Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
7.03 miles in 53:31 at 7:36 mins/ mile
Today was a short recovery run. I’m not feeling too bad after yesterday’s effort. My knees were a little sore this morning, but things felt better after finishing today’s run. I’m still debating what to do for tomorrow’s run. I have been running 14 [...]
Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
9.5 miles (2.5 mile warmup, 1 mile cooldown 6X1 mile intervals)
m1=6.12, m2=6.04 m3=6.10 m4=6.01 m5=6.14 m6=6.08
Today was my first attempt at adding speed work to my schedule. I can definitely see why it’s important to practice running fast. I felt like a train wreck as I was trying to run the intervals at [...]
Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After struggling with injuries much of last summer, I started a training program in October with the hope of making a long, slow progression back to the marathon distance. Patti and Warren Finke put the program together in a book titled Marathoning Start to Finish. There is a version of this book available online – [...]
Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
7.04 miles in 57:21 at 8:08 mins/ mile
Today’s run was just a nice easy run to finish my first official 80 mile week. Feels pretty good! Next step will be to add some speed work and try to build some strength and footspeed to go with the endurance that I’ve been working on [...]
Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
24.08 miles in 3:12:13 at 7:58 mins/ mile
One of my biggest concerns right now, other than avoiding injury, is nutrition during the long run. Today, my friend Sam hooked me up with a sample of Perpetuem, which is a Hammer Nutrition product. My favorite thing about this product is that it comes as [...]
Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
7.02 miles in 57:44 at 8:13 mins/ mile
Today was just a nice easy run in the park. I showed my blog to one of my non-running friends today and he thought it was more of a griping blog than a running blog. So, I officially decided not to gripe so much about all my [...]
Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
14.04 miles in 1:40:46 at 7:10 mins/ mile
I cheated this morning and took an advil before I headed out. I was so frustrated after yesterday’s run that I was actually considering using the word “injury”. I also opted to run fast this morning because I wanted to stay off my heels. My [...]
Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
7.01 miles in 56:02 at 7:59 mins/ mile
I tried to take it easy on my run this morning and then spent some extra time stretching after I got home from work tonight.
Posted in marathon, marathon training, running, wenatchee on January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
14.06 miles in 1:50:14 at 7:50 mins/ mile
Included in today’s training extra from Runners World was an article by Jeff Galloway titled Run From The Cold that describes fartlek training for those, like my wife, who think fartlek is a dirty word. I was able to get in a decent workout this morning despite [...]
