I'll kick it off today. Enjoy your runs and workouts!
Tuesday - Running & Fitness, 2/19
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<b>Myron</b> just to let you know, that pace you ran easy last night to keep your HR under 155 was still faster than the pace I ran this morning when I did my 7 x 4 minutes hard effort, by about 25 secs per mile.<br><br>
So yeah, 8 miles this morning with the hard intervals mixed in. First Quality workout for me in this training cylce of the Daniels' Plan. Officially moved into Phase II yesterday.<br><br>
I gotta say I'm not sure how you folks who get up in the wee hours of the morning to get your runs in do it, I mean if it's light out it's one thing but to get up at 4:30 or so to get the run in. Impressive.<br><br><b>QOD</b> - weaknesses: cross training/stretching. Need to work on those more, but that being said, there really isn't anything wrong with focusing on your strengths as well. Don't neglect the areas where you could improve but I wouldn't spend a lot of time on them at the cost of the areas you're already strong in.<br><br><b>Pacer</b> Happy Birthday to DD.
So yeah, 8 miles this morning with the hard intervals mixed in. First Quality workout for me in this training cylce of the Daniels' Plan. Officially moved into Phase II yesterday.<br><br>
I gotta say I'm not sure how you folks who get up in the wee hours of the morning to get your runs in do it, I mean if it's light out it's one thing but to get up at 4:30 or so to get the run in. Impressive.<br><br><b>QOD</b> - weaknesses: cross training/stretching. Need to work on those more, but that being said, there really isn't anything wrong with focusing on your strengths as well. Don't neglect the areas where you could improve but I wouldn't spend a lot of time on them at the cost of the areas you're already strong in.<br><br><b>Pacer</b> Happy Birthday to DD.
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Morning. Kind of crap weekend of running. Went out for a long run on Saturday and had bad stomach issues. Not normal for me, but I thought I would have been fine three hours after the breakfast burrito. Actually had to walk a bit to keep it down. Eek. Then an easy seven on Sunday. Yesterday, had the day off and spent most of it painting. Windchills were -25, so bagged that run. Dangit it's been a cold winter.<br><br>
Some speedwork on tap for tonight. It's still -2 out with some wind. It's been a long, long winter.<br><br><b>QOD</b> - Easily my diet. I need work on it more than anything.
Some speedwork on tap for tonight. It's still -2 out with some wind. It's been a long, long winter.<br><br><b>QOD</b> - Easily my diet. I need work on it more than anything.
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Yeah, me too. Actually, i have made progress in the diet area. I also need to work on core strengthening exercises. I'm poised to start those any day now.<br><br>
BTW, i'm going to work on my diet in a few with a box of chicken fingers from Guthries! <img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif">
BTW, i'm going to work on my diet in a few with a box of chicken fingers from Guthries! <img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif">
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<b>QOD</b> - <b>Strengths</b> - Discipline. I can honestly say I've never missed a planned workout, never cut a run short, not once. I always manage to somehow get it done. <b>Weaknesses</b> - Core workouts & Stretching. I don't do nearly enough of either.
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<b>QOD</b> strength-I get a workout in 6 days a week. Weakness-diet and speed intervals.
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Colleen - I'd recommend against doing speedwork until you've built up your weekly mileage to, at a minimum, 25 mpw for a period of several weeks. You'll get faster by just increasing your mileage. I'd actually suggest 30 mpw as the threshold, but I'm not sure if that type of mileage is in your long-term running plan or not.<br><br>
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Holy hell, why you gots to be busting out the Chicken Dance photos?! I thought what happened in the 'Nati, stays in the 'Nati - just because we were in Northern KY at the time doesn't mean you release the evidence... I'm sure it's just because you guys were jealous that I was the only one not stiff and sore from the race! <img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"><br><br>
We're having birthday tacos tonight (she already got chocolate chip pancakes in bed this morning!). Her party will be in a few weekends (bowling). She's ironically born on the same date, same hospital as her bestest pal, who lives on the street parallel to ours with the same house #. Weird, eh? We didn't know the parents before either though we met them briefly in a birthing class and then re-met them on a neighborhood walk after the girls were born.<br><br><b>PTom</b> 6:00-6:05? You're right - I don't know that I would sign up for a marathon either if I had to run that fast for my first one!<br><br><b>Weight & Running</b> I don't profess to eat well but I have managed to keep my weight in check. A few years ago, I was stuck at 165 lbs and my times were stuck as well - I dropped ~5 pounds and trained a little harder and knocked 5 minutes off my PR. Then I leveled out again, dropped a few more pounds to the low 150's I'm at now, and really started dropping times. At the lighter weight, I can do the workouts I need to in order to run faster. Even a few lbs off makes a huge difference to me - if I slack off and gain a few, I can definitely feel it when I ramp up the mileage. I lost the weight by simply eating a little bit better, a little bit less, and eating less crap.<br><br><b>QOD</b> Speed - I don't have the turnover that I would like to in the shorter distances which makes me a weak kicker, and makes my times at shorter distances relatively weaker than my times at longer distances. I can go at a decent pace for a long time, but what I can't do is really blaze something fast for a short while. I would love to do some track races this summer - I think that would be a blast.
We're having birthday tacos tonight (she already got chocolate chip pancakes in bed this morning!). Her party will be in a few weekends (bowling). She's ironically born on the same date, same hospital as her bestest pal, who lives on the street parallel to ours with the same house #. Weird, eh? We didn't know the parents before either though we met them briefly in a birthing class and then re-met them on a neighborhood walk after the girls were born.<br><br><b>PTom</b> 6:00-6:05? You're right - I don't know that I would sign up for a marathon either if I had to run that fast for my first one!<br><br><b>Weight & Running</b> I don't profess to eat well but I have managed to keep my weight in check. A few years ago, I was stuck at 165 lbs and my times were stuck as well - I dropped ~5 pounds and trained a little harder and knocked 5 minutes off my PR. Then I leveled out again, dropped a few more pounds to the low 150's I'm at now, and really started dropping times. At the lighter weight, I can do the workouts I need to in order to run faster. Even a few lbs off makes a huge difference to me - if I slack off and gain a few, I can definitely feel it when I ramp up the mileage. I lost the weight by simply eating a little bit better, a little bit less, and eating less crap.<br><br><b>QOD</b> Speed - I don't have the turnover that I would like to in the shorter distances which makes me a weak kicker, and makes my times at shorter distances relatively weaker than my times at longer distances. I can go at a decent pace for a long time, but what I can't do is really blaze something fast for a short while. I would love to do some track races this summer - I think that would be a blast.
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I had a great run this morning! I wish I felt like this on Sunday, today was way fun and pretty fast at a very respectable HR. 9.25 miles and the weather was pretty nice for running, 68ish and overcast, so that made the difference.<br><br><b>PTom</b>, your MP is just sick! Holy cow...it will be cool if/when you decide to do a full.<br><br><b>QOD</b>: My running strengths are endurance, endurance, endurance...I feel like I could run forever if I kept the pace easy as long as someone would feed me and I kept hydrated. I'm also just dumb enough to try some pretty aggressive training schedules, I'm having fun seeing the results from my training and that is very motivating...it's almost a scary slippery slope-I need to reel myself back in every now and again.<br><br>
My running weaknesses are speed, speed, speed. But, I'm really going to mix things up after Boston. My base should be strong so I hope I can mix in a lot more fartleks and intervals. They are still a little overwhelming to me but time will change that (I hope).
My running weaknesses are speed, speed, speed. But, I'm really going to mix things up after Boston. My base should be strong so I hope I can mix in a lot more fartleks and intervals. They are still a little overwhelming to me but time will change that (I hope).
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Baloney! You crank out some major miles and work hard to get those runs in, shitty weather and all.
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Am I the only who thought, what instrument does she play?<br><br>
Running update: none for me. I'm home from work because I'm sick. I do.not.fucking.need.this.right.now.<br><br>
QOD: many many weaknesses...pretty much can't think of a strength.
Running update: none for me. I'm home from work because I'm sick. I do.not.fucking.need.this.right.now.<br><br>
QOD: many many weaknesses...pretty much can't think of a strength.
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I guess it's time for me to answer my own question/QoD.<br><br>
In some ways, <b>Moon's</b> mention of the youtube video link I posted in the <b>Theia's</b> squats thread over in the Gym kind of gets at the way I've been moving towards in view of how I want to be fit.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dRlyPvphqk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dRlyPvphqk</a><br><br>
Here's another person doing the same thing, 15 reps of their own bodyweight in the overhead squat position.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJv0bcl3R4U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJv0bcl3R4U</a><br><br>
The second video is useful to look at for how it shows the whole body involvement of doing 15 reps like that. There are so many links that need to hold together, leg strength, core strength, upper body strength, flexibility and muscular endurance to accomplish that.<br><br>
That's pretty damn cool. At least I think it is.<br><br>
It's something like that, a wholeness that I'm after. I think. I think that's what it is. Running is part of that and my running has strengths and weaknesses. But I know that I won't ever be a runner runner maybe. It's a lot of work, I think I could be capable of that although it would be further complicated by how I'm a diabetic, it takes a lot of planning and consideration to get myself in the right situation every time I want to run. That wears on me some even at where I am now, usually up over 20 miles per week and sometimes getting over 30 miles.<br><br>
In a way, being a type 1 diabetic is a weakness as far as being an endurance athlete. I've shown to myself I can pull it off and it's done a lot for my overall strength in conditioning. It's also helped move me along to getting stronger in other ways. This was the idea I was trying to raise with the question. Don't discard strengths, but look at the ways where the weaknesses can be improved upon to achieve a total fitness in some area.<br><br>
Shit, I'm kind of rambling. I've been thinking about this a lot and it's still hard for me to articulate the concept I've had simmering away in there.<br><br>
But I'm looking forward to running tonight. My legs have been getting stronger now that I've begun doing squats and deadlifts. You know what? I knew I needed to work on it, I even said so when talking with <b>Theia</b> after my last 5K. That's what I meant about how sometimes we can work on strengths while keeping our eyes closed to weaknesses.<br><br>
So that's what I keep thinking about a lot lately.
In some ways, <b>Moon's</b> mention of the youtube video link I posted in the <b>Theia's</b> squats thread over in the Gym kind of gets at the way I've been moving towards in view of how I want to be fit.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dRlyPvphqk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dRlyPvphqk</a><br><br>
Here's another person doing the same thing, 15 reps of their own bodyweight in the overhead squat position.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJv0bcl3R4U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJv0bcl3R4U</a><br><br>
The second video is useful to look at for how it shows the whole body involvement of doing 15 reps like that. There are so many links that need to hold together, leg strength, core strength, upper body strength, flexibility and muscular endurance to accomplish that.<br><br>
That's pretty damn cool. At least I think it is.<br><br>
It's something like that, a wholeness that I'm after. I think. I think that's what it is. Running is part of that and my running has strengths and weaknesses. But I know that I won't ever be a runner runner maybe. It's a lot of work, I think I could be capable of that although it would be further complicated by how I'm a diabetic, it takes a lot of planning and consideration to get myself in the right situation every time I want to run. That wears on me some even at where I am now, usually up over 20 miles per week and sometimes getting over 30 miles.<br><br>
In a way, being a type 1 diabetic is a weakness as far as being an endurance athlete. I've shown to myself I can pull it off and it's done a lot for my overall strength in conditioning. It's also helped move me along to getting stronger in other ways. This was the idea I was trying to raise with the question. Don't discard strengths, but look at the ways where the weaknesses can be improved upon to achieve a total fitness in some area.<br><br>
Shit, I'm kind of rambling. I've been thinking about this a lot and it's still hard for me to articulate the concept I've had simmering away in there.<br><br>
But I'm looking forward to running tonight. My legs have been getting stronger now that I've begun doing squats and deadlifts. You know what? I knew I needed to work on it, I even said so when talking with <b>Theia</b> after my last 5K. That's what I meant about how sometimes we can work on strengths while keeping our eyes closed to weaknesses.<br><br>
So that's what I keep thinking about a lot lately.
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Really? This is good news for me. I tried it once when the 10k training plan had it scheduled. The tempo runs I like, speedwork not so much. I really don't have a long term running plan (surprise) yet. I just take it one training plan at a time.
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You're crazy lady, it got you a nice PR in the marathon, the HM and the 10 miler in just 2007, no?
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I would have never dreamed up such torture by myself, it is in my 10k training plan. I just change it to a tempo run.
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<b>QOD:</b> I need to work on my leg strength (my legs have always been weak) and my flexibility. I hope both of those things will help me to spend less time being injured and improve my efficiency.<br><br>
My strength is that I can run forever at slow paces and I'm ok with that.
My strength is that I can run forever at slow paces and I'm ok with that.
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