Experienced Maniacs out there - how much have you found you have to take off your pace for a race in heat versus more favourable race conditions? I'm looking at a 10K race Wednesday night at 6:30 PM on a day forecasted to hit 28 Celsius with a Humidex of 34. I had figured I had a minute I could take...

I need a Garmin for optimal performance. I have a pretty good handle of what pace I should be at, numerically speaking, and rely on the Garmin to help me find that pace in the first K and for checks perioidcally thereafter.

There were two fatal mistakes that caused my fade…. Improvement opportunity #3 - have faith in your endurance Ron. You've read that an even pace/exertion level is the best opportunity to hit a marathon goal time and Maniacs were been reminding you in advance as well. I've read your success stories ...

Double Bellybuster wrote:Is this one taking place this year?

October 3, 2010.

Irongirl wrote:If you want to see HOW that money is being used - then I would think that organization is the one that you need to look to.......

Agreed. Organizations utilizing government grants need to be accountable to taxpayers.

Irongirl wrote:I believe that if people want to know where their money is going to that specificity, they should get involved.

When it comes to the three marathons under discussion here, I could not disagree more. Government spending needs to be transparent to taxpayers.

...GM is actually paying back the money early (and about to show it's first profit in 3 years!). Isn't this because GM entered bankruptcy protection as a tactic, the tactic being to bilk creditors and suppliers via paying back only cents on each dollar? If this is correct, their emergence from bank...

How is this different than throwing money at a BluesFest or a Jazz Festival? No worse...unless a market is saturated for marathons while that same market has no Music Festival. (Theoretical example) I think what bothers me is that I've seen so much advertising for the Whitby Race and its good cause...

When I started running 2.25 years ago, a random thought entered my mind - if I ever run a marathon, maybe I'll tour around to the handful of Ontario marathons that exist. Then I realized the quantity of Ontario marathons. And I this year four more first year marathons popped up, bringing the total t...

Couldn't the organizers use some of their $40,000 taxpayer grant to close roads? http://www.tourism.gov.on.ca/english/festivals/festivals_events_2010.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Good grief. Surely this is larger than the proceeds that will go to Sick Kids Hospital. Perhaps the...

Carbs the night before. Glass of OJ and/or some caffeine before running. If a long distance race, I add a couple days of carbs and make sure I'm up 2 hours+ before the race and add a couple slices of pumpernickel bread with nutella to the breakfast, which I make sure I finish two hours before race s...

My two cents..if you can find a recording of Simon Whitfield's run portion of the triathlon (especially near the finish) at the last Olympics...that gets me fired up just remembering it. Here it Whitfield's 2009 Triathlon victory with the famous fist pumping at the finish line tape: http://www.yout...

BrokeNeckRunner wrote:...a survey showed that 20% of people would take a dramatic increase in performance at the cost of dying the next year.

Was the survey called Major League Baseball?

BrokeNeckRunner wrote:...He's 15, not 5...

Agreed, I don't think ROW is looking for us to baby him. Judging by his posts, I think he has a pretty good handle on his health and potential issues, likely moreso than 90%+ of the adults in Canada.

Some good prices on your NB. http://www.holabirdsports.com/m/Shoes-Men/Running-Shoes_Men/New-Balance/p3.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; How bad is duty and shipping when all is said and done? I've never ordered shoes but have seen any savings on other things disappear after dutie...

QuickChick wrote:Redbull about an hour before. Gives you wings.

+1

5k - 4:17 (perhaps a real 4:22 to 4:24, course was short) 10k - 4:38 1/2 - 4:46 Full - 5:13 I am going to test one of the theories here. I am just off a marathon where I did nothing but mileage and race pace runs - so no intervals for five months, no tempo runs for twelve weeks, just a 30K race at ...

But if I may, can I expand the discussion a little and ask this -- what if you are not racing, but pacing someone who is racing? Races will indicate if pacers are allowed. For example, from the Mississauga Marathon website: Only runners with BIB numbers showing will be allowed to cross the finish l...

Mouse wrote:I fail to see the humour in this situation.

This is a stretch - clearly no one who has posted here is endorsing this assault, an assault that resulted in no serious injury and that resulted in an arrest.

Some of the jokes here were pretty clever.

Great race Jen.

Congratulations, that's a great result Ron.

So is it a hard course? I travel to Sudbury quite often and stay close to downtown if not downtown. It doesn't seem to matter where I am in Sudbury...there are always hills and lots of them. :wink: Just wondering how ugly they get? Fairly average hillwise for an out-and-back course. Uphill stretche...

Thanks McShame and glad you found the stats. (for others reading, it was improvement from 3:47:38 to 3:39:52 and BQ is 3:15:59, increasing to 3:20:59 in Fall 2011) Yes - we're looking for the same holy grail. I should disclose that I currently have a bro-mance with your recent Half Marathon improvem...

Actually, I haven't had the improvement yet with the marathon. Sorry for the confusion - it was your Half Marathon improvement I am thinking of. With your dedication to your training, I'm sure the Marathon improvement will follow - here is a current thread where folks advised on some elements to wo...

Have you checked out the Runners World automated plan maker? I have no idea how good/bad they are, but you can enter in what you want your weekly mileage to be and it will build around that. It might be worth at least cross-referencing for a general idea, and they also give speed work suggestions. ...