Thirteen weeks down, and five to go. The race is five weeks from today. Everything is on track for success in New York on 6 November.
Week 12 was an uneventful 34 miles (2x five mile runs, 2x six mile runs, 1x 12 miles.) I did run six on Saturday and 12 on Sunday, which is the first time in a while I've done a long run following anything other than a rest day. My five and six mile runs were all at faster than marathon pace. Funny how 34 miles is an easy week for me at this point.
Which brings me to week 13, this past week. I felt pretty good this week, though I did blow out my running shoes. I put about 160 miles on them in September, and they were rode hard and put away wet. A lot of time they were put on wet the next day, too. Not sure if Zappos is going to give me a new pair for the way these things failed.
I ran every day from Tuesday trough Friday, going 5-10-5-10, respectively. Did Friday's 10 miler at an average pace of 8:52, which is slightly better than what I think my MP will be.
Picked up new shoes last night at VA Runner, and had everything set up for this morning's run. I got up and got out the door around 5:20am for the 20 miler. For some reason I couldn't find my Gatorade mix, so I went out with water only to drink.
It was cold today. Probably in the 40s when I started out. Wind was blowing a bit, too, so it was chilly. I loved it. Dark and cool and nobody else around. I didn't see a car for the first 2 miles, and probably less than 20 the entire time I was out.
Everything was going well until I hit the 5 mile marker, on the Marine Corps Base where I usually recharge my water. The water bull wasn't there, which was not a big concern. However, I noted my watch was running out of space to hold data, so I started deleting old runs. In so doing I accidentally deleted the first 5 miles of my run! Erased, from existence. Frustrating.
However, nothing could get in my head today. Perfect running conditions, and I took it easy en route to a 9:43 minute mile average for the whole 20 miles. Got home, took a hot shower, drank an O'Doul's and was at church by 9:30am. Of course the day was pretty much spoiled by the way the Steelers played, but I'm getting used to the 2011 Steelers disappointing play. I hope they can figure out how to stop the run and cause some turnovers again like last year.
"Easy" week coming up with 5-6-5-6-12, followed by one more week like this past one.
Week 12 was an uneventful 34 miles (2x five mile runs, 2x six mile runs, 1x 12 miles.) I did run six on Saturday and 12 on Sunday, which is the first time in a while I've done a long run following anything other than a rest day. My five and six mile runs were all at faster than marathon pace. Funny how 34 miles is an easy week for me at this point.
Which brings me to week 13, this past week. I felt pretty good this week, though I did blow out my running shoes. I put about 160 miles on them in September, and they were rode hard and put away wet. A lot of time they were put on wet the next day, too. Not sure if Zappos is going to give me a new pair for the way these things failed.
I ran every day from Tuesday trough Friday, going 5-10-5-10, respectively. Did Friday's 10 miler at an average pace of 8:52, which is slightly better than what I think my MP will be.
Picked up new shoes last night at VA Runner, and had everything set up for this morning's run. I got up and got out the door around 5:20am for the 20 miler. For some reason I couldn't find my Gatorade mix, so I went out with water only to drink.
It was cold today. Probably in the 40s when I started out. Wind was blowing a bit, too, so it was chilly. I loved it. Dark and cool and nobody else around. I didn't see a car for the first 2 miles, and probably less than 20 the entire time I was out.
Everything was going well until I hit the 5 mile marker, on the Marine Corps Base where I usually recharge my water. The water bull wasn't there, which was not a big concern. However, I noted my watch was running out of space to hold data, so I started deleting old runs. In so doing I accidentally deleted the first 5 miles of my run! Erased, from existence. Frustrating.
However, nothing could get in my head today. Perfect running conditions, and I took it easy en route to a 9:43 minute mile average for the whole 20 miles. Got home, took a hot shower, drank an O'Doul's and was at church by 9:30am. Of course the day was pretty much spoiled by the way the Steelers played, but I'm getting used to the 2011 Steelers disappointing play. I hope they can figure out how to stop the run and cause some turnovers again like last year.
"Easy" week coming up with 5-6-5-6-12, followed by one more week like this past one.
I'm very happy the weather has started to work with you!
ReplyDelete"Funny how 34 miles is an easy week for me at this point." Love hearing this. May your perfect running conditions continue all the way through NYC.
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