Here’s something I forgot to mention 10 days ago. After my long run I weighed 135 pounds. I think I was 133 pounds when I graduated from HIGH SCHOOL. Maybe with my 20 year reunion coming up this summer, my body is trying get back to my graduation weight. Last Saturday I weighed in at 137 pounds after my long run. That’s probably more reasonable and probably even too light. I think I ran Chicago last year around 140-142 pounds.
Not much else is going on lately. I ran a very easy 5 miles yesterday and even left my watch at home! This morning was an easy 8 mile run. I’m trying to decide what I want to do during my taper – workout-wise. Pfitz’s schedule has an 8-10K ran this weekend, but I’m going to pass on that. I feel like my racing is still on the upswing and I want to take that into Grandma’s, rather than “go for one more.” He also has 3 x 1 mile on the schedule for next week that I’m thinking about skipping. I haven’t really done any marathon specific work in nearly 2 months, so I’m thinking about doing one of those in each of the last 3 weeks.
Normally, I complain about people when they say they’re following XYZ’s plan and then they proceed to change the mileage, the workouts, the length, etc. I always wonder when it switches from XYZ’s plan to said runner’s plan. Anyway, since I’ve basically butchered Pfitz’s plan this time around, I should at least stop claiming that’s what I’m following.
Quote of the day;
“I believe that there are no short cuts or secrets to being a great runner. Running is hard and you have to be willing to put in the high miles to compete at a high level. I follow an Arthur Lydiard plan, which consists of a huge base phase and I believe that is the most important part of my training program. I believe that whatever your training plan is you need to stick to it. I think that too many people trade what they want tomorrow for what they can have today. I think that you can do a lot off of a huge aerobic base. I am not huge on intervals either. Anyone can crank out 200 meter repeats all day long but I believe that tempo runs and marathon pace runs are the key to distance racing.” - Jeremy
Polson
5 comments:
No one responded because it is a no brainer! If you were at the back of the pack at Grandma's would you subtract the 5 minutes it takes to cross the start line, I sure would. It was kind of funny because my time was two seconds faster than the official also and I was thinking the same thing. Or maybe we're crazy for even caring about two seconds...
I've never been one to follow a cookie cutter plan exactly. And once again this year I will be taking a plan and modifying it to make it work for me. I'll make sure to say "I'm basing my training off said plan."
I couldn't imagine getting down to my high school weight.
Now Heidi, you know there are chips at Grandma's. :)
I guess it is a no brainer. Just don't want to get chewed out on letsrun for saying I ran 17:52.
"They" say that you get 1% faster for every 1% weight you lose. I wonder where that algorithm ends and anorexia begins.
hmmm, really, cool! It's been so long since I ran it I can hardly remember...
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