Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Day 136

Start: 4:35am
Weather: Cold and Clear
Time/Distance/Pace: 1:13:04 - 7.01 miles - 10:26
RunKeeper: http://runkeeper.com/user/cadebro/activity/74091972


Thoughts: A very good run indeed. I had recovered from the race and long run on Sunday and my body felt ready to run. I kept a good pace for the entire run. I think this was the first time I didn't feel fatigued after 6 miles. It seems that 7 miles is just about as far as I can run in the morning when getting up at 4am and leaving enough time to shower. When the mileage goes up, I'm probably going to have to start getting up at 3:30am.


Total Training Distance: 272.15 miles
Total Training Time: 1D 23:04:50

Monday, March 5, 2012

Day 134

Start: 5:00am
Weather: Cold and Clear
Time/Distance/Pace: 38:04 - 3 miles - 12:41
RunKeeper: http://runkeeper.com/user/cadebro/activity/73747937


Thoughts: Probably the most painful three miles I've ever run. My legs were completely exhausted from the 13 miles the day before. I am going to look forward to taking a day off.


Total Training Distance: 265.14 miles
Total Training Time: 1D 21:51:46

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Day 133

Start: 12:13pm
Weather: Cold, Icy and Clear
Time/Distance/Pace: 1:57:55 - 9.8 miles - 12:02
RunKeeper: http://runkeeper.com/user/cadebro/activity/73670069


Thoughts: This run was after run the Irish Road Rover 5k, where I had a pretty quick time. I paid for that quick time. My hips hurt from the beginning and my pace was slow throughout. Where Back Bay wasn't muddy it was wet, and where it wasn't wet it was icy. By about mile 7 I was ready to quit, but I kept pushing through. I tried to measure my run out so I ended back at my car at 10 miles but came up a little short. I would have finished those 0.2 miles but it was getting too close to boat time. I run the next two days, hopefully I recover before next weekend's long run.


Total Training Distance: 262.14 miles
Total Training Time: 1D 21:39:15

Irish Road Rover 5k

Start: 11:02am
Weather: Cold and Clear
Time/Distance/Pace: 25:11 - 3.12 miles - 8:04
RunKeeper: http://runkeeper.com/user/cadebro/activity/73640616


Thoughts: On this day in my training I was supposed to run a half marathon, but there were none available locally. So, instead I ran this 5k with a bunch of coworkers and followed it will a 10 mile run. It was a run through downtown Portland with about 900 people. It was a fast run with many hills and the crowd was really screaming at the finish line. I really upped my pace for this run and was very pleased with my time, though my left hip hurt after the race was over.


Resultshttp://www.coolrunning.com/results/12/me/Mar4_IrishR_set1.shtml


Total Training Distance: 252.34 miles
Total Training Time: 1D 19:41:20

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Day 130

Start: 5:08am
Weather: Cold, Windy and Snowy
Time/Distance/Pace: 33:00 - 3.04 miles - 10:54
RunKeeper: http://runkeeper.com/user/cadebro/activity/73498566


Thoughts: It was blizzarding out and my wife was kind enough to put my STABILicers in the garage since winter is "over." So it was the hardest 3 miles I've run in a while and was rough on my hamstrings because of all the slippage.


Total Training Distance: 249.22 miles
Total Training Time: 1D 19:16:09