Training
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A Plan
I’ve spent the past few months building a decent running base and I’m pretty happy with how things are progressing. I’ve been doing speedwork or tempo runs on the treadmill once a week for the past four months and I’ve been seeing solid results! (Results meaning decent race times). I’m now back to my pre-marathon pace of 9:30 average miles for most of my runs. However, I can’t seem to break the 9:20s. This is something I’m hoping to do this month. A half marathon with an average pace under 9:20 is my ultimate goal–with a few more solid weeks of training will hopefully get me there! I saw this…
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Half Marathon Goals
Yesterday I went out for a run, not sure of where to go or how far to run, but I wanted to run at least six miles depending on how I felt. I got dressed, ate breakfast, drank coffee and some water and around 9AM headed out. I felt pretty great, ran around my neighborhood, was keeping a pace of around 9:20~ per mile, and on when I hit seven miles on my way home, I just decided to keep running. I keep my pace at 9:30 per mile and kept running, until I hit 13.1 miles. I ran it in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 29 seconds…6 seconds faster…
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Weekly Workout Schedule – 10.7.13 – Race Week
Last week’s schedule Monday – 30 min run actual: 3.8 mi run Tuesday – Rest Wednesday – 5 Mi Tempo, inc Warm; 3 Mi @ 9:07 complete Thursday – Easy run actual: 3.1 mi run Friday – Rest Saturday – 12 mi actual: 5.5 mi run Sunday – Hiking (?) actual: Rest All of my weekday runs went great last week. I was feeling pumped about running after Ragnar and my runs went really well. Enter Saturday’s long run. I went up to the bike path to enjoy the fall scenery, kept on pace for 5.5 miles, averaging around 10 min miles. When I hit my turn around point I…
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Day in the Life
I’ve officially been a full-time grad student for a little over a month. And even though I’m really busy, its actually pretty do-able and I haven’t wanted to pull my hair out… yet. I’m usually busy from 7AM until after 8PM on most days, but it isn’t so bad. I keep reminding myself that it’s worth it (I absolutely love my classes) and the hard work will pay off in the end. Here is a look at one of my typical days. 5:15AM Alarm goes off, cat follows me into bathroom and drinks out of the sink while I put my contacts in and put on my running clothes, fill…
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Weekly Workout Schedule – 9.30.13
Last week’s workout schedule Monday – 30 min recovery run actual: rest Tuesday – Rest actual: 2.6 mi run Wednesday – 4 Mi, inc Warm; 5×400 in 7:45 w/400 jogs; Cool complete Thursday – Rest Friday – Ragnar Relay Adirondacks Complete! Leg 1 – 4 mi, Leg 2 – 6 mi Saturday – Ragnar Relay Adirondacks Complete! Leg 3 – 3.3 mi {my legs combined total ~14 mi} Sunday – Rest/Celebration in Lake Placid Well, Ragnar Adirondacks is over! I have to say, I kind of have some post-Ragnar depression going on! We had been planning Ragnar since February of this year, and now it’s over….but, we had a blast…
