After watching Jason finish so strongly in the Frisco 50K, hearing Bart Yasso talk about his run walk strategy, and realizing the first half of Comrades is going to be seriously up and down, I’m strongly considering a run walk strategy for taking on Comrades. My plan would be 9 minutes running/1 minute walking for [...]
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After taking two days off, it’s time to put in my last two hard weeks before beginning the Comrade’s taper. Glorious, glorious taper – I can’t wait! So, starting this week’s efforts was my last hill repeat workout. 10 assaults up Mt. Flash at an average pace of 7:12/mile each. And it didn’t suck [...] It was a tough day for Team Flash. Jason was kindly informed by the New York Roadrunners that he isn’t allowed near the New York City Marathon this year. That’s the third year in a row they’ve told him to not bother showing up for the race. But here is where is gets bad from [...] Yesterday as I’m driving home from work, my luxury yacht tells me it is 68 degrees. And my eyes tell me we have a clear blue sky with only light hints of wispy clouds. How am I gonna run in that!? It’s like an oven out there. So I decide to do [...] Metro is the elder statesman of our animal menagerie. He has been a member of the family for a long time – almost as long as we’ve been a family! He turned 18 in December and is definitely showing signs of getting old. He has lost some weight over the last year or [...] After 21 very happy days where I didn’t do hill repeats, it was time to go back out and punish myself by running up Mt. Flash at a high rate of speed. But I’m modifying my hill repeats slightly due to advice from ‘Running Times.’ That’s right – the magazine for crazy competitive people. [...] I hope all my loyal blog readers have a great holiday with their families and get whatever their hearts’ desire! My clan has no huge plans, just some family get together time. This is the second Christmas in a row that Kathy and I will spend the bulk of the holidays apart. Her mom had [...] “Number nine, number nine, number nine…”
This Saturday I did my last ‘easy’ hill repeat workout. Only nine climbs up Mt. Flash. From here until Comrades, all the hill repeat workouts are 10 x 2 minute ascents. So for my last easy workout I needed to give a good [...] Cold, rainy weather. That’s what was happening today outside my work window all day. And on the day of my most dreaded workout – the hill repeats. There was just no way I was going to make it to the mountain today. So, I’ve got this wham-a-dyne treadmill in my basement. I haven’t [...] Ah, Tuesday night. Hill repeats. Seven high speed journeys up Mt. Flash. But during my 20 minute easy warmup I had a dramatic shock. My hill may have already had a name! After a jaunt to the bottom of my hill, I turned off into the unfinished subdivision. While it was already [...] |
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