re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

Based on this week's activity, no calendar or shirtless running for me...

Using feedback from here, which I sincerely appreciate, I'm closing in on my 2nd week in a row with 30+ miles. Mentally, since my half program capped at 23, I was apprehensive at first.

It has been enjoyable and I have seen enough improvements to bump my 2019 mileage goal from 1,000 to 1,500. I will have a strong fighting chance with a solid summer + my full marathon training which begins in August. ( Houston Chevron, 1/20/20 )

22:02 on the 3.18 mile race. Won my age group and got 16th overall. Not bad considering I played basketball for 2 hours before the race and had a couple pre race beers.

I’ll take it.

If it spends it spends. Money ain’t complaining.

Damn

That actually seems pretty fun

I think I’d enjoy it but I know I’d be dead mile 6 of the half.

I’ll challenge anybody to a 100m 200m 400m though.

Texas has a lot of fun races if you’re into trail running and don’t mind travel. There’s at least 3 a month every month between Xterra, TROT, Spectrum, and Tejas.

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Same group that did the .5 mile out and back course for 72 hours.

We’re trail runners. We aren’t fast and we do weird stuff. And shite in the woods.

Deal with it.

Done delt with. I love a good trail race as much as the next guy but...

Speaking of, doing the Hobbs again this year. You should check it out. War Eagle Running Festival

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So many lost socks

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I don’t know what the deal is, but I’ve had to stop and poop on maybe one long road run ever. And I do a whole lot of road miles.

Probably a quarter of my miles are on trails but I’d wager I poop on 1/3 of them. It’s a lot like deer hunting. If I hunt over 3 days there will be a poop unquestionably. there’s just something about being in nature that stirs my bowels.

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miserable in TX

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Oh no, it's miserable here too about that time. Nothing like being on the verge of fricking dying to make you really feel alive.

@ TR I'm doing my own taper. The McMillan plan that I was loosely following wanted a Sunday fast finish (build to marathon pace hold it for about 8 miles then finish the last 4 at race pace), Monday off, Then a cruise interval workout on Tuesday, easy Wednesday, Fartlek Thursday, off Friday.

I'm doing in place of those, 12 easy Sun, Monday off, 4 cruise interval Tuesday, hour easy Wednesday, off Thursday, five miles on Friday, race.

Basically I do a two week taper: week one keep the workouts cut the miles; week two dial in the pace keep it loose. Biologically it takes about 8 or so days for a speed workout to benefit your training. So if you're doing speed the week of, what's the point if your goal race is the same week?