I could spend hours looking at statistics. Not standard deviations and useless statistics stuff you learn in college, but sports stats, etc.
One of my favorites, is grabbing my running log and dissecting it to see what's going on.
I love looking at graphs, because they tell you a whole lot.
For instance, here's my weekly mileage for each week of 2009, along with the races I've run. (Austin wasn't really a race, but it was a hard effort run) **The weeks preceding Bandera from 2008 were 27, 35, and 25 as I was simply resting up after my big marathon in early December. I finished 7th in Bandera with a couple short runs during the week and a 15-20 miler on the weekends on the trails.
**Austin had no rest leading up to it, and I still did well on my workout, then didn't even take a down week, as I still posted almost 60 miles.
**Boston was an "a" race that had a nice taper. It was also on a Monday, so that's why the total for that race week is 30. I think i ran about 4 miles that Thursday or Friday to test the legs.
**Stockholm was a crap-chute-training to try and do well(sub 3), and thinking back this should have just been a leisure marathon.
**June was a much needed rest month after 8 marathons+ in 9 months, followed by the official start of endurance buildup for the Bandera 100km in July.
**Got 2nd place in the Inks Lake 60km (37 miles) which at that point was the farthest I'd ever run. There was no rest before it, jsut a run through race to get mileage. Took a week recovery, then training to load up to 80km (50miles) started in earnest for September and October.
**I took a week to rest after Cactus Rose, which again was not a race, so no rest leading up to it, and now it's the stretch run to Bandera. 4 more weeks of hard work before 2 real taper weeks like I did for Boston.
This morning was chilly 37F, and I ran 10 miles at an easy pace in shorts, long sleeve, gloves and beanie. Tomorrow I have 15 on the road on a day that's supposed to include some light snow flakes. We shall see if I get that lucky! Saturday's another 20 miles on the roads, then Sunday calls for a recovery trail run for an hour or so, followed by an hour of hill work, putting me at about 75 miles for the week.
I make my own training schedule, so that sounds good enough to me (for a rest week).
Thanks for reading, and happy running
2 comments:
Ahhh, but Mike you think that stuff (standard dev) is useless cause you did not have as awesome a teacher as me. There would be a difference between a runner who runs say 80,80,80,80 miles per week for a 320 miler and one who runs 60,100,60,100. Now it might be arguable which one is better but stdev is the concept that quantifies the diff between these 2runners, now when you include paces with these distances, then it becomes really interesting... :) Its cool though, you actually do have good intuitive analytical skills even though you dont use formal terms like stdev for it (for instance the example you gave with meaningless statistics couple of months ago involving correlation between 2 players' stats)
It's still way too late to catch me for 2009.
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