Comments on: A Telling Tempo

By: Flo

Flo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:56:20 +0000

Christine, great job! Considering you didn’t train as much for this one yet still PRd is excellent. Not to mention 3:19 is a totally swell time.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:36:22 +0000

Thanks for the link… I’m def considering it.
The marathon went pretty well, 3:19:10. I ‘unoffically’ ran philly in 3:20:16 (did the training and didn’t register in time so ran with my 38 year old athletic director’s bib since he registered and wasnt going to run), so a minute pr. I def didn’t train as much for this one so I was pleasantly surprised.

By: Flo

Flo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:40:30 +0000

Stevi, my favorite book would be Bob Glover's "Competitive Runner's Handbook", it's an encyclopedia of running knowledge. I have a ton of other books but I guess the most important would be Jack Daniels "Running Formula", Pfitzinger's "Advanced Marathoning" and my recent fave Brad Hudson's "Run Faster..." Congrats on starting a dedicated plan! Smartcoach has some speedwork in there so you should be good to go. Christine, how'd your marathon go? Congratulations! About adding tempos and speed, considering how fast you look just running around the park, you will be speed maniac once you add those in! The dash is on West River Drive, so it's nice and flat. Here's the link. Definitely do it, it's great to get those shorter race PRs cookin'. Weekend, oh pooh about the Half, sorry to hear that. I'll look for a report from you when I come back from my run. Can't believe you're another who hasn't done speedwork. It works! You will love it, it will change you, this I guarantee. OK, gotta go meet Doggie Poo (yay) for a long run. Later kids!

By: Da Weekend Warrior

Da Weekend Warrior — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:34:26 +0000

Wow… your just getting better and better!!! You are inspiring me now to get out and do some speedwork!! That half didnt go as well as planned, but I’m still in the mix…. I see your losing a lot of weight also… MAJOR KUDOS!!!!!!

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:45:26 +0000

Great Tempo! I can’t seem to bring myself to actually do speedwork/tempo/hills, which is something I want to work on.
I was looking at your upcoming races and was wondering where the 10K you are planning on running on 4/19 is going to be held. I ran the National Marathon in DC last weekend and am looking forward to some shorter races (never ran a 10K!).

By: Stevi H

Stevi H — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:32:24 +0000

Flo,

Sorry to change topic, but I was just discussing something about you with my hubby (your scaps post, he too is salty), and I thought I wish I had a list of some of your fav running books.

I know you said you grabbed a lot of books on running, and we have a handful, but it would be great if you could share some of your favs.

Anyways, thanks a ton!

P.S. Your blog made me decide to put a real schedule for running together from McMillan and smartcoach. I was already doing most of it but the pace goals I think will help me see improvement a ton. Oh and the speedwork, I haven’t done a lot of that so I think it is time to try.

By: Jim E

Jim E — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:10:43 +0000

Wow, I’m absorbing all this wisdom. I prefer not to wear the Garmin while racing, but I’ve had trouble expressing why. Too distracting? Better to rely on body signals? All of the above, or as Julie put it so succinctly: It’s a mindfuck.

Rebecca, is this you? http://brewtonrunner.blogspot.com/