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TripleThreat said:
Good times last night ya bunch of BMF'ers
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So before going to bed I queue up a bunch of kickers figuring I'll get one near the end of the draft.  How do I have four on my team?!

So now I have the market cornered on kickers.  Yay.

 
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Zasada said:
So before going to bed I queue up a bunch of kickers figuring I'll get one near the end of the draft.  How do I have four on my team?!

So now I have the market cornered on kickers.  Yay.
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in a similar vein, I queued up several players for my last 2 picks. Then queued up some kickers and defenses, thinking it would pick 2 players and then pick 1 k and 1 defense. Instead it picked an extra TE and never picked a kicker. The queue appears to take precedent over anything common sense. And I have to wait for waivers to process Thursday before I can pick up a kicker now. fun times. 

 
The Iguana said:
in a similar vein, I queued up several players for my last 2 picks. Then queued up some kickers and defenses, thinking it would pick 2 players and then pick 1 k and 1 defense. Instead it picked an extra TE and never picked a kicker. The queue appears to take precedent over anything common sense. And I have to wait for waivers to process Thursday before I can pick up a kicker now. fun times. 
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I smell a trade brewing....

@Zasada

 
pbm107 said:
I have taken some time off with a busy holiday weekend. My son ended up skipping the 5K as he got pink eye the day before the race, so I ran with my daughter. She has a bad ankle that she has been dealing with for too long and she ended up twisting it about a mile into the race. It was a struggle for her, but she battled through it.

There is a black Friday football game that my buddies and I have been playing for 26 years, last year I decided to watch from the sidelines because I wasn’t recovered from my marathon.  This year I was shamed into playing.  Game (two hand touch) went well with no major injuries, but I am sorer now than after the marathon. 

At the bar after the game many beers were consumed, memories of the nonathletic football game long forgotten, some bets were made. My buddy Jeff was busting Fat Jerry’s balls about having to skip the half marathon we ran in September because of injury. Jerry challenged Jeff that he could beat him in a mile race.  Jeff quickly accepts and they agree that they will race the morning of our fantasy football draft (Saturday Labor Day weekend) with $200 on the line.  When my brother in law heard about the bet, he wanted in and they both quickly agreed that he and anyone else with us at the bar could get in on the bet as long as they were over 200 lbs by 11/30/18.  This was to prevent me and one other runner from fattening up to join the competition, everyone else involved was well over 200 lbs and didn’t need to prove it prior to 11/30/18.   There will be a weigh in on race day, just for record purposes and fun.

I am trying to figure out who will win this thing.

Fat Jerry won the original fat man Olympics when he beat two other fat guys back in 2008, no time was recorded for the event.  The following year he challenged me to a race where he finished around 6:10 to my 5:59. He is the best natural athlete of the bunch, and always surprises people with his athleticism despite his weight.  He’s a former Marine and isn’t really that much heavier than my other friends, he was really fit when we met him and got the nickname (from Jeff) when he quickly got out of shape. He is most likely to injure himself in training, the most irrationally confident former athlete I know, and is a lot heavier than he was back in 2009. Most recent race, 28:28 5K in March 2016 when he was targeting sub 22 – a lost $100 bet.

Brother in law is the 2nd best athlete of the group, played some rugby post college.  Most career oriented of the group, least likely to really train. Will be less embarrassed than the other two if he doesn’t win. I sense he likes gambling more than competition. Most recent race 30:51 5K in March 2017.

Jeff is the least athletic of the three but has done the most running recently.  He ran the Richmond half in 2:45 and a 33:27 5K (in the middle of a 10K). He is most likely to train for this event which isn’t saying all that much, as he didn’t train at all for Richmond.  I think he’d be the favorite if this was a longer race, he’s willing to suffer but likely doesn’t have the foot speed if this comes down to a sprint in the end.

We were trying to figure out what kind of time would win this, I mentioned that someone will probably have to run a sub 6:45 to beat Jerry. I thought I was giving Jerry credit but he got insulted by this. I said that I probably run 5 laps faster than his 4.   He bet me $200 that I couldn’t fun the mile 1 minute faster than him (which was significantly easier for me than what I offered to him), I accepted the bet knowing that it is highly unlikely that he’ll get in sub 6 shape by September. 

Jerry kind of screwed himself by making the side bet with me assuming he doesn’t lose a ton and weight and run a sub 6 minute.  If he does that I’d be happy to lose the money knowing he really changed his physical fitness for the better. Realistically though him trying to stay within a minute of me may cause him to crash and burn, opening the door for either my BIL or Jeff.

The important part of all of this is that none of us drove home that night and my BIL was suffering greatly with a hangover for the 9:45 AM family picture the next day.  
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Juxtatarot said:
My money's on Fat Jerry.
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@Juxtatarot you were right, Fat Jerry won against the other two.  He couldn't beat me though.

 
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The Iguana said:
in a similar vein, I queued up several players for my last 2 picks. Then queued up some kickers and defenses, thinking it would pick 2 players and then pick 1 k and 1 defense. Instead it picked an extra TE and never picked a kicker. The queue appears to take precedent over anything common sense. And I have to wait for waivers to process Thursday before I can pick up a kicker now. fun times. 
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@ChiefD - Change the settings for "Post Draft Players" from Follow Waiver Rules to Free Agents.  Then it'll be FCFS until the season starts.

 
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ChiefD said:
It looks like I can change the waiver rule to "None", which I assume makes everything FCFS.  Then maybe switch it back on Thursday?
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I'd prob just leave it alone then and save yourself the work.  "BeatGrue" can wait until Thursday to get his kicker.

 
gruecd said:
Just got my training schedule for the next 4 weeks from my coach.  This will be an important 4-week block.  Thought I'd share the doc just in case any of you were curious.  I'd be interested in your feedback.
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Fascinating!  I like the coach's confidence in what he proposes for you, and I like his balance of mileage (weeks into the 60s) with targeted effort.  As I've seen with other workouts you've posted, I also like his increasing effort within the key workouts.

I tend to fall into the Juxt camp of not liking it when people tell me what to do/how to do it.  I get the logic for training, though.  However, I end up with conflicts in my schedule, and that would stress me out.  (This week will be an example of that.)

Hopefully it pays off again for you!  You have your own confidence in being able to go sub-3:00 ...now it's the challenge of how low you can go.

 
Juxtatarot said:
My biggest problem with it is I don’t like someone telling me what to do and how to do it.
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On one hand, this is where I am.

But on the other hand, I put a ton of value into the how/what/why. That's what I'm seeing out of the explanations. There's no possible way to anticipate in advance how a schedule is going to flow and what your body is going to say one day and week to the next. There's no concise way to cover every angle, but I think he did a good job of helping guide your day-to-day decision making.

But this is also confirmation I should keep doing what I'm doing. Cause this would never work for me.

 
MAC_32 said:
On one hand, this is where I am.

But on the other hand, I put a ton of value into the how/what/why. That's what I'm seeing out of the explanations. There's no possible way to anticipate in advance how a schedule is going to flow and what your body is going to say one day and week to the next. There's no concise way to cover every angle, but I think he did a good job of helping guide your day-to-day decision making.

But this is also confirmation I should keep doing what I'm doing. Cause this would never work for me.
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I didn't even understand what half those words and abbreviations meant. 

 
tri-man 47 said:
However, I end up with conflicts in my schedule, and that would stress me out.  (This week will be an example of that.)
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So much this. I've known this week was going to be brutal for weeks, so when golf last Friday came up I decided to take a half day and get one workout in Friday then spend the weekend recovering before another good one Monday. I didn't know what I would do Friday and Monday at that time, but I knew those would be the priority workouts. So when this time last week came around I assessed where I was vs. goals and what I tentatively had coming up next then decided what to do. I get why that won't work for many, but it's what works best for me. With more long term planning I'd constantly be stressing out about what to fit in when.

 
Week 2 is in the books.  

Mon: 3mi easy @ 8:55/139.  Cooler temps were awesome.
Tue: 4mi progression @ 8:21/148.  Was fun to put in some work.  
Wed: unplanned road ride.  I wasn't going to be able to make it to the mtn bike Wed group - I really wanted to pedal, so I hopped on the roadie and pushed for 12mi @19mph.  I was walking a little funny after this one.  :lol:  
Thu: 4mi easy @ 9:05/144.  Legs were kind of heavy from Wed's ride.  My youngest has taken an interest in mtn biking so his older brother and I took him out for a quick 4mi ride.  That felt like a good recovery - legs loosened up.
Fri: Led another noobies mtn bike ride ~7mi.  Pushed a few climbs, but held it in check for most part. 
Sat: 8mi easy @ 8:54/146.  HR crept towards the end, but I enjoyed this run.  Legs are nowhere near as beat up as they were after last week's 8.
Sun: 24mi mtn bike ride.  I felt sluggish for the first half hour or so, but felt stronger as the ride went on.  Love this ####.

~7.5hrs of total work; 19mi running + 47 riding

Big jump in total work - curious how that affects me this week.

 
tri-man 47 said:
However, I end up with conflicts in my schedule, and that would stress me out. 
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Obviously, I have conflicts, too (lately many of them), but my coach trusts me, and I've been doing this long enough to know how to move things around without jeopardizing the integrity of the two main workouts each week (the weekly "challenge" run and the LR).

For example, I'm supposed to do 6 glue today and 8 tomorrow.  I've got plenty of time tonight to run, and tomorrow I know I have to go in the morning before work when I'll be more crunched for time, so I'll just flip-flop the workouts.  Or if I have plans on Saturday, I'll shift the long run to Friday and adjust everything else accordingly.  I know how much rest/recovery I need before/after hard efforts, so it's relatively easy for me to account for that.

 
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Just wanting to vent again.  Yes, I'm a whiny #####.

####ty run this morning (pun intended).  Got up at 0300 and dinner from last night hadn't fully processed.  So at 8K I need to stop at a gas station, and then again at 17K.

Should have tried to hold HMP for more than 10K but I am weak and soft.  Needed some @ChiefD DBAP in my ear.  So I did the last 7K at varied paces to just get home.

Only silver lining was that after my run, my watch told me my VO2Max is now 56.  So if it's still +3 from reality, that means I'm now at 53, up 2 from my physical a month ago.

That is all.  Move along, nothing to see here.

 
Zasada said:
Just wanting to vent again.  Yes, I'm a whiny #####.

####ty run this morning (pun intended).  Got up at 0300 and dinner from last night hadn't fully processed.  So at 8K I need to stop at a gas station, and then again at 17K.

Should have tried to hold HMP for more than 10K but I am weak and soft.  Needed some @ChiefD DBAP in my ear.  So I did the last 7K at varied paces to just get home.

Only silver lining was that after my run, my watch told me my VO2Max is now 56.  So if it's still +3 from reality, that means I'm now at 53, up 2 from my physical a month ago.

That is all.  Move along, nothing to see here.
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I need myself in my ear. I've been a lazy slug lately. At least you got up and did some work.  :thumbup:

 
Juxtatarot said:
I saw that a few weeks ago and had been waiting for a chance to use the link.
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You picked the perfect time.  :lol:   I actually laughed out loud in my office on that one.

And point taken. Time to get off my ### and start building some mileage. Thank you. 

 
Zasada said:
For you guys in the center of the universe, there seems to be a pretty good deal on Garmin watches if you use one of these health care providers.  This site is pretty credible but I can't say if the deals actually work or not.

That 6X Pro Solar...  :wub:
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Thanks for the tip. My Tom Tom watch (which has been great) is getting older and I'm afraid I'll have to switch soon. My wife works for BKBS, so never thought about an opportunity for a discount there. They already give her incentives for our health insurance by her participating in wellness checks and stuff like that.

 
Odd sequence of days and events lately.  On Saturday at our cottage, I spent a tough 4 hours up in the rafters putting in some new reflective insulation.  Height to the peak was no more than 4-5 feet, roof nails from the roofing were poking through everywhere, and only had the ceiling joists to step on, so the work was filled with a lot of bending, crawling, twisting, turning.  Hard work, but then an 18 miler on Sunday was fantastic.  I picked the hilliest roads in the area, and pushed the final two miles at the finish.  Good stuff.  But then Sunday night, playing with my grandson, he managed to divebomb into my face and his noggin cracked open the edge of my lip.  I now have three stitches (first such incident of any sort in 60 years) and a swollen, purplish half-lip.  Monday was some nice cottage time (including time at the park with said attacker) and then travel time, so no workout by the time we got home.  Yesterday, Tuesday, was a packed 12 hour day, so another day of nothing.  Ugh.  Waiting for a worker to finish installing some new picture windows so I can hopefully get out for a long run (17-18) today ..knowing Thursday and Friday will again be challenging days to get out.  

 
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