Mon 9 mi , 7.5 light tempo 7:10 pace with 7x200 strides after
Tues 7.5mi , easy 7:45/mi
Wed 15 mi, 1st 6mi at 7:00/mi then next 5.5 at 6:30 pace, did 11.5 miles in 1:16:20 (6:45/mi) then 9 minute miles home, really tired
Thur 6.2mi, JA loop easy 49:00
Fri 12 mi, 7.5 mi at 7:30 pace , then 10 x 100 strides
Sat 5.5 mi, real easy, tired
Sun 8.5 mi, 7:45 pace, still tired,left hammy sore
Total 63.5 miles year = 83
So far the biggest milage week since March, I am still trying to get my milage up where I want it but my legs are heavy and tired all the time.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
2010
The Numbers:
miles=1,936 life=25,896
Races= 4 (Really Pathetic)
40+ Pr's = 1/31 Log cabin 10k 35:39
2/28 DH Jones 10mi 1:00:52
Biggest Milage month ever=Jan 371
Last 3 years milage 2007=1343,2008=1613,2009=2492
Really not much to be exited about after Feb last year. I was on track for a big year until life and job took over. I hope to get back to similar fitness by April this year and race a whole lot more.
Goals for 2011
1. Get over 2,600 miles for the year
2. Race at least 1 time a month( try for 20 races this year)
3. Finally comlete the marathon distance while still running(Boston will be my 10th marathon) I have only made it to mile 23 so far without some running catastrophe.
4. Set a 40+ Pr at every distance Raced this year
5. Help CMS 40+ team this year (score at least 1 damn point!)
miles=1,936 life=25,896
Races= 4 (Really Pathetic)
40+ Pr's = 1/31 Log cabin 10k 35:39
2/28 DH Jones 10mi 1:00:52
Biggest Milage month ever=Jan 371
Last 3 years milage 2007=1343,2008=1613,2009=2492
Really not much to be exited about after Feb last year. I was on track for a big year until life and job took over. I hope to get back to similar fitness by April this year and race a whole lot more.
Goals for 2011
1. Get over 2,600 miles for the year
2. Race at least 1 time a month( try for 20 races this year)
3. Finally comlete the marathon distance while still running(Boston will be my 10th marathon) I have only made it to mile 23 so far without some running catastrophe.
4. Set a 40+ Pr at every distance Raced this year
5. Help CMS 40+ team this year (score at least 1 damn point!)
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Training 12/20-1/2/2011
Mon 12 mi, tempo 6 mi @6:20pace followed with another 4 @ 6:45
tues 6.2 48:40
wed 10 mi, 7:25/mi with 10x200 strides
thur off no time(christmas shopping)
fri 5.5 mi slow
Sat 0 christmas, too much travelling
sun 0, poor time management getting equipment ready for snow
Total 33.5 year=1903
12/27- 1/2
Mon 0 Blizzard
Tues 10.5 easy lots of slipping
wed 4.5 treadmill
Thur 8mi, 7:30 pace but felt harder
fri 10 mi, 8:20 pace, legs feel real heavy
Sat 12 mi, 3 w/u followed by 55 minutes with 1min hard, 1 minute off, covered a little over 8 miles
Sun 7.5mi, 8:10 pace, legs feel like crap
Total 52.5 2010=1936 ( nearly 500 less than last year)
I seem to have some really heavy dead legs right now, I will pass it off as too much eating and drinking over the Hollidays and start watching my diet from here and see if it gets better.
tues 6.2 48:40
wed 10 mi, 7:25/mi with 10x200 strides
thur off no time(christmas shopping)
fri 5.5 mi slow
Sat 0 christmas, too much travelling
sun 0, poor time management getting equipment ready for snow
Total 33.5 year=1903
12/27- 1/2
Mon 0 Blizzard
Tues 10.5 easy lots of slipping
wed 4.5 treadmill
Thur 8mi, 7:30 pace but felt harder
fri 10 mi, 8:20 pace, legs feel real heavy
Sat 12 mi, 3 w/u followed by 55 minutes with 1min hard, 1 minute off, covered a little over 8 miles
Sun 7.5mi, 8:10 pace, legs feel like crap
Total 52.5 2010=1936 ( nearly 500 less than last year)
I seem to have some really heavy dead legs right now, I will pass it off as too much eating and drinking over the Hollidays and start watching my diet from here and see if it gets better.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Training 12/13-12/19
Mon 10 mi 8 miles slow 8:10/mi then 10x150 strides
Tues 6.2mi 46:40
Wed off...bad head cold, very tired
Thur 8 mi easy 7:40/mi
Fri 8 mi a little harder 7:10/mi
Sat 6.5 very slow, very tired 8:25/mi
Sun 14 mi easy 8:00/mi with a group
Total 53 miles year=1869.5
Pretty much a forced recovery week, I probably went too long without taking a day off and my body let me know. Hopefully I will get more quality stuff in next week.
Tues 6.2mi 46:40
Wed off...bad head cold, very tired
Thur 8 mi easy 7:40/mi
Fri 8 mi a little harder 7:10/mi
Sat 6.5 very slow, very tired 8:25/mi
Sun 14 mi easy 8:00/mi with a group
Total 53 miles year=1869.5
Pretty much a forced recovery week, I probably went too long without taking a day off and my body let me know. Hopefully I will get more quality stuff in next week.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Training 12/6-12/12
Mon 10 mi , ran 3 w/u with the dog then 3 hard in 18:23 then 4 w/d
Tues 6.2 mi, 46:30 JA loop w/group
Wed 11mi, tempo 6:40 pace for 7.5 miles in cold and wind. a little better
than last week
Thur 6.2mi, 48:50 JA w/group very cold am
Fri 7.5 mi, 7:20 pace
Sat 7.5 + 30 minutes Fartlek in the middle
Sun 12.5mi, miserable icy,cold,rain 8:30 with group
Total 61 miles Year=1816.5(after fixing an adding error in July,
......Maybe I can still reach 2000mi)
Not a bad week 3 little workouts and still feel good and improving from last week.
Tues 6.2 mi, 46:30 JA loop w/group
Wed 11mi, tempo 6:40 pace for 7.5 miles in cold and wind. a little better
than last week
Thur 6.2mi, 48:50 JA w/group very cold am
Fri 7.5 mi, 7:20 pace
Sat 7.5 + 30 minutes Fartlek in the middle
Sun 12.5mi, miserable icy,cold,rain 8:30 with group
Total 61 miles Year=1816.5(after fixing an adding error in July,
......Maybe I can still reach 2000mi)
Not a bad week 3 little workouts and still feel good and improving from last week.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Training 11/29 - 12/5
Mon 9mi, 7:10/mi followed with 10x 100 strides
Tue 6.2mi, 46:50
wed 10mi, "easy tempo" started at 7:10 pace and ran faster for 6 miles
averaged 6:50 pace then backed off to finish 10 in 1:09:45
I was pretty tired at 6 but at least it is a start.
Thur 6.2, 47:20
Fri 6.5 miles 7:40 pace and tired
Sat 4.5 miles with the dog, very tired
Sun 12.5 miles 7:50 pace with friends easy
Total 55 miles year =1,653.5
This is the biggest week for me since the week of NB in March, and the first time I have run all 7 days in the week. With 40 miles last week I think I am ready to do some base type workouts and start to get in shape again, with the goal of running some races in January.
Tue 6.2mi, 46:50
wed 10mi, "easy tempo" started at 7:10 pace and ran faster for 6 miles
averaged 6:50 pace then backed off to finish 10 in 1:09:45
I was pretty tired at 6 but at least it is a start.
Thur 6.2, 47:20
Fri 6.5 miles 7:40 pace and tired
Sat 4.5 miles with the dog, very tired
Sun 12.5 miles 7:50 pace with friends easy
Total 55 miles year =1,653.5
This is the biggest week for me since the week of NB in March, and the first time I have run all 7 days in the week. With 40 miles last week I think I am ready to do some base type workouts and start to get in shape again, with the goal of running some races in January.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Growing Pains
Well the Greatest Farming Season of my life is finally coming to an end. I may never see another one like this year with Great weather from April through October. Some runners are hampered by injuries, with me it has always been the farm. Bad growing years are good for my running, good years like this and it is hard to find the time. It is one of the biggest reasons for me taking 10 years off. So after averaging 18.5 miles a week since May, I decided to go ahead and run the Baystate Marathon. Most people I know (including my wife) thought it was a pretty foolish thing to do. I set a goal for myself when I turned 40 to start running again and do one marathon a year for the rest of my life. Even without running much I still work pretty hard every day and my general fitness is still very good.
Finishing the marathon to me did not seem a big problem. Getting a qualifying time for Boston would be a bit more difficult. I traveled up in the morning with my friend Bob and we met up at the starting line with our other two training partners Mike and Brian. The Plan was to run together until at least 20 miles on 3:15 pace to get a qualifying time for our friend Brian. The first 5 miles really felt pretty easy and I had to really hold back. At 13 my left Achilles was extremely painful and I was really considering dropping out. I wore racing flats and was really regretting the decision because they already had a couple marathons on them. By 15 the pain was still there but not any worse so I continued on and started to pick up the pace a bit to see if it would help. Brian had moved on ahead of us 30 seconds or so and Bob who is 54 started to drift back. By 16 Mike drifted off the pace and I started focusing on catching Brian. I caught up to him at 19 and we were on 3:13 pace and he decided to cut back on the pace a bit, leaving me alone the rest of the way. At 21 my legs were starting to feel the effects of limited training miles and were starting to tighten up. By 22 I was still hitting 7:20 pace, but I was starting to get nauseous as I typically do. I had only taken 2 gu's and a salt tab, but I have an extremely weak stomach and this was even too much.
After 23.5 I was reduced to a crawl and hurting bad. At 24 Mike came by me trying to Cheer me on but I was done. I hit 25 with an 11:15 split for the mile, and had really given up when a few minutes later my friend Bob came by with a 3:20 pace group. I latched on and hobbled along with them for a few minutes until I started feeling better and as we approached the stadium I realized I could still get the 3:20. As we entered the stadium I heard DD Cheer me on and I started to sprint through the stadium and hit the line in 3:20:47 giving me the time needed for Boston. All in all I am happy with the result. It is not what I envisioned last March but I raced and finished and still had fun. Now on to normal training and running a ton of miles this winter, because time is running out on my PR quest.
Finishing the marathon to me did not seem a big problem. Getting a qualifying time for Boston would be a bit more difficult. I traveled up in the morning with my friend Bob and we met up at the starting line with our other two training partners Mike and Brian. The Plan was to run together until at least 20 miles on 3:15 pace to get a qualifying time for our friend Brian. The first 5 miles really felt pretty easy and I had to really hold back. At 13 my left Achilles was extremely painful and I was really considering dropping out. I wore racing flats and was really regretting the decision because they already had a couple marathons on them. By 15 the pain was still there but not any worse so I continued on and started to pick up the pace a bit to see if it would help. Brian had moved on ahead of us 30 seconds or so and Bob who is 54 started to drift back. By 16 Mike drifted off the pace and I started focusing on catching Brian. I caught up to him at 19 and we were on 3:13 pace and he decided to cut back on the pace a bit, leaving me alone the rest of the way. At 21 my legs were starting to feel the effects of limited training miles and were starting to tighten up. By 22 I was still hitting 7:20 pace, but I was starting to get nauseous as I typically do. I had only taken 2 gu's and a salt tab, but I have an extremely weak stomach and this was even too much.
After 23.5 I was reduced to a crawl and hurting bad. At 24 Mike came by me trying to Cheer me on but I was done. I hit 25 with an 11:15 split for the mile, and had really given up when a few minutes later my friend Bob came by with a 3:20 pace group. I latched on and hobbled along with them for a few minutes until I started feeling better and as we approached the stadium I realized I could still get the 3:20. As we entered the stadium I heard DD Cheer me on and I started to sprint through the stadium and hit the line in 3:20:47 giving me the time needed for Boston. All in all I am happy with the result. It is not what I envisioned last March but I raced and finished and still had fun. Now on to normal training and running a ton of miles this winter, because time is running out on my PR quest.
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