Basically in April I was able to get in a lot more miles than in April. In, according to my records, I did 172 miles. In April I ran 265 miles. That is a difference of 93 miles. I almost want to go out and run 7 miles tonight just to make it an even 100, but I won't. However, had I not missed last Saturdays long run it would have been about 102 or so. I May my plan it to run more miles per week. My Saturday long runs will be the key there. Instead of 5 and 7 miles on Saturdays hopefully it will be more like 9 and 11. We shall see.
EDITORS NOTE: This post has inaccurate information. It is currently May 17, 2015 and my running numbers for March and April were actually yearly accumulation of miles that I was looking at and NOT the monthly totals. I must have been very tired when I wrote that because I didn't even think to realize that to run 265 miles in one month I would have had to average 66.5 miles a week, which I was obviously not doing. Here are the correct numbers: For March I ran 68.5 miles and for April I ran 93 miles.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Running Report 4/28/15 -- 4/30/15
4/28/15 TUESDAY
Ran three miles as a recovery jog.
Week 6 miles
Month 87 miles
Year 259 miles
4/29/15 WEDNESDAY
Ran three miles as a kind of medium run. Not hard run, not recover jog.
Week 9 miles
Month 90 miles
Year 262 miles
4/30/15 THURSDAY
Three mile recovery jog.
Week 12 miles
Month 93 miles
Year 265 miles
Ran three miles as a recovery jog.
- 4.32
- 4.10
- 4.08
- 4.17
- 4.25
- 4.22
Week 6 miles
Month 87 miles
Year 259 miles
4/29/15 WEDNESDAY
Ran three miles as a kind of medium run. Not hard run, not recover jog.
- 3.52
- 3.53
- 3.40
- 3.47
- 3.54
- 3.54
Week 9 miles
Month 90 miles
Year 262 miles
4/30/15 THURSDAY
Three mile recovery jog.
- 4.17
- 4.11
- 4.23
- 4.18
- 4.18
- 4.30
Week 12 miles
Month 93 miles
Year 265 miles
Monday, April 27, 2015
Running Report 4/20/15 -- 4/27/15
4/20/15 MARATHON MONDAY
Six miles on the treadmill. Yasso 800's. Half a mile run with a quarter mile jog in between. Half a mile was done at 3.20 and the quarter mile recovery jog was also at 3.20. Did 8 repetitions.
Week 6 miles
Month 68 miles
Year 240 miles
4/21/15 TUESDAY
3 mile recovery jog.
Week 9 miles
Month 71 miles
Year 243 miles
4/22/15 WEDNESDAY
Ran 4 miles on the treadmill. Basically a hill work out. I would put a very steep incline for about three quarters of a mile and then back down to 5 percent as a recovery jog for a quarter of a mile. I was just mixing it up. No speed work but working pretty hard on the incline.
Week 13 miles
Month 75 miles
Year 247 miles
4/23/15 THURSDAY
3 mile recovery jog.
Week 16 miles
Month 78 miles
Year 250 miles
4/24/15 FRIDAY
Ran three miles today. My Texas Canyon 10K race was on the last Saturday in March and so I have decided to either have one race a month or on the last Friday of the month do a workout that is race like. Basically, I didn't want to do a race-like workout every Friday. So three Fridays a months the workout is hard but manageable. On the fourth Friday, the workout is all out effort or mostly. My 10K was at a 7.37 pace. That terrain was up and down and for 6.2 miles. The subsequent three Fridays of workouts my three milers were all around 7.20 pace. So my goal was to shoot for a 7.00 pace. The first half mile is always one of the hardest. Then on the fourth half mile I was getting tired and I was entertaining the thought of slowing down and averaging maybe a 7.05 mile pace. Then with one mile to go I thought, "I haven't worked so hard up to this point just to slow down now and forfeit all of that effort". With that I pushed myself to the end, especially that last half mile.
Week 19 miles
Month 81 miles
Year 253 miles
4/27/15 MONDAY
Ran three miles in an interval type work out. I started by running hard for two minutes and a recovery jog for for one minute. Then I switched to one minute hard run followed by one minute recovery jog. I have no idea how long it took me to do the three miles. I think I might have been able to push a little harder because my heart rate at the end was about 104. I should have been at least 120. I did work hard on the parts I was supposed to though. I really didn't feel like doing Yasso 800's today so I just made up my workout on the fly.
Week 3 miles
Month 84 miles
Year 256 miles
Six miles on the treadmill. Yasso 800's. Half a mile run with a quarter mile jog in between. Half a mile was done at 3.20 and the quarter mile recovery jog was also at 3.20. Did 8 repetitions.
Week 6 miles
Month 68 miles
Year 240 miles
4/21/15 TUESDAY
3 mile recovery jog.
- 4.20
- 4.10
- 4.20
- 4.24
- 4.22
- 4.22
Week 9 miles
Month 71 miles
Year 243 miles
4/22/15 WEDNESDAY
Ran 4 miles on the treadmill. Basically a hill work out. I would put a very steep incline for about three quarters of a mile and then back down to 5 percent as a recovery jog for a quarter of a mile. I was just mixing it up. No speed work but working pretty hard on the incline.
Week 13 miles
Month 75 miles
Year 247 miles
4/23/15 THURSDAY
3 mile recovery jog.
- 5.09
- 5.11
- 5.12
- 4.56
- 4.57
- 4.47
Week 16 miles
Month 78 miles
Year 250 miles
4/24/15 FRIDAY
Ran three miles today. My Texas Canyon 10K race was on the last Saturday in March and so I have decided to either have one race a month or on the last Friday of the month do a workout that is race like. Basically, I didn't want to do a race-like workout every Friday. So three Fridays a months the workout is hard but manageable. On the fourth Friday, the workout is all out effort or mostly. My 10K was at a 7.37 pace. That terrain was up and down and for 6.2 miles. The subsequent three Fridays of workouts my three milers were all around 7.20 pace. So my goal was to shoot for a 7.00 pace. The first half mile is always one of the hardest. Then on the fourth half mile I was getting tired and I was entertaining the thought of slowing down and averaging maybe a 7.05 mile pace. Then with one mile to go I thought, "I haven't worked so hard up to this point just to slow down now and forfeit all of that effort". With that I pushed myself to the end, especially that last half mile.
- 3.30
- 3.26
- 3.30
- 3.33
- 3.29
- 3.19
Week 19 miles
Month 81 miles
Year 253 miles
4/27/15 MONDAY
Ran three miles in an interval type work out. I started by running hard for two minutes and a recovery jog for for one minute. Then I switched to one minute hard run followed by one minute recovery jog. I have no idea how long it took me to do the three miles. I think I might have been able to push a little harder because my heart rate at the end was about 104. I should have been at least 120. I did work hard on the parts I was supposed to though. I really didn't feel like doing Yasso 800's today so I just made up my workout on the fly.
Week 3 miles
Month 84 miles
Year 256 miles
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Tai Lopez TEDx Talk
Here is a TEDx Talk by Tai Lopez. He gives a little of his life experience and he talks a lot about finding a mentor. I like his emphasis on being humble, life-long education, perseverence.
For those who may not be familiar, TED stands for technology, entertainment and design. The x part, as far as I understand, refers to the fact that it is an independendently organized conference. Basically people get up and talk about something they think is interesting and/or important for 18 minutes or less. Most of the TED talks I have heard are positive and upbeat and encourage people to be better human beings. I haven't seen them all though.
For those who may not be familiar, TED stands for technology, entertainment and design. The x part, as far as I understand, refers to the fact that it is an independendently organized conference. Basically people get up and talk about something they think is interesting and/or important for 18 minutes or less. Most of the TED talks I have heard are positive and upbeat and encourage people to be better human beings. I haven't seen them all though.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Marathon Monday Musings
On the third Monday in April, of some future year, I am going to be running in the Boston Marathon. I don't know for sure when that year will be. I hope it will be in 2017. If not, maybe 2018 or 2019 or maybe for the 125th anniversary edition in 2021. That is the question though, when not if. Today is Patriots Day in Massachussets, and I think in all of New England as far as I can tell. Having never lived there I am not steeped in such traditions. I am learning about it though. As I was dutifully running my Monday ritual of Yasso 800's, this time on the treadmill, there was a 10 minute or so special on ESPN Sportscenter about the Boston Marathon. I got a little emotional but I was able to hold the tears back, since there was a guy on the treadmill right next to me and another lifting weights in the same room. The reporter had a lot of poetic stuff to say. He also held up his finishers medal that he had earned the year before and talked about how important it was to him. I almost pointed to the TV and said outloud "mark my words, I will be there one day. That is going to be me." I didn't but I felt like saying it. So this is me pointing to the Boston Marathon and saying it now.
Crossing the finish line or getting the finshers medal is no longer the end all, be all. My reward comes a little each day as I finish my wourkout and meet my goal for the day. Then I have a sense of satisfaction. I have a sense of satisfaction when I am still tired from my workout hours later. It is then that I know I am alive, and it is then that I know I have done something hard, that I set a goal and I accomplished my goal. Of course one day it will be fun to travel to Boston, enjoy the atmosphere, the run, the fnish, the medal and swag etc. I am finding out though, that there are many lessons to be learned along the way. These lessons, the trials overcome, the perseverence shown the patience developed, the tenacity ingrained, the consistency confirmed make the ephemeral marathon and the finish, that much sweeter. The longer it takes me to reach this goal of qualifying and running in the Boston Marathon, the more lessons I learn.
Yasso 800 workout on the treadmill:
Each 800 meters or half mile in this case on the treadmill was run at 3.20. Then I would jog for a quarter of a mile in 3.20 and so on and so forth for a total of 8 such repetitions. The last and ninth interval was only a quarter of a mile due to time contraints. I put the incline at 1% and the pace at about 5.54 min/mile. Total mileage was 6.25 but I will round down to six miles. Heart rate after about 45 second jog was 132 beats per minute.
Week 6 miles
Month 66 miles
Year 240 miles
Crossing the finish line or getting the finshers medal is no longer the end all, be all. My reward comes a little each day as I finish my wourkout and meet my goal for the day. Then I have a sense of satisfaction. I have a sense of satisfaction when I am still tired from my workout hours later. It is then that I know I am alive, and it is then that I know I have done something hard, that I set a goal and I accomplished my goal. Of course one day it will be fun to travel to Boston, enjoy the atmosphere, the run, the fnish, the medal and swag etc. I am finding out though, that there are many lessons to be learned along the way. These lessons, the trials overcome, the perseverence shown the patience developed, the tenacity ingrained, the consistency confirmed make the ephemeral marathon and the finish, that much sweeter. The longer it takes me to reach this goal of qualifying and running in the Boston Marathon, the more lessons I learn.
Yasso 800 workout on the treadmill:
Each 800 meters or half mile in this case on the treadmill was run at 3.20. Then I would jog for a quarter of a mile in 3.20 and so on and so forth for a total of 8 such repetitions. The last and ninth interval was only a quarter of a mile due to time contraints. I put the incline at 1% and the pace at about 5.54 min/mile. Total mileage was 6.25 but I will round down to six miles. Heart rate after about 45 second jog was 132 beats per minute.
Week 6 miles
Month 66 miles
Year 240 miles
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Running Report 4/16/15 -- 4/18/15
4/16/15 THURSDAY
Ran three miles.
Week 14 miles
Month 51 miles
Year 223 miles
4/17/15 FRIDAY
Ran three miles.
I was surprised to see that my heart rate about 45-60 seconds after finishing (I take it at the same time after most workouts) was only 124 beats per minute. I can only attribute that to either getting in better shape or shedding a few pounds or both. Pretty happy about the time. It certainly wasn't a cake walk and it required self discipline, especially at the beginning. However, I know I cold have pushed the pace harder if I wanted.
Week 17 miles
Month 54 miles
Year 226 miles
4/18/15 SATURDAY
Ran 8 miles today. Half mile splits are as follows:
Week 25 miles
Month 62 miles
Year 234 miles
Ran three miles.
- 4.21
- 4.17
- 4.23
- 4.29
- 4.19
- 4.24
Week 14 miles
Month 51 miles
Year 223 miles
4/17/15 FRIDAY
Ran three miles.
- 3.47
- 3.35
- 3.42
- 3.42
- 3.38
- 3.32
I was surprised to see that my heart rate about 45-60 seconds after finishing (I take it at the same time after most workouts) was only 124 beats per minute. I can only attribute that to either getting in better shape or shedding a few pounds or both. Pretty happy about the time. It certainly wasn't a cake walk and it required self discipline, especially at the beginning. However, I know I cold have pushed the pace harder if I wanted.
Week 17 miles
Month 54 miles
Year 226 miles
4/18/15 SATURDAY
Ran 8 miles today. Half mile splits are as follows:
- 4.39
- 4.33
- 4.23
- 4.31
- 4.28
- 4.27
- 4.24
- 4.22
- 3.59
- 4.08
- 4.00
- 4.02
- 4.08
- 4.06
- 4.15
- 4.30
Week 25 miles
Month 62 miles
Year 234 miles
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Boston Marathon 2013 Two Year Anniversary
The 2013 Boston Marathon is what re-kindled (no kids, that is not another type of tablet) my desire to run in the Boston Marathon. So today I mark that day. In the last two years I have run two Marathons in an attempt to qualify for the Boston Marathon. I failed in both attempts. However, I improved my personal best in the marathon by five minutes and then by about 21 minutes the second time. I also learned some valuable lessons as well. I feel like I am learning that I need to take joy in the journey and learn as I go through the process. That way the end result is much more significant because of the journey not solely based on the location. I have not given up on my goal to run a Marathon in a qualifying time for the Boston Marathon. Right now I am in the training process.
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