So, I listened to this really cool podcast today by Jeff Cutler from “A Life of Play” (http://www.jeffcutler.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=193844)
It’s a guy (Steve Walker) who has run 14 marathons, 2 per year, talking about marathon training. He talks about everything from shoes to watches to the actual training, and it’s all very interesting! One interesting thing about training that he mentioned was a new marathon training philosophy—rather than doing the typical training of building up to 20+ miles for long runs, he runs 6 times a week, 10 miles each time. Then, he’ll run 16 miles 3 times somewhere during the training period. His philosophy is that you are still getting the endurance workout, because you are running 10 miles every day, but you aren’t having to do the super duper long runs, from which it’s hard to recover. Interesting. Can’t say that I’ll adopt it now, but I might consider it next year. When would I find time to run 10 miles a day during the week?
Another interesting thing that this guy mentioned was that marathons are Mount Everest for mortals. I like that idea!! It’s a neat thought, and has re-inspired me to dig into training.
It’s also reassuring after my rock climbing debacle this week. : ) I went to VE with Dave and Audrey to give rock climbing another try. Lo and behold, I am still afraid of heights. I seem to have conveniently forgotten that fact in my armchair mountaineering. The fear really, really took me by surprise. Even though Audrey pointed out that “fear is part of the fun!”, I had a lot of trouble making it up routes. I am proud to say that I made it to the top of one route. I’ve made it to the top of two routes, now, so that’s a pretty good thing! But I’ve decided that rock climbing is not for me. So, there go all my dreams of moving to Colorado or Montana, climbing Denali and the other Seven Summits…but oh well. I’ll stick with marathons, and maybe someday run a marathon in Colorado or Montana. Maybe someday I’ll run an ultra-marathon! Maybe someday I’ll even learn to swim and do a triathlon.
posted by Lola @ 12:32 PM
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This may or may not show up. I took a quick tour of your blog and like the running enthusiasm - both figuratively and literally - that pervades your recaps of your day-to-day adventures.
Thanks for finding A Life of Play. You might really like my other blog and comapnion podcast (no, nothing about running but a lot about life and fun and thinking) - it's Bowl of Cheese (or http://www.bowlofcheese.com). The companion podcast can be found at iTunes and it's only 3-5 minutes for each episode.
Keep up the good work. Hope your knee issues work themselves out.
Train of thought derailed. The REASON I thought the comment might not show up is because I didn't see any other comments ANYWHERE. But I may not have looked too hard.
Later,
Jeff
**Another blog - better than mine because she's insane - is http://www.lilbitchmore.blogspot.com
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