Re: Training Week Ending May 8, 2005

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man that was fun today. i don't know these women, doesn't
matter...they were runners and going all out. it's a lot of run to
root on racers when you can relate to everything their going through in
every stride. next week i am going for a PR in the 1/2M. i'm going to
need every friggen ounce of encouragement from every random person on
the course. it was fun to be a random person for these runners
today....for me....

Thanks for sharing that. That must have been quite a running experience.

--
Phil M.

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the hell w/my training week, let me share what today was like running
wise as it was kind of fun. today in nyc's central park there was a
women's only 1/2M. in my training run today i happend to be at a

point

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where the leader 5 miles into the race was fastly approaching behind
me. i was running fast, she was running fast, i did about 100

meters

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adjacent with her just casually talking to her telling her how strong
she looked & to go for it.

Yeah, when a female runner passes me I find myself increasing pace, too
- if only to the next junction:-) OTOH I wouldn´t be talking
"casually" at 1:18 HM pace...

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she passes me.....then about 4

minutes

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later the 2nd place woman, this little ethiopian woman comes zooming
adjacent to me...this woman happend to win the philadelphia marathon
last year....and she came up on me where it happened to be in the
section of where all sorts of race officials were. the race

officials

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had a freaking fit. they thought i was pacing her. these officials
know me as a club member, i'm black, the ethiopian chick's obviously
black....they just assumed i was a teammate or something....and

pacing

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her. not the case at all...the officials were screaming and

demanding

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that i stop running.

1. Ms Berhe didn´t win in Philadeplphia. She has won in Vancouver
(2001) and Yonkers (2002) though, and she appears to be a fairly
consistent 2:4x marathoner.

2. Not all Ethiopian males look like Bekele, but I don´t think you´d
look like an Ethiopian even from a distance:-)

3. IMHO it´s improper and "not cricket" to share the road with racers,
elite or not, and should I stumble on a race course, I´d hurry to
leave it, no matter how open it is.

4. Weren´t there officials along the course and wasn´t there some
kind of "race leader´s vehicle", if only a man on a bicycle, clearing
the way?

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my own freaking running club...WTF? I stopped...and told the damn

main

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screamer "I DON'T EVEN KNOW THE CHICK"....."I'm just running".......

On this particular issue I´m strongly with the nitpicking
rule-sticklers.

Best of luck - and sane pacing:-) - for the HM, though!

Anders

hey, I was there too. I must have passed you going in the opposite
direction. I saw 1, 2 and 3 and then all the rest of the women, all
spread out, between the reservour and the sheeps meadow. I was running
against the race. I had just done the rolling hills. the lead already
had what seemed like a 30 second gap. I got some adrenaline. I burned
off the last part of my loop pretty hard, considering the hangover and
the previous day's effort.