Time: 45 min
Distance: 8 kilometers
Comments: A wet, chilly, miserable day. And, of course, as hard as it was to get out the door, the run was just as rewarding. I felt very strong the whole way, unlike the last effort, and focused on form pretty much throughout. I moved this run back a day because I was irritable and cranky all day yesterday. I think part of the problem was that I was overtired. I slept a solid ten hours last night and felt a lot more refreshed this morning.An interesting little achievement today - I broke 100 miles for this month. I should have done this in May but it's nice to be back on track at long last.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Training Run
Time: 60 min
Distance: 10 kilometers
Comments: Well, one thing is for sure, I've passed the point where skipping a meal is an option. My life got a bit crazy yesterday and this morning and I just grabbed what I could. As a result, today was a long haul indeed.My legs felt strong and I didn't lose all my form but I simply didn't have anything in the tank. It was a very unpleasant run but good to have done. That third-fourth of the race feels a lot the same.
Distance: 10 kilometers
Comments: Well, one thing is for sure, I've passed the point where skipping a meal is an option. My life got a bit crazy yesterday and this morning and I just grabbed what I could. As a result, today was a long haul indeed.My legs felt strong and I didn't lose all my form but I simply didn't have anything in the tank. It was a very unpleasant run but good to have done. That third-fourth of the race feels a lot the same.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Training Run
Time: 45 min
Distance: 8 kilometers
Comments: A bit chilly and dour this morning. Add to that I'm a bit creaky following my balls-out run on Sunday and it was a bit of a tough start.Got into pretty quick though and kept a steady, if not spectacular, pace the whole way. No crazy bursts or pushing things... just smooth and even.So nothing special, overall, just a solid start-the-week run, and that's good enough for me.
Distance: 8 kilometers
Comments: A bit chilly and dour this morning. Add to that I'm a bit creaky following my balls-out run on Sunday and it was a bit of a tough start.Got into pretty quick though and kept a steady, if not spectacular, pace the whole way. No crazy bursts or pushing things... just smooth and even.So nothing special, overall, just a solid start-the-week run, and that's good enough for me.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Marathon Training Summary: Week 9
Time: 3 hours 5 min
Distance: 46 kilometers
Comments: A good solid week of work, cashing in on the long miles of the past fortnight.A noticeable drop in mileage but still substantially more this week than before I got down to it at the start of July. At this rate, I'll tally more than 100 miles for the month... almost twice my miles in may and a good five times what I did in June.While I feel very good at the moment, I am well aware that's a recipe for injury so I really need to get back onto the idea of running times and ignoring the distance. The harder I push myself on these individual runs, the more likely I'm gonna pull up lame at some point.Injury update: A lot of sore muscles but no real pain centers popping up. This tightness in the inside lower calf of the left side is damn persistent, though.
Distance: 46 kilometers
Comments: A good solid week of work, cashing in on the long miles of the past fortnight.A noticeable drop in mileage but still substantially more this week than before I got down to it at the start of July. At this rate, I'll tally more than 100 miles for the month... almost twice my miles in may and a good five times what I did in June.While I feel very good at the moment, I am well aware that's a recipe for injury so I really need to get back onto the idea of running times and ignoring the distance. The harder I push myself on these individual runs, the more likely I'm gonna pull up lame at some point.Injury update: A lot of sore muscles but no real pain centers popping up. This tightness in the inside lower calf of the left side is damn persistent, though.
Long Run
Time: 80 min
Distance: 16.5 kilometers
Comments: The plan was to put in a 10-miler or so which, given my recent long-run pace, would be right at about an hour and a half. So I downloaded podrunner for this week and headed out. Now I should have known what was going to happen when I heard Steveboy gushing over how great the mix was but I just brushed it off and got ready for the solid but not-too-crazy 159 BPM of this week's mix, ""Bravo Papa Mike."" Umm... mistake.This mix was in-fucking-credible. As awesome as advertised and then some. It got me by the throat from the start of the run didn't let up a whit throughout. The run I thought was going to be a short week respite turned into an expedition to find my lactic threshold.Add to that a group of Peruvian marines tailing me on the route and a marathon being run here in Miraflores that I crossed over twice and it turned a routi,ne long run into an adren
Distance: 16.5 kilometers
Comments: The plan was to put in a 10-miler or so which, given my recent long-run pace, would be right at about an hour and a half. So I downloaded podrunner for this week and headed out. Now I should have known what was going to happen when I heard Steveboy gushing over how great the mix was but I just brushed it off and got ready for the solid but not-too-crazy 159 BPM of this week's mix, ""Bravo Papa Mike."" Umm... mistake.This mix was in-fucking-credible. As awesome as advertised and then some. It got me by the throat from the start of the run didn't let up a whit throughout. The run I thought was going to be a short week respite turned into an expedition to find my lactic threshold.Add to that a group of Peruvian marines tailing me on the route and a marathon being run here in Miraflores that I crossed over twice and it turned a routi,ne long run into an adren
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