re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

My first 100 mile finish was at Pinhoti. Hard to beat for an east coast 100. Point to point and awesome aid stations. Weather can be a crap shoot though.

There are a couple of 50ks and 50 milers the same RD puts on portions of the course throughout the year…really good prep for the race.

Y’all 100 mile people are crazy marathons plenty for me

I've got this shooting, tight pain right at the bottom of my glute, into my hamstring. I'm about to lose my mind trying to rehab it

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Dropped a 16:47 5k this morning. Fastest run in 5 years.

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Good lord man, what age group are you in? How many MPW??

I’m 29. I competed through college so I have a strong base. Currently only at 30-40 but coming down from 50-60 and about to ramp up to 70-80+ here in a few weeks to get ready for the okc marathon.

What’s wild about the time is that only got me 20th in the race. The local thanksgiving race here in Wichita has gotten ignorant. Top 3 we’re all sub 15. Top 10 all sub 16.

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Hell nah I just keep running on it. Either it'll go away or I'll tear something and they can drag me off the course and shoot me like an injured racehorse

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sounds like my motto

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I’m 29. I competed through college so I have a strong base. Currently only at 30-40 but coming down from 50-60 and about to ramp up to 70-80+ here in a few weeks to get ready for the okc marathon.

What’s wild about the time is that only got me 20th in the race. The local thanksgiving race here in Wichita has gotten ignorant. Top 3 we’re all sub 15. Top 10 all sub 16.

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Sounds like the Huntsville race yesterday. I did a 20:35 and barely scratched the top 2% (39th of 2178)

I'm pretty sure the top 10 where all sub 16 and the top 3 where around that 15 mark. It was an out and back and I'm pretty sure most of them where passing me going back at around the 1 mile mark - just crazy.

Happy though, was my first official 5k and I got 2nd in my age group

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I thought you were running 18 minute 5k’s?

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Down freakin' 4% grade hills. I was an idiot early on in my training and thought that was legit.

Just like most people early on I was trying to post "awesome numbers" instead of actually training correctly.

Currently 2 weeks away from hopefully my 2nd Marathon. Been training for a sub-3:45, most metrics say I "should" be able to get closer to 3:30, but I don't really trust metrics, I'm still a very "young" runner (only about 6 months into actually training correctly) and don't want to end up injured.

This is a segment of the 3.1 I ran the 18min 5k in:

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Peavine Falls Rd Descent
Segment Pelham, Alabama
Distance
2.10mi
Elevation Gain
69ft
Avg Grade
-3.9%
Lowest Elev
56ft

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It keeps going down after that even steeper, Strava gave me a "Grats on your PR" and of course I did a victory dance, probably 2 months after my last Marathon I joined a real running group and quickly learned the "rules".

I actually deleted that run so it wouldn't show up on my PRs anymore. Yesterday's Turkey Trot is my real PR... for now

ETA: I see where your got that information from now, I thought maybe you knew me or something, yeah that post is wrong on a few levels. My 22 minute 5k before training was also down a huge hill. I think my real PR before this year was like 25:03 (and really didn't get much better realistically until late July / Early August)

lol fair enough. Was just curious because that was your last post and I think me and ksnola asked and you vanished for 7 months

that's just sad. you'll be more satisfied with turning older so you can place higher in some local 10k age group that means nothing rather than training harder and just getting faster. 7 sub min pace for a 10k in age group 45-49 is by no means freakish. mens 80-84 10k world record is 42:58 now that qualifies as freakish.