As...for finding the distance that suits you best..each to his own. The race distance I'm in total awe of is the 5km distance...why would anyone want to start a race in full throttle and stay that way for an entire race...I bow down to those people Wow, that's my sentiment. What I do is start out, ...
I have one of those from last year. I like it. Good price, works. (Haha, its me that doesn't work. I keep telling myself I'm still in the 'adaptation' phase.)
I think that makes a lot of sense. So, something like... week 1: long run week 2: back-to-back week 3: recovery/shorter long run repeat I like that plan. It accounts for life getting in the way. Don't panic if you have to do a couple straight weeks of long runs, or a couple of straight weeks of bac...
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Topic title says it all. Anyone interested? I'd like to go, but don't want to drive by myself.
It's cool, but they run in shorts. Would be a nice break from our deep-freeze.
Anyone from Ottawa/ S. Ont interested in this? 200 miles rural ramble, 2 days, different kinds of team arrangements.
http://www.greenmountainrelay.com/
I read an interesting book last week, 'Crosstraining for Endurance Athletes' by a guy named Raul Guisado. We've never heard of him, but he's been a life-long athlete, and a three-time Olympic coach for the US ski team. So, I'll take him seriously. He goes on about flexibility, trunk and joint stabil...
I did read the abstract, and I noted that they only studied 8 20-year old runners, which is a pretty small sample. Also the results applied only to their absolute velocity, not to their 10k p ace. Also again, they didn't mention how much of a difference it made. There used to be a famous example of ...
Hmmm, I felt pretty smug about not stretching, and guilt-free, but changed my tune when my whole back side from shoulders to toes got so tight I ended up with plantar fasciitis. Now I stretch every morning, and y'know what, I'm gradually getting more flexible, and I'm getting to like it. Also to gen...
Yes, and that's another issue, keeping the darn water from freezing. -20 C this morning, and the nipple of my water bottle was frozen, but it didn't really matter, because the water was frozen anyway, dammit. Actually, I have a small, low-slung bladder pack to wear under my jacket for just this kind...
I'm with dgrant on this issue. I still have some experimenting to do with windproof fleece, but in general, my friends and I cover up our clothes with windproof nylon, then guess what. We get drenched in sweat, and so do all of our clothes. I nearly froze a couple of times the winter before my first...
I'll add to that a couple of things: Take your time to look it over, because they speak their own language. There's an acronym for everything, and girls' names for workouts, (the killers, usually), and you have to keep going back to the main crossfit site to see just what the exercise is even after ...
I like their concept of whole body fitness with an emphasis on body weight exercies, and raising the difficulty by increasing intensity and speed. Been looking forward to getting into it a little this winter, (which is finally starting to happen). Anyway, doing 15 squats, 10 situps, 5 pushups, and 3...
http://www.ultrunr.com/ this is the 'how-to' of ultra-running. Let me remind you how many different approaches there are. Just look them over, and buy one you like the colour of. There is no one best way. So much depends on your genetics, your digestion, and as I know very well, your age. And before...
I just checked the site, and its $100! I think I'll give it a miss unless I can pace bunny. My friends and I will be doing long runs anyway, without charging ourselves anything. On the other hand, I am looking for travelling partners to Virginia for the Holiday Lake 50k on Feb 10. Any interest from ...
Good run, man, almost 2 hours faster than me. That's humbling?!? I had one blister too, also from the wet feet. At half way, I changed shoes to a pair with more arch support, thinking it was plantar fasciitis starting again, but at night I found it was a blister formed where the 'prune wrinkles' wer...
I just posted a RR for my 50 miler on the race reports section, but I thought I'd stimulate a little out-of-the-box discussion about training here, by excerpting my training plan: "Incidentally, I did 2 marathons and a 50k in September and October to get used to long runs and get my ankles used to b...
Last weekend was the Stone Cat 50 mile trail race in Ipswich, MA. If you like running in the woods, try to go there; it’s a great race. Getting there was fairly miserable. In spite of advertising here and a couple of other places, I ended up driving down myself. It took 12 hours, including a couple ...
Well, after I posted the question, I did a google search for 'recipe book software'. Duh! There are lots of options, and of course some are free. I like this one, to just use a word processing program: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/articles/recipebook.mspx There were plenty of others, and they ...
Finally got my camera back, and started a web program to store my pictures, so for those of you who haven't been there for a race: http://picasaweb.google.com/ronfranciscanada/Haliburton50k2008# I didn't take a lot of time with the photography; this was actually taking pictures on the run. What does...