Comments on: sans leg-speed http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/ wisdom and tripe from a lifetime runner Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:57:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Joan http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4612 Joan Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:12:58 +0000 http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4612 Dear jim p, I love your alliterative phrase, "ponderous pounage." Did you make up that word to be a conflation of "poundage" and "tonnage" or was it a typo? fondly, joan n. m. Dear jim p,
I love your alliterative phrase, “ponderous pounage.”
Did you make up that word to be a conflation of “poundage” and “tonnage” or was it a typo?
fondly,
joan n. m.

]]> By: Fat Charlie the Archangel http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4605 Fat Charlie the Archangel Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:04:01 +0000 http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4605 Mr. Nemesis - Your coach's advice to save race peformances for race days fits hand-in-glove with why you can't run a 200 meter that fast (I think) - because if you want to run FAST, you have to run FAST. All of the endurance in the world won't help a 200 meter time if you don't do repeats going as fast as you can. I think. IMHO. Or so I say. Or something :) Me? As an adult (or at least, as a man of years :) and very soon after my last marathon, I ran a 28 second 200 meter, a 61 second 400 meter, and during that same summer I got a 5:13 mile PR. Obviously, leg speed isn't my problem - toting around my ponderous pounage is my problem :) jim p. ...is it bedtime yet? Mr. Nemesis -

Your coach’s advice to save race peformances for race days fits hand-in-glove with why you can’t run a 200 meter that fast (I think) - because if you want to run FAST, you have to run FAST. All of the endurance in the world won’t help a 200 meter time if you don’t do repeats going as fast as you can.

I think. IMHO. Or so I say. Or something :)

Me? As an adult (or at least, as a man of years :) and very soon after my last marathon, I ran a 28 second 200 meter, a 61 second 400 meter, and during that same summer I got a 5:13 mile PR. Obviously, leg speed isn’t my problem - toting around my ponderous pounage is my problem :)

jim p.
…is it bedtime yet?

]]> By: Joan http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4600 Joan Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:27:58 +0000 http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4600 Yes, when I read again this speech before posting it I paused over "shrunk shank" - superb, isn't it?! Have you ever read (or seen) Samuel Beckett's <strong><a href="http://www.msu.edu/~sullivan/BeckettKrapp.html">Krapp's Last Tape</a></strong>? "Shrunk shank" reminds me of Krapp's "spool." Yes, when I read again this speech before posting it I paused over “shrunk shank” - superb, isn’t it?!

Have you ever read (or seen) Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape? “Shrunk shank” reminds me of Krapp’s “spool.”

]]> By: Jim Terry http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4596 Jim Terry Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:16:04 +0000 http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4596 Hello Joan, I couldn't get the line "His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide for his shrunk shank;" out of my head this weekend. As I struggled in the heat pushing the double jogger, I kept hearing "shrunk shank" over and over again. Upon re-reading, it is easier emotionally to accept entire content if I focus on the line "And so he plays his part". Good job on the 800 m time trial! Jim Hello Joan,

I couldn’t get the line “His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide for his shrunk shank;” out of my head this weekend. As I struggled in the heat pushing the double jogger, I kept hearing “shrunk shank” over and over again. Upon re-reading, it is easier emotionally to accept entire content if I focus on the line “And so he plays his part”.

Good job on the 800 m time trial!
Jim

]]> By: Mr. Nemesis http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4537 Mr. Nemesis Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:22:05 +0000 http://www.runningland.com/2006/07/12/sans-leg-speed/#comment-4537 I'm not writing in to comment on how SLOW you are. That's a great time, particularly in a time trial rather than a race. A 2:23 is faster than I've EVER run an 800m and right now I couldn't do 200m at that pace, even with a good taper. Looks like you are on track for your goal. Unfortunately I won't be at the national masters meet to see your team race. My coach has a very different approach. Two key rules are (1) don't limit myself by setting goals and (2) it is not who wins the training sessions that counts (or, stated another way, keep race effort for races). D. I’m not writing in to comment on how SLOW you are. That’s a great time, particularly in a time trial rather than a race. A 2:23 is faster than I’ve EVER run an 800m and right now I couldn’t do 200m at that pace, even with a good taper. Looks like you are on track for your goal. Unfortunately I won’t be at the national masters meet to see your team race.

My coach has a very different approach. Two key rules are (1) don’t limit myself by setting goals and (2) it is not who wins the training sessions that counts (or, stated another way, keep race effort for races).

D.

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