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Ran a 10k - Official Thread (3 Viewers)

-OZ- said:
Is anyone else's strava feed jacked?  I haven't uploaded anything this week until adding this morning's weights manually but the most recent activity for anyone I'm following is April 9 (the other Paul's 6 miles)
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I noticed something a little screwy on there a week or two ago. It seems like the feed doesn't work in chronological order anymore. It's like they use the same algorithm that facebook and instagram use or something. It's like they are sorting your feed by what they think is most important to you. At least that's my theory. 

Also, I've had a problem recently where my course records are just being removed from the leader board and I have no idea why. It's happened to me multiple times recently. I set a few records just weeks ago and they are gone now.  :angry:

 
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Hang 10 said:
I noticed something a little screwy on there a week or two ago. It seems like the feed doesn't work in chronological order anymore. It's like they use the same algorithm that facebook and instagram use or something. It's like they are sorting your feed by what they think is most important to you. At least that's my theory. 

Also, I've had a problem recently where my course records are just being removed from the leader board and I have no idea why. It's happened to me multiple times recently. I set a few records just weeks ago and they are gone now.  :angry:
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That sucks.  Maybe they think you're too fast and must be cheating? ;)

 
-OZ- said:
That sucks.  Maybe they think you're too fast and must be cheating? ;)
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Actually, one of the segments I was talking about was the one where I went sub 5 min pace. So I suppose someone could have thought it was illegitimate. If someone flagged your run, would you know? Would you get a notification?

 
Hang 10 said:
Actually, one of the segments I was talking about was the one where I went sub 5 min pace. So I suppose someone could have thought it was illegitimate. If someone flagged your run, would you know? Would you get a notification?
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No idea. 

 
Hang 10 said:
Actually, one of the segments I was talking about was the one where I went sub 5 min pace. So I suppose someone could have thought it was illegitimate. If someone flagged your run, would you know? Would you get a notification?
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Yes you get a notification.

 
Strava is funky for me too.  But not last night.  I made my own segments for fun  :D

 
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@Sand  Speaking of Strava, can we kick the Frenchie out of our club?  (Not the guy named Jacques, the other one.)

 
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Hang 10 said:
I think it's time to make the club private and have people request to join. It's so odd that random peeps around the world keep joining. 
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Happens pretty rarely.  I booted the guy.

Made private anyway.  I should probably make a few folks admins, just because.  If you want to take on this weighty responsibility let me know.  Your Strava name would help, 'cause I suck at keeping track of aliaii and real names.

Edit:  If I booted you and you do exist, please send Juxt all hate mail.  And send me a request to join and I'll process.

 
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Sand said:
Happens pretty rarely.  I booted the guy.

Made private anyway.  I should probably make a few folks admins, just because.  If you want to take on this weighty responsibility let me know.  Your Strava name would help, 'cause I suck at keeping track of aliaii and real names.
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:hey: Osaurus G (clever huh?)

 
Celebrated my last day in uniform with a trail run.  Had planned on going 20, then thought better of it and just went 2 hours, covered most of the trails on our nearby "mountain". Love that thing but damn it's getting hot. 84/54 so 139si, doesn't sound too bad but I'm remembering why I ride in the summer.

 
Any of you nerds use TrainingPeaks?  I signed up for the 7 day premium trial yesterday, and it brought over all my runs (ever) from Garmin Connect.  It's got some amazing charts and graphs that analyze fitness, fatigue, intensity, and "form", which is fitness-fatigue, or race-readiness.  I've spent the last hour plugging in planned workouts for the next two weeks and playing with those a bit to see what affect it has on the chart and the numbers going into Canyons 100K.

Now I don't know how accurate a predictor of fitness and performance these actually are, but it's pretty damned interesting data to look at.

Performance Management Chart

Red dots - Training Stress Score, a composite number that takes into account the duration and intensity of a workout to arrive at a single estimate of the overall training load and physiological stress created by that training session

Blue line - Fitness, an exponentially weighted average of your last 42 days (by default) of training stress scores (TSS) and reflects the training you have done over the last 3 months. However, the workouts you did 15 days ago will impact your Fitness more than the workouts you did 6 weeks ago.

Pink line - Fatigue, An exponentially weighted average of your training stress scores from the past 7 days which provides an estimate of your fatigue accounting for the workouts you have done in the past two weeks.

Yellow line - Form, Training Stress Balance (TSB) or Form represents the balance of training stress.  Form (TSB) = Yesterday's Fitness (CTL) - Yesterday's Fatigue (ATL).  A positive TSB number means that you would have a good chance of performing well during those 'positive' days, and would suggest that you are both fit and fresh

 
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Looks like the comments are going to deal with that 'enhancement'. I now see I have an update to the app I haven't done, perhaps that's why I am still seeing chronologically which I prefer. 

 
Proud dad moment - cookie dash 5k with my 8yo. We made the goal for him to break 30, he got 29:15 and only walked for the one aid station. 

And now we're full of cookies. :D

 
Made it up neighborhood hill in my fastest time by a few seconds at 1:11 yesterday and now see some fast ####er did it in 34 seconds. Zionks. 

 
Training block for Canyons 100K basically in the books, heading into a two week taper now.  I followed up last week's 10:24 and 6,266' with 11:13 and 6,693' this week, and felt good on the 4 hr/20 mile efforts each of the past two Sundays.  I had planned to do 8 tempo efforts over 4 weeks, but I found that they made my left hammie and hip/glute area sore and tight so I only did 5 workouts - so that was a little disappointing.  I may have to try them uphill instead of on rolling terrain next time to see if that helps a bit.  But I figured a focus on the long run, total volume, and total elevation was more important for my goals, and didn't want to risk a niggle turning into an injury.  

I also had a good sports massage/ART session on Friday, and have another scheduled for next Friday.  

Hope everyone else having a good weekend!

 
A strong training week:

M: Bike - 50 minutes, quite strong resistance and 98 rpm; added resistance for :30 every five minutes.  > 22 mph, per the machine.  Cut a bit short as I tired.

T: Swim - 3,000 yards (60 laps).  15 wu, 36 (mile) with paddles at good pace, 9 cd.  Feet cramping last five laps; calves cramped last lap.  Awesomeness!

W: Bike - 60 minutes, rather easy (recovery ~ 20 mph)

Th: Swim - 2,000 yards (40 laps). Speedwork.  On :30 rest, hard 8 (:58.5/lap) 7 (:58.5), 5 (58), 4 (:58), 3 (:57), 2 (:56) 1 (;52).  Totally sucking wind on the rests.

F: Run - 5 miles. First run in 3 weeks ...felt really good and no ill effects.

S: Bike - 70 minutes, same settings as Monday, but only faded a little over final five minutes.

Swimming is in great shape.  Very confident to be able to kick out a 2,000 yard race swim at a steady pace, leaving energy to spare.  Out of town next weekend, but then will be ready to get outside on the bike to build the endurance and get a true measure of outdoor speed.  Come race day, I'd be happy to hold anything close to 20 mph.  Will try to catch two runs a week and see if I can build up the mileage (without much concern for any real 'speed').

 
Ugggh, the thought of training for another road marathon does absolutely nothing for me right now, but I'm really missing being in Boston today.   :cry:

Might have to go back to Erie this fall and attempt another qualifier....

 
mr. furley said:
10 and 11 hours??
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:yes:

Considering my next two races will take 15-18 and 26-30 hours, I'm starting to focus on time on feet in training. After a week or so (I hope) of recovery from Canyons, I'm planning to build up to a couple of peak weeks pushing 14 hours in late May and early June. 

 
One of my buddies (who also wins physique competitions) just passed 10K in 38:04.  That's faster than my PR.  I hate people who are good at everything.

 
gruecd said:
One of my buddies (who also wins physique competitions) just passed 10K in 38:04.  That's faster than my PR.  I hate people who are good at everything.
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Damn....that's moving. 

Looks like there is a nice tailwind today, so just tell him you could have done that with a tailwind too.  :-)

 
People I know who are running are not hitting their goals.  Wonder if the heat is worse than expected or the tailwind isn't having the desired effect.

 
SteelCurtain said:
People I know who are running are not hitting their goals.  Wonder if the heat is worse than expected or the tailwind isn't having the desired effect.
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Yeah my buddy finished a few minutes slower than he was expecting, too.  Temps in the 70s definitely aren't ideal for racing.

 
Looks like Boston isn't drawing a top here these days. Where are all the keyans running?  Is one of the other big Spring marathons offering a larger purse?

 
I thought I may have overdid it last week, netting a 7:36 pace across 35 miles and 1,300+ feet of elevation.  Yesterday's 9 wasn't pretty but the way I feel now it was probably more due to whiskey, beers, non-alcohol processed sugar, heavily doctored up veggies, and excess dead animal.  This is my planned reset week intensity-wise, but if I have a spring in my step late in the week I'm due for a track workout.  May do some hills tonight too.

 
MAC_32 said:
I thought I may have overdid it last week, netting a 7:36 pace across 35 miles and 1,300+ feet of elevation.  Yesterday's 9 wasn't pretty but the way I feel now it was probably more due to whiskey, beers, non-alcohol processed sugar, heavily doctored up veggies, and excess dead animal.  This is my planned reset week intensity-wise, but if I have a spring in my step late in the week I'm due for a track workout.  May do some hills tonight too.
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Hills can be a sneaky workout to add when you otherwise aren't really in the mood.  They're just short bursts with a nice break in between, so it doesn't seem like you're working that hard ...but the benefits are magnified because of the hills.

 
If you guys ever see me struggling at the end of the race, please DO NOT carry me across the finish line. I know everyone seems to love these kinds of stories on facebook but I think we're in jump the shark territory now.

A friend of mine ran Boston yesterday and he ended up participated in carrying a guy across the finish line. My FB news feed was blowing up with video and all kinds of stories about the incident. My buddy is fast and so I surmised that the guy he was carrying was probably pretty fast too. Looked up his time and low and behold this guy's limp body was carried to finish in 3:09. I would be so ####### embarrassed if I was this guy. I would rather have taken a DNF. 

Should we really be celebrating this? IDK maybe I'm just a heartless ####### but I'm saying no. 

 
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