I love the mtbikers

not that I'm anything other than mid-pack or anything but I lean into it a little extra passing mtbikes

also have fun ofc hehe

[also a 70.3 will probably proper murder me, I'd be lucky to break 6 hrs I'd guess]

As part of my training plan over the next 3 months to get ready for Javalina, Ivd decided to buckle down and get down to an ideal race weight. For me, I believe that's slightly lighter than my lowest (and fastest) Ironman race weight of 153. I'd really like to see 14x on the scale going into my taper. Weighed in at 168 on Sunday. Fuck.gif Reloaded myfitnesspal on the phone and plan to use it religiously. It's got me at 1300 calories a day, which seems to be pretty doable....for me it mostly involves avoiding late night snacking and making sure I take in some fuel before my runs (which are all at night while kids are out of school) so I don't go crazy pigging out afterwards.
I'm swearing off beer and any kind of candy till after the race as well. :iamhomoforusingthis:

You really only cap at 18 to 20? For Keys I did numerous marathon distance training runs and an 8 hour overnight 35 miler. Those are obviously what kills me. If I had the time each day I could probably hit 60+ a week, if I wasn't doing one day so high that I need to take the day before and after off pretty much.

I do want to try to do more runs that are for a purpose instead of runs for mileage.

Keep in mind that I race quite a bit. I just did a 33 miler in June, 100k in May, Boston in April, 50k in March and another in February...so that's a pretty good gauge of my fitness this year so far.

Jebus, and you're complaining of a weight issue?


*head spins*

I am actually planning on asking Liza if she thinks trail shoes are necessary. I saw some pictures with some rocks but nothing serious.

I picked this race partly because it isn't 25k feet of vert, lol. Not easily trained in FL.

There is a 46 mile fatass event on September 5th I'm debating on doing. I won't be doing it super hard but figure that's a real good training run with a 13 hour cutoff.

Also, 800m PR this morning. 2:32.
That fucking hurt.

Do 10 of those with a 400 break in between and you should be able to run a 2:32 road marathon.

Do 10 of those with a 400 break in between and you should be able to run a 2:32 road marathon.

earlier in the summer I was afraid I was regressing. Now I'm fairly certain I am.

friday I sumitted mt. hamilton via bike [a 60 mile long, vertical mile day] took sat off then sun had my former-routine of a long-jog.

Did a ~3-4 mile hike with ~500' of vert in the morning on sunday. not sure if mentioning this matters. was super slow

in the late afternoon I do a super slow warmup jog [2.5 mile @ 14:00/mi lol] and then do a ~7.6 mile at a reasonable effort [9:10 or so] until around mile 7 I backed off a bit because whiny

I'm sitting here at my desk monday morning and my legs are THRASHED lol

like it hurts to get off my chair

I'm a 2 on this scale

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Delayed_Onset_Muscle_Soreness

so either I'm still fucked from Friday [Saturday I was super fine, no pain whatsoever/soreness], or I've grown another vagina

So that's a rough calculator? take you 800m intervals time and it's your approximate marathon?

Today I signed up for 2 races. I managed to get into the Angeles Crest 100 next August. One of th most iconic and toughest hundred milers in the country.

Then this evening my buddy asked me if I wanted to carpool with him up to Malibu in 3 weeks to run the Bulldog 50k. I figured "why not." It may not be my best race, but it will fall in line nicely with pacing Ampsman at his hundred in September before running my Arizona hundred in October.