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30's Monday, July 23.

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#1 ·
Mornin' all!!<br><br>
Stuck at work all night. <img alt="icon_study.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/icon_study.gif"> Such is the life of a schlub (sp?) who is going on vacation. Yep. You heard me. Tuesday - at the crack of dawn - we are catching a flight to Cabo. Of course, they are predicting clouds and isolated T-storms for the first 3 days we are there. too bad. I am having fun, and no one is stopping me.<br><br>
While the scanner was doing its thing (I am taking a couple of files with me - on a flash drive), I was able to catch up on a few of the threads. You folks are a chatty crowd these days.<br><br>
Hope all your races went well this weekend. I will follow the thread for a little while - assuming there are replies at this GAWDAWFUL time of day, then will try to check in again tonite.<br><br>
Be well!!
 
#53 ·
QOD- I notice stride first. After that, I'm checking out the legs, on both men and women. <img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"> I'll never have great looking legs, so I just admire the heck out of others'.
 
#54 ·
Morning gang<br><br>
Playing hookey from work today. Need to drop of DD's 1st grade registration papers and go for my follow up sports Dr. appt. plus a couple of other errands. Nothing too exciting. Will try to squeeze in a workout at the Y also.<br><br><b>GoV</b> enjoy your vacation!<br><br>
Congrats to <b>Mr Theia</b> on another IM triumpth. Good luck to <b>Theia</b> on her tri!<br><br><b>boB</b> While I just registered and bought a plane ticket for Philly Saturday night, I havent reserved a hotel yet. Id be game to share a room.<br><br><b>QOD</b> Being that I am a fairly slow runner, I notice the speed and stride of the few runners I might see while out on a run.<br><br>
Wow I just noticed my status has changed from 10k runner to 1/2 marathoner, kewl
 
#55 ·
I had no idea I was potentially being analyzed on this level...so... analyze me:
<ul><li>I couldn't ever for the life of me get my heels very high, but I wasn't a shuffler, either.</li>
<li>Mid-foot strike. This was intentional because it seemed to reduce my shin pain when I was starting out, and it felt comfortable after that.</li>
<li>No crazy legs.</li>
<li>Higher turnover seemed to be more comfortable than a too-stretched out stride for me.</li>
<li>Toward the end, I was a mid-packer-ish mid-to-high 8-minutes per mile for a 5k or 5 miler.</li>
<li>And all of the above can be thrown out the window if I was kicking at the end of a race. <img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"></li>
</ul>
What conclusion would you have come to about me?
 
#57 ·
morning gang, did not even read the thread otehr than I saw the QOD.<br><br><br>
Great weekend with the kids. saw Ratatouille (sp?) (funny), spent over 3 hours at Charles E Cheese (absolute riot and the kids actually ate their pizza), went to the Wacky Bear Workshop an the kids made a stuffed animal. Cool that even the 7 year old still though it was fun. he made a husky that he named Ghost Rider and put a spiderman costume on it.<br><br>
Got home yesterday dreading my schedule long run (18-20 mile range). I went a smidge over 18 and it sucked...it sucked big. a little slow, but yesterday was about survival, not pace. My legs hate me today.<br><br><b>QOD</b> I notice their mechanics of all things and then wonder if I look as smooth or as akward as them when I run. Oh and like competitive Maria, I have this weird thought of "Hmm I wonder if I could whoop their ass in a race"
 
#58 ·
None of this would matter if you were running without a shirt on <img alt="wink.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/wink.gif"><br><br>
Re: <b>Spring '08 Marathon -</b> I have no doubt sis #2 will BQ in Chicago so I'll go there to support her and would LOVE LOVE LOVE to do a destination marathon next year.
 
#62 ·
begin self-centered angonized rant:<br><br>
I came to work today fully prepared with good food, healthy snacks. Not going to over-indulge, going to focus on fueling not mindless eating.<br><br>
1. Finance boss comes in with 7 year old daughter and donuts - fine.<br>
2. Accounting boss comes in with massive cookies - fine.<br>
3. Neighbor down hallway in building comes in with homemade M&M cookie/bar things -<br><br>
Is someone trying to tell me something!?!?! WTF?!?!?<br><br>
[/end rant]<br><br>
I think you all should come to Duluth for Grandma's in June - I'll buy the first round of beers. . .
 
#63 ·
That's no fun.<br><br>
My focus would then turn to if I could run faster than you in the imaginary race taking place in my mind. <img alt="laughing7.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/laughing7.gif"><br><br><b>ETA</b> - thanks bOB ...it's still there as a goal for me but really, sis is FLYING these days. We ran our LR at around a 9:05-9:10 pace and it was purely for me; she could have blasted those 18 miles out at 8:30
 
#68 ·
What Lolly Does For The Weekend<br><br>
1. Ate my way through 48 hours of birthday celebrations<br>
2. Do laundry for DH who goes to Chicago for most of this week<br>
3. Crash a 20 year high school reunion that happened to be in a ball room next to a restaurant we ate at this weekend inside the Hyatt. <img alt="headbang.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/headbang.gif"><br><br>
yep, that about wraps it up... notice how running isn't in there anywhere??? bad girl!!!<br><br><b>Maria</b>, a kid who can fall asleep anywhere is a mother's dream!!! I couldn't even get my girls to fall asleep in the stroller! Someone is very very lucky!
 
#70 ·
Sorry. It creeped me out too, but being the manly man of the house it was my duty to least try to kill it. So i was running around the porch and deck w/ shovel and rake trying to chase it down and spear it (chop it, whack it, whatever). I seem to attract the stupid things as <b>Timr</b> can attest.
 
#73 ·
<b>Mr Theia</b> - way awesome & conga-rats. I'm impressed and envious. Go <b>Theia</b>, go!<br><b>Solar</b> - LBI was awesome thanks, warm water 4 of 5 days, great surf for body surfing and I caught a few fluke from the surf. Cooked 'em up on the grill - very tasty. I'll be in touch (PM) when my trip is finalized in a few weeks.<br><b>Winter</b> - RE: your response yesterday - "<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Can we switch this around maybe? just for now? Nevermind...." - Standard response - you should know this - I'll need photographic evidence first!</span></span><br><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><b>Scratch</b> - how do you calc/estimate your VOmax? Online tool?</span></span><br><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><b>Baggs</b> - jeez, impressive mileage. How 'bout a day of rest?</span></span><br><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><b>QOD</b> - if female - I look at boobs first. Otherwise - level of effort and eye contact for a head nod/hello unless it's crowded or there is poor footing, then it's all about me.</span></span><br><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><b>NY</b> - cute pix. who's that behind the yoga child?<img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif"></span></span><br><br><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I tweaked my neck yesterday while yawning. That led to a rotten night of sleep last night and it's killing me today - even post-Tylenol. I had plans for 5M at lunch but I don't think that the jogging motion will be all that comfortable. Pizzed.</span></span>
 
#74 ·
I'll throw Boston out there...<br><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"><img alt="headbang.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/headbang.gif"><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"><img alt="hello2.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/hello2.gif"><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"><img alt="headbang.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/headbang.gif"><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"><img alt="hello2.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/hello2.gif"><br><br>
How's everybody doing?<br><br>
(back into lurk mode)
 
#76 ·
Here's one: <a href="http://runningahead.com/tools/calculators/vo2max" target="_blank">http://runningahead.com/tools/calculators/vo2max</a><br><br>
Or you can also look it up in the tables in Jack Daniels' Running Formula book. Of course, for a while, with me taking over 30 minutes to complete 5Ks, I wasn't in the tables.<br><br>
The only real way to get it measured would be to go to a lab where they could actually collect breathing samples. Here's a description of that: <a href="http://runtrails.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-vo2-max-test-results.html" target="_blank">http://runtrails.blogspot.com/2007/0...t-results.html</a>
 
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