- Current plan: ZRQL Marathon Training Plan
- Today’s session: 5/5 RuBi and day one of two carb loads for a half marathon on Sunday
- Comments:
Archives For November 30, 1999
No scenic picture or off-angle selfie to share, but this morning’s run was one of those that is best described as Blissful.
Early 0430 start, clear sky, beautiful waning crescent moon, temp cool enough to give a short-sleeved/shorts-wearing runner a chill at the start but just right after two miles, ever so slight wind, no other humans or animals in sight.
As for my run, a nice warm-up mile, followed by five quiet…meditative…yet negative split ones, only to see that I needed 10 more minutes to finish an hour-long, sweat test run. Quickly deciding to turn right instead of going straight, and then running that final 1.3 miles at a 7:50 avg pace…and finishing with just a little left in the tank, but knowing I was done.
blissful indeed.
That said, my blissful, “7:50 pace” doesn’t even come close to this “whoa!” video. The treadmill is set at 12.6 MPH or a 4:46 per mile pace, which is the average pace Ryan Hall ran at the 2011 Boston Marathon. whoa, indeed.
Training Journal – 10/31/13:
- Current plan: ZRQL Marathon Training Plan
- Today’s session: 6-mile run
- Comments: Last night, I decided to do a sweat test during this morning’s run; so that meant I needed to run for an hour at race pace. I ended up running 7.3 miles @ 8:15 avg pace, avg cadence 97 & a run time of 1:00:16. [Strava]
- Current plan: ZRQL Marathon Training Plan
- Today’s session: 5-mile run
- Comments: I took a right turn at the 3-mile mark (vs going straight) and ended up tagging an additional mile to the run. I did 6.2 miles @ 8:18 avg pace, avg cadence 95 & a run time of 51:34. [Strava]
Last month, I posted about being selected as one of five winners in a Competitor.com contest called “Share Your RUNNOVATION”
Last week, I got my prize pack from New Balance:
Some pretty cool stuff:
- Hi-Viz jacket
- 5 in track Shorts
- 7 in Go 2 Shorts
- Impact half zip
- Go 2 Short sleeve shirt
- Impact shirt
- Pair of 890v3
I may give the 890s a try in the morning…forgive me, Hoka One One.
Thanks Competitor and New Balance!!!
Training Journal – 10/28/13:
- Current plan: ZRQL Marathon Training Plan
- Today’s session: 20-mile ride
- Comments: I rode for 1:18:34 for 22.4 miles @ 17.1 mph avg & avg cadence of 87 [Strava]
- Current plan: ZRQL Marathon Training Plan
- Today’s session: 18-mile, long run
- Comments: I did 18.4 miles @ 8:42 avg pace, avg cadence 95 & a run time of 2:40:14. [Strava]
- Weekly mileage: Running: 47.1 / Bicycling: 27.6 – Total: 74.7
Just a few scattered things I read today and thought I’d share/post…
From an article titled, “Should You Be Coached?”
“Harry Chapin, in a song called Mr. Tanner, about a baritone from the midwest, penned the line, “he did not know how well he sang, he only heard the flaws.” Some of us train that way. We’re really hard on ourselves. It can be fairly destructive.”
“Golfing legend Lee Trevino is quoted as having said, “It’s not the arrow; it’s the Indian.” “
From a race website:
“Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.”
– Juha Väätäinen
I always stick this somewhere on each page of my training plan…it caught my eye again today:
“Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.”
– Kara Goucher
Training Journal – 10/23/13:
- Current plan: ZRQL Marathon Training Plan
- Today’s session: 8-mile run
- Comments: I did 8.6 miles @ 8:39 avg pace, avg cadence 95 & a run time of 1:14:34. [Strava]
Well, Foxy’s is past and today I reset to a running-focused training program in prep for a late fall marathon…by cross training with a ride!
It was on the plan…
Back to re-building my run base bright and early tomorrow!
GIDDY-UP!
Training Journal – 10/21/13:
- Current plan: ZRQL Marathon Training Plan
- Today’s session: 20-mile ride
- Comments: I rode for 1:15:15 for 21.8 miles @ 17.4 mph avg & avg cadence of 85 [Strava]
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: Rest
- Comments: Rest today – new training plan tomorrow!
- Weekly mileage: Running: 6.4 / Bicycling: 142 – Total: 148.4
From the “It’s never too early to start planning!” camp…
I registered for my first multisport event! Come March 8, 2014, I will be a duathlete – having completed the 2014 edition of USA Productions’ South Bay Duathlon. From the “go big or go home” file, I went for the International distance: 10K run, 40K bike, 5K run (or 6.2, 24.9, 3.1 Miles.) I’m really looking forward to this new challenge.
Training for it will be interesting though. I need to hold on training too specifically for it until maybe after the first of the year because I have a marathon in mid-December that will require my focus after next week’s Foxy’s. Plus, I will need to work the training, and race itself, into my overall training for Big Sur. Still, I am looking forward to it and hopefully doing a few more duathlons…and possibly a triathlon later in the year.
So, major races on the schedule so far for 2014 are:
- March 8: South Bay Duathlon
- April 27: Big Sur International Marathon
- July 27: San Francisco Marathon
…with more calendar to fill in order to keep my race-a-month streak going!
Giddy-Up!
Training Journal – 10/12/13:
- Current plan: Foxy’s Fall Century Training Plan
- Today’s session: Rest.
- Comments: Rest, traveled for a quick biz trip, and watched Ironman Kona throughout the day.
[aka: “no base, no base, no base, …” – a la that Chevy Volt commercial]
This past Sunday, I ran the Rock ‘n’ Roll San Jose Half Marathon – half marathon number eighteen for me. As with all Rock ‘n’ Roll events, it was a great one and big! The half drew a total of 10,272 finishers. For the second year, they also ran a 5-mile, “Mini-Marathon”; but this year they did not time it or report results (to the dislike of many, I’m sure), so I don’t know how many people participated in that distance.
The weather was excellent: clear and cool at the start (~54 degrees.) It probably warmed up to the low sixties at the time I finished. I saw many shedding their layers two to three miles into the race; though I stuck with my standard shorts and tech shirt (I sported my RnR Philly shirt.) Again, great weather for a run!
The flat and fast course which, according to a fellow runner, has not changed since RnR started coming to San Jose, made its way through downtown, portions of the Rose Garden area, and then back downtown to finish at Plaza de Cesar Chavez. Course marking was excellent and there were volunteers everywhere to make sure people stayed on course – especially at the split where the mini-marathon and the half separated.
Footfalls…nothing but footfalls. I distinctly remember that between miles 1.66 and 1.78 in the area around Jackson and 11th streets, everything just got quiet and the sound of footfalls was all I could hear. People were just getting in the zone and no one was conversing – at least in my area. It was totally cool and peaceful: hundreds of footfalls. The sweet sound of running. [Interestingly, I also wrote about this in last year’s race report.]
As with all RnR races (I’ve now run four), on course entertainment was great. They had the usual “official” bands staged at certain points along the course and there were even a number of people from the various neighborhoods we ran through that were either playing live music or blasting a boom box in their yard. Some houses even had aid stations, though I passed… The various cheer squads along the way were great as well – there was even an elementary school cheer squad…I guess they start younger now.
The finish area was laid out great – good flow after crossing the finish line for photos, SWAG, and then hanging out all around Plaza de Cesar Chavez.
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