Well, today was a long run of 13 miles. It was absolutely b-e-a-utiful out there. The sun was shining and the temperature was comfortable enough that I was able to go out in just my running tights and a long sleeve shirt. No jacket or gloves required. This fantastic weather made the run so much [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2010
Marathon Training Day 39
Tonight was a tempo run. A mile warm up then three miles at 9:00ish pace and a mile cool down. The last time I ran this pace was several weeks ago when the training was really kicking my butt. Tonight was a tale of two halves. The first half I struggled slightly to not only [...]
Marathon Training Day 38
I ran home today for my slow six miles. I mapped a route through Claygate as I mentioned yesterday. It was a nice route but there were a couple of drawbacks. Mainly, a lot of the route was very rural, which means little to no pavement to run on. I am alright running on the [...]
Marathon Training Day 37
Tonight was a speed work session. I started with the usual mile warm up at 10:40ish pace. I then did 8 x 400 metres (.25 miles) at very fast 8:00ish pace with 200 metre (.12 miles) recoveries. That followed with the mile cool down at 10:40ish again. I felt good tonight despite feeling very tired [...]
Marathon Training Week Six
I tried to paste this week’s schedule in yesterday but it wasn’t working for some reason. Here it is: Week Six 8-14 March Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Rest 1M jog, then 8 x 400m (or 2 mins) fast with 200m (or 90-sec) jog recoveries, then 1M jog 6M (approx 60 mins) slow [...]
Marathon Training Day 35
Today was the first long run for a few weeks due to last week’s Norwegian expedition. Today was hard, I’ll definitely say that. Eleven miles at slow pace of 10:30ish but it was hard going for the first few miles. Then, when I finally got into my stride I encounter the longest hill…ever! I ran [...]
Marathon Training Day 32
Tonight was a steady run of five miles at 9:25 per mile and it was very hard. It’s only the second run back from holiday and the quicker pace really got to me. I was barely hanging on in the last mile. I knew it was going to be hard. I knew I’d lost a [...]
Marathon Training Day 31
Well, hello. It’s been a week. Back from Norway and back to marathon training. Slow five miles today except my Garmin GPS was dead so I had to guess at the pacing. I ended up going just a bit faster than I ought to at 10:22 per mile. It was still within the range but [...]