SWBKRUN- Miles and Miles ahead!!!! CLOSED (Page 187)

fattyfatfat - 2010-03-10 12:13 PM

i agree w/ kim.  great investment.  just don't forget to leave it at home once in a while.

jvanis - 2010-03-10 11:29 AM Ditto the Garmin, here is my review of it.  working on the 310xt review while off work the next few days. 

Review

Pain is low today now that I can move my arm.  It is the oddest feeling when your whole arm is dead weight.  I feel good, and its not just the pain pills talking.  It has been nice trying to stay caught up wiuth the posts, although I could not concentrate for squat last night

swbkrun - 2010-03-10 9:22 AM


X27 on this one....

kt65 - 2010-03-10 4:08 PM

Hey guys, funny you should say leave it at home, today, I had a track workout and I left the Garmin on the charger at work yesterday, so went more by feel...it was awesome!!!  I definitely did the intervals as fast or faster than the last track workout (yes, Tony, Tracy and Suzy, it was a FARTlek workout) but more importantly, I didn't feel like the interval would never end.  It was liberating! 

SSMinnow - 2010-03-10 10:22 AM I guess I have a question for our fearless leader, the giver of all sorts of advice, cohersion and inspiration....when the HE*& is your first race? are you racing this year??????

swbkrun - 2010-03-10 5:29 PM

UH-OH.... I feel like I might be called out?  By race do you mean a Tri?  I have already done a 1/2 Mary this year, doing another one in May (I think) with my sister. Then it will be July for the Chelanman 1/2 Iron (I think).... Then onward from there.  Shooting for an Ultra in maybe Sept/Oct.

That is hopefully my schedule.  I am sure I will throw an Olympic or 2 in there somewhere!?!  If you haven't figured this out yet--- I am not much of a planner!>

AF_SGT - 2010-03-10 8:05 PM

HEY ALL!!!  It seems like its been forever since I've been able to check in.  Life has a way of keeping me busy.  I have a question for you half marathoners...How do you determine your race pace?  I have been working pretty hard to prep for my first HM on March 28th, but I have no idea how to determine my race pace, or HR range to race at. 

Feel free to look at my recent run training to provide feedback.  I know how fast I can run for an hour, I just don't know what will happen after that hour passes...all of my long runs have been slow, in the low to mid 9's, but I have done hills and tempo runs at faster paces.

Thanks, and I hope all of you are training...... HARD!!!!!

AF_SGT - 2010-03-10 6:05 PM

HEY ALL!!!  It seems like its been forever since I've been able to check in.  Life has a way of keeping me busy.  I have a question for you half marathoners...How do you determine your race pace?  I have been working pretty hard to prep for my first HM on March 28th, but I have no idea how to determine my race pace, or HR range to race at. 

Feel free to look at my recent run training to provide feedback.  I know how fast I can run for an hour, I just don't know what will happen after that hour passes...all of my long runs have been slow, in the low to mid 9's, but I have done hills and tempo runs at faster paces.

Thanks, and I hope all of you are training...... HARD!!!!!

kt65 - 2010-03-10 8:34 PM

Sarge, I also wonder if you know what your LT is?  If you don't know, you can do it by RPE.
When you say you know how fast you can run for an hour, what is that pace and do you know what your aHR is for such an effort?  And what is your effort level on a scale of 1-10?  Did you notice if your HR started to drift upwards at a certain point during your 13 mile effort this weekend?  How did the effort feel to you for that 9:26 pace?  Like a 5-6/10?  

I would imagine your race can be done at close to tempo pace/effort, if you are able to sustain it at an 8-9/10 effort. 

I ran my half at an RPE of 8-9/10 for the first 11 miles and then went full throttle 10/10 for the last 2 miles.  I did not look at pace much after the first 2 miles, because that just seems to screw me up (and stress me out)...but that is just me.  My aHR at the end was about 3 bpm under my LT.  Which is about 40 points lower than yours btw! 

Good luck!

kim

kkcbelle - 2010-03-10 10:07 PM

Wow -- for realz?? I am such a slacker. I mean, really. I have this tremendous fear of death (figuratively, not literally) on long efforts. I am beyond conservative. I think it stems from being a distance swimmer for so many years and truly having to pace myself -- the races where I died at the end were ugly. It's only in the last couple of years that I've discovered I have anything remotely resembling speed, thanks to a friend who mentored me into triathlons. She definitely taught me how to race and suddenly I could run an 8:00 mile (or -- gasp!! -- faster!) whereas before I was the queen of the 10:00 mile, maybe 9:00 if I was "pushing it." (Little did I know.) I just cannot imagine running 10-11 mile at that much of an effort! However, my half-mary PR was done with friends who took it out quickly (I cursed them for the entire race -- I did not do my conservative pace and it sucked)... I hung on and did hold that pace (and beat 2 out of the 3 of them!) but to this day swear I will never run like that again. I have GOT to get past that and figure out how the hell to leave it all out there. I guess I need to go out and race a longer race and die -- and see what happens. Cuz so far, for me, it's never happened, for the most part.  There's a half mary here in a couple of weeks that my coach is urging me to run. I've told him I don't feel prepared (longer runs have only been around 9-ish miles lately), so he's said I could do the 10K. But maybe I should gut out a half. Decisions, decisions...

kkcbelle - 2010-03-10 10:07 PM
..... There's a half mary marathon here in a couple of weeks that my coach is urging me to run. I've told him I don't feel prepared (longer runs have only been around 9-ish miles lately), so he's said I could do the 10K. But maybe I should gut out a half. Decisions, decisions...

Redknight - 2010-03-11 8:32 AM

Hi gang. I haven been heading up a new division in the company and am very busy with that so haven't ben able to keep up to date with all my SWBKRUN buddies.  I've put in some very long days trying to get this up and running as it is a completely new initiative for the company.  

I haven't had time to even read any of the previous  XX pages so don't really know whats happening. I am still trying to keep up my training but it is difficult finding enough time in the day to get it all in and stay healthy. My first race isn't unitl June so I hope to get lots more training and conditioning in before then.

Anywho congrats to everyone on races training etc. Lone Star is getting ever closer and I trust that you are alll well into your training and are ready for it. Take care every one and I'll check in when I can.

fattyfatfat - 2010-03-11 7:48 AM

really?  i figured your coach would say something more like "you're crying about a half mary marathon and IM is just about 100 days out"

good luck with that 10k. 

;-)

kkcbelle - 2010-03-11 10:12 AM

Wow, you guys are a tough crowd. Dude, I wasn't crying about it!!! But yeah, maybe being wussy. The whole context was about pace and HR data, and my argument was that I don't feel like I'm prepared to RACE a half. But I can run one for sure. But the "I can RACE!!!" part of me doesn't want to "just" run one. But I also hate the idea of a HARD 10K. Ick. All right, will lean to the half. Now that I realize it, this is next weekend, LOL! It's a hilly course, too. I've done it once before a few years back. And when you put it that way... running a marathon in 100 days, I guess it's time to suck it up, buttercup.

Tobey91 - 2010-03-11 9:27 AM

Don't worry about John's comments he hasn't has his coffee yet   is just hungover   just went off his meds   is just jealous is simply doing his best to encourage you.

And good luck in the half mary.

SSMinnow - 2010-03-10 6:57 AM Yoo-Hoo, who's racing this weekend?????? the scoop please!

For those of us still on the sidelines let's start working on mental preparation and think about our next race (run, tri or other), what is the number one thing you want to nail?

SSMinnow - 2010-03-11 10:40 AM Hey--I love the new avatar!!!!

Kyla--do what you think it right for your training.  We just want you to kick some butt, but it is up to you to determine how to do it....

I totally got my butt kicked on this 98/100/102% Lt ride again today....I STG, I need to get some more mental toughness on the bike or borrow Tony's legs for this effort. I am getting killed....and I hate it!

kkcbelle - 2010-03-11 7:12 AM

Wow, you guys are a tough crowd. Dude, I wasn't crying about it!!! But yeah, maybe being wussy. The whole context was about pace and HR data, and my argument was that I don't feel like I'm prepared to RACE a half. But I can run one for sure. But the "I can RACE!!!" part of me doesn't want to "just" run one. But I also hate the idea of a HARD 10K. Ick. All right, will lean to the half. Now that I realize it, this is next weekend, LOL! It's a hilly course, too. I've done it once before a few years back. And when you put it that way... running a marathon in 100 days, I guess it's time to suck it up, buttercup.