ASPHALT JUNKIES Summer Bronzing Crew - CLOSED (Page 92)

Junkies - Officially checking in. I knew September and October were going to be busy but I had no idea what that really meant.

I have spent the better half of my afternoon catching up on posts and I feel like I have missed so much. Wow Dirk... Don't know what to say about the knee.. sheeesh... praying for you.

I am still in training mode and am officially in marathon training mode, using Higdon's Beginner Training Guide. Getting the 4th run of the week in is proving to be challenging. I did make it back up to 9 miles last week without any IT band pain.

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It's great to hear from you Jen!

Hopefully tour training will be a great training cycle.  Marathon training is a different animal altogether but once you've made it through it's a great accomplishment.  It may be somewhat of a good precursor to IM training too.  I would also say you need to be very diligent about doing the right things to work on that IT band.  Follow through with the article that Matt posted and see where it leads.  I've seen a few of those stretches in other postings but I've not had any IT band issues myself, so no personal experience.

Taper is a hard thing to deal with when everything has been running at 1,000 MPH for so long.  You're definitely not losing your fitness in such a short time frame.  However, the designed hard intervals are like that for a reason, to keep you challenged while allowing good recovery.  The bike race was one week ago correct?  If so, you may simply be feeling the effects of riding shorter, hard intervals.  These types of workouts usually cause my legs to fatigue for the remainder of the day (if it's a evening workout).  If I do long rides at higher effort levels my legs will usually recover in about 2 days even if I try to grind out another moderate distance and effort the following day.

The "fatigue" can sometimes be a result of the lack of use, I'll call it, that comes during a taper.  The activity level over the past couple of months has not allowed you to complete the recovery process 100%.  Now you're not driving more fatigue into your legs and working on higher fitness, you're in the 100% recovery phase, or taper.

What about running?  How do your legs feel then?  Does the plan your under call for any hard running intervals?  If so I would not do any hard running at all.  You're only going to increase the odds of injury and gain nothing from it.

Hi JENN!!  It's good to see you checking in!  Good job on keeping up with the marathon training.   Have you done one before?  Do you have a time goal?

WILL - Congratulations on your new Scott CR1!  Can you post a picture so we can all get bike envy?   You went with the black/yellow one, right?   Sweet!   You'll love spending a week in Asheville as that area is beautiful with much to do.   Make sure you take a ride on Skyline Drive.   I can only imagine the fall colors will be stunning.  I saw you're in wave 1 and you're in the second largest AG.   Exciting!   I don't see a tracking feature on the website though.  Did I miss something or will we just have to wait?    You know us Junkies are an impatient lot. 

Yep, that is what I'm thinking. I just didn't want to spend another grand on a bike if I didn't have to. I tried to explain to one seller that her used price was the same as the same bike new right now but she must not have appreciated that because she has not replied with a better price . Sellers need to do their homework, I know I am!

And lets see the bike!

Brenda I need to come celebrate my birthday at your house! Hope your son had a great birthday. I think I've only made homemade cinnamon rolls one time and half of them were flat. Enjoy your 50k! Amazing!

Tony I hope your wife had a nice birthday! I always tell my family all I really want is for the house to be clean without me having to ask anyone to do anything, I don't want to cook, I don't want to decide what everyone should eat or where we should all go to eat or any of it. Basically I just want to be a free spirit for the day. And flowers are always nice .

Hey Gang, just a quick check in before heading off to work. I just finished another 4th consecutive days run and I'm feeling great. So much better than those days that just dragged on in the summer with no workouts. They are all still short 2.2, 2.1, 3,1, 2.4 but the miles are building again.

Thanks! They have all been pretty easy pace. Except for yesterday (when I had my dog and had to do a few stops to keep from catching another runner who had a couple of dogs) they are pretty consistently about 9:50 to 10:00 per mile. Thats a little slower than my half marathon pace from earlier this year when I wasn't pushing much, but just trying to cover the distance. I wear the GPS watch and heart rate strap but I haven't really paid much attention to pace or heart rate during the runs.

Last week a couple of them were at faster paces, but that was more due to limited time than anything. I'm trying to keep almost all of the miles at an easy pace and just build the miles right now. I might do a couple of 5k races in the next 2 months and one 6 miler (Turkey Trot) on Thanksgiving morning, that should take care of any faster paced running I need for mixing it up.

I just want to build the base for a very busy January through March run race schedule that I'm probably going to do.

In January I'll start running in the "Frosty Fun Run" points series again. A fun run/race almost every Saturday morning from January 4 through March 8. They range in length from between 3.7 and 5.5 miles. Then mixed in durring all that I'll run a 5k race on January 19th, a 10 mile race on March 1st, and finally another 5k on March 15th. So basically a race every weekend from January 4th through March 15th. Most of the Frosty races will be more of a medium/fast training run. I'm not really fast enough to challenge the top runners, but the fun "race" atmosphere of the series is a blast.