synthetic wrote:
1 run everyday at sub 5 k/min pace leader board with less than 10 days left: jmaley 4:09/km danstu4 4:09/km Sbernardi 4:16/km rmg 4:30/km PomDad 4:33/km JeffJ 4:33/km twcronin 4:38/km Bass 4:39/km synthetic 4:40/km snny 4:43/km ADabs 4:44/km msrixon 4:45/km qintegral 4:46/km Joe Public 4:47/km Tony.White 4:47/km msprang 4:50/km triczyk 4:50/km ogdnut 4:53/km wjoiner 4:54/km mlawless 4:55/km Ktri 4:55/km LKtriMom 4:56/km oprfcc 4:56/km dyhopper 4:57/km jtplaysdrums 4:57/km fatman 4:58/km five8five 4:58/km jasonshock 4:58/km quite a battle for first. person with more distance wins in a tie... as that is a higher stress
Sadly you are hijacking the original intent of the challenge when I set it up in 2006/07. It was never meant to recognize fast athletes (and at the time, I'd be well up your leaderboard). The intention was to reward the everyman/woman athlete for sucking it up daily and going out.
People who are fast have plenty of rewards in racing. The challenge was meant to decouple from that and just recognize work and persistence, not recognize genetics (and I say this as I was, at 16:xx 5km/33:xx 10km person so I had a genetic head start at running).
Joel is a friend of mine and I am certain he would 1000% support me. He does not need (nor want) any recognition for how good his training pace is. When he get to the military and age group category competition in Kona, damn right he will care about his pace, but he's not interested in getting recognized for happening to have ran the fastest of all of us in the challenge over the first 90 days or so.
Now the number of runs that Joel or Danstu have done and their total volume, that's what this challenge is all about
....and I get that everyone can have their opinion on what is important, so I am trying to swing the pendulum back as I've see your speed leaderboard a few times.
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OK back to where I am at. Today I had a swim meet and made it a double "swim run day". 30 min super easy warmup run then a tough swim meet (200 fly, 100 fly, 100 back, 100 breast, 100 free, 50 fly, 50 back, 50 breast, 50 free, 100IM and 400IM...my 400IM was my second fastest time ever and PB's in the breast events...everything else kind of sucked)....then had a quick snack and did a really nice second run for 50 minutes
This brings me up to 3 runs behind 100/100 pace with 8 days left. At this point, my body is ready for doubles and I think from a time management perspective, I will do several run doubles commuting to work or the pool in the next week. The main issue is running home in the dark with ice all over the ground. But I think I can get to 100/100. Last year I had given up on running and used 100/100 as a rehab mechanism with a goal to get to a single continuous 30 min outdoor run by the last week (I did it). This got me back to racing triathlons after a 4 years break. This year's 100/100 got me through a mid winter 70.3 3 weeks ago.