My dog is too lazy to run and my cats are a work in progress.

A bit about me:
Been out of triathlon for 22 or 25 years, depending on how you count, excluding tiny ones. (I just realized I forgot something long that I didn't finish about 15 years ago while I was working on my thesis with an advisor who was against my doing tris.)

Anyway, I turn 66 3 days from now and at 160 lbs on a 5'4" frame am about 25 lbs overweight (and 15 lbs over the weight that I can run train consistently and not get injured.)
Since I'm crazy, I'm going to shoot for 3 "runs" per day, about 3k each time, to burn about 1,000 (k)cals per day, in the hopes that I can get down to training weight by the end of the period. (In spite of eating lots of my favorite legume (oops, bean): chocolate.) I'm not COMPLETELY untrained, as I tried 15-19 miles per day walking/running at the beginning of October for about 9 days, but got injured on the last day when I did a non-stop 10 mile run. (My resting pulse dropped about 10 beats to 50.) I also did dev's Olympic distance tri. per day in June last year (VERY slowly), and started dropping weight, but crashed near the end of the time and couldn't see a doctor for several months to deal with swelling in the ball of the foot. (The doc couldn't understand how I'd gotten some crap in my foot.)

Apology: So I'm a work in progress. Please be patient as you watch my average mile times go WAY up. (I will be doing walking at 6-12% on the treadmill (no fan installed) for a number of my workouts, as (for me) this is more fat-burning than running, and the races I'm thinking of doing this year involve a lot more strength than speed. If someone feels this is against the spirit of the rules please contact me. But this is what will keep my head in the game, because if I think of my times I'll get depressed.)

A little more context: I'm "retired", married (to a perennial 29-year-old) and the driver for 6 (homeschooled) kids, ranging from 9 to 22 years, am taking 2 courses this term at U of Md (genetics and physics), and help out the local youth orchestra on violin (and viola, but don't tell anybody). I'm also trying to get some of my family members to participate, but haven't had any luck so far...

Best of luck to everybody, and lets have fun. :-)

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Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).

My dogs agree and they are also happy with the change to a 20 minute max as I only run with one at a time, but the shorter minimum distance means I am more likely to do 2 runs on the same day - one with each of them.

The truth is out there.

I think it was the short notice of the email the night before - and my muscles screaming at me the day after my race. I thought about it a lot more (goals not aligning) but at the end of the day, all my gains leading up to sub 3 came down to years of volume. Motivation for volume in the dead of winter has always been 100/100. So yeah, I am in. Seriously, thanks for the comment. It made me think a bit more seriously after my snap reaction to the email. Yeah I am in. My wife doesn't know yet - RIP. I have Zwift set up for now and I have been easing into easy treadmill runs for now. My race on Sunday completely wrecked me and I need to focus on recovery for a bit. I am hoping to get outside a lot this winter and do a lot of elevation to sync up with my goals.

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"If it costs you 30 minutes at Maryland so what" -dwreal

Atta boy! lol

Glad you're back!

Great news guys!

Day 2 I had a slot to do a swim + bike at the recreation center, but the pool was set up as glorious 50 LCM.....got out of the pool at 1:15 in with an option of throwing on a run....and there was only one other person in my 50 m of lane and dove back in and made it a 1:45 swim (just shy of 5000m....so defintely covered the 100/100 minimum via swimming but that's not running). Good egg on day 2, 45 min treadmill+weights on day 3.

It did eventually stop, but it was one of those things where I didn't HEAR it stop, I just noticed that it was gone

Not as weird as the "clicking tree" a couple of years ago

https://www.instagram.com/...?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

We'll cover for ya!!! Just let us know what lies to tell so we're all on the same page/playbook

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

I did my run before 6AM and got it entered in quickly so I was on the first page for a bit! Yay for me.

Two things; I haven’t started a run that early in a very long time and it’s been a very long time since I have done 3 days in a row at this “distance”. :)

So it’s good so far but not sure I will be able to keep this up.

Yeah yeah, that’s what she said.

I say we all just tell different lies.

I like that ---

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Hang in there. Biggest tip I got?....slow down. "Run" as slow as you have to in order to be able to run again tomorrow. It will probably take 2-3 weeks for the "fatigue" to truly settle in and plateau. Don't dig the hole too fast, or too deep. Let your body come to you.

Tip #2: Take a rest day, when you need it. Try and stretch the number of consecutive days, by another day each time. eg, 3x, rest, 4x, rest, 5x, rest, etc.... When you can do 7x without a rest day...do a double on day 6, and take day 7 off.

How to progress?

When you can feel good doing that. Add a second double mid-week, without a day-off. That will put you at 8x / 7-days..still with a day off.

You can repeat this again...adding another double to get to 9x / 7 days.

This makes me happy
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Good to see new ppl and so many veterans all involved

This is really a tremendously good thing

I ran here in Fla on vaca before the golf tourney today-forced days off coming but that’s part of the game…

Loved seeing the mistress k pic and sending out healing vibes to tank and you

Great advice.

That’s why I probably won’t follow it! :)

And slow down, if I slow down much more I will be over the 10min/mile rule! I just need to wrap my head around that I am not the runner I was 10 years ago. That’s a me problem.

Will get a dog pic out at the Rock that Looks Like a Body Part Run. (A little something for those who aren’t dog lovers)

My knees hurt

There is no "10 min/ mile rule"

It's a 20-minute minimum; so if you run 12-minute pace and only go 1.6 miles or something, you're good

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

The Jersey Devil!!!

I wasn't planning on doing it this year, but bike commuting a few days a week has stopped being viable for lack of light (and impending snow/ice/cold). I figured out a funny, nearly time-neutral alternative of driving quickly to a place where the traffic gets bad, then running the rest of my way to work (~5 miles each way), which gives me a few days a week of doubles. That will let me get well above 50 runs for the 100 days, and maybe close to or over 100!

OK, here's my question: Can I count stair running?

I don't have a treadmill but would love to occasionally run indoors for childcare reasons (i.e., someone needs to be home). A possible workaround is to run the flight of basement stairs up and down repeatedly, I did this once last year as a test and posted about it here: https://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=7600790. I'm certainly legitimately running up the stairs and then moving down them as quickly as I can, the overall exertion is high if I push it, averaging near threshold heart rate for run/bike (I calculated for a workout I did last year that I averaged a little under 1000 m/hour VAM). The impact stress of running is certainly there too as a stimulus since I'm doing a lot of descending. Any objections from people to logging 20-min + workouts of this somewhat weird version of exercise (which I'll call "homestair running") in 100/100? I did this once last night and logged it but could easily get rid of it. My watch claimed I was doing sub-10 miles based on its treadmill setting but there's no way that's right based on direct measurement of the distance so I'll just count anything over 20 minutes.

My office building has an ~80 m climb on stairs that I would consider using under desperate circumstances (e.g., icy everywhere outside); I can see more objections to counting this since the most effective gait to do a 3-minute stair climb with (rather than a 3-second stair climb as on a single flight) is actually power hiking rather than running, but I'd love to hear opinions about whether a 20-minute up-and-down workout on those stairs would be countable too in 100/100, and if so what stipulations people would pose.

i see no reason whatsoever that stair running would not qualify. if i run up and down a mountain that qualifies, so, why not running up and down stairs?

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That'd be my interpretation, too. It's still running.

Need to get my Strava to sync up but somehow I'm 4-for-4 thus far.

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Thanks Dale! Tank is basically fine now except for some lingering achiness and congestion - my fever finally broke yesterday morning and while my nose is running more than 2019 bluestacks (welcome back, dude! Glad you decided to come play after all) I'm certainly through the worst of this.

I've been getting out for some gentle run/walks without too much issue (while dressed for weather 10c/18f colder than it actually is), but I'll honour my Friday rest day and won't try pushing doubles this weekend. I have ridiculous plans for 2023 and can't afford to break myself before it even begins! Still grateful to be able to go see stuff like this in my neighbourhood, though.





TROGDOR BURNINATE 😹

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Nice pic!

This was one I took from my early morning run yesterday:




I guess my runs are a little more urban than yours; just as cold though! :)

What an awesome photo of Esplanade Riel! I do not envy your winters - I'll stick with the banana belt (SW ON)!


My pic is more urban than you'd think: I'm usually stuck running around my neighbourhood (suburban-style residential area) during the week, while Tank is at work in a different city with our vehicle - that photo was from down by the stormwater management ponds by the Grand River, down a long driveway in behind a bunch of houses. I'm very grateful that my city and region do have some wonderful trails and conservation areas/tracts in and near town, though, and that living on the edge of the developed area makes for an easy escape from civilization.

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Here's our mongrels.
Riddick = Brindle colored larger dog.
Hero = little yellow rat dog. (as I call him to annoy my daughter :-).

Mostly they lay on the couch.




Occasionally, they fight for the best spot:



Every now an again they will go for a walk at the lake: