I have to make this quick as I’m super busy tonight. Tonight was a long, slow, wet run of seven miles at 10:25 pace. It rained on me the whole damn time. I do hate those runs. Oh well, I have five full days off now in Norway with my husband for his birthday. I [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
Marathon Training Day 23
Good evening. Well, this evening was a good run. It was speed work tonight, which was a mile warm up then a half mile at 8:30ish pace with just over tenth of a mile recoveries done four times followed by a mile cool down. Speed work is always a tough session and tonight had its [...]
Marathon Training Day 21
It’s Sunday. It’s long run day. Nine miles today at 10:26 per mile. I’m still just a bit hung over from early birthday celebrations last night with friends. It was a lot of fun and I knew it would hurt today so I waited until 3.00pm to let the hangover ebb slightly. The run wasn’t [...]
Marathon Training Day 20
It’s Saturday. It’s four easy miles. Need I say more? Well, I will say my knees are starting to hurt. The first half of the run was a bit painful. I found this to be the case last autumn when I was training for the half-marathon when the mileage went up. It subsided after a [...]
Marathon Training Day 18
Today was a tempo run: three miles done around 9:20 pace with a mile warm up and cool down, for a total of five miles. I struggled to ‘find’ or ‘feel’ the pace tonight. I was either huffing and puffing going too fast, below 9:10 down to 8:50, or found myself going too slowly at [...]
Marathon Training Day 17
Well, it’s been a busy day on the blog, hasn’t it? It’s been a long time since I managed three posts in one day. I’ve done my time on the naughty step for jumping to conclusions with Sports Direct. I’m still just a little bit mad at myself, but, such is life.
Today’s session was a [...]
Ridiculous Customer Service, part two
So, right, ahem, I hate this so much: I was wrong about Sports Direct. Trainers come with their sizes listed in US sizes. I live in the UK. They’re not the same. When I ordered size eight the other day, they interpreted that as US size ten, which was correct. I should have ordered size [...]
Upcoming Races
As part of my marathon training I am supposed to enter a few races to test my fitness. One is to be on 28 March and anywhere from five miles to a half-marathon (13.1 miles). The other is to be on 11 April and a half-marathon. I’ve found two races to enter for these days. [...]
Would you like to see where I run?
I use the website MapMyRun.com to map out runs of longer miles. I have a six mile route and a five mile route near home but use this website to map out anything over 10 miles. I’ve also used it to map my run in Arkansas and one in Cardiff last autumn. It is very [...]
Marathon Training Day 16
Today was a speed work day: 1 mile warm up at slow pace; 1 mile at fast pace (8:40ish) with 400m (.25 miles) recovery and repeat two more times for a total of 3 laps; 1 mile cool down at slow pace. This was done in the steady rain. I was splashed by at least [...]