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Hi,
I am currently training for the marathon in cologne, which is on the 4th of octobre, in precisely 8 weeks and 3 days from today on. Ever since I started doing sports, after quitting World of Warcraft about 3 years ago, I loved running the most. I did do Triathlon, but training for Triathlon takes up so much more time, and I don't find biking as much fun. Because of that its just running currently, with an occasional swimming session for cross training purposes.
I am in fear of slacking with my training, so I need a place to keep track of it. Keeping track of it in public increases the motivation, thats why I blogged it. And of course the bragging rights if I get my time  .
The training plan (link, if you know German) I use is one from a German website, http://www.runnersworld.de. It promises a time below 3:30, which I think is, with 5 minutes/kilometre, a good goal. Challenging, but doable. Every week has 5 training units, 4 different ones over the course of the week, and a long run on sunday. So far the training was good, and my body didn't have any problems adapting to the training, except some minor foot injuries.
Today the program is a slow steady run for 40 minutes, easy . Saturday will be an 8km run in the desired tempo, somewhere at 4 minutes 50 seconds per kilometre, and sunday a long run of 30 kilometres.
Now for something completely different. Through long years of research, I can finally present my result, the correlation between skill involved in a game and the manliness of it.
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lol@ graph, it's pretty random in a funny way
I'm also in triathlon training and my plan is to do a Ironman at some point in my life; maybe next year or the year after. I really like running, biking and swimming so it's kinda hard sometimes to divide your attention to all three disciplines.
Currently I run 10K once a week, and do some spinning classes and stuff. I'm having issues with my back so I'm chilling atm.
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On August 06 2009 23:46 Foucault wrote:
lol@ graph, it's pretty random in a funny way
I'm also in triathlon training and my plan is to do a Ironman at some point in my life; maybe next year or the year after. I really like running, biking and swimming so it's kinda hard sometimes to divide your attention to all three disciplines.
Currently I run 10K once a week, and do some spinning classes and stuff. I'm having issues with my back so I'm chilling atm.
I plan on doing an ironman too, but if I do it I want to have a decent time, <11 hours would be neat. Training for that would take up so much time though. But since endurance athletes peak at an age of around 30 years and me being 23, I still have time to improve .
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MrHoon
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LOL minesweeper haha
so true lollll
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you forgot to add solitaire between wc3 and quake
gl on the marathon tho
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On August 07 2009 00:01 icystorage wrote:you forgot to add solitaire between wc3 and quake gl on the marathon tho
Solitaire is a lot of luck in getting a good deck in order to quickly clear it and get a high time bonus.
Minesweeper needs logic thinking when learning it, and then a high amount of mouse mechanic. Solitaire can't be below minesweeper.
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On August 06 2009 23:51 h3r1n6 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2009 23:46 Foucault wrote:
lol@ graph, it's pretty random in a funny way
I'm also in triathlon training and my plan is to do a Ironman at some point in my life; maybe next year or the year after. I really like running, biking and swimming so it's kinda hard sometimes to divide your attention to all three disciplines.
Currently I run 10K once a week, and do some spinning classes and stuff. I'm having issues with my back so I'm chilling atm. I plan on doing an ironman too, but if I do it I want to have a decent time, <11 hours would be neat. Training for that would take up so much time though. But since endurance athletes peak at an age of around 30 years and me being 23, I still have time to improve .
Really, they peak around 30? Haha I'm 30. Oh well, I feel like I'm constantly improving. Besides there are many older tri-athletes around that do very well
Yeah, <11 hours would be neat. It's hard to say exactly how brutal IM will be also, I guess you'll never know until you do it.
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On August 07 2009 00:06 Foucault wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2009 23:51 h3r1n6 wrote:On August 06 2009 23:46 Foucault wrote:
lol@ graph, it's pretty random in a funny way
I'm also in triathlon training and my plan is to do a Ironman at some point in my life; maybe next year or the year after. I really like running, biking and swimming so it's kinda hard sometimes to divide your attention to all three disciplines.
Currently I run 10K once a week, and do some spinning classes and stuff. I'm having issues with my back so I'm chilling atm. I plan on doing an ironman too, but if I do it I want to have a decent time, <11 hours would be neat. Training for that would take up so much time though. But since endurance athletes peak at an age of around 30 years and me being 23, I still have time to improve . Really, they peak around 30? Haha I'm 30. Oh well, I feel like I'm constantly improving. Besides there are many older tri-athletes around that do very well Yeah, <11 hours would be neat. It's hard to say exactly how brutal IM will be also, I guess you'll never know until you do it.
At around, I guess you won't decrease in form until 35 and not by that much until 40. This however is at the top level. You can probably do a <11 time until 50 if in good form or maybe even older.
So there is still time
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Don't worry h3r1n6, we won't let you slack off. :D
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you forgot to put this
after WoW
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Hey, don't diss minesweeper! Well, at least you put it above WoW =D
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On August 07 2009 00:13 h3r1n6 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 07 2009 00:06 Foucault wrote:On August 06 2009 23:51 h3r1n6 wrote:On August 06 2009 23:46 Foucault wrote:
lol@ graph, it's pretty random in a funny way
I'm also in triathlon training and my plan is to do a Ironman at some point in my life; maybe next year or the year after. I really like running, biking and swimming so it's kinda hard sometimes to divide your attention to all three disciplines.
Currently I run 10K once a week, and do some spinning classes and stuff. I'm having issues with my back so I'm chilling atm. I plan on doing an ironman too, but if I do it I want to have a decent time, <11 hours would be neat. Training for that would take up so much time though. But since endurance athletes peak at an age of around 30 years and me being 23, I still have time to improve . Really, they peak around 30? Haha I'm 30. Oh well, I feel like I'm constantly improving. Besides there are many older tri-athletes around that do very well Yeah, <11 hours would be neat. It's hard to say exactly how brutal IM will be also, I guess you'll never know until you do it. http://ironman.com/mediacenter/history/ironman-triathlon-world-championship Robert McKeague becomes the oldest athlete to cross an Ironman finish line. At 80-years-old, McKeague from Villa Park, IL, finishes with a time of 16:21:55. So there is still time
That is simply awesome, and inspiring.
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if you had starcraft at anywhere but the highest of manliness people would be like "wtfbbqban"
but as it stands, graph is awesome and true 
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On August 07 2009 03:51 B1nary wrote:
Hey, don't diss minesweeper! Well, at least you put it above WoW =D
My best times are 13/119/308 and I am confident that the more you play minesweeper the less you think about it and are instead just reflexively clicking based on pattern recognition. That graph isn't a diss; it's entirely accurate.
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mh Minesweeper <3 (beat easy in 2 and 3 secs lolz) when the only games available are the ones that are on every computer and you want to prove your smarter than those WoW players playing solitaire.
And awww, Q3 the good old days of railgunning goodness...bounching off walls and owning an entire team of players with a series of accurate shots like a one man army Rambo, team freeze tag anyone?
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On August 07 2009 05:28 Crunchums wrote:Show nested quote +On August 07 2009 03:51 B1nary wrote:
Hey, don't diss minesweeper! Well, at least you put it above WoW =D My best times are 13/119/308 and I am confident that the more you play minesweeper the less you think about it and are instead just reflexively clicking based on pattern recognition. That graph isn't a diss; it's entirely accurate.
3 second/31 seconds/109 seconds. As I said already, some logical thinking at first, and then pure mouse mechanic.
Also, the graph is not absolute, since there is no real measurement for skill and manliness. I guess expressing it in % of Jaedong for skill and % of Reach for manliness would work, but as it stands it is just a relative standing of the games.
If I would have brought other games in, such as hello kitty online, Minesweeper would be higher
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bestrunninglog.com
log it in there, then you can be held accountable as you can leave the profile public :-)
out of curiosity do you have any official times? for a HM or an 8miler perhaps?
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3 km 11:23, not really relevant here though
10 km 43:30
Do the math yourself . I can give you a HM time in two weeks.
I want to get that 10 km below 40. In fact, the next goal after the marathon will probably be the local easter run, which is 10,5km on a course with some light hills, below 40 minutes.
The problem with all these training logs is, that I can't fill in everything. I don't know the exact length if I go for 40 minutes, which is the required field though. I could look up the track on a route planer, but thats bothersome everytime, since I mix it up a lot, and some of the ways through the forest aren't even in there. Guessing the actual length of the course doesn't really work well either.
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