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AM - 9 miles.

PM - 6 miles w/ 8x20s light pickups/strides towards the end.

Here's a good story to reference the next time someone says that running is bad for you. I know that my Bananagrams success* would definitely suffer without the sport. (*Andrea beat me in this match, as she does every night)

Comments
From Tom K on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:35:14 from 174.58.4.250

1. That story is great! Thanks for that.

2. BananaGrams has a hyphen?

From Jake K on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:40:44 from 159.212.71.173

Yeah it looks like a capital "i" bbut you just rotate it 90 degrees and it turns into a dash. I learned this trick from Amiee, who reads a lot of Bananagrams blogs.

Tonight I'm going to try and see which letter I can rotate to make VO2-MAX. That would be a good one to clear V,X, and possibly a Z.

From Amiee on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:46:38 from 155.98.164.38

1. Why would a healthy runner have lungs packed with clots? I am skeptical of the purported idiopathic-ness. Although remind me to tell you the same sort of story tonight because I don't want to break HIPPA-ness so openly!

2. VO2 is an abbreviation so a no go!

From Tom K on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:52:26 from 174.58.4.250

I'm still stuck on the fact that there are MULTIPLE bananagram blogs, that Amiee reads! This subculture is news to me.

From Jake K on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:52:41 from 159.212.71.173

Good point, if she wasn't such a great athlete and lived a more balanced life, there's no way she ever would have had any problems.

From Jake K on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:53:34 from 159.212.71.173

Yeah Amiee's RSS feed is like 25% bananagrams stuff. I wouldn't even want to steal her iPad if I was a thief.

From Jake K on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:56:33 from 159.212.71.173

That being said, she's usually finished w/ the game while I'm still trying to piece together my second word, so her dedication pays off.

From SpencerSimpson on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:24:20 from 166.137.209.20

Good story. Unusual but good. She was a boss back in the day.

From allie on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:03:57 from 161.38.221.168

that's a beautiful bananawordgrid. great use of the hyphen. and perfume. and jive.

our set has a semicolon and & an ampersand. it costs $5 more but it totally changes the game.

"the penguin & the fatdomesticatedwolf went to the store; neither of them had enough money to buy glitter."

From SpencerSimpson on Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:18:12 from 166.137.209.27

Allie. Please start writing screen plays and books. As well as TV shows. You're and excellent runner but your creative smart a$$ whit is beyond excellence and your awards await you.

From Jason D on Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 13:22:52 from 128.210.82.162

Just be careful what you call "strides," as Coach Murphy will get after you :)

From Jake K on Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 13:28:37 from 199.190.170.31

I think what I did here would fall under Jay Johnson's definition, and Murphy is a big fan of his, so I'm guessing he would agree...

http://www.coachjayjohnson.com/2013/05/how-to-run-strides-an-overview/

From Jason D on Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 13:51:17 from 128.210.82.162

Maybe I am confusing it with "speed work" versus "intervals." By the definition in the link, I am running my strides too hard (probably 600-800m pace), or I guess I am not longer doing strides but "sprints."

But the definition here also squares with other ones I have read. I'm not one to really quibble about definitions (and of course the comment above was in jest) but I do like to make sure I am roughly the right effort so I am not killing myself but also not loafing.

From Jake K on Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 13:56:37 from 199.190.170.31

Rob's pet peeve is when people label workouts like mile repeats as "speed" work :-)

When I'm running 100m strides w/ a break in between, I'd guess I'm somewhere in the 800m/1500m effort. When I'm doing these as "pickups" towards the end of a run, in a continuous fashion, its probably more like 5K effort.

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