Targets For The Year End 2004

[old] Godfried · Post by **[old] Godfried** » September 19th, 2004, 6:42 am

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Coach Gus @ Sep 18 2004, 11:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Rogus @ Jun 1 2004, 11:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Rogus @ May 26 2004, 03:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> 1) In top 10 (not % but actual place) on the Online Rankings in distances from 2K to FM.<br><br>  </td></tr></table><br>Three done.  </td></tr></table><br>Five out of eight.<br><br>How's everyone else doing on their progress to their goals? </td></tr></table><br>0 out of 10 . And I only wanted to be in the first 50!<br>I had 1 done ( 6k ) but I was trown out a few days later.<br> <br>Looking at the 2003/2004 results my placings are:<br>278 190 801 328 140 264 407 244 138 ---.<br>Maybe I should adjust my goal ( or make my results much better ).<br>

[old] Mark Keating · Post by **[old] Mark Keating** » September 19th, 2004, 10:59 pm

#1 - 7:20 2K<br><br>#2 - half marathon

[old] Ericr · Post by **[old] Ericr** » September 20th, 2004, 4:09 am

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (Ericr @ May 27 2004, 04:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> Have to achieve my goals before half oktober, since I will be going on holiday for a month till half november. <br><br>So about 4 months to get to :<br><br>1:29 for 500m<br>6:45 for 2K<br>18:00 for 5K<br>8050 for 30 minutes<br>37:50 for 10K  </td></tr></table><br> Achieved my goal for 10K (1 sec. off). The rest of the goals will not be reached for my holiday, no planned short workouts before that time. Some minor health problems got in the way, otherwise I would have made at least 3 of those goals. Now I just need endurance for climbing mountains in Nepal, so short stuff has no use the rest of this month.

[old] eurofoot13 · Post by **[old] eurofoot13** » September 20th, 2004, 10:33 am

Now see, the trick is, once you GET BACK from Nepal, take a distance test. That'll be fun, what with all the altitude acclimatization.

[old] Ericr · Post by **[old] Ericr** » September 21st, 2004, 3:23 am

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (eurofoot13 @ Sep 20 2004, 09:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> Now see, the trick is, once you GET BACK from Nepal, take a distance test. That'll be fun, what with all the altitude acclimatization.  </td></tr></table><br> My joints will need recovery from the long days of hiking Although it's great fun to hike and climb in Nepal it won't get you in shape for anything else than long days of walking. Learnt that from last year.<br><br>A stage at height doesn't have too much of a impact on training at sea level. <br><br>After my holiday I will take up training with weights primarily and shifting my erg training to sprint training. <br><br>

[old] eurofoot13 · Post by **[old] eurofoot13** » September 21st, 2004, 4:30 pm

well, at least theoretically, shouldn't a stage at altitude raise your hemocrit values? this would then give you a greater capacity for transporting oxygen, wouldn't it?

[old] Ericr · Post by **[old] Ericr** » September 22nd, 2004, 3:15 am

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'><span class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></span> (eurofoot13 @ Sep 21 2004, 03:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> well, at least theoretically, shouldn't a stage at altitude raise your hemocrit values? this would then give you a greater capacity for transporting oxygen, wouldn't it?  </td></tr></table><br>Theoretically it should, in practice it doesn't work that way. Training at altitude to perform at sea level is a practice that has been abandoned by most professional sporters nowadays.<br><br>This study targeted at rowers shows it's better to train to at sea level than at altitude for performing at sea level :<br><br><a href='http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0428.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0428.htm</a><br><br>And another study stating the same, although living high and training low could have a positive impact :<br><br><a href='http://www.sportsci.org/traintech/altitude/wgh.html' target='_blank'>http://www.sportsci.org/traintech/altit ... ><br><br>I will be climbing a 21000 feet mountain, so the negative impact of less oxygen will be greater than the compensation my body will do. I guess I need to train a little bit harder when I come back