LA Marathon training program: Week 1 4 Tuesday February 13th , 2007 EZ Run: 6mi @ 8:28 (6mi @ 8:44) Weight: 190 Time: 7:00pm Temp: 10 Weather: Snow Route: Treadmill Notes: I was a bit worried about this run, I am still sour from my long run, but all went well. After my disappointing performance on Sunday, I have decided to make sure I stay on schedule for these last few taper weeks. Despite this I ...
LA Marathon training program: Week 13 Sunday February 11th , 2007 Long Run: 20mi @ 8:42 (20mi @ 8:44) Weight: 188 Time: 12:00pm Temp: 14f Weather: Light Snow Route: Indoor Track Notes: Ouch! This should read, Long Run: 20 something miles @ 8:40-ish minutes a mile. I don't really have any idea what happened with this run, but it was hellish. My first problem was not un-expected. The indoor ...
LA Marathon training program: Week 13 Friday February 9th , 2007 Tempo Run: 5mi - 3mi @ 7:19 (5.1mi - 3.1mi @ 7:08) Weight: 189 Time: 7:00pm Temp: 18f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes: I missed a run this week, but I did not want to skip my speed work, so I moved my tempo to friday night. I could not help but push up the pase a bit, since It was so close to the fastest 5k I had ever done, which was at 7:14. So I d...
LA Marathon training program: Week 13 Wednesday February 7th , 2007 EZ Run: 6mi @ 8:44 (6mi @ 8:44) Weight: 190 Time: 5:30am Temp: -3f Weather: Clear Route: Treadmill Notes: I had a pretty crazy Tuesday, and missed running, so I did my Tuesday run today. I am going to push my Thursday run back to Thursday night as well. But otherwise things are fine. This run was un eventful, other then finding out that my treadmill dose not d...
LA Marathon training program: Week 12 Sunday February 4th , 2007 EZ Run: 8mi @ 8:40 (8mi @ 8:55) Weight: 190 Time: 7:00pm Temp: -3f Weather: Clear Route: Treadmill Notes: I was very happy to get back to running, even on the treadmill. Even after getting off a plain, I was looking forward to getting back on schedule. To keep thing interesting I tried to stair step the pace a bit, I started at 8:57 ...
LA Marathon training program: Week 12 Thursday February 1st , 2007 Elliptical Machine: 1hour 12minutes (8mi @ 8:55) Weight: 188 Time: 6:00am Temp: 5f Weather: Light Snow Route: Elliptical Machine Notes: I have never used a elliptical machine for more than a few seconds, I have always found the motion odd, so have avoided them. However today there was 6 inches of snow on all the roads, and I was 7000 feet up...
LA Marathon training program: Week 12 Thursday February 1st , 2007 Yasso 800's: 9.50mi - 10 x 800m @ 3:25 (9.5mi 10 x 800m @ 3:30) Weight: 188 Time: 6:00am Temp: 8f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes: This was my last set of Yasso 800's, or was at least supposed to be. Considering how hard these were when I started, I am quite happy with how this went. Starting at the 4th repeat, I bumped up the pace .1 of a mile each repeat....
LA Marathon training program: Week 1 1 Tuesday January 30th, 2007 EZ Run: 7mi @ 8:40 (Planned: 8mi @ 8:55) Weight: 188 Time: 6:00pm Temp: 8f Weather: Light Snow Route: Indoor Track. Notes: This should say 7mi @ 8:40 and 45 minutes of basketball. I think this is enough to make up for the missing mile. On Tuesdays Stardock plays gathers at the local rec. center for a game of basketball. I tend to ditch, since I am not the best perso...
The three title words were almost painful to write. I'm not a dittohead by any means, but I'm going to have to give Rush props on a very solid point, one that cost him a job. Some years ago, Rush commented on McNabb that the media loved to hype black quarterbacks. You'd have thought he called for the mass deportation of anyone with less than complete Aryan ancestry by the way the media attacked. Rush attacked their darling, and there was no way, no way at all, he was their darling simply beca...
LA Marathon training program: Week 1 1 Thursday January 25th, 2007 Yasso 800's: 8.75mi - 9x800m @ 3:29 (Planned: 8.75mi - 9x800m @ 3:30) Weight: 188 Time: 5:15am Temp: 11f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes: Only one more set of Yasso 800's!!!. After last week I was a bit worried that I had fired myself, and that I would not be able to do today's workout. But all is well, I think the day off I took was well worth it. The...
LA Marathon training program: Week 1 1 Wednesday January 24th, 2007 EZ Run: 5mi @ 8:49 (Planned: 5mi @ 8:55) Weight: 188 Time: 6:00am Temp: 14f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes: Yesterday I did what I never planed on, I skipped a day, without any plans to make it up. Week 10 was just a bit to much, and I needed a break. It was totally worth it, After my much needed day off, I was quite surprised ...
Running update.....late. Sitting at about 190, no big weight drop, but down a couple of percent body fat. Woot. It'll come more when the milage goes up. Okay, so, erm......17 miles two weeks back, last week I got sick on the weekend and missed out on a bunch, so call it the rest week that was supposed to be this one, and a whopping 7 miles. That's right. 7. Wow. Got a lot of knitting done though being sick on the couch. Yay. Finished dharma's hat, started matching socks, and a scarf for my...
LA Marathon training program: Week 10 Sunday January 21st, 2007 Long Run: 22mi @ 8:54 (Planned: 20mi @ 8:55) Weight: 189 Time: 8:55am Temp: 12f Weather: Fricking Cold Route: Howell to Witmore Lake. Notes: What a surprise, 22 miles is harder then 20 miles. This was the hardest thing I've done. After the last 20 miler I was feeling pretty good. After this one I was about as close to giving up this crazy running t...
LA Marathon training program: Week 10 Friday January 19th, 2007 Speedwork: 8mi - 4 x 1600m @ 7:03 (Planned: 8mi - 4 x 1600m @ 7:03) Weight: 188.5 Time: 10:30am Temp: 20f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes: Tuesday we went "Gold" on Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar. As a thank you to the game team for working many long days, we were giving Thursday and Friday off. So of course I spent my day off Playing the game. The pr...
LA Marathon training program: Week 10 Thursday January 18th, 2007 EZ Run: 4mi @ 7:59 (Planned: 4mi @ 8:55) Weight: 188.5 Time: 8:30am Temp: 20f Weather: Light Snow Route: Pinckney road loop. Notes: Once aging I probably should not have over run, but I wanted to see how hard it would be to stay at a 8:00 pace for a distance. Unfortunately the dirt road that I was running on was covered with more Ice then I liked....