following your basically linear improvement has been really fun. makes me want to run.
thanks man! and that's cool .. If you look at my previous few months, I haven't really done any LONG running.. it's all short/middle with lots of speed work. My legs felt really good the whole time.. so I think if you were to take a similar approach (low volume/moderate-high intensity), you could still improve vert without any fears. I didn't jump at all basically, during this time.. yet my legs still retained a decent amount of power/bounce and my jumping didn't feel bad at all on Friday, so that's promising. Had I been jumping, I imagine my SLRVJ would be pretty decent right now.
This running life is pretty cool.. I've met some nice/dedicated people too, which is really great. I guess the idea of competing is a great training stimulus too.. That's one thing we sometimes miss from training solo - that competition effect.. You get it when you dunk around tons of people, ie, when i'd go amp up and dunk in some gym/street court full of people hooping .. that extra adrenaline is basically that effect I feel when competing in running..
So that's a damn good training tool that was missing for me with running.. You're competitive so if you train for a 5k and run one, you'll probably get a bit hooked.
Plus.. there's so many hot women at these 5k races..
in my one truncated (by the DC sniper) year of HS xc, i think my PR was around 20:30. but i was a (1) a wuss and (2) didn't take it seriously. wonder what i could run now if i gave myself some time to ease into it.
that f'n sniper scared me to death.. I've mentioned it before to you, but we'd all be worried at the basketball courts.. Was just an eery feeling.
ya that's still a really good time, especially for not taking it serious. At most of these races, pretty fit people are still struggling to hit 20's and most people don't get sub 20.. so for "average but dedicated" athletes, seems like sub-20 is similar to 35" (maybe 34") RVJ or 30" SVJ. I wanted to actually do a "theoretical equivalence" (numbers out of a hat) of 1-mile/5k times to RVJ, i should do that, sounds fun.
The "wuss" part is really hard to overcome.. i'm still trying to overcome it haha.
one of our sister agencies sponsored a multi-distance event in the mountains this past summer, would be dope to run in the 5k race next year: http://yumtoyikes.com/2016/07/05/hunza-marathon-pakistan/. there were only two 5k participants, one man and one woman, and the guy ran 25:xx. in fairness, hunza is over 8,000 feet above sea level and mountainous as hell.
damn had you done it last year, guaranteed top 3.. lul.
How many people did the marathon? Seems pretty beast.
if they hold it at the same time next year i'll be in the states, but if i'm here then that could be awesome. going on a couple of these hikes has also made me want to run: trail running > road running.
ya I have no idea what that trail life is about.. I think i'd definitely enjoy it. I also wouldn't run trails while being obsessed with numbers, i'd run them slow and relaxed.. When I run "fast", everything is a blur.. You can't take anything in.
go get 17:59.
thanks man.. will try!!
my legs/body feel so destroyed from that dunk session .. going to do some speed tonight, curious to see if i'm able to get under 5 min/mi pace for "anything" .. cns was dead for the last speed session.
I need to be fully recovered on 12/7 (1-mile), 12/14 (1-mile), and 12/18 (5k).
im going to experiment a bit with adding in slow long volume, ie some kenyan stuff... curious to see if it helps.. so:
- speed: 2-3x/wk
- long slow volume: 2-3x/wk
- maybe one hard long run: maybe 1x/wk
- and light jumping (to make sure I can go do a dunk session whenever I want, and not die from it): ~2-3x/wk
pc!!!
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I'll post some pics later from the closest fire. Pretty crazy I drove right through the smoldering ashes on my way to work this am.
