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Charlie Pendejo <charlie.pendejo at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

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I'm surprised there were high schools back then. Did they serve
mastodon burgers in the cafeteria?

No, but they did serve sarcastic assholes.

Lowest mileage week in a couple of years, I think.  Just not motivated, I
guess.  It's probably a good thing for someone as compulsive about running
nearly every day as me to back off...

Definitely over the hill. One puzzle--if it's downhill from here on
out, why isn't it easier than before?

Didn't feel especially perky race morning, didn't run in under 39
minutes as was my time goal.  Barely snuck in under 40, at 39:57 on my
watch.

Should've taken a day off two or three days before the race, in
retrospect, to be more recovered.  Since a surprisingly good finish at
a race 5 weeks ago, I've tacked on 10-20 more weekly miles and
probably the intensity a smidgen most weeks too, on the theory that
"if I'm running this well on so little training, just wait 'til I'm
really working at it!"  Well of course to race well now, those "extra"
miles should've been a few months ago, but oh well, maybe my legs will
have absorbed them by Thanksgiving for a 5M Turkey Trot, or mid-Dec
for a 15k.

 Barely snuck in under 40, at 39:57 on my watch.

Thus kindly giving me my Nelson Muntz moment of the year:

my SB beats your SB by a margin of several seconds!

To my slight surprise, I found out that on a regime of 15 hrs on
an Olmo for each hour in NBs it is much harder to accomplish a
sub-1:30 half than a sub-40 10K.

"Bart Mathias" <mathias at (no spam) hawaii.edu> wrote

Definitely over the hill. One puzzle--if it's downhill from here on
out, why isn't it easier than before?

Count on about 1% slowdown a year on average, given similar training, after
age 38.

It doesn't feel any more difficult, it just takes longer :)

I'm about 23-27% slower than I was at my peak in the mid-80's...my 10k has
gone from 33 to 41 minutes.

Nicely done.  When was yours?  Is the S definitively over?  (Well OK,
I'm not sufficiently motivated to search out another 10k any time soon
to try to knock off a second or two per km.)

I'm pretty sure an Olmo is neither a Muppet, an Israeli prime
minister, nor a Scandinavian capital city.  More likely a piece of
gear for some aerobic pursuit or another?

I am currently in my second week of three runs and I have
discovered that I don't like skiing indoors and in a very small circle
as much as I imagined. Maybe I will also re-discover the irresistible
thrill of running and - knowing my near-monomaniac tendencies - I can
join you and Jos in your pursuit of fulfillment on the marathon
distance in 2010?

On Oct 26, 5:42 pm, "D Stumpus" <dstumpus.xt... at (no spam) pobox.com> wrote:

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Lowest mileage week in a couple of years, I think.  Just not motivated, I
guess.  It's probably a good thing for someone as compulsive about running
nearly every day as me to back off...

I think I had about 50 miles in last week also.  Actually took 2 days
off running ... shocking eh?

I didn't start to really slow down until long after age 38 (if I had, the
disappointment might have discouraged me from continuing for a third
year). I continued to get PRs (aka PBs) in more than half my races until I
was 52, when successive years of plantar fasciitis and achilles tendinitis
slowed me down.

When I turned 57 I started a long string of PWs. My 10K has gone from 40
minutes to an hour sometimes.

That's 50% in 22 years, or over 2% a year (except this is probably a case
for differential calculus, which I have completely forgotten). It's that
"given similar training" that is the real rub. I just can't manage 30 to
50 miles a week at 7~8 minute pace anymore. <sob

Greetings wreck runners! Please tell us about your training week and
goals.

"Bart Mathias" <math... at (no spam) hawaii.edu> wrote

Considering I train fewer miles and am 8-10 lbs heavier, I have no
complaints, other than missing the days when almost no one could pass me in
a workout

In article
21bd7671-2716-44e9-a51d-8f9f110ed... at (no spam) l34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
 Charlie Pendejo <charlie.pend... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

I'm surprised there were high schools back then.  Did they serve
mastodon burgers in the cafeteria?

No, but they did serve sarcastic assholes.

Lowest mileage week in a couple of years, I think.  Just not motivated, I
guess.  It's probably a good thing for someone as compulsive about running
nearly every day as me to back off...