| Location: Erie,CO, Member Since: Jan 01, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Unknown Running Accomplishments: Pikes Ascent: 2:37.x
Pikes Marathon 4:32:x
Do PRs count if they are older than 10 years? Short-Term Running Goals: Preparing for Pikes 08 Long-Term Running Goals: Run lots of mountains and passes, the Grand Canyon, and the Burro Race World Championships Personal: I have nine toes for the same reason Paul McMullen has eight |
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| Early AM - 3 miles, ~7 min pace, groin sore (4), hammies tight (2), otherwise feel fine. Would have brought Lucy but she inhaled a rawhide right before I left so I decided to spare her. Or maybe me.
AM Rode into work, easy spin, mtn bike - 42 minutes. No groin pain whatsoever!
Mid AM ... had a great yap with that guy who is killing it at BS&B. If you ain't reading his stuff, you ought to. This guy is training hard, racing well, and living the life. I noted this in our "conversation ... I said:" I was thinking yesterday that I might be thinking too much about my training ... and hence I need to take a bit of the so called caveman approach for a bit ... run more, not give a crap about HR gear, run fast when I want, run slow when I want, run mountains, etc ... I have had a bit of a wash in March: good mileage for a bit, bad mileage for a bit ... nothing really pushing the pace. Not a big deal in the grand scheme as I am 21 weeks out (more of an issue in my head rather than in race preparedness), but I need to get on the horse again ...
Totally unrelated, someone at work sent me this ... JW, let's form a team!
Mid day - up on the Davidson Mesa. 'nother beaut day. Groin felt a bit better (2), hammies tight (4), and my Ach. was pissed on the left side (screw it, it is always something). 8 miles. My left hammie got increasingly tight as the afternoon wore on (cripes, is this a training blog
More warped music to free (or bend) your mind by ...
PM - end of day rode home. 25 minutes. Zero pain in the groin. When I bike these days, it just feels good. No pain. I can control how much I want I hurt with pace. I used to feel that way when I run, but not lately. Hmm. Might be a message there. Might need to cross train more. Thought about getting out for an other run in the evening, but life prevailed.
Pikes race stuff ... the other day I posted that I think Pikes needs to change registration (long term) to one based on qualifications (graded by age) rather than continuing the practice of allowing anyone who can meet the current standards. Looks like there are some similar musings on Kona by a local tri guy. |
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| The family is on Spring Break this week so I did not need to drive the kids in. So I biked in. I kept it easy, wandering around on various roads and paths to the office ... looking for various ways I could get off the road and short cut the trip. "Short cuts make for long delays," as I learned once again (damn barb wire fences) It was about a 50 minute spin. HR was b/w 130-151. Ride home was about 40 minutes (a bit more direct and more downhill)
My legs are still significantly tired. As they have been for the last few weeks. Maybe I ought to just race burros ... (seriously, if I could get a Burro, I'd do this in a heartbeat). I had contemplated running anyway, and maybe even MAF testing it today. I found plenty of reasons not too and took advantage of them. I realize that today was not totally rest though. I am debating now if I am being just a plain old wimp with my mileage and my concerns about being tired of if this something I just need to work through, get through a wall. Am I breaking down or breaking through?
I think I may have set myself up as someone who is "anti-MAF." I am not. I am not fully blessing this approach either however. The general thought of MAF is that signficant time is spent doing aerobic work to develop that system exclusively. Over time, you will become more aerobically strong, and be able to work at faster paces while remaining aerobic. I agree with this idea. The part that I have questioned is the need to remain aerobic during the entirety of a base phase. I have been "MAF-izing" for the most part for the last month. I have gone above 150 (a MAF rate) a few times (and one time, way over, when I climbed Sanitas with JV ... 170, but even then we were talking), but rarely over 154 (I think Sanitas was the one time. There have been probably 3 or 4 occasions where I have gone north of 150). Lucho has been kind enough to explain to me that the development of the anaerobic system can compromise the development of the anaerobic system. I think this is the part that I am struggling to get my head around as to why that is true. And if this is true, why is this training approach (MAF) so poorly known amongst distance runners, particularly that of the marathon? I mean, it worked for Mark Allen, how come we don't hear Hudson's gang talking (or name any of your favorite running athletes) about it?
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 I knew pretty early I was going to take today off. The day was busy with holiday events, including the kids looking for eggs, prepping food for a meal with family and friends, collecting with them in the afternoon. I'd be lying however if I said I did not think about doing the MAF test today. I would have like to have, particularly to avoid the label that Kerrie has appropriately dropped on me ;-). But the need for the rest, the family events made it pretty easy to take a break today from running. And yeah, the snow that showed up last night (that had completely vanished by this evening) made it easier to not get up for that 0730 run. But, I would have like to have seen how I had progressed with MAF training over the last couple of weeks ... I will look to do that soon.
 I have been thinking about this whole blogging thing and reminding myself why I do it. It is pretty easy for me to blog when training is going well, or I am racking up some miles. It is harder when I am struggling. I started it as an on line training log, to capture this journey, because I suspect I may want to look on it some day. I also felt that while no one might read it, by putting it in a public forum, it held me accountable to an open standard of what I was doing. Yes, this is just a mental trick ... but it works for me.
This past week was 56 miles on the week. 259 on the month and 916 on the year. I spent 45 minutes in the evening doing light core, and stretching.
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I knew pretty early I was going to take today off. The day was busy with holiday events, including the kids looking for eggs, prepping food for a meal with family and friends, collecting with them in the afternoon. I'd be lying however if I said I did not think about doing the MAF test today. I would have like to have, particularly to avoid the label that Kerrie has appropriately dropped on me ;-). But the need for the rest, the family events made it pretty easy to take a break today from running. And yeah, the snow that showed up last night (that had completely vanished by this evening) made it easier to not get up for that 0730 run. But, I would have like to have seen how I had progressed with MAF training over the last couple of weeks ... I will look to do that soon.
I have been thinking about this whole blogging thing and reminding myself why I do it. It is pretty easy for me to blog when training is going well, or I am racking up some miles. It is harder when I am struggling. I started it as an on line training log, to capture this journey, because I suspect I may want to look on it some day. I also felt that while no one might read it, by putting it in a public forum, it held me accountable to an open standard of what I was doing. Yes, this is just a mental trick ... but it works for me.