1,000 miles

[Pudge]

Friday evening, I officially logged my 1,000th mile running since my heart attack. Not only did I hit that milestone, I did it doing speed work with my daughter and a friend of ours on a track. Now my definition of "speed" is a wee bit different than theirs

[John Sand]

That's great!

[Inkleg]

That is quite an accomplishment!!! Congradulations

[swenocha]

Awesome... congrats! I need to get back on the horse... err... running shoe and get back to running.

[Pudge]

I turn 50 in May and have never gone on 20 min in a 5K. My pr is 20:10. This year might be my last realistic chance of Scratching that one off my bucket list.

A guy I went to high school with turns 50 this week and is having surgery (also this week) to reattach his colon after battling (and winning) colon cancer. He will also be my daughter's cross country coach this fall. He would also like to go sub 20 this year although it is nothing new to him. He just hasn't done it in awhile.

My daughter and one of her best friends (and running buddy) will no doubt be going under 20 for the first time this year. Not bad for a couple of girls that just turned 14.

Motivation. It's all about having the right motivation.

[Kealia]

Congrats Pudge!

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[Gymrat]

Nice work Pudge. Getting those miles under 7 minutes is very impressive.

[FedoraDave]

Good on ya, Pudge! Congratulations!

[mashani]

I turn 50 in May and have never gone on 20 min in a 5K. My pr is 20:10. This year might be my last realistic chance of Scratching that one off my bucket list.

A guy I went to high school with turns 50 this week and is having surgery (also this week) to reattach his colon after battling (and winning) colon cancer. He will also be my daughter's cross country coach this fall. He would also like to go sub 20 this year although it is nothing new to him. He just hasn't done it in awhile.

My daughter and one of her best friends (and running buddy) will no doubt be going under 20 for the first time this year. Not bad for a couple of girls that just turned 14.

Motivation. It's all about having the right motivation.

Good for you, and your family and friends. I love running, but mostly I do it on grass/trails/cross country. Don't like pavement pounding.

When I was younger, I used to be able to do a <36 10k. But it's usually more like 42-45 now depending on how I am feeling, unless I am really motivated (being chased by a bear LOL - or trying to show some college kids that the old man can still run). As in I can still do one in the 40s if I really wanted to, but it would hurt, and it would have to be worth it. My 5k I can squeak in in the 19s still if I'm motivated and don't have any nagging injury, but it's not as fun as it used to be to run that fast. (I'm 49 too). I can still go below 6 pace for 200s and 400s and 800s on a track when I push myself, but I get injured a lot easier, and take a lot longer to recover from that kind of workout then I used to, so I don't do that very much. Instead I do "fartlek" speed play running (unstructured intervals), mixing in some slower recovery miles and some sprint intervals when I run on trails. I do most of my serious structured "sprint work" on my road bike instead, as it hurts less. Or in the winter on cross country skis. (I ski fast and that's a huge cardio workout). When I do structured sprints on the track, I tend to do something like 20 minutes of HIIT style intervals, instead of longer intervals these days, as I seem to get the same benefit, but recover faster. IE 10 second all out sprint, 20 second moderate run, repeat 8 times, walk or jog for 60 seconds, repeat that whole thing 4 times. That might be a good thing for you to mix in, it might help push you over the 20 minute edge. I do have a more fixed "speed limit" then I had when younger, even when sprinting, as I've switched to a more short stride high cadence running style - which hurts everything less, but doesn't have quite the same top speed as there are limits to my cadence. But increasing my stride length to where I ran when I was young is too "poundy" for me these days, so the higher cadence, shorter stride just is better for me now. The good thing is the higher cadence turns it into just as good of a cardio workout even if I'm not actually going quite as fast.

I might do the Cross Country assistant coach thing next year at my local high school as I run with some of those kids once in a while anyways. My son keeps bugging me to do it as the current assistant (who runs with the kids sometimes) is leaving, and the actual coach is kind of up there in years now and doesn't do the daily runs.

[Pudge]

+1 on the shorter stride, higher cadence. Actually, a lot of people would benefit from this, even the younger folks.

I've done very little track work over the years. Some 800 repeats last year made a difference. My legs are fine. My lungs are burning.

Heart, lungs, legs... you can only run as fast as your weakest point.

[Kealia]

That would be my knees. Years of competitive volleyball took their toll. Of course the current TaeKwonDo isn't much easier on them I suppose

[mashani]

I'm more limited by leg turnover (cadence) then cardio. Cross country skiing and cycling and swimming as well as the running keep me in pretty good shape in that regards. It's just the physiology of turning my legs over past around about 220 spm where things get weird and they just don't want to do it. I spin a lot when I cycle on flats, which happens to top out (as in still is easy/comfortable) at around 110 rpm, so I think I kind of wired myself that way.

220 spm if I was in my old stride - I'd be flying. Except probably all my body parts would shake off and be left lying along the road LOL.

[Jon]

Congrats, Pudge!

As for the rest of the running talk in this thread, I'm lost. I was ok with the distances and times, but after that, it's all over my head!