re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

that sounds like a legit week dude! Thats a hell of a back to back with your build up id imagine you wont notice much difference hitting 50.

I keep looking for a tuneup race around here but not having any luck other than 5k's. Probably just going to do a few long run workouts to make up for it.

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that sounds like a legit week dude! Thats a hell of a back to back with your build up id imagine you wont notice much difference hitting 50.

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Unfortunately the guy in charge of the Sunday 13 miles postponed the run due to weather tomorrow. So I ran 17 miles this afternoon and will run 6 - 8 miles tomorrow morning to get to my 40 miles. The 17 miles really didn't feel great, but it was also 1,100 ft of elevation gain, so that might have affected my physical and mental state by the end.

ETA: also my first 15+ mile (was actually my first 13+) long run of this training session :letsgo:

I just posted on the MSB...Kelvin Kiptum and his coach both passed away in a car accident in Kenya. That's a huge loss to the running world.

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I saw. I’m actually legitimately sad over this. No words

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I'm devastated... as someone who just started running he was the person to watch, the next great thing. He was a lot more arrogant and not as personable as Kipchoge, but he was still a great guy and this is a huge loss for the community.

Sad too, cause he was legitimately going to be the first to break 2:00

So a quick update... I attempted a sub-6 minute mile yesterday for the first time... and kinda fell apart 6:07, was a PR, but of course I'm disappointed. Next week I'll try it again, but this time in shoes that don't have 330 miles on them, I probably should have thought about the milage on my shoes before trying for a sub-6 mile

On a cool note: it appears almost everyone in my running circle has their "interval training" on Tuesday, my feed was filled with Intervals across the board, nothing like seeing everyone else running way faster than you to get you motivated to get better. Even if everyone single one of them have been running at least 10 more years than you

Hell yea! That’s awesome man. I’d bet you’ll get it this next time. How fast did you open up? With the mile I always tried to make sure my lap splits we’re pyramid-y in nature. So if I was targeting 4:40, let’s say, I would open up at like :66-:68. Then try to settle in at :72 or so the next two laps then through down lap 4 with a big surge at the 200. So for you maybe targeting :86 or so lap 1 then settling in at :92 the next two laps then trying to throw down the last one will get you in a good spot to clear that hurdle.

I have a guy I coach against here in town I’m buddies with that I follow on strava. He’s a hell of a runner (14 low 5k kind of guy) and it never fails when I post a workout I’m happy with he’ll post one that just completely shits all over me. Helps to keep me grounded

I’m in the middle of my first 60 week of the cycle. 27.5 down so far this week. 9 Monday, 8.5 yesterday (screwed up my route), 10 today. Gonna hit 6 x mile tomorrow.

yea it was rare my plan actually played out. especially in college where i'd have to open the first 300 of the 15 in :45 just to hold on. I got to where I really hated anything less than 5k.

Feel good about my repeats today.

5:37,5:37,5:35,5:33,5:28,5:27

Schedule calls for ten mile tempo Saturday but it’s also supposed to be 22 degrees in the morning so we’ll see

Damn that’s tough. Out of some of the nonsense I’ve seen about people being after him or whatever I think this is the better outcome, if there is such a thing.

Took 2 minutes standing/walking.