Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 358)

Manateeeeeeees loose on Perth!

This is me and Stace Face ... we were gonna take another pic but decided this one really captured the moment, not to mention essence of our joyous meeting.

And these are her six gigantic (serious understatement) snausages.

Finally ... astronomically bad puzzy tights. The word "puzzy" and "tight" usually go well together ... NO.

Although frankly I think they might be an improvement on my usual getups.

Manateeeeeeees loose on Perth!

This is me and Stace Face ... we were gonna take another pic but decided this one really captured the moment, not to mention essence of our joyous meeting.

And these are her six gigantic (serious understatement) snausages.

Finally ... astronomically bad puzzy tights. The word "puzzy" and "tight" usually go well together ... NO.

Although frankly I think they might be an improvement on my usual getups.

My friend ran a personal best  of 24:49.    It was her first time below 25 minutes for a 5K.    A real live honest to goodness cool spell came through the area late last night.    It's 67F with low humidity and steady wind.   

I'm going sailing!!!!

From my blog today....asking for thoughts cause I am almost incapable of putting together a coherent sentence at this point.

I am feeling so beaten up.  I wore the calf sleeves yesterday afternoon to help the legs recover and they do feel better for that....Soaked in the jacuzzi with epsom salts for at least half an hour and just feel as if someone took a baseball bat to me.  Looked at this week's plan and it makes no sense.

 It reads:Monday 4--Tuesday 8--Thursday 4--Saturday 17.  That is HALF my mileage for the week on one run.  Sounds a bit heavy.

Looked at the other plan I started with and it reads:  Monday 4--Tuesday 8--Wednesday 4--Friday 8--Saturday 17.  I don't think I can do such high volume....that's why I changed plans, it was just too much.  But doing half the weeks distance in the long run is painful in too many ways.  I might take the original plan mileage but drop one of the 8 milers to 5 or 6.  Thoughts?

From my blog today....asking for thoughts cause I am almost incapable of putting together a coherent sentence at this point.

I am feeling so beaten up.  I wore the calf sleeves yesterday afternoon to help the legs recover and they do feel better for that....Soaked in the jacuzzi with epsom salts for at least half an hour and just feel as if someone took a baseball bat to me.  Looked at this week's plan and it makes no sense.

 It reads:Monday 4--Tuesday 8--Thursday 4--Saturday 17.  That is HALF my mileage for the week on one run.  Sounds a bit heavy.

Looked at the other plan I started with and it reads:  Monday 4--Tuesday 8--Wednesday 4--Friday 8--Saturday 17.  I don't think I can do such high volume....that's why I changed plans, it was just too much.  But doing half the weeks distance in the long run is painful in too many ways.  I might take the original plan mileage but drop one of the 8 milers to 5 or 6.  Thoughts?

From my blog today....asking for thoughts cause I am almost incapable of putting together a coherent sentence at this point.

I am feeling so beaten up.  I wore the calf sleeves yesterday afternoon to help the legs recover and they do feel better for that....Soaked in the jacuzzi with epsom salts for at least half an hour and just feel as if someone took a baseball bat to me.  Looked at this week's plan and it makes no sense.

 It reads:Monday 4--Tuesday 8--Thursday 4--Saturday 17.  That is HALF my mileage for the week on one run.  Sounds a bit heavy.

Looked at the other plan I started with and it reads:  Monday 4--Tuesday 8--Wednesday 4--Friday 8--Saturday 17.  I don't think I can do such high volume....that's why I changed plans, it was just too much.  But doing half the weeks distance in the long run is painful in too many ways.  I might take the original plan mileage but drop one of the 8 milers to 5 or 6.  Thoughts?

Judi, in looking at your logs, I don't really  understand the plan. You'd been doing somewhere in the 20's for weekly mileage, then all the sudden did near 50 two weeks ago. And for some time you have had your 2nd biggest run on Friday and then the long run Saturday and it's 50-80% longer than the other.  It looks like you made way too big a jump in mileage the one week and are also stacking too much mileage too close together much of the time. If you're really hurting a lot, you may need some recovery. And for future mileage, does your schedule permit you to move some of those days around? Need to spread the bigger days apart and possible flatten out the mileage or maybe decrease it some depending on how bad you feel.

From my blog today....asking for thoughts cause I am almost incapable of putting together a coherent sentence at this point.

I am feeling so beaten up.  I wore the calf sleeves yesterday afternoon to help the legs recover and they do feel better for that....Soaked in the jacuzzi with epsom salts for at least half an hour and just feel as if someone took a baseball bat to me.  Looked at this week's plan and it makes no sense.

 It reads:Monday 4--Tuesday 8--Thursday 4--Saturday 17.  That is HALF my mileage for the week on one run.  Sounds a bit heavy.

Looked at the other plan I started with and it reads:  Monday 4--Tuesday 8--Wednesday 4--Friday 8--Saturday 17.  I don't think I can do such high volume....that's why I changed plans, it was just too much.  But doing half the weeks distance in the long run is painful in too many ways.  I might take the original plan mileage but drop one of the 8 milers to 5 or 6.  Thoughts?

I think that is pretty typical, but if you are not feeling well listen to your body.  Do you do a run-walk method?  If not, maybe you should check into that; may help keep your legs from feeling so beaten up.

My new plan still has a pace run but it is generally 2 days before the long run.  I had to flip days around last week due to scheduling conflicts.  

Part of the week with the 50 miles was because the half marathon was on a Sunday and I usually do the long run on Saturday so that week had 2 long runs spaced 6 days apart.  Yes, it sucked....but I didn't see much way around it with the HM on a Sunday and getting back on plan post race.

Ok, I see that now. The Sat to Sun Mov also shifted the HM from Aug to Sept. So going forward it's going to be those two close proximity runs. The 2 day separation should help some, but I'm also curious as to what constitutes a "pace run". Couldn't tell too much detail from the notes. I'd think it'd be more like Tues/Wed for that, but 2 day separation is automatically an issue. Very confident it's figuring out some sort of balance with these particular runs that will make the difference for you. Also saw that you walk when necessary, are you getting a feel for when that is? Can you tell before the run starts, or rather early on, if walking at some point will be likely?

On another note, do others put workout details under the blog entry? I tend to put anything related to a workout in with the workout and leave the blog for more general stuff. It doesn't really matter when looking at the blog area, but it does on the calendar. Scanning over things goes much better and faster with all workout details in with the specific workout. The blog comments will show when Comments is clicked, but then it's necessary to bounce back and forth or memorize more information.