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My goal is "faster than last year" (1:38:10).  I'm not sure yet what goal pace Shane is going to throw at me...

It should be interesting.  This time last year I was doing some speedwork with a little less mileage.  This year, zero speedwork but more mileage.  Easy run paces are 15-30s/km faster than this time last year.

Hmm interesting. And that is by Shane's design?

And without any specific goals and no "speedwork", how does he figure out the goal pace? Just perception of how training has been going? Or is it more just a target to see how it goes to establish some sort of a baseline for running?

Arend - very nicely done.  6 of them had to hurt.

Been really busy with life lately and had very little time for BT - wish I could hang with this group more, but it's nice just to get a few minutes to check in. 

Well, it's by design in the sense that I'm in the middle of a bike focus block so all my running has been easy while I hit the bike hard.  There has been no focus towards this race, it's just something to break up the winter a bit.  I'll be switching to a run focus once the weather starts to cooperate.  This should give an idea of what to use as a baseline if the road conditions are decent on the weekend.

I'm racing the next 3 Sundays.  10 mile TT, 20k TT, and a 7.2 mile uphill road race.  

Your goal should be to beat Jimmy Johnson's (the NASCAR driver) recent HM at Daytona.  

Hoping to squeeze in another 2x20' session after work.  Probably shoot for 270 and 280

Nothing for me today as we are digging out from another snow storm.  Did I mention it's getting old?

Jason, the goal pace Shane has set for me won't quite get me to Jimmy Johnson's 1:29 HM.  I'll be a few minutes off that.

Always.

Doing 4 miles at 15K race pace tonight on the track + WU/CD

Other than that, it's a little bit lighter of a week in anticipation of the race. 

I've been trying to be more diligent about my strength and drills. I fell off a touch when I was on vacation. 

At least after your HM, you won't have to jump in a race car and qualify for the Daytona 500 later in the day.    

But I was thinking around 1:35 for you as a WAG not knowing how poor the conditions might be.  1:33ish if they are more ideal.  Then again...what do I know...I've never run in the snow before.

Yeah it really depends on the road conditions.  The forecast for Sunday looks good now but some more snow is coming on Friday so it depends on how well that gets cleaned up.

I got a wicked head cold….

but I was able to get a 3.5 mile run in. 

I actually felt better after now for some HOT soup.

I think this is excellent, Rusty.

It's pretty similar to how I prefer to do things as well. There are just so many things that you can't control, it seems that time and energy is better spent creating goals around the things that you can. 

Running XC, where the courses often have hugely varying terrain and rarely 100% accurate measurement really lent itself to creating these types of goals.

It actually makes me a little bit uncomfortable when people start throwing  time goals at me. Especially our coach.

So we shouldn't expect a "Predict my time" thread before Boston?  

My goal for NZ is to have fun   I might even do it w/o electronics so I just look up more and enjoy the day.

For upcoming months, I found a pool close to where I work and they do masters swimming at noon every weekday.  So I might see how that goes.

Ha! Not really my style 

Yeeeaaaah, ditch them electronics!

When do you leave for NZ? And are you spending some time there pre/post race?

Yup, leaving this Sunday (arrive Tuesday), and I'll be staying till March 10th.  I'm planning a couple days on the beach after the race, then a little time to explore the south island.  Hope I'll be used to driving on the left by then

Actually, Taupo is just 1 timezone away from Hawaii and only -21 hours to the U.S. west coast, so race start time is 10am PST on Feb 28th.  It'll give you guys something to do at work!

Not exactly Freddite numbers, but this licked my butt tonight.  5x5min @ 260, 265, 270, 280, 285 - last one was tough, and it should be since it's about 117% based on my current CP.

Oh, and I swam 2600M this morning.  It was a good day for me.