Runner's Forum: The Official: Training Summary Start Up Thread

Lex, I'm glad to see you are feeling better!  : )

 I am re-focused!  I did my 12 on Sunday.  I felt pretty good, but I left WAY too late and ended up getting really hot.  I had to go to a barbeque almost immediately after I took my shower.  Ended up throwing up in front of my friend's mom (whom I have never met before!).  It was embarrassing, but I felt much better.  I have a really weak stomach and the smell of all that yummy food did me in after the run.  After keeping watermelon down, I CHOWED down and it tasted so good.....LoL!

Yesterday I did a fast (for me) 3 mile run.  I did two consecutive 7 minute miles, which I was REALLY proud of  : )  The first half mile and last half mile I did at pace (9s).  I feel focused and ready to go!

KJ

15 mile medium long run this afternoon. I ran about 7 miles on my and then met up with one of my teammates and ran with him for awhile and then both of us met up with some other guys and finished up.

I was only planning on going 14, but I got pulled along for another mile because of the conversation.  A good day  

Good morning everyone

 Ran my standard 5.2 miles today. Slowed a little from yesterday...8:19 pace. It was a beautiful morning to run...the sun was just coming over the horizon as I took off.

 Chiggy...I'm jealous of those that have the time to run 14-15 miles during the week (but I guess Kdogg finishes that in an hour ). It's tough enough getting a 45 minute run in before I head to work...and it's sometimes real tough to get my long runs in on the weekends, as I work 2 weekends a month.

14-15 miles in an hour? please, try 45 minutes :) Seriously though, I just wake up pretty early or run later in the evening to get my runs in. I live at home so I don't have a lot of expenses, so I can afford to only work 30 hours a week or so. I promised myself that this year was going to be all about getting myself into shape, because the previous seven years all I had heard about was how much potential I'd wasted up to that point...so I figured I'd try and see what I could do with some consistent training rather than running only during the summer and fall.

We'll see how the experiment turns out sometime next year when I do a marathon (I decided to put the marathon off until after I run a really fast 10k)

Today I ran 10 miles at the hottest point of the day, I am trying to run in the heat at least once a week to help get acclimated to it. I wouldn't recommend trying it unless you have a lot of places to stop for water

I went over to a 5k today. I held the course record and they did some stuff to help get participation up, so I figured I'd have to go over there to defend my course record.

I ran 16:13 to win. I felt like junk the whole way, my legs are definitely fatigued from the mileage I've been putting in. But I went out there to do what I had to do and things went about as I expected. So, no complaints here. I might try and run fast at some race in a couple weeks, but we'll wait until then to see.

Yesterday, Sunday I ran 11 miles and today I did 45 min spinning class and 20 min run.  This workout was great.

I am with you LexB. Come back Marathonbroado and exkiwi. I must keep an eye out for my kiwi friend when I am running.

Today was a pretty easy session. 12km in a touch over 55mins. I am thinking of going as fast as I can for the hald next week. I will probably just jump in with the 1.30 pace group and hold on for as long as I can. If I ca maintain that pace for 16-18km then I will still get a respectable time, but it is more about the prep for the full in Oct, rather than time. Would be cool to get around 1.32 though.

Ride home today was my first sub 40 ride, and it would have been quicker but for every stinking red light on the way. Had nothing to do with gale at my back for 80% of the ride!!!

Catch ya later guys

today was a quick run of 3 miles, after back/biceps workout. Finished in just under 7 minutes per mile. It was only 70, but the humidity was 90%...felt like trying to breathe underwater.

I think I could use some work on my running form. I feel like I use all calf to run (my calves are the only part of my leg that feels tired when I finish). Is there something I should be doing different?

haha chiggy, funny you would say that actually. Saturday I caused a super bad blister on my foot and just ignored so and kept running. Between Saturday and Monday, apparently I infected the blister and it hurt a ton. So when I was running I was changing my gait, which in turn caused some other issues. On my Monday evening run, my foot hurt so bad (because of how I was running), I thought I possibly had a stress fracture (but failed to consider a number of reasons why a stress fracture on my first metatarsal is near impossible). So I woke up and ran Tuesday with no foot pain, just blister pain. But I had to miss my evening run on Tuesday because that bad boy hurt sooooo much.

Anyway, I doused it in antibiotic and went to sleep early and woke up and the pain had subsided. So I ran 15 miles today for my medium long run and felt surprisingly awesome.

I've gotta go into work later to speak with some beginner triathletes about training, and then after that I am gonna try and run some more after that.

Hey everyone, Sounds like you are all doing swell. KDogg, I, too, am jealous of your mileage, especially since my slump started a few weeks ago. Good news is, my last two runs have felt GREAT! I did 5 miles on Monday in 43:08 (8:34 pace) and 3.76 mile easy run on Tuesday in about 35 minutes. I've also been able to get out on bike patrol at work a few times in the last two weeks for some cross training (beats sitting in a patrol car all night). This has been a huge help in my recovery, too. I'm much less sore (except for my @$$) after riding.

I received a blessing in disguise  duringmy Tuesday run, I lost my watch (it had been strapped to my Amphipod and fell off somewhere). I turned around to look for it, but no luck, so I'm not sure how long it actually took me to finish my run. Anyway, I went to the store to buy a new watch and found a Timex Speed/Distance watch for $59! That's $90 cheaper than I've seen it before. I was hoping to hold out for a Garmin 405, but I couldn't beat the price. I'll use this for a while, then think about upgrading.

Long run later today, Trying for between 8-12 miles, depending on how I'm feeling. By the way, I decided to run the Charlevoix half on 06/28, so wish me luck. Maybe a short term goal will help me stay on task with my training schedule. Keep running. 

Simmo - I reckon I would be about 42-43 for 10km, but it is a distance I very rarely run, jsut because the loops around my house dont quite fit in with that distance, and I very rarely run races. Have only done 14km, a half and a full.

Burg - where is your half enxt week. Seems we have one on the same day,a lthough our attitude towards them is a bit different. Mine is a step towards the full in Oct so am just going to see how far I can go at a fast clip - 1.30 is my outrageous aim at the moment. I was where you were last year - about 4 months running, had done a 14km race, was building up slowly, and my goal was the half - the full was not yet a consideration. I would just look after yourself. AN easy run this week at about half distance, a slightly shorter during the week, and a short run the day before to blow out the gunk in the legs. Eat properly and you will be fine. But then again I am no expert.

11 miles total. I ran an all comers track meet today. The mile actually turned out to be pretty competitive, there were a lot of fast guys out.

I ran a 4:35 (72, 68, 69, 66) for 2nd. It was one of those things where you finish and feel great and are thinking man, what would have happened if I pushed?!? But I am happy with how that turned out because I haven't done anything even remotely fast (I've ran like 8 miles under 6:00 pace in the last month-month and a half). We went out too slow for me to use my strength (from running so many miles) and I paid for it with a second place showing. But thats okay.

Then I got together with some guys for a 4x800 relay. We ran 8:41 with me being the anchor. Luckily we were so far ahead by the time I got it, so I was able to take it pretty easy (2:15-2:20 or so).

Then 9.5 miles worth of warming up, cooling down and messing around. 

Ran about 3.5 miles today at an 8 minute pace, after 30 minutes in the gym working on legs and shoulders.

a 4:35 mile, and 2:15 800 meter is taking it easy? That's what I like about this site...got fast people to remind me how slow I run. LOL

I've been training like crazy but I can't break a 7 min mile. 5K tommorrow and I'm shooting for 25 - 26 min.

My original race pace goal was 27 minutes but I ran that this morning without really killing myself so I think that I ought to be able to shave at least a  minute on race day.

Hello guys!

had an easy 10k yesterday with 1 mile at pace (only 8.20pace but better than nothing I guess) and one mile at tempo at the end 9.0 pace. I felt pretty tired at the end. All in all it was a 58min run.

I'm a little bit concerned about how much I have slowed down over the past month.  Any ideas what's happening? I am thinking I'll probably go back to having one treadmill session each week to work on my speed.

I hate treadmills tho! :(

Today is cross day so kicboxing this morning (had to do my Kata infront of the class which wasn't good) and going for a bike ride this avo. My shoulder is still pretty sore, def going to get it checked out next week.

Easy long run tomorrow - not sure whether I will try to conquer that beast of a hill again.  We shall see

Take it easy guys