Archive for November 6th, 2008

My, but the week has flown.  At the risk of alienating readers (because someone got really offended and gave me an earful about my Palin derision a couple months back) YAY OBAMA!!!

Back to running news, something I forgot to mention was my second Steamtown toenail fell off last week.  I drew them back in with nail polish and am astounded at how well that stuff adheres to skin – you seriously would never know I am sporting only 8 toenails at this time.  It’s magic.

I’ve had a couple enjoyable runs this week, even if it has been dark and rainy: 8 on Tues and 7 w/ 10 strides yesterday.  I’ll do a short 5 today, then tomorrow it’s 8 or 9 w/5×1000.  The last time I did 1000s was in September and it was 75 degrees out with 83% humidity.  I’m targeting the same interval pace, so it should be quite a bit nicer this go round.

I posted a question on the RW forums because I wanted to know if I would be screwing myself to stretch those long runs to 12s instead of the single-digit LRs in everybody’s 5K plans. Wcrunner (a favorite of mine, very smart wise man who’s been running for decades) figures I’ll be fine to do it, so I’ll go for it this week and next.  I’ll also add a couple tempos to the plan too, since I was doing speed and tempos weekly last Spring to no ill effect.

All this plan comparison has me thinking about making a radical change for next year’s marathon and using The Ultimate Marathon Training plan.  A couple of our gals from the Women’s thread have used or are using it now, plus a well-loved and SPEEDY poster, Sillie Lillie used it for 3 of her marathons with dramatic improvements.  The quality days look much busier (harder) than Pfitzinger’s but they seem like fun workouts.

I’m even considering the Ultimate Half-Marathon plan for my goal Spring race.  Sure, my lazy side likes the idea of doing one hyped-up pace and distance per speed workout (I’ve never been drawn to cutdowns, for instance) and just reading all the different stuff you’re supposed to do on their speed days looks confusing, but I’m sure it’s hugely effective.  As long as you stay on the uninjured list, anyway.  I just wish it was more than a 9-week plan, I like being on a mission for at least a month longer than that, so we’ll see.

Funny how I can waste this much time ruminating about something that isn’t going to happen for months, or in the marathon’s case, more than half a year away.  Oh why not?  The future is exciting!  Change and Hope – it worked for Obama and it works for me.