Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 53)

Holy schmoly!!!  5K?????  Wow.  <bowing in awe>

Gone nutty?  Sounds like people around here would enjoy them.  You are what you eat, after all, so we're already there.

The walking is how I came back from my knee injury (still a mystery even after surgery where we expected to find a torn meniscus and voila! it's perfectly fine).  Lots of incline walking (I do 12%) gets your heart rate up, strengthens your glutes and hamstrings (and lower back) and is easy on your knees.  I think there are a few knee conditions that are contraindicated to this sort of thing but most are fine.  It almost builds a running base without actually running (and you'll be a maniac on the hills afterward!).

The quad strengthening stuff is really important, too, but make sure you keep balance with your hammies and glutes.  And don't forget your core!!  The whole kit and kaboodle is intertwined.

Oops my first set was 3x 200m not 6....it's 3km but even so!  WOW.

There is no diagnosis.  That 'do' should be 'diagnose', I guess.

I would say that the walking is giving me a temperature of where my knee is actually at.  I have no idea what was injured, but my bet was that it was something that would take about six weeks to heal, like if I had sprained an ankle.  The walking is how I tell how far along I am.  If it's getting to the point of not hurting, then that means I can start doing things a little more strenuously.

I can do the walk/run thing.  I don't want to come back too quickly (I do have to run a 5k come June 2 in a sprint), as I know what that's like with other injuries.  But hey, if I run an easy 5k (24 min), I think I can still break an hour on this course.

Marathon plan training question.  

I really want to use Hal Higdon's Intermediate 1---if I find it too much I would drop to Novice 2 without a problem--My issue stems from calculating the actual start date right.  All his plans put the long run on Sunday, but the target race is for a Saturday.  When I try to count back weeks I get my weeks/ days messed up from readjusting the long run to Saturday and tempo runs to Friday.(thus giving me Sunday to cross train)

The other thought is using the 20 week marathon plan here (silver plan).  I used the silver plan for the fall half marathon and had pretty good results in November.    I just think I will be happier using the Higdon plan overall.....

Sooooo, race day is November 16 and the Higdon plan is 18 weeks so it would start July 14 or there about.  The silver plan here is 20 weeks and would have to start last week of June.(and if I add it to my log would come pre calculated for days)

Help me get this training plan straight---please!

Took the HH Intermediate plan I and put in excel, rearranged the days.  Voila.

ETA: added the dates.

WHAT!??! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!  This is the only time I get a manatee visit!!!! I will now stomp my foot and pout.  

Or...Salty can just visit for the a beer tour.

...and happy burfday Yanti. 

I was gonna suggest this - it's how i did the Galloway marathon plan - dumped it into excel swapped it a round a bit and it comes together.

Well done and what a nice thing to do.  Love it.

That sounds like an invitation to me.

I assure you that a one day scheduling shift will make exactly ZERO difference in your training.

It also really doesn't matter what day you start.

I'd go with Higdon over the BT plan.

What really counts is just DOING the runs, day in, day out. You're incredibly consistent and will be very successful.

Judi, the only plan I've ever used was to get me to start the WDW HM a couple years ago. HH novice was the plan, it was my first. So, I have a soft spot in my heart for Mr. Higdon. Kirsten did all the work you need on the plan, how cool is she? Now, you just have to go out there and execute. If I'm not mistaken, you've done this sort of thing before. And looking at your logs reveals a fairly consistent individual. So, I am looking forward to November 16th, because you will rock that race!

Oh yeah, you have to do that! It is one of my dream jobs.

Funny, we stopped by a friend's house last evening and they had found a bearded dragon in their back yard!

So honey helps people sleep better. No, not THAT kind of honey! Plain old bzzzzzzz nectar. I heard it on a tv show a few days ago so i thought I'd try it. The first night I slept well but figured it could be concidence. I've been eating about a Tbs of honey before bed for about a week now and I sleep better! Granted this is N=1 but I think it's better than the melatonin supplements.

I'm in a "meeting" all day today so I'll be keeping up with the Manatee chatter via email. Have a great day all!

I love every kind of lizard but one.

I've thought about this since my "discovery". It's interesting that the same thing can both provide energy and be conducive to restful sleep.

Manukah honey is one of the things I credit my recovery from multi-drug-resistant typhoid to. Basically, we'd run out of antibiotics to try.