It’s more than a little ironic that my inexplicable improvement in running speed coincides with my plummeting interest in writing about it. I got injured about a month ago after racing Coogan’s and the McCarren Park Track Classic back to back (and was already slightly injured going into both). Three days after that track race [...]
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I’m not following Jack Daniels’ training anymore. I need a breakthrough and 20:50 was not a breakthrough. So now I’m doing something totally different. Over the next three months I will be doing a combination of weekly speed workouts consisting of track repeats at various distances, all at a goal 5K pace of 6:25; and [...]
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This race, a 5 miler (this is known as stating the bleeding obvious), was NYRR’s final race in its 2011 club points series. They swapped it with the Joe Kleinerman 10K, which was moved to January. Good thing, too, because I’m a 5K runner now. I can barely race for 3 miles as it is. [...]
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This was kind of an odd week. The previous week ended with a night of barfing up duck and escargots, followed by a day off to recover from that ordeal. I got up on Sunday still feeling iffy, but managed to run 9 miles at a fairly quick clip. Recovery runs are now solidly under [...]
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This week of training featured my first tempo run at Rockefeller State Park (aka “the Rockies”), and it was enjoyable. It’s a good park to run in once you figure out how not to get unspeakably lost. The last time we ran there one area in particular caught my eye: Swan Lake. This small lake [...]
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My foray into the virgin territory of dedicated training for the 5K continues. It was kind of a strange week. I will eventually be doing tempo runs that are solid blocks of 30-45 minutes, but after months of no tempo work I need to ease into them. Fortunately, Jack Daniels agrees, so I’m following his [...]
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Yesterday I was reminded of several things: How daunting a prospect it is to excel in the NYRR club series when so many of the points races seem to fall in the summer What a thrill it is to watch the faster local runners coming over the finish line How many new people I’ve met [...]
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It’s a Super Deluxe Three Week Edition. I wish I could give you a funny fold-in picture like they used to do in the back of MAD Magazine, but I do not have such a thing, nor time to make one. Let’s get cracking. Now I am training for a mile race. Someone at work [...]
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Well, I had a better race here than I did last year when it was, apparently, hot. Last year it was 82 degrees and 53% humidity. This year it was 72 degrees and 68% humidity. I don’t know what’s worse. Last year? Although I was verging on injury at this time last year. I ran [...]
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It may look like I’m still injured. But I’m not. That’s more than I can say for my training log, however. Google Docs inexplicably barfed all over it and upon exporting it out to my Mac to try to save the file, I couldn’t open it. So now I have to work with it on [...]
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