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 2013-10-31 12:44 PM in reply to: switch |
 Seattle |  Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" ChallengeOriginally posted by switch Originally posted by StaceyK It's official my legs think I'm a beotch! Got up and ran 4k again today. Thanks for the motivation everyone. Switch how did the swim set go?
The breakthrough was REALLY cool though. Last year at a swim clinic the instructor spoke about "sneaking up on the water". I was trying to just not drown in the water, so "sneaking up" was beyond me. Yesterday, for the first time, I felt what she meant about "sneaking up" and it was awesome! It is totally dependent on my timing being perfect, but when it works, I felt like I was flying or gliding or something. I had my first glimpse of what fast could possibly feel like. I couldn't sustain it for more than half a length or a few strokes at a time, but it was a HUGE "feel for the water" breakthrough for me
Awesome. I think there are soooo many conceptual elements in swimming and it's so cool when you start to get it. Great work! |
| 2013-10-31 1:01 PM in reply to: Asalzwed |
Veteran  1677    Houston, Texas | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by Asalzwed Originally posted by ligersandtions Monday was a non-running night, so I did some stretching, foam rolling, eccentric heel drops, and eccentric wall squats -- hoping all this will keep me on the right path to continue running! Last night, I did 2.2 miles with the dogs -- warm and humid, so the pace was a little slower for the same effort....but seriously, I'd give up a bit of time if the weather could always be like that Awesome! All those supplemental things you listed above are soooo good for running. Keep it up! And look at the rain as an adventure  Planning for a 30 minute run tonight....supposed to be dumping down rain all day today, but it looks fairly decent out right now, so I'll just have to hold out hope that it'll be decent tonight. I should be smarter and have a pair of shoes in the car so I could hit up a treadmill on the way home for days with crap weather....but apparently I'm not! Got my run in yesterday between storms....whew! I lived in Seattle for four years....Seattle rain did nothing to prepare me for Houston rain. It's like a whole different beast. It doesn't drizzle here....you get massive downpours, where your windshield wipers have zero chance of clearing water quickly enough. You can actually watch it build up on your windshield. I'd never experienced anything like that before. I've only been caught running in it once and it wasn't fun. But I am willing to do "beat the storm" runs....it's a little game I like to play  |
| 2013-10-31 1:08 PM in reply to: switch |
Veteran 1677 Houston, Texas | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by switch Originally posted by ligersandtions Monday was a non-running night, so I did some stretching, foam rolling, eccentric heel drops, and eccentric wall squats -- hoping all this will keep me on the right path to continue running! Last night, I did 2.2 miles with the dogs -- warm and humid, so the pace was a little slower for the same effort....but seriously, I'd give up a bit of time if the weather could always be like that Planning for a 30 minute run tonight....supposed to be dumping down rain all day today, but it looks fairly decent out right now, so I'll just have to hold out hope that it'll be decent tonight. I should be smarter and have a pair of shoes in the car so I could hit up a treadmill on the way home for days with crap weather....but apparently I'm not! Ohhhhh, I'm jealous of warm and humid right now Strong work on the keep you running stretching/rolling/dropping/squatting stuff I live 40 minutes from where I work, and remembering or having all of the right gear is one of my top obstacles to making it happen in the winter. With the way the back of my truck looks, I find it hard to believe I can't have everything I would need for any weather situation, but apparently I can still regularly come up short
Today is semi monsoon weather....so that's what comes with the hot and humid in October, I guess Eccentric wall squats -- found this in one of the Lava magazines and it's for people who have patellar tendon issues (which is one of the issues I inherited with my knee injury). What they said to do was to have your back against a wall, feet out far enough away so that when you squat to 90 degrees your toes are directly over your ankles, and then shift the weight to your injured leg -- squat down on one leg and when you get to 90, stand back up with both legs. I think they said to do it to failure or something, but I think that would take basically forever, so I'm doing 2-3x10. |
| 2013-10-31 1:24 PM in reply to: popsracer |
Expert 4953 Middle River, Maryland Silver member | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by popsracer Thanks Mike. I was just looking at the Rock Hall event site and based on the last three years results I'd have to be at 2:30 which is doable but it all depends on who shows up that day as to whether that's good enough. It is too bad that the Pacific NW special qualifier for 2014 already took place in September. I think I'll try to get a few of these races on the schedule and then keep my fingers crossed. It's also kind of hard to project too much from previous times without knowing the course but a flat bike works to my benefit as I am not a terribly strong rider. I'm lucky...I age up to 45-49 next year so I only have to do a 2:40. |
| 2013-10-31 2:41 PM in reply to: jmhpsu93 |
Pro 6520 Bellingham, WA | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by jmhpsu93 Originally posted by popsracer Thanks Mike. I was just looking at the Rock Hall event site and based on the last three years results I'd have to be at 2:30 which is doable but it all depends on who shows up that day as to whether that's good enough. It is too bad that the Pacific NW special qualifier for 2014 already took place in September. I think I'll try to get a few of these races on the schedule and then keep my fingers crossed. It's also kind of hard to project too much from previous times without knowing the course but a flat bike works to my benefit as I am not a terribly strong rider. I'm lucky...I age up to 45-49 next year so I only have to do a 2:40. You probably don't want to look at 2012. |
If I get serious about this I'm going to plan on a few races just in case I hit a tough crowd on a particular day.| 2013-10-31 2:49 PM in reply to: popsracer |
Extreme Veteran 2263 Ridgeland, Mississippi | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by popsracer Originally posted by jmhpsu93 Originally posted by popsracer Thanks Mike. I was just looking at the Rock Hall event site and based on the last three years results I'd have to be at 2:30 which is doable but it all depends on who shows up that day as to whether that's good enough. It is too bad that the Pacific NW special qualifier for 2014 already took place in September. I think I'll try to get a few of these races on the schedule and then keep my fingers crossed. It's also kind of hard to project too much from previous times without knowing the course but a flat bike works to my benefit as I am not a terribly strong rider. I'm lucky...I age up to 45-49 next year so I only have to do a 2:40. You probably don't want to look at 2012. Is there a small sprint that you can sneak in a top 10% in your AG? |
| 2013-10-31 3:17 PM in reply to: ligersandtions |
Regular 5477 LHOTP | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by ligersandtions Originally posted by switch Today is semi monsoon weather....so that's what comes with the hot and humid in October, I guess ;) Eccentric wall squats -- found this in one of the Lava magazines and it's for people who have patellar tendon issues (which is one of the issues I inherited with my knee injury). What they said to do was to have your back against a wall, feet out far enough away so that when you squat to 90 degrees your toes are directly over your ankles, and then shift the weight to your injured leg -- squat down on one leg and when you get to 90, stand back up with both legs. I think they said to do it to failure or something, but I think that would take basically forever, so I'm doing 2-3x10. Originally posted by ligersandtions Monday was a non-running night, so I did some stretching, foam rolling, eccentric heel drops, and eccentric wall squats -- hoping all this will keep me on the right path to continue running! Last night, I did 2.2 miles with the dogs -- warm and humid, so the pace was a little slower for the same effort....but seriously, I'd give up a bit of time if the weather could always be like that :) Planning for a 30 minute run tonight....supposed to be dumping down rain all day today, but it looks fairly decent out right now, so I'll just have to hold out hope that it'll be decent tonight. I should be smarter and have a pair of shoes in the car so I could hit up a treadmill on the way home for days with crap weather....but apparently I'm not! Ohhhhh, I'm jealous of warm and humid right now :) Strong work on the keep you running stretching/rolling/dropping/squatting stuff :) I know what a wall squat is. And I know what an eccentric contraction is. But I don't know what an eccentric wall squat is. Will you educate me? I live 40 minutes from where I work, and remembering or having all of the right gear is one of my top obstacles to making it happen in the winter. With the way the back of my truck looks, I find it hard to believe I can't have everything I would need for any weather situation, but apparently I can still regularly come up short;)
Ah-ha! Thank you :) |
| 2013-10-31 3:56 PM in reply to: switch |
Pro 4482 NJ | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Finished the month off with a nice, rainy run over the lunch hour. Now it's time for the candy crush. Halloween was cancelled here for the last two years due to hurricanes/storms so the neighborhood kids are hyped and have been out ringing door bells for over an hour now. I was able to snag the one candy I don't like....milky ways....so I'm good for the evening. Nicole, tx for the explanation on the eccentric wall squats. I'm going to add that to my single leg routine. |
| 2013-10-31 4:07 PM in reply to: kcarroll |
Expert 4953 Middle River, Maryland Silver member | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Just finished off October with a 3 mile run. The trick or treaters are EVERYWHERE already. October was 70 miles for me...longest since May 2011. |
| 2013-10-31 4:27 PM in reply to: jmhpsu93 |
Pro 4482 NJ | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by jmhpsu93 Just finished off October with a 3 mile run. The trick or treaters are EVERYWHERE already. October was 70 miles for me...longest since May 2011. Congrats! I had my biggest month in a long time as well. Those 3 and 4 milers add up if you do them frequently enough. |
| 2013-10-31 4:35 PM in reply to: jmhpsu93 |
| Seattle | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by jmhpsu93 Just finished off October with a 3 mile run. The trick or treaters are EVERYWHERE already. October was 70 miles for me...longest since May 2011. W00t w00t!!!!!!!!!!! Sooo, it's your offseason though, right caboose? |
| 2013-10-31 4:46 PM in reply to: Asalzwed |
| Seattle | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge The cabizzo |
| 2013-11-01 7:29 AM in reply to: switch |
Member 3149 | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Super excited this morning for a number of reasons. 1.) Made it through last night without having any Halloween candy (no trick-or-treaters, so the package didn't get opened). 2.) My training plan calls for a rest day! 3.) I just signed up for a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving, which I will be doing with my sister (a marathoner), her husband, and two of their kids (all athletic and veteran 5K racers). After my October tri was cancelled due to the gov't shutdown, I was super bummed--this is getting me excited again. It will be my first official race (ever, if you don't count the 'fat-girl' relay one of my high school track meets used to have for the throwers). Hope everyone is having a good day! |
| 2013-11-01 8:05 AM in reply to: switch |
Member 3149 | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Anyone have November goals (in addition to the mini-challenge)? My Sept/Oct goal was to do something active every single day. I have a problem with consistency! Made it in Oct, would have made it in Sept, but for a 3 day illness near the end. November goal: Faithfully stick to my training plan, even rest days. May be difficult with the food and family events around the middle and end of the month, but I gotta try. |
| 2013-11-01 8:11 AM in reply to: Asalzwed |
Expert 4953 Middle River, Maryland Silver member | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge |
| 2013-11-01 8:15 AM in reply to: Asalzwed |
Expert 4953 Middle River, Maryland Silver member | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by Asalzwed Originally posted by jmhpsu93 Just finished off October with a 3 mile run. The trick or treaters are EVERYWHERE already. October was 70 miles for me...longest since May 2011. W00t w00t!!!!!!!!!!! Sooo, it's your offseason though, right caboose? It's your fault! I should be lounging around eating bon bons,enjoying my off season but NOOOOOO, old Salty innocently says "hey you've just hit a milestone, how about keeping it up?" and now I'm racing 4 times in November. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME????? I guess that's the point of these challenges. |
| 2013-11-01 8:53 AM in reply to: jmhpsu93 |
| Seattle | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by jmhpsu93 it was just an idea cabizzo Originally posted by Asalzwed Originally posted by jmhpsu93 Just finished off October with a 3 mile run. The trick or treaters are EVERYWHERE already. October was 70 miles for me...longest since May 2011. W00t w00t!!!!!!!!!!! Sooo, it's your offseason though, right caboose? It's your fault! I should be lounging around eating bon bons,enjoying my off season but NOOOOOO, old Salty innocently says "hey you've just hit a milestone, how about keeping it up?" and now I'm racing 4 times in November. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME????? I guess that's the point of these challenges. |
| 2013-11-01 8:56 AM in reply to: 0 |
| Seattle | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Very important race weekend for me. So long as I don't blow it, I have a good chance of making the elite xc club nationals team. I am also awarded the gift of sleep. A Sunday meet means no Saturday practice so I can sleep in!!!! Also,Sundays race is at 10:45 plus it's daylight savings! Double sleep in! I am saying this to make myself feel better because I am sooooo tired right now. Edited by Asalzwed 2013-11-01 8:57 AM |
| 2013-11-01 9:03 AM in reply to: drfoodlove |
Extreme Veteran 2263 Ridgeland, Mississippi | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by drfoodlove Super excited this morning for a number of reasons. 1.) Made it through last night without having any Halloween candy (no trick-or-treaters, so the package didn't get opened). 2.) My training plan calls for a rest day! 3.) I just signed up for a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving, which I will be doing with my sister (a marathoner), her husband, and two of their kids (all athletic and veteran 5K racers). After my October tri was cancelled due to the gov't shutdown, I was super bummed--this is getting me excited again. It will be my first official race (ever, if you don't count the 'fat-girl' relay one of my high school track meets used to have for the throwers). Hope everyone is having a good day! Turkey trots are serious business. All the serious runners come out for that event! I'm racing the one in Memphis, where they give out pumpkin pies to everyone who places. I really want to win one of those pies, but so does everyone else! Originally posted by drfoodlove Anyone have November goals (in addition to the mini-challenge)? My Sept/Oct goal was to do something active every single day. I have a problem with consistency! Made it in Oct, would have made it in Sept, but for a 3 day illness near the end. November goal: Faithfully stick to my training plan, even rest days. May be difficult with the food and family events around the middle and end of the month, but I gotta try. The main thing I want to tackle in November is my fear of long runs. I've never been a fan of them, but I've got to get mentally tougher if I want to have a solid marathon. |
| 2013-11-01 9:22 AM in reply to: drfoodlove |
Expert 4953 Middle River, Maryland Silver member | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by drfoodlove Anyone have November goals (in addition to the mini-challenge)? My Sept/Oct goal was to do something active every single day. I have a problem with consistency! Made it in Oct, would have made it in Sept, but for a 3 day illness near the end. November goal: Faithfully stick to my training plan, even rest days. May be difficult with the food and family events around the middle and end of the month, but I gotta try. RE: Turkey Trot...I'm thinking of doing one, too, and like Matt said, the serious runners come out for it. It's sort of a XC course, too. Whether I do it all depends on how together we are for Thanksgiving by that morning (we do early dinner here around 1 p.m., so prepping is in full force by 7 a.m.). November goal: keep it up. Keep up the Bikram sessions, keep running, and do a little racing. |
| 2013-11-01 9:25 AM in reply to: msteiner |
Member 3149 | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by msteiner Originally posted by drfoodlove Super excited this morning for a number of reasons. 1.) Made it through last night without having any Halloween candy (no trick-or-treaters, so the package didn't get opened). 2.) My training plan calls for a rest day! 3.) I just signed up for a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving, which I will be doing with my sister (a marathoner), her husband, and two of their kids (all athletic and veteran 5K racers). After my October tri was cancelled due to the gov't shutdown, I was super bummed--this is getting me excited again. It will be my first official race (ever, if you don't count the 'fat-girl' relay one of my high school track meets used to have for the throwers). Hope everyone is having a good day! Turkey trots are serious business. All the serious runners come out for that event! I'm racing the one in Memphis, where they give out pumpkin pies to everyone who places. I really want to win one of those pies, but so does everyone else! Really? Turkey Trots are serious? Now I'm worried! I figured with a name like Turkey Trot it would be a gentle introduction into the world of racing. Oh well--live and learn. I don't think there are any pies involved in this race, but I'm pretty sure if there was anything that could get me over the finish line in anything close to respectable time, it would be pie. |
| 2013-11-01 9:55 AM in reply to: drfoodlove |
Regular 5477 LHOTP | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by drfoodlove Super excited this morning for a number of reasons. 1.) Made it through last night without having any Halloween candy (no trick-or-treaters, so the package didn't get opened). 2.) My training plan calls for a rest day! 3.) I just signed up for a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving, which I will be doing with my sister (a marathoner), her husband, and two of their kids (all athletic and veteran 5K racers). After my October tri was cancelled due to the gov't shutdown, I was super bummed--this is getting me excited again. It will be my first official race (ever, if you don't count the 'fat-girl' relay one of my high school track meets used to have for the throwers). Hope everyone is having a good day! There's lots of win in that post! Great job on last night with the candy, I can't say I was that successful, but I wasn't too bad. Your first official race ever?! That is AWESOME! I am so excited to hear how that goes for you Gretchen--too cool! Love the new avi and sig line too. Enjoy your rest day :) |
| 2013-11-01 9:56 AM in reply to: Asalzwed |
Regular 5477 LHOTP | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by Asalzwed Originally posted by jmhpsu93 it was just an idea cabizzo :) Originally posted by Asalzwed Originally posted by jmhpsu93 Just finished off October with a 3 mile run. The trick or treaters are EVERYWHERE already. October was 70 miles for me...longest since May 2011. W00t w00t!!!!!!!!!!! Sooo, it's your offseason though, right caboose? :) It's your fault! I should be lounging around eating bon bons,enjoying my off season but NOOOOOO, old Salty innocently says "hey you've just hit a milestone, how about keeping it up?" and now I'm racing 4 times in November. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME????? I guess that's the point of these challenges. She's good like that, huh Mike? |
| 2013-11-01 10:00 AM in reply to: msteiner |
Regular 5477 LHOTP | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by msteiner OK, I want you to say more about this. You are such a strong runner--where does the fear part come in? I think a lot of us can feel that, but I think it might be helpful for some less experienced runners to hear you explain that a bit more if you can.Originally posted by drfoodlove Super excited this morning for a number of reasons. 1.) Made it through last night without having any Halloween candy (no trick-or-treaters, so the package didn't get opened). 2.) My training plan calls for a rest day! 3.) I just signed up for a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving, which I will be doing with my sister (a marathoner), her husband, and two of their kids (all athletic and veteran 5K racers). After my October tri was cancelled due to the gov't shutdown, I was super bummed--this is getting me excited again. It will be my first official race (ever, if you don't count the 'fat-girl' relay one of my high school track meets used to have for the throwers). Hope everyone is having a good day! Turkey trots are serious business. All the serious runners come out for that event! I'm racing the one in Memphis, where they give out pumpkin pies to everyone who places. I really want to win one of those pies, but so does everyone else! Originally posted by drfoodlove Anyone have November goals (in addition to the mini-challenge)? My Sept/Oct goal was to do something active every single day. I have a problem with consistency! Made it in Oct, would have made it in Sept, but for a 3 day illness near the end. November goal: Faithfully stick to my training plan, even rest days. May be difficult with the food and family events around the middle and end of the month, but I gotta try. The main thing I want to tackle in November is my fear of long runs. I've never been a fan of them, but I've got to get mentally tougher if I want to have a solid marathon. I often can have some fear of certain workouts too. I never used to fear injury, but now that is often on my mind. I can also have some trepidation that I just won't be able to complete something that I feel/think I should--that I'll basically just wimp out. It doesn't happen often, but it happens enough that it's a little voice :)
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| 2013-11-01 10:02 AM in reply to: Asalzwed |
Regular 5477 LHOTP | Subject: RE: Work your Weakness aka "Hey, Mike, STFU!" Challenge Originally posted by Asalzwed Very important race weekend for me. So long as I don't blow it, I have a good chance of making the elite xc club nationals team. I am also awarded the gift of sleep. A Sunday meet means no Saturday practice so I can sleep in!!!! Also,Sundays race is at 10:45 plus it's daylight savings! Double sleep in! I am saying this to make myself feel better because I am sooooo tired right now. I will be thinking of you on Sunday, Salty. I hope you can catch up on your sleep, feel totally healthy and run the best race you can. Just having the chance to make the elite xc club nationals team is HUGE! GO SALTY! |
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