Brice's Race

5.5 with the jogging stroller on a fairly hilly course.  This run felt like a lot longer then it actually was, that jogger makes those hills a lot less friendly.

Nice run tonight, went my normal route and added a little onto the end.  I wanted to do just 8 but it turned out the road I used to turn around at was a bit farther.  felt really good tonight.  Total time 1:04:44. 

Wanted to run 8 today but when I woke up my legs were very tight and I had small tweaks of pain right below my knees.  I waited to run later this evening and ended up only doing 6 easy. Total time was 56:13.  The pains in my knees kind of went away during the run as well as the tightness. 

Wow, I forgot how it feels to run "fast". With all of this distance training the past few weeks it was nice to go out and race a shorter faster race. With that said I am kind of disappointed in my not so fast time. I was really hoping to be closer to the 19 minute mark but am happy I was able to get under 20. My first mile was in 6:22 and felt slower then that because the strating line was a little hecktic. Mile two was 6:37 and this is when I started to feel the humidity. I did not see a mile marker for the third mile but finished the last leg in 6:54. That last mile I think shows that I need to run a few more races or find some people in my area to push me a little more during training runs so I can get used to running at a quicker pace.

I also ran a mile warm up and a mile cool down with 4-ish easy miles later this evening to round out my mileage for today.

Not sure of places yet, I didn't stick around after the race to long to see them and they haven't been posted online yet.

Did my long run this morning, same 12 mile course I ran last Saturday.  I think this week of higher miles and faster pace caught up with me, my total time was 1:44:27.  I feel I had a great week of training and am hoping to be able to keep this pace up for the next few weeks.  I also have confirmed the marathon I am going to do.  It will be the Columbus Ohio marathon on October 19th.  Any suggestions on training from now until then would be greatly welcome. 

Ran 8 in 1:08:09 this morning and then walked 18 holes of golf.  fun day : )

ran a quick 6 miles this morning.

So today ended up being my long run, kind of by accident too. So I have been looking for a group to run with lately and the only group I found with my quick google search that didn't meet on a day that my wife works was today. A group from a local running shoe store who do tempo work at a local track. I wasn't sure what they did and wanted to make sure I was still able to get my miles in for the day so I ran the 3 miles easy to the track. Once there I met some great guys who are very active runners and we proceeded to do 16, 400's with a 20 second break between reps and a 400 easy jog after each 4. After a mile warm up I got in with the top group and our splits went something like this,

1:24 - 1:27 - 1:29 - 1:28 = mile one: 5:48

1:28 - 1:29 - 1:31 - 1:28 = mile two: 5:56

1:24 - 1:29 - 1:25 - 1:28 = mile three: 5:46

1:30 - 1:31 - 1:31 - 1:25 = mile four: 5:56

I then cooled down with the 3 mile run back to my house. Tough day but it did really feel good to run with people and to run fast.

took today off and am going to run Sunday in its place.  I am planing on doing 8 on Saturday and Sunday which should round out my week at 50 miles : )

Ran my basic 8 mile route

Ran a flat 8 miles today at South Park in the middle of the days heat.  I did it in 1:01:05.

Pretty easy 8 miles, time was 1:09:42

Ran the course I usually run but added a little to the end to up the miles, total time 1:15:35 with a 7:06 mile on mile number 8 because I was feeling really good.

ran 3miles to the local track today with the intent to just jog a few miles on the flat track and then run home.  I ended up doing 2 quicker miles on the track and felt great doing them.  below are the times:

miles1-3:    -   25:50

mile 4:   -   6:34

mile 5:   -   8:55 (jogged as a cool down)

mile 6:   -   6:18

miles 7-9:    -    24:17 

Total time:    -  1:10:54

I ran with the running group in my neighborhood again tonight and we did repeat 800's with 400 recovery laps in between.  I did a 1 mile warm up and a 2 mile cool down as well.

Times:

#1     -    2:43

#2     -    2:43

#3     -    2:44

#4     -    2:47

#5     -    2:48

#6     -    2:51

Felt pretty good trough out the workout.

Easy 8 mile run

This is the longest run I have done in at least 10 years. I felt really good considering it was 95 degrees out.

Total time: 2:22:36 

easy jog today, busy weekend and tough run yesterday so I am taking it easy.

1000 repeats:

#1   -   3:37

#2   -   3:42

#3   -   3:37

#4   -   3:35

#5   -   3:31

total 55:14

6 on track, total time 41:55

800 repeats:

#1 - 2:56

#2 - 3:10

#3 - 2:43

#4 - 2:53

#5 - 2:59

#6 - 3:04

total time 1:13:00