Mid Week, Adjusting to life factors, Seattle 1/2, Madison Park, HTC
The mid week workouts are posted. Most of you are finishing up on hills this week. With a lot of you running Super Jock n Jill half next week I’ll most likely give most of you an easy track work next week. I will say that a lot of you are looking very good during the workouts. I can see that they have most defiantly made a difference, you’re looking stronger and your form is improving. Great Job.
Well it's been a little bit since I last posted here. With babies coming, a little surgery for me to prevent babies from coming and then a crisis in the extended part of my family it’s just been crazy around here, more so than normal. I can’t wait till school starts and hopefully things quiet down a bit. All of this along with a small annoying injury has put my Super Jock n Jill half Marathon plans on hold.
I know, poor Chuckie. Well as you all know life is always on the go so as you plan for races lets’ say like the Super Jock n Jill you have to be ready for what life has to throw at you and as with your training schedules be flexible. You might have something that comes up or maybe a little injury that seems to slow you down and prevent you from training like you want. Well you know sometimes it’s just best to move on from the race that you had planned and start over and pick another. The thing to remember is you probably have gained some fitness so all is not lost and as you start over you’re probably fitter then when you first started. I guess I’m one who doesn’t see the point in trying to run a race if you’re not where you want to be fitness wise, not a lot to be gained if you ask me. Certainly you could run it as a training run and see what come from it. For those longer races it probably not going to be a good thing though and more negative than positive and who needs that.
So my point is if you’ve been training all summer for a fall race and your training hasn’t gone like you might have wanted I guess now is a good time to look at your goals and where you are fitness wise and decide if you are where you want to be. If you are fantastic. If you didn’t get the work in that you wanted than maybe re-evaluate your goals and make changes, there is nothing wrong with that plus it take a lot of pressure off. If you really have missed the boat and haven’t done crap all summer and are only considering running that damn marathon because you told Suzy you were going to, well I say what the heck are you doing. Suzy probably knows you haven’t been putting the work and will get over it and you know what she probably hasn’t been doing the work either as she has been hanging out at Starbucks with you on Saturday mornings. Time for you and Suzy to start from scratch and set new goals.
Speaking of starting the Seattle half Marathon training schedule starts next week.
Also on the Saturday September 8th we will be making our annual trek to Madison Park for our Saturday runs. We will meet there until early November . This will allow those who are running the Seattle Marathon or Half to spend time on the course and it also a nice change of scenery for everyone else. I’ll send directions and such later on. It’s actually very easy to get to.
The Hood to Coast relay is this weekend, there are a couple of people in the group who are on teams and as is the case about now are needing people to fill out their squads. If you want to run here are there e-mails. Jason- jepstein88@yahoo.com ; Damiana- damianapdx@gmail.com I’ve been contacted by several other teams but they are not in the group so I’ve just let them slide. Good luck to those that are running, have a great time.
Well it's been a little bit since I last posted here. With babies coming, a little surgery for me to prevent babies from coming and then a crisis in the extended part of my family it’s just been crazy around here, more so than normal. I can’t wait till school starts and hopefully things quiet down a bit. All of this along with a small annoying injury has put my Super Jock n Jill half Marathon plans on hold.
I know, poor Chuckie. Well as you all know life is always on the go so as you plan for races lets’ say like the Super Jock n Jill you have to be ready for what life has to throw at you and as with your training schedules be flexible. You might have something that comes up or maybe a little injury that seems to slow you down and prevent you from training like you want. Well you know sometimes it’s just best to move on from the race that you had planned and start over and pick another. The thing to remember is you probably have gained some fitness so all is not lost and as you start over you’re probably fitter then when you first started. I guess I’m one who doesn’t see the point in trying to run a race if you’re not where you want to be fitness wise, not a lot to be gained if you ask me. Certainly you could run it as a training run and see what come from it. For those longer races it probably not going to be a good thing though and more negative than positive and who needs that.
So my point is if you’ve been training all summer for a fall race and your training hasn’t gone like you might have wanted I guess now is a good time to look at your goals and where you are fitness wise and decide if you are where you want to be. If you are fantastic. If you didn’t get the work in that you wanted than maybe re-evaluate your goals and make changes, there is nothing wrong with that plus it take a lot of pressure off. If you really have missed the boat and haven’t done crap all summer and are only considering running that damn marathon because you told Suzy you were going to, well I say what the heck are you doing. Suzy probably knows you haven’t been putting the work and will get over it and you know what she probably hasn’t been doing the work either as she has been hanging out at Starbucks with you on Saturday mornings. Time for you and Suzy to start from scratch and set new goals.
Speaking of starting the Seattle half Marathon training schedule starts next week.
Also on the Saturday September 8th we will be making our annual trek to Madison Park for our Saturday runs. We will meet there until early November . This will allow those who are running the Seattle Marathon or Half to spend time on the course and it also a nice change of scenery for everyone else. I’ll send directions and such later on. It’s actually very easy to get to.
The Hood to Coast relay is this weekend, there are a couple of people in the group who are on teams and as is the case about now are needing people to fill out their squads. If you want to run here are there e-mails. Jason- jepstein88@yahoo.com ; Damiana- damianapdx@gmail.com I’ve been contacted by several other teams but they are not in the group so I’ve just let them slide. Good luck to those that are running, have a great time.
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