Tuesday 101513

Afternoon – 10.2 miles on the local and still open trails.  5 miles of it steady (sub 7) over the “parade of homes” route, so a moderate tempo of sorts.  Everything else relaxed.

Results from the Boulder 100 are up.  Ebel’s winning time should read at 16 and change  and not 28 and change.  Looks like only seven did the full 100 out of 17 attempting it.  A guy did do 111 in the 24 though.  There is a part of me that thinks I am not done with that nutty race.

This is pretty cool.

Some good back and forth on weight in the comments from yesterday’s post.  While I am becoming increasingly convinced weight loss would probably have more bearing on my performance than training at this point in my “career,” I am also increasing convinced that there is a difference between fitness performance and health performance.  For the vast majority of Americans, there is little difference here:  becoming more fit is to become more healthy.  But to reach optimal fitness performance does begin to mean a compromise to health at some point.  Weight is clearly one of those areas where people could get fit and healthy, but the roads can diverge when getting to the point of performance fitness.  140-145 is probably healthy for me.  130 probably wouldn’t be but I’d probably be faster.  For a little while at least.  141 today post run.

 

Good advice.

The whatisultra posts are pretty funny.

Apparently Julian Myers, Marina Del Rey won his age group at a recent Huntsman Senior Games in the 800 meters.  His time?  1:19:01.85.  That’s right and hour and twenty minutes.  His age group:  95-99.  He also took the silver in the 50 meters 2:41.66 behind gold medalist Daniel Buckley who beat him by over 2 minutes – posting a 15.47.  As they say, sometimes the race is sometimes won by those who keep running.