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

Just over 6.5 miles for me this evening after work in 45:12 - 6:55 pace.

Hope everyone is keeping ok

3.10 mile run - (32 min).

 

I love Dr. Pepper!  It is my favoite.  FYI - My sister lives in Mexico - they think Dr. Pepper is disgusting.  They obviouly don't know what good soda is:)

 I am training for my first 50 mile ultra marathon in March.  I have done 2 50Ks before so this will be my longest running race.  I am trying to get motivated to leave my house to train.  Unfortunatly, transmission on my 2006 Nissan Xterra (yes, 2006) is fried.  It has been in the shop since last Friday with a $4000 dollar bill waiting for me when I pick it up.  The whole thing (the Xterra not the ultramarathon) has made me depressed and unmotivated.  I am suppose to go on a 8 mile run on trails today.  I would love to drive to the trails and then run. But since there are no trails within 4 miles of my home, I am destined to run on concrete and pavement.  Ugghhh! 

I hope everyone is having a better day than me.  I hope you appreciate your working transmission, and if you are close to trails and dirt - I hope you appreciate those too;)

Wow, I'm pretty proud of myself. I went 12.5 just now, took me around 105 minutes, but I could care less. Its the farthest I have ever run. I was going to go run 7, but I felt so good I kept going. Its like I hit my stride once at 4 miles or so, then hit an even faster one at 7. It was a pretty cool feeling. Boring route though-- Along the Mississippi, I ran to and across the Lake St. bridge, and then down and across the Ford Parkway bridge-- I did that loop twice. 

Thanks Mark! I don't want to break my arm patting myself on the back, but I was running alone, which sucked. I mean, I usually do because of my weird school & work schedules, but still. 

3.5 mile tempo for me today - short and fast (ish) not near my best but 26:55 which makes a 7:59 pace plus my watch did something wacky out there so may have been a bit faster.

Also had kickboxing this morning - pure kicking session pretty much so after that and yesterdays hill sprints my legs need a break!

tomorrow is a well earned day of rest : ) now for moussaka and cheesecake!

45min hill session on treadmill - tough but great.

Hah - good for you.  Lets just hope your employer isn't reading this thread!:)

MarkRTC...I loved your comment!!  It is weird how you think about other people running when you are out there.  This morning it was 14.......that is on the F scale for all you friends down there!  Snow lightly falling.  I bumped up to 4 1/4 miles in 38 :24.  I am still on target to get up to five every other day with cross training on my off days.  Once I get there I think I will start varying my runs and put in a goal.  Oh yeah  I ran in new shoes today... they were great!!!!

nice 4 mile run today.  splits were 6:43, 6:39, 6:38, 5:49.  Been doing the same kinda thing all week 3-4 miles with the last mile being alot faster.  This is my "break" between cross country and indoor track, so ill be taking it wasy till about wednesday, when practice will be kicked into high gear. 

O btw, i hate Dr. Pepper

First of all Dr Pepper is the best!

 Ran 5.3 miles on the treadmill last night.  Going on vacation to OBX North Carolina for the week.  Should be some decent running weather.  And I love running in places I don't know.  It's a cool way to explore.  Running in a 5k Turkey Trot on Thursday in Duck, NC. 

I live in Pennsylvania.  We got hit with 2 inches of snow today and it's about 25 degrees F here right now.  Not ideal running weather at all.  Thank God for treadmills and indoor tracks. 

ok so today we did a little time trial to break in our new track. 4 of us went out there they were all planning on doing a mile and i was gonna do a 3k. Well after a 68 and 70 for a 2:18 at 800m i decided i didnt want to do a 3k. Five more laps just didnt sound very good. So i kicked up the pace a few notches and ran 64, 67 for a 4:29. Kept it somewhat comfortable since it was just for fun. My calves are really sore though, its the first time i've been on a track in 6 mothns.

Oh and funny story, we went to play basketball afterwards and after 1 game my legs were dead of course since i had just run my time trial. So i was just kinda shuffling around and one guy told me," you need to work on your cardio man we just started playng!" haha i laughed on the inside.

Hahaha funny story chiggy:) If only he knew eh.

Must admit I'm not a big fan of Dr Pepper or of 'soda pop' in general. Give me a nice tall glass of milk any day.

So I took yesterday off as I wanted to get home to see the darts - Got a nice 12.13 miles run in this afternoon in 1:29:27 - 7:22 pace.

 

I ran about a mile then got frustrated with the sheet of ice on the roads...gonna hit the belt later this evening when the rec center opens back up. My new theme song:

I get no traction cause I'm running on ice
It's taking me twice as long
I get a bad reaction cause I'm running on ice
Where did my life go wrong

You've got to run
You've got to run

(Billy Joel - Running on Ice)

around 11 miles today @ 8 minutes per mile.

here's my funny, or not so funny story for this run. While I've stumbled on several runs, today I stubbed my foot on a raised piece of sidewalk. After a couple stumbling steps I had to veer into the grass, where I managed to do a forward roll, and came up running. I'm fairly clumsy, so I'm surprised this is my first fall while running.

So, what is everyone's opinion on: What is the lowest temperature you can safely run at?

Hadn't planned on a run today but my mate wanted to go out so I braved the strong winds and hailstorms.

We just took it nice and easy and done 10.78 miles in 1:25:58 - 7:57 pace

Back in front of the fire now and glad I went out. Legs feel ok. Should be able to get a 6-8 miles run in tomorrow evening hopefully

Hey there.  I had a crack at some "speed" work in the weekend. Ran to a training programme I downloaded from itunes called "Increase Your Speed 1" by Hamish Carter.  Hamish won gold in the triathalon at Athens in 04, and so I figure he should know something about running.  Ran first 10 minutes easy, then 4 minutes at 70-75% of full pace, 3 minutes recovery, 3 minutes at 80%, 3 minutes recovery, 2 minutes at 90%, 2 minutes recovery, then 1 minute at 95-100% (like you're within site of the finish line, and trying to overtake that one last runner...), followed by 10 minutes recovery.  It was hard work, but I really enjoyed it and felt great for the rest of the day.  I'm trying to settle in to an off season training plan of 2 runs (5 or 10K) during the week, a speed session on Sat and long run on Sunday, and according to Runners World, if I keep that up I should only be 4 weeks away from peak at any one time  We'll see...

I ran 3 miles, untimed...about 15 degrees warmer today than yesterday..quite nice.

Gilly32 : thanks for the vague answer LOL.

baseroom : well, you're here to tell the tale.

 

Great long run today.  Was just aiming for time...I wanted to do a 2hr run...longest run by 15 mins.  I did 11.24 miles at 10:40 pace.  I actually thought I went further....but..okay....i'll take it.  I had a partner today...who joined me at my 5 mile mark....and that worked well.  I had someone to sprint the last 1/2 mile with.

I'm beginning to think I really, really like cold weather runs.  I sweat so much more, which makes me *feel* like im working harder and I really like the seansation of feeling my body warm up.  And...it feels like just another race ...race against yourself, race against the temperature.  love it.

Junkie... there is an article in Runner's World Jan 2008 about running temps.  The most ideal temps to run are between 36-52 degrees F for endurance runners....with the optimal at 52. Less than 36 degrees is fine...but add 2% to your goal time.  According to the article...the only exceptions for staying in are a)  if you want to do speed repeats and b) if the windchill drops below -20 F   So there you go.....we got some time before the temps are that low..:)

Gilly...why would you even answer that question?!!?  your lowest temp is what...?  50??   ever!?   lol......

Baseroom....up to 4 1/4?!?!  congrats!!!   go you!   :)

I ran 6 miles today.  Not too fast just an even 10 min. pace.

LexB-  yes today was one of those AWESOME days to live in the Pacific Northwest.  I ran home(from a friend's wine shop) around 4:15PM tpday. It was a mostly westerly route so I going towards the sunset.  It was a balmy 54 outside, clear with just enough clouds to give the sunset some color.  Beautiful end to a gorgeous day.

6km first thing this morning - one of those off-days I'm afraid - felt tired and slow from start to finish and the freezing wind and driving rain didn't help much either.  Pleased I made the effort to get out there though.

Okay, with all the running in ice stories and getting out there in spite of being sick stories, I'm the wimp. We walked the Holiday Parade on Saturday, not far, but the w-a-i-t-i-n-g. It took an hour before we even got started on our turn to walk. Which, really, isn't so bad, except I was wearing a bear suit and trying to make sure the young people with us stayed close by and didn't run in front of a bus or something. Just trashed me! Lots of reasons (past my feeding time, skipped my morning coffee...) But I really thought I'd be physically better since I've been running regularly. Then again, it was the waiting that trashed me. Once we moved life was good. So maybe I have improved. Should I train for sitting around as well as running? Cover both sides? Hmmmmm.

Yeah KDogg - I was kind of wondering what happened to Zenko as well. I was reading through some of the earlier posts - 104 miles in 7 days mate - crikey!!

As for me, I done just over 6.5 miles today after work in 46:19 - 7:05 pace. Probably do something similar tomorrow.

Tranquil - it sounds to me like you are not stretching.  You really need to spend some time on your cool down (walking) and stretching; particularly after your long runs.  Also, point well taken regarding my answer on running in dangerous temps.

A Fantastic 12 mile run to start the week for me.  Absolutely perfect weather for running (50 degrees; partly cloudy; light breeze).  It was like running in paradise.

A Happy Running week to all!

"I have met my hero, and he is me."
                                             George Sheehan
 

 

Just a 14 mile bike for me today.  Work to home, 1 hour 13 minutes including the trip up the hill at the end.   That's a 7 minutes faster than my last trip home on the bike and I managed to bike 1/4 way up the hill (I run it up the rest of the way).  It was another gorgeous day in the pacific northwest!