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[View the story "PARISMARATHON 2013" on Storify] PARISMARATHON 2013 Storified by Alberto Stretti· Sun, Apr 07 2013 09:34:45 Wikimedia My Paris Marathon statistical reference file is at trackandfieldnews.com/index.php?optiâ¦K Ken Nakamura #parismarathon 1hour and 15min till starting time (8.45) great circumstances! Hardly no wind and low temperatures, athletes should be happyJurrievanderVelden Warm up Paris pic.twitter.com/HJVzd5dmeeJeroen Deen #parismarathon 40 min before start, temperature rising, as nerves. 4 degreesJeroen De...
from my blog www.albertostretti.org More to follow!!!...soon...about the race Carlsbad 5k 2013 by Alberto Stretti
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From my blog www.albertostretti.org This Sunday not only World Cross champs listed.. The most important event on road will be Lisbon Half Marathon with so many talented guys at the start.. Edp Lisbon HalfMarathon 2013 by Alberto Stretti OFFICIAL LIVESTREAMING of EVENT is HERE (from 11am CET...10am GMT...6am ET) OFFICIAL SITE of RACE is HERE COURSE: Edp Lisbon HalfMarathon by Alberto Stretti
World Cross Champs 2013 by Alberto Stretti
From my blog: www.albertostretti.org One month and it will be HamburgMarathon in north Germany with a completely fast and flat course where runnere can run absolutely strong. In Hamburg we are going to have an important debut such as Eliud Kipchoge.Kipchoge is one the most important athlete of last 10years winning Olympic and World medals in his amazing career. Last summer in Lille his promising debut in half with a very interesting 59:25 repeated few weeks ago with a very confortable 60:04 in Barcellona. I had reached Eliud Kipchoge now in tr...
When I sat down this morning to write a new blog for Flotrack, my intention was to update my fans on how my base training has been going. While I thought about going on and on about the countless miles I have been running or the hours spent in the gym, this all seemed a bit insignificant in comparison to the real adventure that I have been having this winter. To properly tell that story, I need to share with you a secret that I have kept for many years. At home, in a safe place, is a sheet of paper that no one else knows of. It is a...
Houston Here I Come! I'm just a few days away from my first race of 2013, the Aramco Houston half marathon, and I'm extremely excited and anxious to get on that start line! Much has changed since I raced in London, but I have been working hard and I'm looking forward to testing myself against a stellar field on Sunday. These past few months have been full of changes for me. I am still a Nike athlete, but I am no longer living and training in Portland as a part of the Oregon Track Club. In September, I made the very difficult decision to leave J...
Categories: blog, half marathon
I’ve been looking forward to doing this race for more than a year now. That seems pretty weird to say about any race besides an Olympic Trials race, but there is a reason behind that. I was originally scheduled to make my half marathon debut at this race last year. What better time to do it? So many of my teammates were preparing for the Marathon Trials in Houston the day before, so we would be able to do a lot of the same training together; and I thought it would be the perfect way to end my fall/winter schedule, then take a break and ge...
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Johanna Olson and I are kindred spirits. We both grew up in quiet, small towns in west central Minnesota about twenty-five miles apart. Even though she was seven years older than me, I knew who "Johanna Olson from Wadena-Deer Creek" was and looked up to her. We both grew up with a love of running and experienced some small-school successes. The running brought us both to collegiate teams where our promising careers, hers in 1997 as a freshman at Luther College, and mine as a senior at Minnesota in 2009, were wrinkled by discoveries of cancer. J...
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Today was a good day for a long run. Breezy and warm back in the woods at Davidson College's XC course. A little damp from all the rain,but softer than usual because of it. Felt good. Legs were working right. Made two pit stops along the way. Yesterday was hill day- 7x100m-17secs w/ 3min walk back. Wednesday is my 63rd birthday. It's great to be alive and still able to run among other things. My faith,my wife and my health. Speaking of health,I've got a wellness visit with my PCP( Primary Care Physican) on my Birthday. Total rest on Wed. Long i...
Tough stuff yesterday. Short rest track session @ UNCC. 3x2x200m- 34-36secs w/ 30secs rest and 5mins b/t sets. You can really feel the lactic acid in your blood system especially in your hamstrings coming down the homestretch that last 50-60 meters. You wanna stop but you tell yourself get through it. These sessions will only get harder as the month of June rolls on. This is the kind of work I need when the racing starts at 600 meters in an 800 race. You"ve got to be there when the running starts. I can run 60 secs for a 400, which means ...
This week was the first time I attempted to do 2 hard speed sessions back to back. Monday's session was on the roads: 7x200- 36,37,34,35,34,34,last one 32.75 with 2mins rest. Tuesday's was a lot faster with full recovery ( 6-7mins). I ran with a couple of my Youth distance kids. Mind you now, these kids are 12 and 13. Both run the 1500/3000m. I will be 63 in 2 weeks. We ran 2x4x200- 1st 4 in racing flats- 33,31.6, 31.5,32.7. 7mins rest then changed into spikes. Last 4 were: 30.8, 29.84, 30.11, 29.30. We shared pacing duties and we stayed ...
Running represents a different type of therapy for all of us. For some, it offers an escape from the mundane and monotonous. For others, it allows for an oppurtunity to truly challenge ourselves in a society where it is so easy to get by with mediocrity. And for more still, it supplies a teather to life itself, as it keeps the mind and body attached to a more tangible truth: the truth of pain and struggle. So when a runner's very essence, their ability to run, is taken from them, what happens? This reality is one I now face. I have been long su...
Categories: injury, High School
Once again, off season training begins! There is much to be accomplished this summer and hopefully flotrack will keep me motivated. Senior year is coming up and it's time to go out with a bang and just hope for a great cross country and track season. To recap my track season...it could have gone much better but under the circumstances, I wouldn't say it was a complete loss. I just know that there is a bunch of redeeming to do this upcoming seasons. These little foot injuries aren't making things any easier, but i'm definitely not letting them a...
Thursday was a little tough. It always is when you're training by yourself. If the wind is at your back it's all good. If you catch a head wind you've got problems. But there are head winds at meets,so I just suck it up and get the work done. Ladder workout with each rep getting faster pace wise: 500: 1:26, 400- 68.09, 300- 49.70, 200- 31.02, 100- 15.03. All with full recovery around 6-7 mins. Tuesday's work was all strength oriented: 2x1000: 3:58 w/4mins rest. 2x800: 3:04 w/ 3mins rest. I will race a 1 mile race on June11th, an 800 on June18th...
(Written: Summer 2012) I’m sort of indifferent with this new training regimen that I’ve been following. You don’t really get up to around 80 or 90 miles a week, but what you do complete are actual workouts that are comprised of longer intervals, tempos, and progression runs. Personally, I was never really a huge mileage kind of guy, but for the most part I could withstand it. I am more of a mid to short mileage kind of guy. Around 45-55 during the season and maybe mid 60’s for the offseason is what I would believe to be ...
54 min long run on the trails at Davidson College. Thursday was another good workout. Extensive tempo 100's on the grass- 2x10x100- 17secs which is around 65-70% of my best 100m. 45secs rest between each and 5mins between sets. Ran the last one of each set in 15secs. Good 20min cooldown. Rest on Monday, 800's on Tuesday, 4 miles Wed, Time Trial 600 on Thursday at 800m race pace, 5miles on Friday. Youth track teams District qualifier Sat&Sun. Another 48hrs rest possibly?.
8:00a.m. Stretch, ate a good breakfast. Some carbs mixed with some protein. Drove to Davidson College to do a 41 min run on the trails. They have a 5k and 8k course. I try to stay off the hard surfaces this summer all together. The only hard surface training is: Hills- 50-150m and fast intervals- 150-300m. It's good to get off the track every now and then. I don't run slowly on the hard surface,it beats up your knees,hips and lower back. Wednesday will be semi-long run of 50 mins. My longest run will probably be 55-60 mins on Sunday. Thursday- ...
End of season Recap: Road To Almost making Nationals My Junior year of track started off pretty slow, and yet fast. I am primarily a distance runner when it comes time for outdoor track. Our first meet was in Lynchburg, Virginia; it’s about a two hour drive from Kutztown. We drive down there for the warmer weather since it is warmer down south! In this case it was only about 5 degrees warmer at the most. I ran the 1500 and 800 meter double. This is one of my favorite doubles even if I am not that good at it. My 1500 was a breeze, I got se...
