April 15th- Went out for an easy 4 with Alex. Windchill around 0. I thought this was Spring? Only 12 days out.
April 16th- Didn't run
April 17th- 6 miles at a decent pace.
April 18th- 4 miles.
April 19th- 4 quick miles!
April 20th- Ran a 5k, it felt too fast from the start. I guess that's what happens when you never do workouts. The high school team took off at a very unsustainable pace. I finished 6th in 17:52. It was 4 loops around the park and the race was large enough that we lapped people as we started. They also devised a system to help you count to 4 by handing you a different colored ribbon each lap. It was bad. But it was for charity and Alex won $30 for his efforts.
April 21st- 2nd attempt at getting out to Curt Gowdy State Park for a trail run. We've given up all hope of being on Happy Jack's trails for awhile, they're still enjoying good xc skiing there! We made it to Gowdy and attempted to run on the trails for about 2 minutes. There was 6" to 12" of snow on the trails and it was icy due to melting and refreezing a few times. Surely not runnable. We took to the road through the park. It was very scenic and the way out very enjoyable. We turned around after nearly 40 minutes. The way back was much harder as we had gone downhill about 300 feet including some long climbs and were now running into a 35-50 mph wind. It took 4 minutes longer to get back with a much harder effort.
32 miles on the week, ironically too similar to the distance I will be attempting to complete in about 4 hours on the 27th.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
800m Training
This summer I would like to break 2:00 for the 800m run. Having only run the event a handful of times, ever, I believe my personal best is 2:03.1. I know I ran a few 4x800 splits faster than that but I don't know how fast. Those times were all from high school. I may have been able to run slightly faster in college but with less races, there was less time to expiriment with an event that I am not overly good at. In addition, due to the volume of my overall running and lack of anything truly fast, I don't know if I would have gone much faster at all.
You may be thinking, why would he want to do this? My reasons mostly come back to time and motivation. In my mind, 6 x 150m, no matter how fast, is mentally much easier than 10 x 1k, especially alone. Clearly it will also consume much less time. Another reason I want to do this is that I was always envious of the guys with the natural leg speed that I lacked. Plus, everybody knows that going fast is fun.
For now, I am just going to keep running as I have been until my April 27th 50k. After that I will lightly jog for awhile and focus on recovering from that race and getting mentally ready to tackle this new type of training. I haven't decided on an actual course of training yet, I am still doing my homework. It will probably be a little higher mileage than most 800 training plans because I still want to be successful at trail races this summer and the SDSU Classic 8k in the fall. I think for awhile I will plan to do weeks that include hills, fartlek, and a long run with strides after most easy runs. I am also going to focus on the whole body with lots of cross training in the form of bouldering and mountain biking.
You may be thinking, why would he want to do this? My reasons mostly come back to time and motivation. In my mind, 6 x 150m, no matter how fast, is mentally much easier than 10 x 1k, especially alone. Clearly it will also consume much less time. Another reason I want to do this is that I was always envious of the guys with the natural leg speed that I lacked. Plus, everybody knows that going fast is fun.
For now, I am just going to keep running as I have been until my April 27th 50k. After that I will lightly jog for awhile and focus on recovering from that race and getting mentally ready to tackle this new type of training. I haven't decided on an actual course of training yet, I am still doing my homework. It will probably be a little higher mileage than most 800 training plans because I still want to be successful at trail races this summer and the SDSU Classic 8k in the fall. I think for awhile I will plan to do weeks that include hills, fartlek, and a long run with strides after most easy runs. I am also going to focus on the whole body with lots of cross training in the form of bouldering and mountain biking.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
April 8th-14th Training Recap- Getting Back on The Horse
April 8th- Didn't run as it was a travel day. Danielle and I ventured West to do research for her internship project.
April 9th- Got in 4 miles. The sinus headache is really the only thing left over from last week's illness but it is limiting. It just increases the longer I run.
April 10th- Didn't run, no time!
April 11th- Got in a solid 6 with Alex. It was easily under 7 minutes per mile which is fairly decent for us at this altitude. We usually like to run pretty slow.
April 12th- Ran 6 miles after work at a decent pace. Did 2 strides after. Wanted to do 4 but I was just really not used to anything fast so those were hard enough. I need to do more of those!
April 13th- Ran 4 miles in the morning and felt sluggish and tired.
April 14th- Was extremely pleased today. Danielle dropped Alex and I off in the country so we could have a crosswind run instead of into the wind loop (no good roads to run with the wind). We took off and it got faster and faster. I figured it would be an unsustainable pace for that distance since I've had a pathetic past few weeks of running but I kept it up and felt good doing it. We averaged about 6:32 for 13 miles.
33 miles total for the week, not enough considering I will be running 31+ in one run in 13 days. Oh well, I'm excited!
April 9th- Got in 4 miles. The sinus headache is really the only thing left over from last week's illness but it is limiting. It just increases the longer I run.
April 10th- Didn't run, no time!
April 11th- Got in a solid 6 with Alex. It was easily under 7 minutes per mile which is fairly decent for us at this altitude. We usually like to run pretty slow.
April 12th- Ran 6 miles after work at a decent pace. Did 2 strides after. Wanted to do 4 but I was just really not used to anything fast so those were hard enough. I need to do more of those!
April 13th- Ran 4 miles in the morning and felt sluggish and tired.
April 14th- Was extremely pleased today. Danielle dropped Alex and I off in the country so we could have a crosswind run instead of into the wind loop (no good roads to run with the wind). We took off and it got faster and faster. I figured it would be an unsustainable pace for that distance since I've had a pathetic past few weeks of running but I kept it up and felt good doing it. We averaged about 6:32 for 13 miles.
33 miles total for the week, not enough considering I will be running 31+ in one run in 13 days. Oh well, I'm excited!
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