Low intensity training is working

[msiwik]

My taper strategy is to take about 25% off my longest endurance s/b/r distances and replace it with slightly increased intensity. Knocked 1/2 minute off my mile pace for 5 mile run. Knocked over 1 minute off my mile swim time. Now under 37 minutes. Last taper phase will be to cut those distances in half again and get some rest.

Mark, I sent an email to Joe Henderson thanking him for his commentary on winning. Mentioned us valvers. He sent a nice response asking if I knew you. Closed the "loop". Small world!

Hey Laura ? hope you are doing well! Can?t wait for our next marathon relay or comparable event. Next fall seems too far. BillC is suggesting we might try for spring. Tommy ? what do you think? I know some good relays in Northern Ohio for fall of 2007 but if other people have ideas, I am always ready to travel!

Tommy ? you have done well with your training. I credit some of my recent success to your ?low intensity? workout strategy. Until OHS, I would have never believed that ?running easy? most days was a strategy that worked. Joe Henderson sent me an email as well asking if we knew each other. Joe and I became friends several years ago and I am hoping we can get him to meet our band of merry warriors some day. It might mean a race out west! After being the founding editor of Runners World and a writer there for many many years, Joe now writes for Marathon & Beyond, another great publication. For the running buffs out there, Joe is the person who discovered George Sheehan.

 

[tommy]

Can?t wait for our next marathon relay or comparable event. Next fall seems too far. BillC is suggesting we might try for spring.

Works for me. I'm not opposed to something later this fall. I have a sprint tri Oct 1st, so would be available after Nov 1st. Right now I'm good for about 6 miles. Hope by then to be good for more.

 

[Adam T]

Hey, Let me know about next spring. I'm defintely up for the relay. If there is anything going on in Nothern Ohio the week of Thanksgiving, I'm also in. I'll be there visiting family the whole week.

Tommy,
Texas works great for me too. My parents just moved to Longview from Ohio, so any events in your area would allow me to visit them as well.

Of course I would also like to invite one-and-all to the Cooper River Bridge Run here in Charleston next March 31. It's one of the best 10k races I've ever run. Here's the link:

http://www.bridgerun.com/