11.30.06
Posted in Training at 10:51 pm by Administrator
what time do you need to make state.
16:29
5:19 pace! so you need to be running sub 16 locally. bhs is D1 and they usually take two teams and the top five individuals who make the top twelve to state.
it would be great to make it as a team but the whole team has to run sub 16:24!
can you do it? yes. will you do it? that depends on you.
3 Miles
Boys Team
Jr David Van matre 16:34 Oct 18 BHS-Foothill-GVHS
So Airey Andrew 17:18 Sep 22 Mt Whitney Invitational
So Andrew Edquist 17:28 Oct 18 BHS-Foothill-GVHS
So Mike Little 17:47 Oct 11 garces vs highland vs bhs
So James Taylor 18:04 Oct 18 BHS-Foothill-GVHS
So Nick Flores 18:20 Oct 11 garces vs highland vs bhs
So John Purcell 19:16 Oct 4 frontier vs bhs
Fr Christopher Anderson 19:57 Sep 22 Mt Whitney Invitational
all of the above could run 16:29 by their senoir year! they all have the footspeed to run the pace needed to make state. they just need the strength to do it. to get strong one needs to run a lot.
other athletes in other sports put in 2 or 3 hours a day in and no one bats an eye. but for some reason runners and many of their coaches think that high mileage is bad and that their athletes will get injured or burnt out. it just is not true. speed kills! miles dont.
there is a time for speed but only in limited amounts and only after a good base. now is the time for that base.
Conditioning (as long as possible) 2 week cycles.
Do the Lydiard Program till track season begins.
Monday: Aerobic running 3/4 to 1 hour.
Tuesday: Aerobic running 1 to 1.5 hours.
Wednesday: Run hilly course 1/2 to 1 hour.
Thursday: Aerobic running 1 to 1.5 hours.
Friday: Jog 1/2 to 1 hour.
Saturday: Run hilly course 1/2 to 1 hour.
Sunday: Aerobic running 1.5 to 2 hours.
Monday: Run hilly course 1/2 to 1 hour.
Tuesday: Aerobic running 1 to 1.5 hours.
Wednesday: Time trial 3000 or 5000 meters.
Thursday: Aerobic running 1 to 1.5 hours.
Friday: Jog 1/2 to 1 hour.
Saturday: Relaxed striding of 4 to 8 times 200 meters.
Sunday: Aerobic running 2 hours or more.
in november, i ran/walked over 200 miles and i am old (43), super busy (3 kids/3 jobs) and overweight (250+). i did the above and i have dropped weight and dropped my 3 mile time by 20%. i also did not get injured.
mr. toads is saturday so it is a great way to get started on this plan. do the 20 km at a comfortable pace and enjoy the course. then sunday do an easy hour.
on monday start the above cycle. start with the daily minium and each two weeks add ten minutes till you reach the listed max for the day. remember this is aerobic running not racing. run for time instead of miles.
you have 2 months before track begins and if you do this program you will PR this season. then after track season you do it all over this summer. in season, you still do the long weekend run but you have a hill peroid and then a speed peroid (Lydiard Program).
my son is doing this program and he has gotten stronger. he did a sub 12 minute 2 mile (pr by 20 secs) the other day all by himself and he has not done any speed work at all (every other wednesday the program suggests a time trial).
so you took your mental holiday from training and now is the time to run. we run everyday after school and you can come join us. usually we run from beach park but we could meet you elsewhere.
so take the mr. noise challenge! out run me in december and january (i have to put in almost 2 hours a day to get 50 miles a week). follow the Lydiard Program and you will get results.
if you have questions or need more information, contact me.
remember 16:29!
you can do it, but you have to put the miles in. there is no other way. trust me.
“This is the missing ingredient in American distance running. An emphasis on low to moderate mileage during the 1980s and most of the 1990s is the sole reason for our failure to produce the number of elite runners that we had during the 1970s and early 1980s. Those guys “back in the day” ran high mileage, and – surprise of surprises – the only U.S. runners who have been among the world’s elite during the last decade are also high mileage runners!” John Kellogg
so if you decide to take the mr. noise challenge, leave a comment as your pledge to try this approach.
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Posted in Profiles, Schools at 9:41 pm by Administrator
mcfarland at state 2006!
4. 178 McFarland ( 16:56 1:24:36)
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1 11 376 CS Jesus Gomez JR 16:21
2 34 377 CS Julio Olvera SR 16:54
3 41 378 CS Eduardo Garcia SO 17:04
4 45 382 CS Tino Abundis JR 17:08
5 47 380 CS Alfonso Cisneros JR 17:09
6 ( 53) 379 CS Jose Gomez SO 17:11
7 ( 81) 381 CS Eduardo Bautista FR 17:31
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Posted in Yada Yada at 9:07 pm by Administrator
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Posted in Training at 7:01 pm by Administrator
Distance Clinic Murrieta Valley HS
January 6th, 2007 – 8:30 a.m.
Steve Chavez Distance Clinic: “How to develop and foster a sustainable distance program”
Date: Saturday, January 6, 2007
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm
Location: Murrieta Valley High School / 42200 Nighthawk Way / Murrieta, CA 92562
Cost: $30 (includes clinic materials and catered lunch);
Contact: Steve Chavez (951) 265-7368 or schavez@mvusd.org
Details:
Come be a part of a great day of discussion and insight into principles of training and team development. The clinic will cover everything you need to develop, revamp, or fine tune your training program around sound physiological principles. Over 50 coaches attended last year’s clinic; several of whom coached California’s best teams this past season. Find out why good teams stay good and how to make your team one of the elite. Clinic materials will include a year’s worth of training calendars and explanations of all the principles behind each type of workout and phase of training. This year a DVD will be available for purchase ($10) which will include video of proper running form, drills, and plyometric routines. This clinic is great whether you are a first year or experienced coach. Contact Steve Chavez at the above phone or email for more information.
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Posted in Yada Yada at 5:40 pm by Administrator
Ancient machine opened the heavens
Their astronomical calculator was so sophisticated, it was unequaled for centuries.
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Times Staff Writer
November 30, 2006
After a century of study, scientists have unlocked the secrets of a mysterious 2,100-year-old device known as the Antikythera mechanism, showing it to be a complex and uncannily accurate astronomical computer.
The bronze-and-iron mechanism, recovered in more than 80 highly corroded fragments from a sunken Roman ship in 1901, could predict the positions of the sun and planets, show the location of the moon and even forecast eclipses.
The international team of scientists reported today that the 1st century BC Greek device, the earliest known example of an arrangement of gear wheels, shows a technological sophistication that was not seen again until clockwork mechanisms were introduced in the 14th century.
The results “imply that Greek technology was much more advanced in this area than was previously thought,” said the team’s leader, physicist Mike G. Edmunds of Cardiff University in Wales. “If they could do this, what else could they do?”
An even bigger question, says science historian Francois Charette of Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in Germany, is why the technology disappeared for more than 1,400 years before reappearing in a less advanced form.
“Much of the mind-boggling technological sophistication available in some parts of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman world was simply not transmitted further,” he wrote in an editorial accompanying the team’s report in the journal Nature.
The device was found by Greek sponge divers in 120 feet of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera, midway between the southern tip of Greece and Crete. The site is on a major trade route between the island of Rhodes and Rome.
Coins on the ship suggest it sank shortly after 85 BC. Other artifacts from the ship indicate it carried a cargo of luxury goods, including statues and silver coins, that probably originated in Rhodes and was bound for Rome’s elite.
The new study suggests that the Antikythera mechanism predates the sinking by 15 to 20 years.
The late British science historian Derek de Solla Price was the first to use modern technology to study the device. Over the course of two decades beginning in the 1950s, he used X-ray and gamma-ray images to reveal gears inside the corroded pieces.
He concluded correctly that it was an astronomical calculator. But the device as he reconstructed it was unduly complicated, and there were many gaps in his explanation of how it worked.
Edmunds said his interest in the device was piqued several years ago by a student who pointed it out to him. He began studying the published literature, eventually producing a review article. But truly understanding it, he concluded, would require a more detailed knowledge of its encrusted gears.
Edmunds’ team brought a 7.5-ton X-ray tomography machine — similar to that used to perform CT scans on human patients — into the National Archeological Museum of Athens to examine the fragments in greater detail than was possible before.
They were able to image the bronze gears more clearly, and deciphered twice as many inscriptions on the casing.
They concluded that the device contained 37 gears, about 30 of which still survive. It was originally housed in a wooden case slightly smaller than a shoebox.
Two dials on the front show the zodiac and a calendar of the days of the year that can be adjusted for leap years. Metal pointers show the positions in the zodiac of the sun, moon and five planets known in antiquity. Two spiral dials on the back show the cycles of the moon and predict eclipses.
The complicated meshing of the gears is a physical representation of the so-called Callippic and saros astronomical cycles. In the Callippic cycle, for example, the sun, moon and Earth return to the same relative orientations four times in 76 years minus one day.
The saros cycle predicts that, following a solar or lunar eclipse, a similar eclipse will occur 223 lunar months later.
By turning the gears with a hand crank, the user could select a specific day in the past or future and observe the positions of the heavenly objects on that day.
The device was most likely used to indicate the beginning and end of growing seasons, to mark religious holidays and to time other significant events during the year.
“The design is beautiful; the astronomy is exactly right,” Edmunds said. “The way the mechanics are designed just makes your jaw drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely well.”
The device performs subtractions, multiplications and divisions to carry out its functions. That leads to the question “of whether they could have easily designed actual calculators for other purposes,” Edmunds said.
The identity of the maker will probably remain a mystery — no signature is apparent on the device.
But the astronomical information incorporated in the gears clearly is based on the calculations of the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who worked on Rhodes from about 140 BC to about 120 BC.
Subsequently, the philosopher Posidonius established an astronomy school incorporating Hipparchus’ ideas.
Cicero, the Roman lawyer and consul, later wrote that Posidonius had made an instrument “which at each revolution reproduces the same motions of the sun, the moon and the five planets that take place in the heavens every day and night.”
Historians have generally dismissed Cicero’s words as extravagant or even mythic, but the new discoveries suggest he may have been correct.
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thomas.maugh@latimes.com
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Posted in Yada Yada at 7:18 am by Administrator
Upstart newspaper offers ‘alternative’
BY ERIK LOYD, Californian staff writer
e-mail: eloyd@bakersfield.com | Wednesday, Nov 29 2006 7:20 PM
Last Updated: Wednesday, Nov 29 2006 7:33 PM
The publishers of Bakersfield’s newest free newspaper are feeling pretty good about Random Times a week after its debut. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Yada Yada at 7:15 am by Administrator
Stockdale High hosts comic book show
BY JEFF NACHTIGAL, Californian staff writer
e-mail: jnachtigal@bakersfield.com | Wednesday, Nov 29 2006 7:40 PM
Last Updated: Wednesday, Nov 29 2006 7:51 PM
It’s billed as the largest collection of comics, gaming, toys and video game tournaments under one roof in Kern County.
Photos:
Photo by Dennis Mahan
Suzanne Smith calls her husband to find out what “Star Wars” items he wants while her sons Kyle, middle, 4, and Cody, right, 2, show her what they want at the 2005 Stockdale High Comic Book and Gaming Show.
That’s a statement that probably won’t be disputed.
Tens of thousands of comic books will be on sale, and innumerable toys, action figures and other collectibles will be on hand.
The 23rd annual Stockdale High Comic Book & Gaming Show takes place Saturday.
“For the gamer or someone into trading cards, there should be something there for everyone,” said show coordinator Tony Valenti.
A Halo2 tournament gets under way at 11:30 a.m., and other card tournaments will also be held.
Proceeds from the show benefit the Stockdale High School senior college scholarship fund.
• Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Stockdale High School cafeteria, 2800 Buena Vista Road. (Corner of White Lane and Buena Vista Road)
• $3 includes one free comic book; Halo2 tournament entry is $10, sign-up starts at 10:30 a.m.
• Phone: 654-0903.
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