You are in great shape and I hope we can do a Strend in the Spring!
I had a good run in the Atlanta Half Marathon over Thanksgiving. I
ran 1:23:42 (7th out of 560 in my agegroup).

Last Friday I worked out at a gym in Huntsville, AL and it is a good
thing when the trainers are impressed with you. I am in the strength-
stabalization phase of my weight training (I follow and am a trainer
in Colgan's Power Program for athletes, www.colganinstitute.com) and
I am doing weighted pulls and chins (90 lbs each + body weight) to
gain strength. They asked me how many pulls I could do and I did 35.
I'll start Strend specific training a couple of months prior to a
Strend. Cheers!

Greg

--- In STREND@yahoogroups.com, "Matt" <skate_94538@y...> wrote:
>
> Ed is checking into the production company Tronolone in Hawaii
> and their respective costs. Costs of course have to be offset by
> entry fees and sponsors. I would love for this to be a go! Maybe
> April/May
>
> Mini STREND tonight-- no run:
>
> Weight used Bench: 140 Shoulder Press: 70
>
> Bench Press: 33 reps :57 seconds Note: Max right now
would
> be about 36
> Pull ups: 34 START: 3:03-4:00 :57 seconds
> Shoulder Press 30 START: 6:25-7:25 :60 sec.
> Chins: 23 START: 9:40-10:28 :48 seconds
> Dips: START: 12:45- 46 At least 90 degrees with full lockout,
> width of handles = 24" 1:10 sec.
> @ 15 minutes- take pulse 11 beats 6 seconds =110 before
theoretical
> start of run. 60% of Max HR
> TOTAL: 166 90% of 185
> If this were an actual STREND I am sure I could have squeezed out
> ten more reps and a run time of about a 17:36 so I am pretty
> happy about my conditioning so far.
>
> Matt