February 2017 Running Challenge
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2/1-5.2 miles +1 mile with Stella
2/2-1.2 miles with Stella +6.9 miles solo
2/3-1 mile with Stella+2.3 shakeout miles
2/4-6.2 miles Cyclones Frozen 10K-PR!
2/5-14 miles
2/6-rest day
2/7-5.7 miles
2/8-7.5 miles
2/9-6 miles
2/10-unplanned rest day due to nagging hammie. Lots of yoga and foam rolling
2/11-20 miles
2/12-4 gimpy recovery miles
2/13-Rest Day
2/14-Unplanned rest day for hamstring
2/15-Unplanned rest day for hamstring/travel12/16-3.4 miles-easin' back into it at the beach
2/17-4.5 miles
2/18-2.1 miles12/19-6.0 miles
2/20-10.2 miles
2/21-4.4 miles-1.4 miles with Stella + 3 miles solo
@garygse-Congrats on the HM PR...80/20 rules!! No doubt you will get a huge PR at your race!
@Elise4270- Did you say MFP MRC destination race??? I'm in! Can you imagine everyone here showing up for a race together? That would be awesome. And if it's Hawaii, then hell yeah!
@MNLittleFinn - Great speed workout today! You are doing fantastic!
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This damn sinus infection is kicking my *kitten*. Worst I've had in a while. I worked from home yesterday, and postponed my scheduled 6 mile run. still feeling like crud today, but I'm in the office. I had to see a different doc on Monday, not my regular, and she gave me a course of antibiotics that's only 3 days(!!!). So, I just emailed my regular doc asking for an extension, because this infection is definitely not out of here yet. Still, I am determined to get a run in. I'm medicating, I've been resting and hydrating, and hopefully the exercise will help loosen up my head a bit more (often that happens). So, I am planning on a super easy 6 miles on the dreadmill at the gym today. Gonna take out any weather and hill factors, and just keep it slow. But I need to get my miles in!!!!!! Lol.0
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I was pretty fatigued after the 10k though (hadn't run 10 miles in quite a while, and return leg was slightly uphill) and I started taking more and more frequent walking breaks - so the time difference is greater than it should be.1 -
Still fighting some chest cold virus & feel like something the cat dragged in (despite getting lots of rest). Haven't been sick like this in a long time. No fever, just feeling creaky & chilly. If I don't improve by tomorrow, the it's off to the Dr.! I miss running...
sorry to say I'm in week two of a chesty cold thing. headachy, chesty, coughing up stuff, start to feel better then get worse the next day, generally finding things hard work.
I'm FINALLY starting to come out of it (I hope), but I haven't run since a 9 miler ten days ago. I'm supposed to do a hilly off-road 10k on Sunday, but that's looking doubtful - do I run it anyway, or keep resting so I don't go downhill again?
Hope yours clears quicker than mine is!! Any longer and it WILL start to have an impact on my Half Marathon training.
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Speaking of avoiding things on the trails as you run, I read an article yesterday that someone in Ashville NC over the weekend purposely went into a park and planted 40 nails on the trail. One runner had their foot impaled by one. What in the world is the world coming to.
http://www.khou.com/news/weird/runners-foot-impaled-by-nail-purposely-placed-on-trail-40-total-found-in-park/4109637170 -
@osubuckeye906 My guy's office is going to call and make the appointment so until I get that I won't know how it will affect it. I'm trying to read up on it but haven't really seen anything that covers the issue(s), I've also been so busy at work I haven't had time to really research yet or better yet ask our running community online
@orphia the angiogram showed the tears
At first I didn't want to do the whole MRI thing, because it costs me almost $900 since I'm not at my deductible yet, but like he said better to know EVERYTHING that is wrong upfront so it was worth it.0 -
I've got the "Farm to Pub" on Saturday, which is 16.4 km.
I gather that's 10 miles, but down here that's not even noticed. But I think Strava notes 10 mile PBs if you do one.
I don't think in those terms and need some reference.
What's your best time for 10 miles?
My best 10 mile time is 1:52. I am, however, a slowish runner (around 11:00/mile).1 -
Ugh! @stoshew71 That is horrible!
@girlinahat and @katiejane83 Hope you both are completely well soon!1 -
Hi all!
Goal: 100k
2/2: 3.1k easy, incline
2/4: 1.2k -abandoned
2/7: 1.5k -run/walk adductor testing, pain slightly
2/8: 2k -easy run, so easy a lvl 1 zombie could catch me. Adductor behaved better.
2/9: 1.5k -warmup for strength training-improvement
2/10: 6k -easy, testing adductor went good
2/12: 6.5k -easy
2/13: 3.5k easy + 3k bicycle
2/17: 6.4k easy
2/18: 2k -warmup for strength training-
2/19: 9.5k
2/20: 1.5k -warmup for strength training-
2/21: 5.1k -cool down from strength thraining and bicycle-
2/22: 10.6k -intervals ~5:10 min/km-
60.4/100k
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girlinahat wrote: »
Still fighting some chest cold virus & feel like something the cat dragged in (despite getting lots of rest). Haven't been sick like this in a long time. No fever, just feeling creaky & chilly. If I don't improve by tomorrow, the it's off to the Dr.! I miss running...
sorry to say I'm in week two of a chesty cold thing. headachy, chesty, coughing up stuff, start to feel better then get worse the next day, generally finding things hard work.
I'm FINALLY starting to come out of it (I hope), but I haven't run since a 9 miler ten days ago. I'm supposed to do a hilly off-road 10k on Sunday, but that's looking doubtful - do I run it anyway, or keep resting so I don't go downhill again?
Hope yours clears quicker than mine is!! Any longer and it WILL start to have an impact on my Half Marathon training.
@girlinahat -- Thank you. That stinks! So sorry it's lingered that long. My brand of crud sounds very similar to yours & I'm afraid it may last as long, too. Every day I cycle through feeling so-so and then right back to awful. I have to believe you'll be back to running soon!
@KatieJane83 -- Ugh. Sinus infections are the worst...so painful & makes it impossible to focus on anything else! Hope you're better soon!1 -
KatieJane83 wrote: »I had to see a different doc on Monday, not my regular, and she gave me a course of antibiotics that's only 3 days(!!!)..
Not to get all lecture-y, but if it is a Z-Pak, it is only supposed to be three days. It stays in your system a lot longer and actually works pretty well for sinus infection / ear infection.
Either way, hope you feel better soon!
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Hey @kristinegift I may be in your neighborhood over Labor Day weekend. My nephew is getting married in Princeton at St. Paul's Catholic church on Nassau St. Is that near you? Of course when we got the "Save the Date" card yesterday my first thought was to find some running routes. I've always been intrigued by the tow paths you run so that will likely be the destination for at least one of my runs. I might be getting ahead of myself...I don't even know if we're going yet, but I want to be prepared if we do. I still need to talk this over with my wife. I sure hope we can make it.
@skippygirlsmom so sorry about the MRI results. I guess the good thing is now you know the full extent of the injury and can focus on doing what you need to do to get it fixed and get back to running. It may be a long haul but I'm confident you can do it.
@lporter229 my stretching has fallen way off. I don't stretch at all before running. I just start by walking fast, then a slow run, then slowly increase my pace until I'm going at my target pace. Stretching after....eh...I sometimes do it, mainly if there's something that feels like it needs to be stretched. I'm not convinced that it's necessary, though I need to study the issue more before I come to my own conclusion. But yeah, 10 minutes of stretching reduces the time you have to run by about 10 minutes and I know where I'd rather spend my time.
@HonuNui the Volcano Marathon does sound rather intriguing...
@garygse that's great that you're seeing positive results! It's a great feeling when you hit a PR during a training run.
@snowyne, @girlinahat and @Katiejane83, you folks get better soon!
@Stoshew71 I saw that article. Un-flippin'-believable how sick some people are.2 -
Last night was supposed to be my weeknight long run of 9 miles, but a lower calf pain in my right leg made me decide to swap Tuesday & Wednesday runs. So...6 easy miles last night and planning on 9 miles tonight.
The run last night put my Brooks Glycerin's over 300 miles, which is my target for shoe life. The cushioning actually feels pretty good in these yet but the there are holes forming on the upper of both shoes, right above the ends of my big toes. I guess that's a sign I need to cut my toenails more often? I used Shoe Goo to seal one hole and will use it on the other and see how many more miles I can get. I did get 350 miles out of my first pair of Glycerins before I turned them into screw shoes.
I'm now at 128 miles out of a 170 mile goal. If I'm able to run my plan as it is now, I'll finish the month with 177 miles. I have just 12 miles left on my trail mile goal and I should exceed that easily.
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2/1/17 - 6 miles
2/3/17 - 12 miles
2/4/17 - 7 miles
2/5/17 - 7 miles
2/7/17 - 7.5 miles
2/8/17 - 6 miles
2/10/17 - 12 miles
2/11/17 - 4.5 miles
2/12/17 - 7.5 miles
2/14/17 - 7 miles
2/15/17 - 7.2 miles
2/17/17 - 14 miles
2/18/17 - 3.25 miles
2/19/17 - 7.5 miles
2/20/17 - 2 miles
2/21/17 - 3.25 miles
2/22/17 - 8 miles1 -
KatieJane83 wrote: »I had to see a different doc on Monday, not my regular, and she gave me a course of antibiotics that's only 3 days(!!!)..
Not to get all lecture-y, but if it is a Z-Pak, it is only supposed to be three days. It stays in your system a lot longer and actually works pretty well for sinus infection / ear infection.
Either way, hope you feel better soon!
Ah, that is interesting, thank you!
I am on the Z-Pak (I had been using Levaquin the last few times, but I requested a change b/c of reading about it increasing chances of tendon ruptures, aka my nightmare, lol). I have taken the Z-Pak in the past but it's always been the 5 day pack. I never even knew there was a 3 day pack until this prescription. So, I did a little googling:
3-day: 3x 500mg
5-day: 1x 500mg, 4x 250mg
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Hurried day today, only got a 5k run in this morning.
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Well, I finally did it. I set up an assessment with a personal trainer at my gym. I want to hear what he has to say about incorporating more strength training into my routine, and what I can do to drop the last 15 pounds I need to drop that won't seem to come off.
I have this horrible feeling adding strength training will mean I'll have to cut back on miles. But maybe not. I guess I'll have to see what the trainer recommends. All I know is that I've been seriously neglecting strength training in favor of running as much as I can. Maybe I can find a balance.2 -
@RespectTheKitty When I first lost "all my weight" over a year's time I was a certain size and was happy with that as my end result. But over time as I continued working out and strength training, I ended up a whole size smaller at that same weight. So assuming that 15lbs means a pants size or two for you, definitely do the strength training.
@dpwellman Geez, another one with a cold. Feel better soon!0 -
RespectTheKitty wrote: »Well, I finally did it. I set up an assessment with a personal trainer at my gym. I want to hear what he has to say about incorporating more strength training into my routine, and what I can do to drop the last 15 pounds I need to drop that won't seem to come off.
I have this horrible feeling adding strength training will mean I'll have to cut back on miles. But maybe not. I guess I'll have to see what the trainer recommends. All I know is that I've been seriously neglecting strength training in favor of running as much as I can. Maybe I can find a balance.
I have been trying to maintain my high mileage and still strength train. I had to slow my pace down a bit. If I do any speed or tempo work, I do it before I lift and on the same day.
As of right now, I do leg work on Tuesday and Saturday evening. I should be adding in Thursday evenings as well but have been reluctant because it may effect my Sat morning long run. I do add a small slow run Tuesday evening after my leg work out for my 2 double sessions for the week. But I don't care if that second run is slow and it loosens out any tightness caused from lifting. The same thing on Wednesday morning, a slow recovery run is scheduled and short on miles. My legs are sore today and when I started my run this morning, I had to start it very slow but as I got further into the first mile, I could feel my legs loosen up a bit.
Sundays are my day off from everything.0 -
@7lenny7 thanks0
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February Running Challenge:
2/1 10 miles
2/2 2.2 miles
2/3 Rest day
2/4 10 mile pace run
2/5 20 mile run
2/6 5 mile very slow run
2/7 2 mile run with Spotty
2/8 8 mile run: 1 w/u with Spotty, 6 pace, 1 c/d
2/9 4 mile run
2/10 2 mile walk with Spotty and Runner’s yoga
2/11 4 mile pace run
2/12 15 mile run
2/13 4.15 mile run
2/14: XT Day: 30 minutes stationary bike and 15 minutes stairmill
2/15: 6 mile pace run
2/16: 4 easy miles
2/17: Rest Day
2/18: Hot 4 mile run...84 F!
2/19: 8.5 mile run
2/20: 3 mile pace run
2/21: 3 mile easy run, 2 mile walk while the kiddo was at soccer practice, and yoga!
2/22: 4.2 miles
Goal: 117 of 135
Upcoming Races:
Cowtown Marathon (Full) Feb 26 (Registered)
XTERRA ATX Trail Run (21K) Apr 23 (Tentative)
XTERRA Rock Dallas Trail Run (HM at night) May 27 (Tentative)
XTERRA Jurassic Trail Run (HM at night) Jul 8 (Tentative)
La Sportiva Vail Half Marathon: Jul 22 (Tentative)
Well, that was my last run until my 2 mile shakeout run on Saturday! It was a hot one too!! 78 with full sun, no leaves on trees for shade and no sprinklers in sight!
Carb load starts tomorrow, and I'm really looking forward to angel food cake for dessert! Saturday is the really good day with pancakes, froyo, and more Angel food cake.
While I was typing this, I just got my bib number and corral assignment!! I could not remember what time I put as my estimated finish time when I registered. Thankfully whatever I put has me in the corral with the pace team I want to run with. Yay! No more stress about that. I am so happy and relieved!
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Date :::: Miles :::: Feb MTD (goal = 70)
02/01/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 2.6
02/02/17 :::: 3.1 :::: 5.7
02/03/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 8.3
02/04/17 :::: 6.8 :::: 15.1
02/05/17 :::: 4.0 :::: 19.1
02/06/17 :::: 3.7 :::: 22.8
02/07/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 22.8
02/08/17 :::: 3.3 :::: 26.1
02/09/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 28.7
02/10/17 :::: 3.1 :::: 31.8
02/11/17 :::: 7.6 :::: 39.4
02/12/17 :::: 2.5 :::: 41.9
02/13/17 :::: 2.6 :::: 44.5
02/14/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 44.5
02/15/17 :::: 3.5 :::: 48.0
02/16/17 :::: 3.0 :::: 51.0
02/17/17 :::: 3.3 :::: 54.3
02/18/17 :::: 7.4 :::: 61.7
02/19/17 :::: 3.1 :::: 64.8
02/20/17 :::: 3.6 :::: 68.4
02/21/17 :::: 0.0 :::: 68.4
02/22/17 :::: 2.7 :::: 71.1
Running in short sleeves this afternoon! So nice to put on capris and a t-shirt and get out in the nearly 60 degree weather. I took Stella, my beast, out with me for the first time in a while. She was a bit draggy in the second half of the run. I think too tired from being at daycare all day yesterday. It wears a girl out. Either that or she's just not into running these days so we'll see how things go from here.
I signed up for a fall half marathon! The Wineglass Half in Corning, NY on Oct 1. A lot of people love this race and it is supposed to be a net downhill. And really beautiful. I hope I'll have time to visit the Museum of Glass too as I've always wanted to go there.
I will start my half marathon training program through the Y in May, and am doing regular running group workouts before that. I'm thinking about a couple of other races this year but haven't quite committed. There's a 19k race in May that I'm actually thinking about doing, even though it's before my planned major training. I also am considering a destination (warm) race either around my birthday in November or over the winter break. Probably some shorter races in there as well. I do have one 5k on the books and I'm sure more will come up.
Upcoming races:
4/6 5K run (convention fundraiser), Indianapolis, IN
5/13 Right to Run 19K, Seneca Falls, NY (maybe?)
10/1 Wineglass Half Marathon, Corning NY2 -
Tonight I'll be running in 60F temps.
Saturday I'll be running 12 to 18 inches of snow.
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RespectTheKitty wrote: »Well, I finally did it. I set up an assessment with a personal trainer at my gym. I want to hear what he has to say about incorporating more strength training into my routine, and what I can do to drop the last 15 pounds I need to drop that won't seem to come off.
I have this horrible feeling adding strength training will mean I'll have to cut back on miles. But maybe not. I guess I'll have to see what the trainer recommends. All I know is that I've been seriously neglecting strength training in favor of running as much as I can. Maybe I can find a balance.
I have been trying to maintain my high mileage and still strength train. I had to slow my pace down a bit. If I do any speed or tempo work, I do it before I lift and on the same day.
As of right now, I do leg work on Tuesday and Saturday evening. I should be adding in Thursday evenings as well but have been reluctant because it may effect my Sat morning long run. I do add a small slow run Tuesday evening after my leg work out for my 2 double sessions for the week. But I don't care if that second run is slow and it loosens out any tightness caused from lifting. The same thing on Wednesday morning, a slow recovery run is scheduled and short on miles. My legs are sore today and when I started my run this morning, I had to start it very slow but as I got further into the first mile, I could feel my legs loosen up a bit.
Sundays are my day off from everything.
@RespectTheKitty @Stoshew71 - This discussion kind of prompts me into a digression about strength training.
I lifted weights before I was ever a runner. I lifted because I wanted functional strength, not for hypertrophy muscles or competitive lifting. I managed to improve my upper body strength from "bad joke" to "below average," and did somewhat better with lower body. I hate crunches, but found that I needed to do fewer of them if I did them with weights. Then I found kettlebells, and could eliminate crunches entirely because the core benefit of crunches is disguised in Turkish get-ups.
So when I started running, I didn't have any problems at all with my quads or hamstrings. They were strong. I had foot problems. First round of PT identified weak hip abductors, something I had never addressed with weight lifting. Got that corrected.
Had a problem with the tensor fascia latta after Boston 2016. 20-20 hindsight shows that I had let running squeeze out all the heavy lifts including the Romanian deadlifts that strengthen the hamstrings, and also most of the kettlebell hinge work (primarily swings and snatches, in my case) that also strengthens hamstrings, glutes, and erector spinae.
Had the Achilles tendinitis after Oak Tree Half and Rochester Marathon 2016. 20-20 hindsight tells me that I let the pressure of my last 2 months of employment squeeze out the weighted calf raises, which were one of the exercises the PT told me to do to come back from Achilles tendinitis.
So now I'm retired. And I don't lift to have the heaviest lift, or to be able to say I can deadlift 245 lbs. for 3 reps. (That was my max deadlift, back when; I gave up deadlifts after hearing the PT's opinion of what they do to her clients.) I don't do squats to say I can squat my body weight. (I did that at one point, probably couldn't now.) I lift to support my running habit. I don't need to lift heavy, I need to lift consistently.
In the consistency department, I had an AHA moment a few weeks ago. I was consistently doing my push-ups and pull-ups (vanity, plus some core benefit). I was consistently doing the swiss ball bridge work the PT gave me for the tensor fascia latta. I was consistently doing the monster walk the PT gave me for the Achilles tendinitis. I got back to consistently doing the weighted calf raises. But the kettlebell work was frequently, "Not today. I'm too beat up and not up to it."
The AHA realization was that I don't need to do the exercises with the weights I remember using. Instead of thinking I'm too beat up to do TGUs with a windmill at the top using a 35 lb. kettlebell, just frickin' do them with a 30 lb. kettlebell. Not as sexy or brag-worthy as using 35 lbs., but I can be consistent with 30 lbs. (At one time, I did TGUs with a 45 lb. kettlebell. I don't think that is going to happen again.) Similarly, instead of feeling I can't clean 85 lbs. of kettlebells to do squats, just use 75 lbs. It's not a sexy weight to squat, but it's enough to strenghten my quads and avoid running problems with the quads.
I hear people scratching their heads and wondering what is the benefit of doing squats with kettlebells. There is no particular physiological benefit. The kettlebells are in my living room, and they're more convenient than going to the basement to use an Olympic bar. Because they're more convenient, I will actually get the squats done.
Then when I found I couldn't face all those KB exercises on the same day, I split them. I alternate between TGU/windmill combos and squats one day, and swings and snatches the next. I give myself weekends off from KB work, because Saturday and Sunday mornings are always time crunched.
I've been pretty consistent with this for a few weeks now. And I haven't had to give up any running, or cut back miles, or anything stupid like that.
Personal philosophy, with no research to back it up: There are parallels between strength training and distance training. I don't do speed work every day, and I could train for distance without speed work at all. I don't lift heavy every day. In fact, I pretty much don't lift heavy at all any more. My strength training is somewhat analogous to streak running; I do it pretty much every day, but I don't do it so hard that I need to take days off. In contrast, I could never be a streak runner. I love my long runs and long tempo workouts too much, and I need rest days for that style of running.
Maybe I'm mistaken about general principles, but I think I've found something that works for me. There is no guarantee it will work for anyone else.2 -
February Running Totals (miles)
2/1 – 7.00 easy
2/2 – 2.63 easy shakedown run
2/3 – travel day, didn't get a run in
2/4 – 7.99 warm up on road + 8K cross country
2/5 – travel day, didn't get a run in
2/6 – travel day
2/7 – 9.26 warm up, speed work, cool down
2/8 – 7.02 group run
2/9 – 12.03 MP intervals
2/10 – rest day
2/11 – 18.63 paced run + solo miles
2/12 – 11.48 easy 90 minutes
2/13 – rest day
2/14 – 12.25 warm up, speed work, cool down
2/15 – 6.62 group run
2/16 – 10.05 easy with hills
2/17 – rest day
2/18 – 22.17 paced run + solo miles
2/19 – 12.97 easy 100 minutes with hills
2/20 – rest day
2/21 – 10.47 warm up, speed work, cool down
2/22 – 11.17 easy
February total to date – 161.74
Nominal Challenge Goal – 225 miles
Real Goals: Survive travel to and from Bend. Train well toward Boston. Avoid injury.
Today's notes – There is no long run in my training schedule this week. The assignment for Saturday is 2 miles easy, 2 miles MP, 2 miles easy. Instead, I will have a 4.4 mile race and a warmup. Because this is the last race in the Freezeroo series, hanging around for the series awards means it's unlikely I'll run after the race.
So the week's task is to get my 56 miles in on 5 days, including a Saturday that will be short. Today's assignment is simply "easy," and I get to choose how much of easy I run. I wanted at least 10 miles to reduce how much I need to run on Saturday while keeping a rest day on Friday. And we got great running weather today. The high was in the low 60s, and it was 57º F (14º C) when I got out to run. Garmin says 4 mph wind from the SSW; wind wasn't a factor.
I observed that the snow by the edge of my driveway had all melted, and reasoned that the Geneseee Riverway Trail should also be snow-free today. So I drove into the city to run part of the Rochester Marathon course. The major loop is about 10.5 miles, and maybe I could add some distance with the part of the course through the cemetery. Had one mishap with that; I took the wrong cemetery entrance, so of course nothing looked familiar. Figured it out after I got out of the cemetery then ran past the correct entrance. Oh, well. I didn't add as much distance as the real loop through the cemetery, but it was pretty.
Past the cemetery, the Riverway Trail has a long downhill. The thought is, this is practice for the first part of the Boston course. Since today was warm, I was running with the Vivofit on my right wrist to see HR; after Sunday's run, I wasn't shocked to see a HR in Zone 0 while my pace was 7:30 on the downhill. I did stop once on the boardwalk, because it looked like a pair of swans were close enough to get a decent picture:
Most of the run, I looked more at HR than at pace. Downhill, I tried to keep the HR in Zone 1. Uphill, I didn't worry about it. On the long, boring, flat to slightly up section of St. Paul Blvd, I tried to keep the HR high in Zone 1 or low in Zone 2. Had two brief stops for bladder relief and to tie a shoelace, without pausing the watch.
End result was 11.17 miles in 1:28:03, for an average pace of 7:53 per mile. The only mile splits above 8 minutes were the two with the stops. While trying to mostly run by HR on a route with 462 feet of elevation gain per Garmin (probably overstated, looks like Garmin thinks I went down to river level at the bridge by Seneca Park Zoo), that gave me an average HR of 125 and max of 144. Zone 3, 0:34; Zone 2, 22:20; Zone 1, 59:31; leaving 5:38 for Zone 0.
I'm happy with this. It puts my mileage for the week so far at 34.61. Tomorrow's workout is 14 miles, so I can take a rest day on Friday and only need a bit over 7 miles on Saturday. A warmup plus the 4.4 mile race should bring the week in right on target.
You know you're in marathon training when you can say that you have no long run this week, but will have 4 days with over 10 miles each.
2017 races:
January 1, 2017 Freezeroo #2 (Resolution Run 7.5 mile) (Mendon, NY) Finished in 50:45
January 7, 2017 Winter Warrior Half Marathon (Gates, NY) Finished in 1:32:40
January 14, 2017 Freezeroo #3 (Pineway Ponds Park 5 mile) (Spencerport, NY) Finished in 33:42
January 28, 2017 Freezeroo #4 (Hearnish 5 mile) (Victor, NY) short course, finished 4.88 miles in 32:50
February 4, 2017 USATF Cross Country National Championship Masters 8K (Bend, OR) Finished in 35:39, team won the 60+ Men's cross country championship
February 11, 2017 Freezeroo #5 (Valentines Run "In Memory of Tom Brannon" 8 Mile) (Greece, NY) sat out due to training schedule
February 25, 2017 Freezeroo #6 (White House Challenge 4.4 mile) (Webster, NY)
March 11, 2017 Johnny's Runnin' of the Green 5 mile (Rochester, NY)
March 18, 2017 USATF Masters 8K Championship (Virginia Beach, VA)
April 17, 2017 Boston Marathon (Hopkinton, MA)
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I've got a question for the experienced marathon brain trust here.
I'm halfway through week 6 of my 20 week training plan. So far, things have been awesome, and I have loved all the running. Just enough variety to keep it interesting while having the things I need to build mileage. Here's my issue: I started 2 weeks early, to account for any down time from injury, and in an "ideal" situation, I'll actually be done with the plan 2 weeks early. I obviously don't want to do that, so I need to fit in 2 weeks somewhere in there.
So, Because I like "planning" Things ahead, just so I don't have to think about it, and because I do better with a set plan than Any sort of trying to wing it..... My question is, at what point do I look at inserting those 2 weeks?0 -
MNLittleFinn wrote: »I've got a question for the experienced marathon brain trust here.
I'm halfway through week 6 of my 20 week training plan. So far, things have been awesome, and I have loved all the running. Just enough variety to keep it interesting while having the things I need to build mileage. Here's my issue: I started 2 weeks early, to account for any down time from injury, and in an "ideal" situation, I'll actually be done with the plan 2 weeks early. I obviously don't want to do that, so I need to fit in 2 weeks somewhere in there.
So, Because I like "planning" Things ahead, just so I don't have to think about it, and because I do better with a set plan than Any sort of trying to wing it..... My question is, at what point do I look at inserting those 2 weeks?
Suppose you don't get injured, life doesn't blow up on you, and the plan goes perfectly as written. I know, not a high probability, but what if it happens? I'd say take the last 2 weeks before your taper and repeat them, then do the taper as per your plan. That way, you're maintaining the pre-taper fitness level, you have the taper exactly where you need it, and the 2 extra weeks stay in the bank until you don't need to bank them any more.2
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