Hills for breakfast, hold the gnats

Interesting article about BQ standards. I read the article in RW that he refers to and it was interesting to see what the result would be of implementing their proposals. If RW had been on the ball, they would have done that kind of analysis themselves.

I don't get Running Times magazine, but that guy's training regimen is interesting. I suspect that most of us couldn't pull of that kind of training. He must be a freak of nature.

I know I couldn't pull it off. I would hate running too much, I think. I'm correcting my last sentence - fascinating story, not workout. Workouts on the brain.

So you got to sleep in a little this morning huh? Lucky! What mileage are you going for this week?

I think I would like training like that, but I'd rather stay married :)

Jeff - That's a hard question to answer. I'm planning on my usual running *time* for Tues-Fri but I am still so slow that I don't know how many miles that will be. Probably in the 40s, up to 50 if my legs spring back. My energy is pretty good but I feel like I'm carrying a 20 lb pack on my back. I credit that to the continuing recovery and to the unfortunate fact that I probably *did* put on a couple of pounds from taper through recovery with such light mileage. I do a weigh in with my girlfriend on Wednesdays so I'm putting off the bad news until then (and trying to undo some of it). :)

Rattletrap - lol! But in a way it made me think of you, with your consistent 10 milers. The guy says that daily toughness is perfect training (mental) for the marathon.

I was going to ask ifyou got a running mag...I use to get Runners World when I first started but cancelled it after the year was up b/c it was basically the same thing everytime and a lot more things for beginner runners...I'm not perfect but i would like a mag that would help me move forward (like this forum does) and not stay stagnet!

Running mags are a bit of a shady business, imo. But if you read with a critical mind there can be a lot of interesting tidbits.

I just get RW from the library because I was tired of the shallowness but I still wanted to read it for the occasional pearl.

I do subscribe to Running Times and Marathon & Beyond.

April27 - I think this FRB site is all you need. The only valuable thing I ever learned from a running magazine was how to beat a side ache and even that was on the magazine's website for free :) My magazine subscription fee gets donated to FRB.

I just saw this article about flats...seems kind of basic so you may have already know the info about the shoes

http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=15817

Magazines--i was sort of hopeing that it was just RW and not all the mag...I stopped getting mag subscriptions all together b/c I felt that they were being too superficial. Checking them out in the library is an excellent idea in order to just get a little info with out having to spend the money!

RE Runners World, I like Amby Burfoot's writing, and occasionally they publish an article I will just love. But most of the mag is fluff. And not even good fluff. I consider them part of the Evil Carb Empire that exists to promote wheat and corn. ;)

I just read runners world online- Too many ads otherwise, although they do seem to have a lot online now too.

80 year olds who run marathons should have a holiday named after them. I wonder if there are 365 80+ yr. old marathoners (1 for each day of the year). I hope I can speak the word "marathon" when I'm 80!

Keep up the good work Snoqualmie!

Rattletrap--I just donated to FRB...saying that was my magazine subscription is a good way of putting it.

Jeffrey--I use to read RW online but again it was just more of the same stuff. And the discussion boards are the opposite of helpful! I definately like this much mo' betta!