27 15k 10mi 82kg


Good job on getting out there, Steve!!

Dot

--
...."the doctor told me I should do one of two tings. One, if I started
to feel extreme muscle damage, I should slow down, or two, I should
train harder to avoid muscle damge in the future. I chose number two."
- Andy Jones-Wilkins (quoted in Trail Runner 49:12, Dec 2007)