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I'm old school I suppose and make my training plans in Excel. Then I can graph my volume to make sure everything adds up how I want it to. Here's a few screen shots:

">HERE is Marcus' Facebook Post.  I made the feed as a Pacer.  Wahoo!  When I do my Ultra I am going to be contacting John to be my pacer though.  He was the real deal.  I was just the Rookie in Training.

Well...I got my first taste of Trail Running/Ultra Running this weekend.  I had two running friends in the Ultra race in addition to my brother.  I felt bad hitting up all out friends to Pace my brother because I figured that would leave no one to pace either of them.  My brother banged up his knee at about mile 30 and then pulled out of the race at mile 53.  So...the three pacers that we had lined up for my brother took over pacing for my other two friends that were in the race.  Two guys jumped in with Dusty who didn't have any pacers.  I jumped in with Marcus, who I didn't think had any pacers.  He said that he was going to run another loop (20 miles) with another guy.  I assumed the other guy was another racer who was at about his speed but figured out pretty soon that he was a pacer who was doing 40 miles with Marcus.  I only paced with them for 2-1/2 hours but learned a lot from pacing with a premiere pacer.  When I left them at 4:30 AM they had about a 3-1/3 to 4-hour segment ahead of them and they were going to try to get back by 8:00 AM so that John, the pacer, could do the half marathon at 8:00 AM the next morning.  Marcs was the course record hold going into the event.  He was in second place when I left them.  I saw his finish time but didn't look up the race results to see how everyone did.  So...back to Triathlon training now.  :-)  I only ran about 2 miles a day last week. 

Congratulations to both Melanie and Curits. Very different runs this weekend. Good progress for both of you!

Ann-Marie, how was your run this weekend?

My run sucked, thanks for asking My "race" was a 4 miler that i was using as a 5k assessment to check my pace zones. So first .8 warm up and then the 5k time trial. I ended up averaging at least 30 seconds per mile slower than i would have been before taking my time of SBR stuff. So while the result isn't surprising it still is maddening! It did point out to me that i've neglected speed work for a while, so i immediately signed up for a 10k race that's about 3 weeks out to do my next assessment. I also will use this to test the tridot system !  

My Not-So-Frozen Foot 5K went pretty well yesterday, I beat my own personal record for the course (although take that with a grain of salt, they change the route like most people change underwear, not sure why they keep mucking with it).  My goal for next race is to get below the number I was ohsoclose to.  My husband snagged 1st AG, although oddly there were only 4 in his group, one would expect a lot more.  I managed 4/17 AG, 15 seconds off 3rd place.  I think this is the highest I've ever ranked in this race.  Looking forward to March and race #3 in the series!

Races are the best "tests" for me as well. If you asked me to do a 5k on a track by myself and compared that to a 5k race, well, the results would be completely different.  You have some deep fitness, it'll come back quickly. 

I do NOT deserve my wife!

I was being a "typical man", complaining about my foot and how mapmyfitness didn't log my hike accurately.  My DEAR wife (who handles all our money) told me I could buy both a Polar Vantage M gps watch AND a pair of Columbia hiking boots.  Yep, I definitely married above my station.

We have been doing some IRS calculations. TW, turned to me and asked which bike I wanted next. I too am playing out of my league. So now the question is, Gravel or soft-tail?

I do NOT deserve my wife!

I was being a "typical man", complaining about my foot and how mapmyfitness didn't log my hike accurately.  My DEAR wife (who handles all our money) told me I could buy both a Polar Vantage M gps watch AND a pair of Columbia hiking boots.  Yep, I definitely married above my station.

Applying a "little" pressure.  I just added my first 5k to my calendar for Saturday, May 9th.  That should be just enough time for me to complete my modified C25k program.

Fellow Sufferlandrians,

How are you approaching Grunter's Grand Fondo. Are you going to do all three back to back? Right now, I am thinking of two on Sunday and one somewhere else within the completion window.

Stoopid Grunter!

I'm ignoring Sunday Did you do the cyphering to figure out when the window closes? 

The Sunday assignment is to be completed between 5am Saturday and 7am Monday if I am reading the chart correctly.

Well done!

That's the way i read the chart too, so i may push things around so as not to be on the trainer 3 hrs in one go! Plus a little green bike is being assembled as i type and i'm betting i will have it outside Sunday, so that will no doubt affect my Tour.

Wait! I thought that you test drove CARS yesterday! Tell us about the Green Bike!

Found it in your log "since i should have my gravel bike this week and will probably want to take it out Sunday. "  How did I miss that?!

LOL, I did test drive cars and assume later this year I will be making that double-edged sword purchase, but yep bought the gravel bike about  10 days ago. I had to wait for store delivery and now it's being assembled. With the store only opened 11-6 weekdays it may be impossible for me to pick it up before Saturday though  

You know full well that we need more details than that!