slow buggers running club

of course. so mingram when you hoping to do a 10k by and where you at atm?

i'm hoping to do my first ever 5k on october 1st, and a 10k december 17th. i'm following hal higdon's 10k plan but on pre-weeks 1 and 2 - ie the last two weeks of his 5k plan. i'm adding in rest weeks and also hoping to do an aquathlon on december 10th...maybe?

Um, 10mm is what I can hold for about 1/4 mile at an all-out sprint.  Yeah.   

Most of my longer runs this summer have been around 13mm's.  Seriously.  I ran 12's for the Houston Half Marathon in January and would like to beat that, keeping my average at 11:30's, for a total time of 2:30  on Januray 14 '07.  And I'd like toget to where I can hold it under 11:00's for the shorter runs under 5 miles.

My "long" run this weekend will be 6 miles, I can time that and check back in for a starting point.  I probably need more consistency.  Cooler weather helps too.

but a half mary is very impressive!

thanks daremo - you may now leave and go and be fast!

yeah, it's "WAIT UP!"

heh heh. I sure would like to run 6.2 and 3.1 under 9:00. Actually, I sure would like to like running, but that's a diff club  

Hi Sappho

You know how we're planning to meet up for the Bear next year? Well, given that I've just proclaimed myself Prime Minister of the Leicester branch of Slow Buggers Are Us, I thought that if I start running now, and you start now as well, we'll meet in the middle to carbo load before the Bear, probably on the day before the race!

No wait, I might not quite be there yet....

I've consoled myself that I'm at least running faster than I swim, so deep is my desperation at running slower than some people walk!!

Jac

I love the password, but I don't think that I can even fathom the "like to run" club.  It sounds a bit scary.

Hmmm....I'd definitely like to join - right now I'm a little under the weather, but soon   I would also like to add a little Canadian to it - the 10 minute 2.56 KM....doesn't sound quite as nice - but it's all I know! haha

I'm not really sure how fast I'm starting this at, but I know it takes me at least an hour to run 10KM...I'd like to do that much faster

herridge - 2006-09-22 3:18 PM Add another slow bugger Canadian. I am currently doing worse than 10 min (although I'm a bit confused - the conversion is 1.6 km to the mile, right?). I want to try to do a 5 k in November sub 25 min which I think would be 8 min mile if I have the math right. At least I'm fast on the bike D

It sure is just 1.6 - it was early morning for me...or at least that's my excuse!  And they let people like me into Grad school..LOL

_{"WAIT UP!"}

_{Tomorrow will be a good indicator of where I am and what I have to do. My first 5k in a while. shooting for 33 min or under, and no ITB pain.  If I lose to 2 boys, I will owe them 30 bucks each. I think I could win bc they are kinda cocky and not so experienced, even if they are fit kids, and they will likely sprint mile 1, and then pass out. If that happens, they have to wash my car. So I have a real incentive to get out of this club ASAP!}

so, I'm wondering if I qualify for the club.  I recently ran my first 10K at a 9:00min/mi pace, and did a 5K training run a little faster than that, BUT those were pretty much all-out efforts.  Check my logs, I almost never run faster than about 10:30min/mi.  Usually, I'm around 11:00min/mi.

So what is the standard exactly:  COMPLETELY unable to run faster than 10:00min/mi, or MOSTLY unable to run faster?   Technically, I am capable of doing it, but it kicks my @$$, so I hardly ever do it, and really I FEEL  like a slow bugger. 

Would love to join, but I understand if you tell me to take a 10:00min/mi hike. 

B 

Can I join?

Am hoping to get to 10 minute miles at some point... Have been working the run much more this season than ever before... Have hit 10:50's in my 2 shorter triathlons (one a sprint with a 5 mile run and the other an Olympic) and just under 12's in my HIM in July... Sept. HIM was 12:XX because of hills and general burnout.

I want to play!

Glad I'm not the only one.

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