So today was a 5 mile ‘pace’ run where I had to do the run at race pace, which for me (hopefully) is 8 min/mi. I’m a little sick of risking my life trying to run long distances around here when its dark out, so I decided to take a tip from a co-worker of mine and run along the canal during my lunch break. Worked out pretty well. I was happy to run with light and not have to follow any busy roads. Trusty GPS watch kept me on pace too!!
Distance: 5 mi
Total Time: 00:39:14
Avg Pace: 7:51 min/mi
Avg Speed: 7.6 mph
Max Speed: 8.6 mph
Second day of training, first day of running. Did a quick 3 mile run, paced a little over 9 minutes which is what I’m shooting for (I’m trying to train about 45-75 seconds slower than I expect to race).
The big news is that I picked up a Garmin Forerunner 405 to run with. I’m still playing with it to see what it can do, but it seems pretty rad so far. For those of you not in the know, its a GPS watch for runners/bikers. It maps your route for you and keeps your time/pace/distance and all that fun stuff. I’m a sucker for gadgets so I couldn’t help it.
UPDATE: Been playing with the watch some and figured out a reasonable way to show my running routes here… So here’s what I did tonight.
2.95 mi, 00:26:46, 9:04 pace
3… 2… 1… REST!
Gotta love any training program that begins on a rest day. I technically start today, but the running doesn’t start until tomorrow. I’m glad that weather from last week is gone, I have a better chance of surviving this now.
I have to figure out some way to post my training schedule so I can refer to it. I will get back to you shortly…
Good day.
With four days to go before my marathon training schedule begins I wanted to get a decent 5 mile run in. For any of you in the northeast you know it has been extremely cold lately. Tonight it was -2 degrees with the wind chill.
I felt pretty good for the first 3 miles. It was kinda like Rocky IV when Rocky was training out in the middle of the snow in Russia. I felt rad. After that though, when my eyelashes started freezing together, I starting thinking that it might be a good idea to curl up in a little ball and take a nap for a few minutes in a snow bank. I didn’t actually do it and made it home in one piece, but it was by far the most miserable run of the year.
DRAGO!!!
4.98 mi, 00:45:56, 9:13 pace
So its January and that means its time for me to start running again. The goal this year is to run a marathon. Since I don’t really use my website for anything, I think I’m going to use it to track my progress and training for the run. It should be exciting. I’ll try to update a couple of times a week (at first I’m thinking after every run, but I’m not sure I’m willing to commit to that yet) to let everyone know how I’m doing.
