Still running three times a week for about 7-8 miles a time. I am also on Runkeeper. I'd love to run more, but old legs are only happy with every other day.
I'm starting it up again... Got 4 more weeks of P90X2 and then I'll be running full time again (5 days a week)... going for broke this year... I'm posting my runs on Garmin Connect and on my FB page.
Okay. I'm partway through the 100 pushups program then going to start TM training. I'm also aiming for a fall TM, but I need to go back to my podiatrist soon
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Okay. I'm partway through the 100 pushups program then going to start TM training. I'm also aiming for a fall TM, but I need to go back to my podiatrist soon
Are you talking about that hundredpushups program? The six week deal?
Okay. I'm partway through the 100 pushups program then going to start TM training. I'm also aiming for a fall TM, but I need to go back to my podiatrist soon
Are you talking about that hundredpushups program? The six week deal?
JBoogalooThis too shall pass...Alexandria, VAIcrontian
Okay. I'm partway through the 100 pushups program then going to start TM training. I'm also aiming for a fall TM, but I need to go back to my podiatrist soon
Are you talking about that hundredpushups program? The six week deal?
Just had an interesting weekend of a 12 mile Saturday followed up with an 11 mile Sunday... Last year I never did back to backs but for one 10 mile Sat/Sun and the Sunday run was HARD!! Today's run (Sunday) wasn't too bad at all... first couple miles were a little shaky, but after I got passed two, I was good to go... 9:02 pace throughout on Saturday, 9:03 pace on Sunday...
Given that I'm going to try for my first 50 miler at the end of this year, I'm going to try to do more of these back-to-back weekends hoping to get to where I can punch out 20 miles each day with little to no residual issues... I think if I can do this, plus my typical weekly running (about 20+ miles between Tues, Wed, Thurs) I could probably do the 50 miler with few issues...
@_k_ You still got about 30 weeks before I get to mine... with what you probably run already, you could be up to a 50 miler (or a 100k) by then easily... Go For It!!!
Some of you might have heard me run my mouth about running and how I like to run kind of. If you heard that then you might have also listened to me say some crap about ultramarathons.
I ran the Nueces 50 mile ultra on Saturday, finishing in 11 hours 28 minutes and 50 seconds. I have never run anything over a marathon distance until this point, ran my first marathon in December of 2012. Almost all of my training has been on pavement or packed grass so I am far from a anything looking like a trail runner, but it is done. Album, Race Photos
Only if you mean over hundreds of miles. World record for 100 miles is around 11 hours and 30 minutes, which is on a track. Multi-day races the human would eventually win simply on the fact of exhausting the horse. But comparing them over that kind of distance I consider to be unfair due to the fact that if a horse breaks almost any bone it its body it will most likely die from the injury because their entire skeletal system is designed to support their weight.
The article expressly says that over long distances (marathon - ultra marathon lengths) humans are better than any other animal because we are the best at cooling our bodies thus preventing exhaustion.
But over marathon distances we are not. The man v. horse race has the horses start late and has a required vet check and these times are not removed from the overall. Then if you want to cover farther you can compare the Tevis Cup, the horse race that spawned Western States 100, to the Western States 100 since they are 100 miles and across the same terrain.
The best time on Western states 100 is 14 hours 46 minutes for open male and in 2011 there were 33 horses that ran a faster time alone.
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Given that I'm going to try for my first 50 miler at the end of this year, I'm going to try to do more of these back-to-back weekends hoping to get to where I can punch out 20 miles each day with little to no residual issues... I think if I can do this, plus my typical weekly running (about 20+ miles between Tues, Wed, Thurs) I could probably do the 50 miler with few issues...
Only about 200 days away though...
I'm running 3 miles a day. Holy crap, I feel lazy.
I ran the Nueces 50 mile ultra on Saturday, finishing in 11 hours 28 minutes and 50 seconds. I have never run anything over a marathon distance until this point, ran my first marathon in December of 2012. Almost all of my training has been on pavement or packed grass so I am far from a anything looking like a trail runner, but it is done. Album, Race Photos
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/06/long_distance_running_and_evolution_why_humans_can_outrun_horses_but_can_t_jump_higher_than_cats_.html
The best time on Western states 100 is 14 hours 46 minutes for open male and in 2011 there were 33 horses that ran a faster time alone.
Today I Extrapolated - We don't eat horse meat because we couldn't exhaust them to death as early humans.