Still Training For The Peachtree Road Race On July 4th

Off-Topic Movies, TV and Entertainment
1

Adding mileage and intervals to my regimen.

With a little more than a month to go, I am having a ball outside catching some rays and gaining stamina – or as much as a 74 year old can gain.

Me and my training. I know I’m supposed to do one day on one day off at my age, but I’m already running intervals and am doing it every day now.

My intervals began at 20 strides at a slow run, then 40, then 60 and now I can go 80 strides. Again - at a slow run. I’m paying attention to my diet (love that pre-pak wild-caught tuna as a snack). Those strides are sometimes uphill, sometimes on a flat and sometimes downhill (where I have to use the strictest of care so that my feet don’t fly out from under me and I break something. I can just see me breaking a hip with these “glass bones” of mine.)

Wish I could meet up with one or more of you, but I will try to post a picture of me crossing the line, if that would be okay.

I don’t know what happened to make me choose to do this, but now that I have regained my balance, if I make this 10k, I would like to train for a Half-Marathon next.

It was the same with skydiving. Just woke up one day, decided I would no longer be afraid of being even 5 feet 8 inches tall, and booked myself a jump.

OCD? Ya think?

3 Likes
2

I’m training for a 1/2 marathon but for next Memorial Day weekend.

As I age, it takes longer to get in running shape as I run 4 days a week and do light to high impact the other three days. Have fun on your run.

1 Like
3

Just an update…

Today I received an e-mail from The Atlanta Track Club advising me of a little hiccup regarding my registration to run the race.

When I signed up, I asked that my number bib be sent to me via UPS and I paid $21.00 for that privilege. In another field I was asked if I were an athlete needing assistance, and since at 74, and “geographically challenged” (meaning I could take a wrong turn and wind up somewhere in the Carolinas), I checked that box. No mention was made of any cost.

Back to the e-mail I got today… I was notified that since I had asked for UPS mailing (meaning “regular wave” according to my age) that is how my bib number was sent out.

Turns out that there’s a separate set of bibs called “AWD” (Athletes With Disabilities) and I should have been placed into that category not in “Gen Pop” and that I now I had three options:

  1. Go to the Atlanta office of the Track club and get my number changed to AWD.
  2. Go to the “Expo” (also in Atlanta) , go to the SOLUTIONS window and make the change there. or
  3. Wait for the regular number to arrive via UPS, and send it back unopened and hope they get it back in time to re-send it to me with the AWD designation, and hope everything works out.

The race is on July 4th, and because neither She Who Must Be Obeyed nor I are able to drive in Atlanta anymore, I chose option #3,

“So how are you getting there on race day, Bill?”, I can hear you asking.

Taking Uber to Marta’s West End Station and from there to the START. With 45 k runners participating, the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit System is the best way to get there. Ja, it’s expensive for me to travel that way, but I really need to do this, so it got built into the budget. (Not to She’s liking, I might add).

So now this gets thrown into my lap. All I want to do is run and finish this 10K! I couldn’t care less about what number I am.

Somewhere on the form someone forgot to dot an i and/or cross a t, and I do not think it was me.

Thanks for letting me rant. I’ll spare y’all the rave. :cloud_with_lightning::sunglasses:

1 Like