stevebradley's Mentor Group FULL (Page 255)

NATHAN --

Nothing shabby at all about the running you're doing. It's January, for heaven's sake --- you're just gearing up for the months ahead!

Great news on finding a house, and even though moving is usually an ultra-ordeal, think of it like any other bit of unpleasantness --- the pain feels so good when it stops!

Whereabouts in Florida will you be? I think you said before, but if so I have forgotten.


ACK!

We'll be in Brandon FL, which is just East of Tampa. Really, really, really looking forward to the change of scenery and warmer weather.

And you're right. Probably good to temper my expectations to avoid burnout. I can hardly afford it this early in the season  

NATHAN -

I've never been a Rays fan, but I really feel sorry for them --- and their fans. The team did all the right things in building a terrific team without the financial excesses of the hated Yankees and my beloved Red Sox, and I just saw that Bartlett signed with San Diego, and that Garza may be traded to the Cubs for draft picks. They have also lost Crawford, Pena, and Soriano, and maybe somebody else quite good.

Now their fans get to go the ugliest ballpark in captivity..........and see a team that could well be back at the bottom of the A.L. East. MLB NEEDS AN AGGRESSIVE SALARY CAP!!!!!!!!

Hey! I'm 62 today! (Old as the hills and twice as dusty???)

Oh, Neeeeeeeeeil.......


How is your traaaaaaaaaaining?

Ready for the race? Psyched? Primed? Motivated? Confident?


Let's have some deeeeeeeetails!

Happy Birthday young man! Going to celebrate with a training session and a glass of wine?

NATHAN -

No wine (remember, I'm the boring old teetotaller), but a small training session -- 25 minute cross-country ski, 50 mindlessly unchallenging minutes on the bike of the trainer. I thought about doing nothing today, epsecially since the past two weeks have been pretty intense for training..................but then there was the matter of the huge dinner we had at a Turkish restaurant last night that needed to be dealt with!

Happy birthday, Steve!! And many more!!

Ok, have to go to bed - early Masters tomorrow (5:45 eek!)

Mark and I are headed up to Vermont for the weekend with my family after work. Should be a nice relaxing time. Hope to get some running and XC skiing in

Steve...so sorry I missed.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY for sure.  Hope you enjoyed it.

It has ben a busy week or two.  I just got my 5th manager in 6 months.  They keep dropping like fly's/  I meet the new one next week (well, over the phone at least).

Training is what it is.  I have been doping lots of faster runs, abandoning the easy 10 min miles for a brisk 8:20-9 pace.  Hoping to maintain around 8:40 this weekend and squeak in under the 1:54 range.  My best 13.1 is   1:57 so I at least want to beat that one.

most of my runs have been 4-8 miles with a few 10+ runs, but hopefully thats enough.  This will be the first of 3 months with a 13.1 race each month.

Also just wanted to add that it will be 76-78 degrees all weekend and sunny.  I hope the weather starts turning nice for everyone else soon, but I really just wanted to let you know that it will be 76-78 degrees here all weekend.  I am considering more shirtless runs to keep up a sufficient vitamin D level.  The 76-78 degrees that it will be all weekend and sunny should help.

Oh, and that was "doing" not "doping".  Doping is for the impatient.

NEIL -

Jeezum, thanks for telling us about it being 76-78 and sunny there all weekend.....and telling us.....and telling us. And I thought you were one of the nice ones!

Why the high turnover in managers? That is kind of ominous, and can hardly do anything for either stability or forward progress. maybe I should apply. I know nothing about anything, but at least I have staying power!

Your newfound pace is a huge improvement on what you were previously doing, but I know you know that.

NOW.....I thought the race was today, so when I saw that you had posted I figured it was race results. Am I a day off, maybe? (Can I blame it on daughter Jane, who is in Austaralia and ckeeping us confused with what day is when?)

If it's tomorrow, then, have a great race -- and may you "squeak in" under that time goal! (My money says you will, or if it happened today, that you did!) Along with everything else, of course you have the weather there on your side - 76 to 78 and sunny, didn't you say?



Edited by stevebradley 2011-01-15 9:56 PM

Race was this morning. I was right on...held a 8:42 pace to finish just a few ticks past 1:54. Dead wrong on the weather though... It was 80 degrees and sunny when I left the beach.

Nice job Neil! Great PR I guess the warm temperatures (warmer than expected at least ) didn't hurt too much.

As for me, lovely weekend skiing in vermont. It was actually a return to alpine sports for me, I haven't done downhill skiing in a few years. Too afraid of downhill speed. I figured I'd give it another go (biking has helped me be comfortable going somewhat faster?) and I had fun

And ... sorry Steve!!!

NEIL -

Wonderful job on the race!!! PLEASE tell me that more details will follow soon!

Well, you mean old tease you, we also had sunny today --- but the sun that comes with a big arctic high pressure system. Our temp was maybe -14C, with windchill bringing it to -28C. (That's 8F and -20F, respectively.) I ran an hour in it, and once I turned around from a steady diet of heading into the wind, I was mostly comfortable.

Okay, now get to work on those race details!

JESS -

Thank you for not being obnoxious about the game. I saw on the main page that your post was there.....and I saw the time of it.....and I figured you might be in-your-facing me. But you've proven yourself to be a true class-act (not that I ever doubted that ), and to you I will just say congratulations.....and that I ave to give them credit for going on the road two straight weeks and taking down the Colts and the Pats.

I'm glad you had a fine return to alpine, and especially that you emerged from there with all limbs in one piece, and all connective tissue not the least bit strained.

Zoom?

Me? Obnoxious? Of course not No really - I really only enjoy football through other people. I.e. - I like watching it with my brother and Mark, but I don't passionately follow it myself. So, I truly feel sorry for your loss, while at the same time thoroughly enjoyed the Jets victory and the happiness that ensued for my bro and Mark!

Steve, here are my race details.

The course was out and back and almost completly flat on on the road.  It started about 60ish and by the end it was about 70 degrees and sunny.  Before the race I skipped breakfast...I just wasn;t that hungry and wanted to test myself (I generally get some GI issues and cramps).  I made it to the corral with about 2 min to spare and had 1 powerbar gel and the gun went off.  I maintained a steady pace throughout, running the entire time.  I had no cramps at all and i think i maybe burped once after some gatorade but that's it...felt like i was running lighter without the breakfast.  I was not looking at HR but I wanted to collect the data for this post and here is what I got:

Mi-Pace-HR
1-8:33 164
2-8:18 161
3-8:34 161
4-8:42 164
5-8:39 162
6-8:48 163
7-8:36 166
8-8:31 168
9-8:28 168
10-8:45 166
11-8:36 168
12-8:40 170
13-8:26 171 (garmin froze up with 12.84 so no finish data but i did speed up in the last .20)

The official results and chip time have me at 1:53:07  I am happy with that and pleased with the faster training I have been doing.  I see now that I CAN hold steady at the higher HR and actually I felt like I had another 2-4 miles in me at that pace...so that's improvement.  I am sure steady easy pace helped me, but I was frustrated when I looked back and saw over 2 years I was no faster.  This year I am turning up the tempo...if the HR stuff is a science lets call those formulas weird science...because they have been off for this 34 year old.

oh, and apperntly I am no longer an Aries, the radio said I am a Pisces now, learned that on the way to the race. (so even THAT formula was wrong...I ASSUMED someone had double checked the math!!)






Edited by sax 2011-01-18 10:21 PM

NEIL -

That is a remarkably consistent pace -- extremely well done! I have never come near as close to that as you did, with just 30" between fastest and slowest. It is also excellent that you felt you had another seferal miles in you at that pace. You have every reason to be pleased with your recent training!

I will keep trying to figure out what you're feeling about HR and how the formulas aren't working fo you. Give me a few days to belabor this, and then if I come up empty I'll come whining to you for more details!

Yes, i am no longer a Capricorn; I have been subtly shifted to Sagitarrius. Peter too has been switched, but Lynn and Jane stay the same. So it goes, i guess.

And then there's the new "sign", the slithery snake that I will have to learn to pronounce. I'm getting too old for these shananigans -- first they downgrade Pluto, and now this astrological seismic shifting. It's all just too much!!

What I read is that astrologers knew this was coming, and for a long time. Another loop I was way out of, I guess......

GREAT photo!!!!!

...........It's Day Six of the standoff, and none of the sides are budging or making any concilliatory moves..............

Sung in a wavering croon........




"Are you lonesome tonight,
Do you miss me tonight......."

I often check...but nothing is saidIt could be the beginning of the end of the thread.

NEIL -


Oh, nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


(Think I should just put it out of its misery?)

Finally settled in Tampa - and the weather is 70 degrees and sunny!

I also live near a bike path and in a neighborhood with lots of bikers and runners, so I think I'm in the right place. Being in a new environment with so much sun and warm weather makes me want to start getting back on the bike. I can also drive and train in the ocean about 30 minutes away. This is great  

NATHAN -

You're there! Woo-hoo!

Well, it sounds better than ideal it terms of potential training sites. I am sooooooo envious of you!

And when will that first bike ride be? Tomorrow, you say? I support that 193%!!