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elkid
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Joined: 18 Nov 2002
Posts: 8353
Location: hiding out in Philly
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 Posted: 08/22/04 - 19:58 Post subject:
Back from vacation. Disturbing that I'm a topic of discussion when I am not here to defend myself. However ...
PH - you posted old numbers. May = high race month. June = recovery month. July = ramp up month, where I ran 184.3 miles. When I responded in the other thread (which, BTW, I didn't make it all about me ... the subject matter was and I responded in kind) to RAS I was referring to August. This month, where I'm now in full marathon mode. Not that I have to justify anything to anyone, but if I'm called a liar I take offense. This month I am averaging 55-65 (44/66/65 and still counting - 58.33 over 3 weeks). Would've started doing higher mileage earlier, but didn't want to get injured after a low month in June. Should you question my numbers, use accurate ones. Though I'm touched you follow my training so closely on other boards. I never knew you were such a fan!  I'm touched.
Cappy - it's posts like these why I no longer post my numbers here. I've been critiqued hard and unfairly in the past, so I choose not to.
jrjo - the numbers referenced do not add up, simply because the wrong numbers were used.
pffff - I did. Two of them.
Mega - thanks.
I train and race for me. Not for my family, not for my friends, certainly not for a bunch of strangers who falsely believe they know or undersatnd me. I know where I've come from, and how hard I work to achieve the dreams I have. I do not care what others think I do, or what I don't do. I do care that I'm called a liar, though. Negative opinions, especially from those who have no idea what I'm training for or how, don't factor into my equation. As such I have no reason to lie/embellish/whatever so I do not. To say that I do - well, people will believe what they want regardless if it's true or not. Continue to think what you will of me and my training. My improvements, however slow and menial by some standards, are well documented in my race reports. They speak to the training I do. If you disagree, go ahead. I can't imagine how my training impacts anyone, however, or why anyone else would care. Though to call into question someone's integrity and call them a liar without having the proper facts, especially when they know they are away and unable to defend him/herself, says volumes about the integrity of the questioner. I personally never would question someone's training, because it's not my business and because the proof is in the pudding on race day as Sheldon said. Maybe I'm just a different kind of athlete, believing someone's results and continuing improvement say something about an individual's process.
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