The 100 mile week has always been this impossible idea for me. I’m a 40-50 mpw guy with the occasional peak of 60-65 miles. A hundred miles is elite-level training loads and I’m far from elite. Even though I’ve been running consistently for 8 years now, I’ve always just assumed that that volume of running…
2/24/18 MAF Test
I’m baaaaaaack. It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned my MAF tests (almost 10 months now). This isn’t because I haven’t been doing them. I’m still heading over to the local high school track every month or so to run five miles at a consistent heart rate (142 bpm). No, I haven’t been documenting them…
Digits: 4/30 MAF Test and April Totals
Second time’s a charm. So I headed over to my local track yesterday morning to get in my MAF test and I notice a sign for something called the Unionville Invitational. There are a couple buses with kids disembarking and several pavilions set up. I start my warm-up and it didn’t take too long to…
2/25/17 MAF Test
I had a fantastic MAF test over at the local high school track yesterday morning. The weather was about perfect (low 50s, cloudy) with only the occasional wind blowing. I typically perform these tests every 4 weeks or so, but it’s been almost 2 months since my last one mainly because I do them on the weekends…
1/7/17 MAF Test
I headed out to the Unionville HS track this morning for my monthly MAF test. I haven’t posted about my last couple because my HR monitor has been measuring screwy and I haven’t been happy with the results. One of the tests was so bad, it ended up being a complete waste of my time. …
2017 Race Schedule (and today’s MAF test)
I know what you’re thinking. We’re still over a week out from November and I’m already talking about my 2017 race schedule? This isn’t quite as ridiculous as it sounds when it comes to ultras though. First off, there’s not nearly the same number of options as you get for shorter distances especially when it comes…
Digits: 9/24/16 MAF Test
I just realized that I haven’t updated you on my MAF tests since my “breakthrough” two months back. Let’s just say my upward trajectory (or downward if we’re talking about pace) stalled and I backslid a bit. Right back to the 10 minute pace I had been stuck at for the past year. I started to…
Breakthrough
I have finally had a breakthrough in my running fitness. I’ve been stuck at the same level for the past year and I just started assuming that I was never going to get better. I’m no spring chicken so at some point age is going to offset whatever training that I’m doing. I figured fitness maintenance…
Digits: 6/18/16 MAF Test
Here are the results from yesterday’s MAF test: Time Pace HR Overall 49.8 10.0 140 Mile 1 Mile 2 Mile 3 Mile 4 Mile 5 Pace 10:04 09:54 09:53 09:43 09:38 HR 140 140 139 140 140 I finally broke 50 minutes! I was able to set a 12 second PR yesterday, which…
Digits: 3/26/16 MAF Test
Here are the results from yesterday’s MAF test: Time Pace HR Overall 50.2 10.0 142 Mile 1 Mile 2 Mile 3 Mile 4 Mile 5 Pace 10:24 10:05 09:58 09:49 09:49 HR 141 141 142 142 142 I ended up 9 seconds slower than my February MAF test, which I’m chalking up to…