Hangin' Loose

Speedwork hmm nah hill workout.  Ran at the track this morning.  Was a stiff South wind and it took me the full 2 miles warm up to start feeling good.  Plan calls for a mean 8 mile workout.  1 mile then 2 miles then 2x 800 and I was just not into it at all.  Jeremy and Eric showed up for the workout.  And I decided lets do hill workout instead.  So we headed up 7000 S and found the meanest part of it and did our repeats.  Kept changing up the distances on it and also the durations.  Seemed to have been anywhere from 100m to 200+ running them at 23 secs the shortest to 63 the longest.  Was a pretty good workout really.  Just wasn't much on the distance.  This would be my first hill workout that I have done ever in my training of marathons.  Turned out good for me.  Lets see how my legs are.

Week 1 Day 3 11, 15, 9, 9, 20

Tempo run with the boys.  Eric and JeffC showed up for the run this time.  So after getting in my normal 2 mile runs before meeting them.  I did 1 mile warm up and then 2nd hit my tempo pace.  Ran with them to warm them up and then we headed down to the Church house and ran the course for the 5k we have coming up.  Last year when I ran it it seemed just a bit short.  And that the direction was wrong since we had to make alot of right hand turns and would be running on the wrong side of the road.  So this time we ran it reverse.  And changed up just a little more to get the distance right.  Suprisingly right where I started it and ended it was perfect 3.1.  So I think we figured it out.

Mile 1 8:58

Mile 2 7:10

Mile 3 10:06

TT 26:23 AP 8:46

Restarted the clock for the 5k for distance and time.

Mile 1 7:17

Mile 2 7:16

Mile 3 7:33

.1 :43

TT 22:51 AP 7:23

The 3rd mile was rather tough.  Half of it was gradual uphill and not sure if I just drifted mentally to much or what.  When I got to the top of the hill and halfway through that mile I was at 8:11 pace.  And tried to pick up the pace on the gradual downhill.  Also the first mile to mile and half is uphill.  I think I really like it going the other way so you get that downhill for 1.5 rather then another hill at 2 to 2.5.  Got to figure out a race plan if I am going to defend my title.:)

Ran with Marty, Richard and JeffR.  Goal was to run 20 miles today.  And wasn't really feeling it at all.  One of my worst feeling runs I had been on in a long time.  We started out warming up I guess with a hill climb.  That just got steeper as the run progressed.  At around mile 3-4 was the meanest parts going up 70th.  And I was trailing farther and farther behind the guys.  Then we headed out for the temple loop.  Which is like a 12-13 mile loop.  And I was really laboring to try and keep up with the guys.  They lost me around a corner once.  When I got to the top of a small hill my head was really pounding and I normally dont have that issue at all.  Took a quick walk and started the downhill trying to catch back up.  Just wasn't going to happen.  When we got to 40th W.  We decided to call it good and head back up home.  But then added in Glenmoor golf course hill.  Which is an extra mile to the club house.  Jeff decided to hang back with me as Marty and Richard blazed forward at a sub 7 for the next few miles.  We were hitting closer to 8:30ish pace.  I think the paces were just killing me today.

AP 8:30