Re: pumped up for speed!!!!!!

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damn it feels GREAT to match a PB at age 42 that you had not sniffed
since you were in your 30's!!!!!

Contratulations!

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and the sprint to the finish?...hahaha...i had about 6 suckers lined
up
and smoked them all! I won't bore you with the details.....suffice
it
to say that when you can kick some ass in your forties.....you're a
happy camper.

It's even sweeter to do that when you're in your 50's... :-)

And sumptuous in your 60's. 🙂

-DF

Doug Freese said:

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damn it feels GREAT to match a PB at age 42 that you had not sniffed
since you were in your 30's!!!!!

Contratulations!

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and the sprint to the finish?...hahaha...i had about 6 suckers lined
up
and smoked them all! I won't bore you with the details.....suffice
it
to say that when you can kick some ass in your forties.....you're a
happy camper.

It's even sweeter to do that when you're in your 50's... :-)

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And sumptuous in your 60's. 🙂

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-DF

Ed Whitlock is on his way.

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hey doug,

there's a guy who i've developed a friendship with in my club who's 61
or 62...20 years older than me. when i first started racing with the
ny road runners i did not really notice him, nor did he really notice
me...until in one race about 3 years ago when i snatched him in a
sprint to the finish in a 15K and a photo was taken of me besting him
at the finish.

the next week we introduced ourselves to each other....and for the most
part, he's been kicking my ass on a regular basis since then. he's
"my guy", one of the runners i spot, pick out, and try to compete
with....in every race. he'll beat me 9 out of 10 races at any
distance.

so in racing...i don't really get off on people i beat. it's those in
front of me i want to be more like that drive me. even
yesterday....the best race of my life, i scored an ag% of
72.9%.....kicked ass....yet my 60+ year old friend?...he beat me by 4
seconds.

i am committed to a running lifestyle going forward. oh my god...the
notion of hitting my 60's and still being able to blow away passionate
runners in their 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's? that's the goal. LOL.
that's the whole friggen goal of this running thing for me. hahahaha.

Congrats on the PB.

I know what you mean about targetting the runners ahead. When I first
started running there was an older guy that could regularly beat me. He
was very noticable, wearing a civil war style cap.

I'm not fast, but in a race, it's still about passing somebody.

Enjoyed your report. Keep up the fast work!
Ed.

Dan Stumpus said:

Two words: Speed Work. Done right, it's fun. Since you have a good
natural sprint, you'll get a good benefit. You're about 4 - 5 weeks away

If he's doing his 4 mile runs on rolling hills (central park), he could
even work this in to a couple of his weekly runs -- just surge up all the
hills.

It's interesting that he's getting this sudden success -- maybe the 2-a-days
are helping (maybe some of them are more or less tempo runs or something
because they're short enough that you could run them pretty hard). He'd been
flat for a long time, so this is a genuine breakthrough.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/