This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
Yeah, let me know too. Their corporate office is about 8 miles from my house and if they don't respond appropriately I will run over there, barge in, and shake my fist at them in an aggressive manner.
Officially bagging the half. I know a lot of you guys will laugh at this, but it's going to be temps in the 60s and very humid (with chance of rain), and it's just not worth me spending $500+ to run a sub-optimal race.
just googled the Indy weather for next Saturday (10/5). Right now says mostly sunny with 69/53 high/low and about 55% humidity. Sounds pretty good to me.
Are you downloading it to garmin connect?
Ugh. 3:02 isn't even gonna do it next year. The outside chance I give this thing another shot in May probably just went up in smoke.
I think you'll benefit if you face your fear of racing in anything north of frigid conditions, but also don't think now's the right time given those circumstances.
Focus your energy on tiring yourself out in front of this weekend's long run and don't worry about that half until at least sometime during next week - and probably later.
Yeah, that's been the plan. I ran 16.5 on Saturday, umped baseball games and did yard work Sunday, ran 10 on Monday, 6 yesterday and 5 today. My legs are definitely feeling it. I have a baseball game to do tonight, will run again tomorrow, then likely have the day off Friday before doing a really long run Saturday.
Everyone responds to every set of conditions differently. Do warmer conditions impact you more than others? Yeah, probably. As much as you think it does? Probably not. You have to embrace that suck to really find out though. I'm 100% sure that if you practiced in those conditions and did it with the right mindset that you'd do things in those conditions you never thought were possible. You have to be willing to do that though. You haven't, so of course racing in those conditions now would go poorly.I don't know how else to say this. It's not FEAR. It's physiological.
Not sure what you have left in terms of long runs, but if it's me I would try and get in 6 days a week if you can until the taper. Nothing longer than 16 or 17 on the weekends - you've already done the 20 miler at this point. Build on those tired legs.
Mentally, treat it like you would any other race. Just don't taper for it. I'd even plan to do something taxing mid-week next week, but that's something to tackle after this week's work comes and goes. The priority race is in November and you're playing catch up. No time to focus plans on anything but it right now. But you can still race this thing. And you may surprise yourself with how fast you still run it anyway.
I'm not terribly far behind the plan I mapped out to start. Maybe that was a conservative plan or something but I'm not too far off what I hoped to be doing. According to the plan I had downloaded, I have been way ahead of that schedule. But I modified it quite a bit based on info from here to make it a much more aggressive plan. Other than you guys scaring the crap out of me, I feel like I'm in pretty good shape for this thing. That's not to say it will be easy or anything, but I feel like I'm on track to be able to tackle this.
Just speaking from my own experience, I get that bypassing 20 miles is a huge mental threshold. And you've done that.
My first 20 miler felt like a failure - like it was really an 18 miler with me just dying for the last 2. So doing it again but doing it successfully will be a huge mental boost. If I can go out and do 20 or 21 and feel like I "nailed it!" then it will mean a lot as I think about adding on even more to actually do the full thing.
Well, it's to make sure I don't go off the rails on my eating the whole week before again! If you mean during the week, I have a pretty good diet going for general daily eating. If you mean before/during the run, I always have a couple of cliff bars, a banana and a healthy dose of water in the morning before going to run. During the run, I have been doing gummy chews about 1 per mile +/- with moderate amounts of water to wash it down. I have some gatorade mix things to add to my water bottles for added "electrolytes" this time around.
Yes, just got back from a run. I took the week off work and didn't need to get out early. Thanks for asking.
In all seriousness, this is why I bought their stock. They have decent dividends and Im up 73%.So I sent them a I'm really disappointed email after this post. I told them I'll deal with the bugs vs spending another $160 on a device that's 2 months out of warranty.
Lo and behold I got this from them today:
The rule of thumb is to take (you get) a day off for each hour of effort, so you've earned a lengthy layoff here! You trained diligently for 3 years and then accomplished your goal. Be glad; be proud. Imagine how you'd feel if you'd have bagged it late in the bike or during the marathon! No need for pity. You did something incredible, and if that results in a break for a couple of months - take it. You earned it, BMF. You earned it, Ironman.
He thinks he's Methuselah. He knows he's a BMF.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
