Tuesday Dec 6, 2011

Short easy run this morning, 4 miles on the treadmill. Took it easy, legs felt a bit sore from Sunday's 18 miler, but felt better by the end. Last mile at 8:30.

Monday Dec 5 2011

Put up some good mileage this weekend.

8 miles on Saturday on the treadmill while watching soccer games. Ran 3 as a warmup, then 1 at 7:30 pace, 1 ez, another at 7:30 pace, 1 ez and a last one at 7:30 pace.

Then on Sunday I ran 18.67 miles. Route was from home, through broomall, into Springfield and back home. Felt pretty good throughout, a couple hills at the end hurt pretty bad but overall was good. Ran it in 8:30 pace, probably faster than I should have. Legs don't really hurt today, just feel heavy. My run tomorrow morning should help that.

12in12in12, baby.

Friday Dec 2, 2011

I suck. Pushed snooze, pushed it again, repeated that 3 more times. Then actually changed my alarm for an extra 25 minutes of sleep. I should have been running. Grrrr, sleep.

Introducing the 12in12in12!

Morning run: lame. Only 3 miles, one mile warmup with 2 miles at 7:30 pace.

I am training for a January marathon in Miami. It will be marathon #1 for the 12in12in12. What's that you ask? Giving credit where credit is due, Craig "Pinner" Davidson made it up, but it's 12 marathons, in 12 months in the year 2012. It's exciting, should be fun and tough. We'll see.

So it has been a while since my last running post. I guess because I had a disappointing fall/winter marathon. I ran Tucson marathon and did very poorly compared to what I was hoping for. As you can see from the picture below, I was beat up by the end of this marathon. Finished in 3:27 which is nowhere close to how I wanted to finish. Guess I have a lot of work to do this year.
Cool house in tucson. Looks like a postcard, doesn't it?
I felt better at dinner, it may have been my company though!
Beat up, but glad to be done!

Non-training running

This weekend I ran 5 miles on Saturday at a good pace. It was my first run since Broad Street, and my legs felt good, finished in 36:22.

Then I ran this morning, 3 miles: 1ez, 1@8:00 and the last starting at 8.1 mph which is around 7:30. Then each tenth of a mile I bumped it up on mph to finish the last tenth at 9mph.

Have been thinking about registering for Scranton in October, but, if I do, then "it will be written." So I am nervous

Broad street success

So finished Broad Street in 68:31.  I was going for under 70 minutes, so I am very happy with my time.  All the tempo runs and intervals paid off.  It was a hot run, getting up to almost 90 degrees that afternoon.  The city opened up all the fire hydrants so they had sprinklers throughout the run to cool us off.  A total of around 27,000 people ran it, and my time placed me around 470th.  I will take top 2%.

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Now what's next?  I don't know.