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cornfed - 2010-02-10 1:21 PM
Weekly totals are a little off because of the all the snow we've gotten.  I finished my "week" on Monday when I got my long run in.

BamaDC - 2010-02-10 9:31 AM How was everyone's training last week?  It was my biggest run week in awhile.  This week is swim focus and resting the legs a bit for a half mary.  Hoping to get in 14,000 to 15,000 yards swimming and a 1:30-1:32 half mary.

sand101 - 2010-02-11 12:21 PM

Swim: 8500yd
Run: 25 miles

Relatively easy run week.  Should have been higher, but the weather was very variable. This week is an overall light week.  Swim starting to ramp up and will ramp up significantly after this weekend.  Bike starting after this weekend.

Hope to see you at the half this weekend - we need to figure out how to meet up.  It will be a big crowd, though, so it may be hard to just run into each other!  (I'll be the guy dying two steps over the line at ~1:40 or so)

Should be an "interesting" race with the 15mph winds that are predicted for Sunday.  Funny enough you said you would have skipped the Red Nose Run.  Well, with the wind this one may be as bad or slightly worse!

BamaDC - 2010-02-11 7:00 PM

I always park in the lot southwest of the 8th Ave and 19th St.  I get way too early.

sand101 - 2010-02-11 7:26 PM

I've read your reports.  You get there way too early. ;-)

Are you going to hang around after the race?  I should be done at 1:40-1:42 or so (unless the wind really is as brutal as it might be, then perhaps somewhat slower).  I'll be wearing pretty much all dark stuff - pretty much the same stuff as I wore at the Red Nose Run (here, here, and here).  Please ignore the picture quality - I look like I am powerwalking in the first one (I wasn't) and dying in the last two (I was - that was at the finish).  I've definitely got the "hammered death" pose down pat! LOL

I'll probably even wear the dorky sunglasses if it is cold and windy enough.

titeloops - 2010-02-12 9:00 AM had a swim leeson this morning. My coach pointed out what i already knew. My tempo is out of whack. It appears my breathing dictates my tempo. She shuggested a tempo trainer so that I would fit breathing into my stroke rather than changing it. Any experience with a tempo trainer? Suggestions?

BamaDC - 2010-02-12 7:46 AM

Weather channel is saying its going to be sub freezing at race time.  There won't be a PR for me tomorrow.

cornfed - 2010-02-12 2:15 PM  

What is a tempo trainer?

titeloops - 2010-02-12 9:46 PM

this:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Finis+-+Tempo+Trainer+Pace+Coach/9078776.p?skuId=9078776&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=9078776&ref=06&loc=01&id=1218017187142

sand101 - 2010-02-12 6:40 PM

If you show up tomorrow you're going to be about 10 miles short on distance. ;-) 

The 5k is tomorrow (along with the kids Marathon).   The half on Sunday will be a tad warmer,  but with a decent chance of freezing rain.  Woohoo!  I just love freezing rain.

BamaDC - 2010-02-13 8:47 AM

Yeah, I was about to leave and decided I would double checked the website.  So I came down anyway to pick up my packet. 

BamaDC - 2010-02-14 7:13 PM
Finished my half marathon in 1:31:02.  Calves and hip flexors are toast.

[email protected] - 2010-02-15 10:27 AM Patellar knee pain.

Did a search of my knee pain I am having after my 13.1 mile run Sunday.  The knee started hurting in the front area of my knee cap a couple of hours after the run.  When I woke up this morning it was better and I did my 1.5 hour bike ride.  I didn't push but now it is hurting again.  The course I ran yesterday is more hilly than I do my M-F runs with.  I think I am having Patellar pain based on how it hurts and the research I did.  I plan on resting it Tuesday and just swimming Tuesday and skip the bike.  I will see how it feels and may do a bike on Wed and see how it feels.  The research I saw is that rarely does this injury require surgery but states rest and not do do other forms of exercise that bend the knee which biking does.  Anyone have thoughts or had pain like this?  How long before it subsided?  I will see how I feel Wednesday moring and if it is still tender I will rest again and only swim.  If it feels okay I will just do a 45 minute ride instead of the 1.5 I had planned.  What do you guys think?  Am I in trouble here?  This is scaring me!

BamaDC - 2010-02-15 9:28 AM It takes time and miles!

2008 Mercedes Half Marathon -

10K split - 54:59, Total - 1:50:10, 59th in AG


2010 Mercedes Half Marathon -

10K split - 41:16, Total - 1:31:02, 11th in AG

sand101 - 2010-02-15 12:07 PM

One thing to note in your 2010 time is to discount the 10k time - the mile markers after mile 3 were way off.  My time is marked as 45:19 (yeah right).  I ran more like a 46:55 based off of GPS.   In fact at mile 3 it had me at 19:45 - a pipe dream and off by more than a tenth of a mile. 

Just sayin'.