It’s been a slow month (August, that is) for running as different things came up which prevented me from running. But it seems like I’m getting my endurance back. It suffered a bit from the time off from the injury, but what suffered the most is speed. I was never really fast to begin with, but I was faster than what I can pull off now. I’m a little embarrassed with myself about it, but that’s what happens when most of your running is really slow due to an injury. You body starts adjusting to that speed and that speed only. So the other day I’ve decided the best think to do is put aside endurance training for now and and concentrate on speed.
Things are also incredibly busy with school and traveling, so that doesn’t help matters. At the moment, I could only presume the rest of the semester will be speed training (i.e., short, fast runs) and a few longer runs scattered randomly throughout. But I’ll be around the trails and I hope to see others in the near future.
— MS
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September 1, 2009 at 9:28 am
nick
Yo dude!
I would say, hold off on the speed issue for now. Get your base up. The most important part is getting a strong base. Once you have a strong base, getting speed and strength is way easier!
Hope to see ya out soon!
n
September 1, 2009 at 9:41 am
Mircea
Thank you for your words, Nick.
I don’t want you to get the wrong impression here. I do not mean, “I want to be fast as ever.” As a matter of fact, I’m not really into “speed,” really. What I mean is that for the past several months I’ve been running, at absolute fastest, 6 mph paces; let’s average them and say 5 to 5.5 mph. That’s pretty damn slow. So now, doing anything faster than 6 mph seems like I’m flying. I used to warm up faster than 6 mph. So it’s not that I want to get “fast,” it’s more like I’m really, really slow at the moment. Endurance doesn’t seem to have suffered as badly. Of course it’s not the same as it used to be, but it’s not as bad as speed. So part of my base is performing 7 to 7.5 mph short runs (4 miles or so), and always was. If I can’t pull that off for a few miles, then my base is baseless.
Nice work at Pb-ville. You guys all did well. Very well. A party is in order.
September 1, 2009 at 7:29 pm
rob horton
sounds cool bro – i have kind of gone in the other direction – in my mind i have been telling myself something like “build base for the next year or two, no need for speed at this point”
November 9, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Evan
Hope you are out on the trails getting set for next year. Need and update on you to see what you have planned for 2010.
December 2, 2009 at 2:55 pm
rob horton
any running?