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
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...
ReplyDeleteI'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."
ReplyDeleteI couldn't imagine getting down to my high school weight.
Now Heidi, you know there are chips at Grandma's. :)
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeletehmmm, really, cool! It's been so long since I ran it I can hardly remember...
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