Yah!! I’m so excited for you. I have a true understanding of this sport, and how much effort goes into getting ready for a big event. I’m the following Sunday. I can’t wait to see your new video. So happy for you!! 🌟
Man, I'm sure glad everything fell into place for you after that blip in your training. Thankfully you got over your sickness just in time. I know it was touch and go there for a while.
Bill, I am very impressed with you for your fast long run and your 800-meter workouts! You are in great shape, and you will be great in Chicago. I am excited for you. Have fun!
It is so amazing that you are in such great shape now after your illnesses and injuries the last few years. I hope you will really "cash in" on your fitness in Chicago in two weeks - and have lots of fun doing it.
Bill I met u today on the Farmington canal trail. I want to thank u for taking the time out of your run to give me a few pointers on hamstring stretches..goodluck in Chicago
In your video at your first NYC Half a few years ago, you went on a post-finish rant about all the hills!! Well, the Chicago Marathon has only a few tiny tiny tiny miniscule upgrades along the course and only ONE hill, right at the 26 mile point - so you won't have hills to complain about! I hope this will be good for you. For me, I like the variety of hills in a course, as it puts our leg muscles through a range of motion, but for fast runners like you, a lack of hills will be a benefit. I really want to watch your post-Chicago-2024 video, but I guess you really cannot make it yet !!!
Bill, good luck in Chicago next weekend! I wish you all the best. Don't flirt with the flight attendants on the plane - SAVE your energy for the marathon!
Bill - a Yasso 800 workout is TEN x 880. I have twice seen Bart Yasso speak in person at the San Francisco Marathon Expo, read his book, and I have read and re-read the ORIGINAL article in Runner's World from decades ago when Amby Burfoot first wrote about this workout and how it came to be named Yasso 880. It's great that you did 6 x 800 so fast - great !! - but a "real" Yasso workout is 10 x 880. That original article is still online if you want to read it. [Written by Amby Burfoot sometime back in the 1970s when I first started running and reading Runner's World.]
Hi Cathy 👋 I know the "true" Yasso 800 is 10 reps but one works up to that in training. Also a key element of a Yasso workout, as you know, is to do your reps in minutes and seconds to match your goal marathon time.
@@oldmanvanrunning Yes, I know, Mr. Yasso used 10 x 880 as a marathon predictor, and Amby Burfoot checked with other runners and validated that the formula worked for many runners. Isn't it amazing that "we older runners" actually were able to live without computers and cell phones and GPS and RUclips??? How did we ever live ????
@@oldmanvanrunning According to the original article from decades ago, the "predictor" value of the Yasso 880s was when doing the full ten reps. However - it does sound like you are in GREAT shape for a GREAT performance at Chicago, even if you did not do the full ten 880s needed to use as a marathon-time predictor. Your marathon-pace long run speaks loudly for your excellent readiness.
@@oldmanvanrunning Bill, that is probably true, that you could conceivably slow your reps down and do the entire ten. The Yasso 880 has been such a "staple" in the life of runners who started in my generation that I am just very protective of any "tampering" with it.
I am such a Bart Yasso fan that I actually visited the headquarters of the running club he is/was a member of, a two-story hundred-year-old German farmhouse next to a creek in the Lehigh Valley adjacent to the gravel Delaware and Lehigh canal trail used by thousands of runners. [Bart wasn't there at the time, but someone took me on a guided tour of both upstairs and downstairs.]
@@oldmanvanrunning Thank you, Bill. I am so lucky - living in Los Angeles for my first 71 years, I was able to meet many of my favorite celebrities, not just running celebrities but my lifelong love, Frank Sinatra, and others in show business. So exciting. Unfortunately, except for Barbra Streisand, the celebrity world now has no one I care about meeting.
Many many years ago I made several trips to Chicago - twice for the Chicago Marathon and several times to see "live" Frank Sinatra concerts. The Sinatra concerts were much easier !!!!
Great question! It all depends on one's current fitness level and volume of running. The most important thing is to have an established base of consistent running before starting marathon training.
My best friend (and former boss back in 2007 to 2010) lives in Albuquerque and he is only 8 months younger than you - and he ONLY runs if he is carrying ice cream from the car into the house on a 100-degree day. I try to get him inspired with your videos, but he won't do it.
@@oldmanvanrunning Oh, Bill, I have given "the young man" so many lectures over the years about pursuing at least some minimal fitness. I started "lecturing" him way back in 2007 when he was my boss's boss for four years and I was becoming his close friend. [You gotta have "nerve" to lecture your boss's boss, but we became close friends quickly the first year I worked for him, and he is now my best friend.] Actually I am overweight myself - but my resting pulse is 54 in my seventies, and I DO run ... for decades!
Yah!! I’m so excited for you. I have a true understanding of this sport, and how much effort goes into getting ready for a big event. I’m the following Sunday. I can’t wait to see your new video. So happy for you!! 🌟
Thank you so much, Christi!
Good luck
Thanks, Edie!
Man, I'm sure glad everything fell into place for you after that blip in your training. Thankfully you got over your sickness just in time. I know it was touch and go there for a while.
@@JoeFleegel Thanks, Joe! I feel EXTREMELY fortunate, right now
Way to go Billy!
@@HenryFrederick Thanks, Henry!
Bill, I am very impressed with you for your fast long run and your 800-meter workouts! You are in great shape, and you will be great in Chicago. I am excited for you. Have fun!
Thanks, Cathy! I'm as ready as I possibly can be at this point 👍
@@oldmanvanrunning Cool! You're physically in top condition and mentally ready as well. Good news!
It is so amazing that you are in such great shape now after your illnesses and injuries the last few years. I hope you will really "cash in" on your fitness in Chicago in two weeks - and have lots of fun doing it.
Bill I met u today on the Farmington canal trail. I want to thank u for taking the time out of your run to give me a few pointers on hamstring stretches..goodluck in Chicago
Great to meet you as well, Rich! You're very welcome!...Thanks, and good luck to you as well! Let me know how it goes 👍
In your video at your first NYC Half a few years ago, you went on a post-finish rant about all the hills!! Well, the Chicago Marathon has only a few tiny tiny tiny miniscule upgrades along the course and only ONE hill, right at the 26 mile point - so you won't have hills to complain about! I hope this will be good for you. For me, I like the variety of hills in a course, as it puts our leg muscles through a range of motion, but for fast runners like you, a lack of hills will be a benefit. I really want to watch your post-Chicago-2024 video, but I guess you really cannot make it yet !!!
Bill, good luck in Chicago next weekend! I wish you all the best. Don't flirt with the flight attendants on the plane - SAVE your energy for the marathon!
Thanks, Cathy! I'll do my best 👌
@@oldmanvanrunning Good, Bill! That's all we can ask of you, that you do your best - just as you did your best at Boston. Have fun!
Good luck in Chicago! I will try to make the shakeout run.
@@CowbellrunnerThanks! That's awesome! Hope to see you there, and best of luck to you as well!
Bill - a Yasso 800 workout is TEN x 880. I have twice seen Bart Yasso speak in person at the San Francisco Marathon Expo, read his book, and I have read and re-read the ORIGINAL article in Runner's World from decades ago when Amby Burfoot first wrote about this workout and how it came to be named Yasso 880. It's great that you did 6 x 800 so fast - great !! - but a "real" Yasso workout is 10 x 880. That original article is still online if you want to read it. [Written by Amby Burfoot sometime back in the 1970s when I first started running and reading Runner's World.]
Hi Cathy 👋 I know the "true" Yasso 800 is 10 reps but one works up to that in training. Also a key element of a Yasso workout, as you know, is to do your reps in minutes and seconds to match your goal marathon time.
@@oldmanvanrunning Yes, I know, Mr. Yasso used 10 x 880 as a marathon predictor, and Amby Burfoot checked with other runners and validated that the formula worked for many runners. Isn't it amazing that "we older runners" actually were able to live without computers and cell phones and GPS and RUclips??? How did we ever live ????
@@oldmanvanrunning According to the original article from decades ago, the "predictor" value of the Yasso 880s was when doing the full ten reps. However - it does sound like you are in GREAT shape for a GREAT performance at Chicago, even if you did not do the full ten 880s needed to use as a marathon-time predictor. Your marathon-pace long run speaks loudly for your excellent readiness.
@@cathynewyork7918 I actually ran the reps faster than the required pace for ten. I think I can extrapolate out 😁
@@oldmanvanrunning Bill, that is probably true, that you could conceivably slow your reps down and do the entire ten. The Yasso 880 has been such a "staple" in the life of runners who started in my generation that I am just very protective of any "tampering" with it.
Enjoy Chicago, My shake out run for Chicago is parkrun, but its a bit of a bus trip to get there
@@Bwebber99 No worries 👍 Good luck in Chicago to you as well!
I am such a Bart Yasso fan that I actually visited the headquarters of the running club he is/was a member of, a two-story hundred-year-old German farmhouse next to a creek in the Lehigh Valley adjacent to the gravel Delaware and Lehigh canal trail used by thousands of runners. [Bart wasn't there at the time, but someone took me on a guided tour of both upstairs and downstairs.]
Very cool, Cathy!
@@oldmanvanrunning Thank you, Bill. I am so lucky - living in Los Angeles for my first 71 years, I was able to meet many of my favorite celebrities, not just running celebrities but my lifelong love, Frank Sinatra, and others in show business. So exciting. Unfortunately, except for Barbra Streisand, the celebrity world now has no one I care about meeting.
Many many years ago I made several trips to Chicago - twice for the Chicago Marathon and several times to see "live" Frank Sinatra concerts. The Sinatra concerts were much easier !!!!
Would you do speed work with 4 days to go? Something like 4 x 4 at MP?
@@ziadirida I'll be doing 4x400 at my Yasso 800 pace on Tuesday, five days out. It's more like 10 K pace.
How does someone begin to train for a marathon
Great question! It all depends on one's current fitness level and volume of running. The most important thing is to have an established base of consistent running before starting marathon training.
My best friend (and former boss back in 2007 to 2010) lives in Albuquerque and he is only 8 months younger than you - and he ONLY runs if he is carrying ice cream from the car into the house on a 100-degree day. I try to get him inspired with your videos, but he won't do it.
@cathynewyork7918 Gotta talk to that "young man", Cathy! 😁
@@oldmanvanrunning Oh, Bill, I have given "the young man" so many lectures over the years about pursuing at least some minimal fitness. I started "lecturing" him way back in 2007 when he was my boss's boss for four years and I was becoming his close friend. [You gotta have "nerve" to lecture your boss's boss, but we became close friends quickly the first year I worked for him, and he is now my best friend.] Actually I am overweight myself - but my resting pulse is 54 in my seventies, and I DO run ... for decades!