It's now almost three weeks since the Perth Ultra Fest and I seem to have made a good recovery and I'm now well on the way to finalising next year's racing plans.
For this I have been using various calendars on websites such as multidays.com, 100 Marathon Club, IAU, Beyond Marathon, ULTRAmarathonRunning.com and others.
I have also lined up my first couple of shorter races in October ... see this page for details. I've also noticed that one of the ultras on my 'to do' list is sadly no more - Worschach 24 hr race in Austria.
To end this post I've recently come across this piece by fellow ultra runner Greg Crowther in which he speculates about the reasons people run such long distances.
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Showing posts with label Greg Crowther. Show all posts
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Thursday, 22 January 2009
The importance of a good diet
Just found another very good post on Greg Crowther's blog. It's about diet - food - hunger - weight management - and the importance of all these.
A very good read which has made me think about my current food and drink intake which isn't as good as it should be. But it will get better over the next few weeks ... honest.
Greg seems to have an uncanny knack of posting very good stuff which is made better by it's relevance to the everyday trials and tribulations ultra distance runners such as you and me.
At the moment I'm finalising my racing plans for the year. Not ultra races but other stuff (5k to 10 miles) which last year I found to be very useful for speedwork. Hopefully the same will be true this year. More details in a few days.
A very good read which has made me think about my current food and drink intake which isn't as good as it should be. But it will get better over the next few weeks ... honest.
Greg seems to have an uncanny knack of posting very good stuff which is made better by it's relevance to the everyday trials and tribulations ultra distance runners such as you and me.
At the moment I'm finalising my racing plans for the year. Not ultra races but other stuff (5k to 10 miles) which last year I found to be very useful for speedwork. Hopefully the same will be true this year. More details in a few days.
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Personal Bests
There's a rather large article about me in today's Yorkshire Evening Post. Read it here (with the photo) or here (without the photo).
Also, just found this on Greg Crowther's blog. I hope he doesn't mind me reproducing it here if I put a link to his blog afterwards. I'd like to ask his permission but I can't find any contact details on his blog. One thing though ... being American he talks about Personal Records rather than Personal Bests, good stuff though.
The five stages of PRs
1. You set PRs because, by definition, your first race at each distance is a personal record.
2. You frequently set PRs by large amounts because you're still growing and maturing, and/or because you started training relatively recently, and/or because you're in the middle of a successful weight-loss program, and/or because you're now training much more sensibly than ever before.
3. You set PRs less frequently and by smaller amounts, and you find these modest improvements disappointing because you've become accustomed to stage #2.
4. As PRs continue to become more elusive, you learn to savor each new one.
5. You are now too old, too injured, and/or too unfit to set PRs. To compensate, you either invent new categories of achievement (such as "seasonal bests" and "age-group PRs"), try events that you've never done before (and thus return to stage #1), or stop racing altogether.
I guess I'm in stage 1 (for the second time) ... what about you ?
Originally posted on Greg Crowther's blog, 11 November 2008
Also, just found this on Greg Crowther's blog. I hope he doesn't mind me reproducing it here if I put a link to his blog afterwards. I'd like to ask his permission but I can't find any contact details on his blog. One thing though ... being American he talks about Personal Records rather than Personal Bests, good stuff though.
The five stages of PRs
1. You set PRs because, by definition, your first race at each distance is a personal record.
2. You frequently set PRs by large amounts because you're still growing and maturing, and/or because you started training relatively recently, and/or because you're in the middle of a successful weight-loss program, and/or because you're now training much more sensibly than ever before.
3. You set PRs less frequently and by smaller amounts, and you find these modest improvements disappointing because you've become accustomed to stage #2.
4. As PRs continue to become more elusive, you learn to savor each new one.
5. You are now too old, too injured, and/or too unfit to set PRs. To compensate, you either invent new categories of achievement (such as "seasonal bests" and "age-group PRs"), try events that you've never done before (and thus return to stage #1), or stop racing altogether.
I guess I'm in stage 1 (for the second time) ... what about you ?
Originally posted on Greg Crowther's blog, 11 November 2008
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