"There are no compromises." -Once a runner

at least you can still break 19. Remember how freaked out i was when i ran a local 5k almost as slow. I barely beat Fargo yesterday at escarpment. he was leading me the entire race but i passed him in the last half mile on a downhill section. did you get advanced marathoning yet? i met someone else who had that book and liked it.

You and fargo are very very closely matched in 3-4 hour races. I tried running with my arms straight like he does for a mile or so yesterday. It started feeling natural but then some people looked at me funny so I stopped. I haven't gotten the book yet. I really hate the summer. There is just no way for me to get proper feedback on my training. But college runners generally just go for mileage in the summer so I guess that is basically what I am doing.

I noticed you only did ~57 miles last week. I struggled to get 70 after missing that sunday. I probably should have only done 60. I will feel myself out in the coming weeks and might not do 70 every non cutback week. It is now seriously hot here with highs in the high 90's/low 100's with heat indexes 100-110. I got lucky with a cold front for that 18 mile run. I doubt I could do that in real heat.

I took sat off in prep for the killer race and wanted to be rested for that to do pretty well. It was pretty awesome. Super technical almost to a fault. Very 7 sisters with a little more danger and

overgrowness. i don't really have a hard time running 70. I'm psyched for a short 7 mile wmac race this weekend in CT. it hasn't been bad here except for a miserable week a couple weeks ago. you can't race in the summer, it's too shameful on your pride. all you can do is make excuses. i know i can't break 18 when it's over 90 degrees. i'm seriously considering cause of the hard races i've done just doing the 12 week program in advanced marathoning. it starts at 55mpw and hits a high of 70. i met a young guy at the trail race who kicked myand said he ran a 2:41 last year on only 50-60mpw. and now that he was running 80 was planning on hitting 2:29. some people are just good.

I hate people who are just good. I don't have a problem hitting 70 unless there are time constraints (and Im rarely motivated enough to do a morning run alone). I do have a problem running good quality workouts at 70 miles per week. And I just think that I adapt better to high volume workouts than I do to purely high volume running. I also care much more about being fast at distances up to the half marathon especially 5k. It's probably mostly mental but it is what it is. I've been reading some of the literature on running physiology. I think you should put your biology phd to good use and help me wade through it.