[Thor]

<p>Good morning, TEAM LIT!</p>
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<p>Wow, what a fun weekend I had. Good to put me in the holiday spirit and then some. Complete with Holiday runs, shopping, and beers and cheer, and a Yulefest 5K along with an amazing after-party with great friends. Seriously a top 5 weekend of the year!</p>
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<p>Weekend Recap...</p>
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<p>Saturday: 6.5 mile Holiday Run with one of my local running clubs. We gathered for this point to point run in the town center where all runs begin, then jogged along with 30 others to an undisclosed location, all the while stopping twice for a beer stop. Destination was a tiny burger joint/bar that opened early just for us. I had cycled past this place a million times, never knowing what was there. Now I know. We also raised a lot of money for kids in need of some holiday cheer. Really fun.</p>
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<p>Sunday: Cambridge Yulefest 5K. 18:13 (5:52 pace). 13th place overall of 850. 1st place Master (40+). Won a great ceramic Yulefest mug. Race was one of my favorites. Start in Harvard Square next to Harvard, course goes around the university and deep into Cambridge, then winds back with lots of turns toward the final run back to the school, with finish right in front of the Harvard T-stop. Race sponsored by three breweries: Pretty Things, Notch Session, and Peak Organic. And beer was free-flowing for a rocking good festive party. When I was called up to receive my award for first place in 40+ category, I brought up a full beer, poured it into the cup, and Christened the festive prize by drinking from the cup. It was a crowd favorite. Fun, fun, fun time with great friends. Logged 6 miles in all with 2.5 solid warm up. Race was 25F, so it was slowish going on running top end speed. Yes, it was cold. Lots of frozen feet and hands.</p>
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<p>Monday: 3.5 mile jog.</p>
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<p>Great day, Yulefest Goers!</p>

 

[cak73]

<p>Nice running, Thor!</p>
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<p>3100y at early morning masters swim. My buddy and I decided to use fins on the 4x75.</p>
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400 free, 300 drill, 200 kick front/back/side/side w/fins</p>
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<p>4x(3x50 descend)</p>
<p>1+3 free on 1:00, 2+4 no free on 1:10</p>
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400 free build each 100<br>
4x25 fly on 10sr<br>
300 free build each 100<br>
4x50 fly/back on 10sr<br>
200 free build each 100<br>
4x75 fly/back/breast<br>
100 free build on 10sr</p>
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If you have the time, you would finish it off with 4x100 IM and a warm down of some sort.</p>

 

[Alaska Mike]

<p>Congrats on what sounds like a fantastic weekend Thor, and on the 1st place Masters!  (And the beer!)  Solid swim Cake!</p>
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<p>Mike - my long distance pace is my recovery pace.  When I'm doing these runs at around 8 mph, that's z2 for me.  Maybe I should be doing recovery runs slower, but its what I found works for me.</p>
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<p>Looking my dashboard on TrainingPeaks, my running mileage for the last 4 weeks was 0 mi, 3.25 mi, 30.85 mi, 67.03 mi.  My legs are feeling that buildup.  I can definitely feel that as I get older, it takes a bit longer to recover from a hard workout.  I'm still not full recovered from Saturday's speedwork.  But I should be good to go by tomorrow, when I've got hill work simulation on the TM.  I'll go hard again this week and then recover next week when I'm in Whistler.</p>
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<p>Another 8 mi on the treadmill in an hour.  Another double run for me today, so I'll be back at it tonight.</p>
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<p>Have a festive week, tri-peeps!</p>
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<p>Mike</p>

 

[zojmn151]

<p>Congrats Thor! sounds like a good time!</p>
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<p>Nothing for me on Saturday, except PT stuff...helping my sister who had shoulder surgery a few days prior...</p>
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<p>Sunday was tons of walking....around the malls, trying to get it all finished up!</p>
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<p>A little under 3 miles this am - dang it was COLD out!  Took a long time to warm up in the shower!</p>

 

[SpartyGirl]

<p>Mmmmm, beer.  Happy Yulefest.</p>
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<p>Mike - scary impressive ramp up over the last couple of weeks.  <span><img alt="icon_salut.gif" id="user_yui_3_4_1_7_1324320786539_172" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/icon_salut.gif"></span></p>
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<p><span>Cake - nice swimmin'!</span></p>
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<p><span>z - I miss those cold weather runs, doesn't get too chilly here in the south.</span></p>
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<p><span>Dance class tonight, looking forward to getting back to it after a few days on the couch.</span></p>

 

[donskiman]

<p>Thor - congrats!</p>
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<p>Daily run. Weather changed today and it's colder. Hopefully it will snow later. I notice a difference running at this altitude.</p>
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<p>39m 52s - 4.55 miles - 08m 46s/Mi<br><br>
12:00 PM<br><br><br>
Equipment: Nike Pegasus 08/11<br><br>
Cold/upper 20s - Cloudy and very windy. Ran out and back on the frontage road. Short easy effort. Stretching afterward.</p>

 

[xflbk43]

<p>2000 yd swim this morning:</p>
<p>300 warm up,</p>
<p>300 drill,</p>
<p>12x100 on :10 rest,</p>
<p>200 cool down.  </p>
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<p>Core WITH back extensions, immediately followed by a 1 mile run. </p>
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<p>Have a good day!</p>

 

[ksurp]

<p>Congrats Thor! Sounds like fun.</p>
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<p>1 mile walk for me today.</p>

 

[cak73]

<br><br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
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<p>Originally Posted by <strong>Alaska Mike</strong> <a href="/t/75959/monday-dec-19-workouts#post_2023268"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style=""></a></p>
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<p>Looking my dashboard on TrainingPeaks, my running mileage for the last 4 weeks was 0 mi, 3.25 mi, 30.85 mi, 67.03 mi.  My legs are feeling that buildup.</p>
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<p><span><img alt="shock.gif" id="user_yui_3_4_1_7_1324350910363_313" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/shock.gif"></span></p>
<p><span>(I'm only at 16-ish max right now)</span></p>
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<p>Ran ~4.25 mi this evening. Took note of the temperature (in the 40s) & tomorrow's predicted temps (only in the 30s) & decided to head out. HR avg still a bit high for the pace I ran, but felt awesome! So, glad I went out. FUN to look at all of the Christmas lights & I even ran on streets on which I had never before run.</p>
<p>Then, walked the dogs ~1 mi & made dinner.</p>
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[regiolanthe]

<p>Sounds like a great time, Thor - festive indeed! No wonder you're in the spirit (and nice time and placing too!).</p>
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<p>21+ miler at lunch. Two lunch rides to go ...</p>
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<p>Geo.</p>

 

[Yo Sake]

<p>Thor - congrats on the FUN & SOLID race in spite of the bitter cold weather.</p>
<p>Mike - craaaazy!  What will be the peak miles?</p>
<p>Reg - woohooooo, so close to 5000! </p>
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<p>5 miles, recovery run. </p>
<p>After a busy evening of shopping and baking, DH was kind enough to accompany me to the gym at 10:30pm - I swam 1500m while he was enjoying sauna, etc.</p>