Weekly Training Report for 2011-02-27

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Feb 262011
 

Workouts 4
Time 264 min
Running 24.7 miles

  • tue: Alternate between 1 minutes of hard running followed by 4 minutes of easy running. Ran 4.2 miles for 44 minutes at 10:33 pace. Garmin Edge 205305
  • thu: 1 Mile warm up, 3 miles of marathon pace, 1 mile cool down. Ran 6.0 miles for 60 minutes at 10:00 pace. Pretty fast run on the track. No issues
  • fri: Longer mid week easy run. This is mostly to build miles for the week.. Ran 4.5 miles for 49 minutes at 11:04 pace. slow run
  • sat: Long run with walk breaks. Ran 10.0 miles for 109 minutes at 10:59 pace. Cut back run. No issues
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Week 17 update

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Feb 222011
 

This first thing I want to mention is that you have helped to raise $8,174  for Children’s Hospital by sponsoring me in the Boston Marathon!   I feel very blessed to know so many generous and giving people.  If you have not had an opportunity to register your sponsorship and feel you are able to contribute then you can do so here.

Today marks the end of my 17th week of training, which I started in October.  As most of you know, prior to October the most I had run in the last 20 years was 3-4 miles.  Last week my family and I were on a Disney cruise to the Caribbean and as relaxing as vacation is supposed to be, this would be a bad time to suspend my training schedule.  Thankfully the ship we were on had a 1/3 mile track on deck 4 and I was able to log some mileage.  What I was not counting on was the heat, humidity, heavy winds and the pitching and rolling of the deck!  My heart rate was up 10 bbm and I had to take it slow and run no more than 6 miles at a time.  I think the effort was more like 12 miles though!  Since we were traveling back to Boston on Sat, I moved my long run to yesterday (Sunday) and successfully completed my first 20 miler in 3 hours and 48 minutes.  Following the instructions of my training program I ran slow and steady with 30 second walk breaks every 4 minutes.  I stopped once per hour to thoroughly stretch and drank 7 ounces of fluids every 20 minutes.  I finished feeling very tired but in fairly good shape.

That brings my total training distance to 372 miles so far, with 8 more weeks to go.  My confidence is building, but the fact is that the marathon itself is much harder than any individual training run I will do and there is always the variable weather conditions, injury or illness that can make race day extremely difficult for a newbie runner.  On March 21st I will be participating in a training run on the last 21 miles of the Boston Marathon course, along with many other charity teams.  That’s when I will find out if the hill training I have been doing was enough.

Thanks again for everyone’s support and encouragement!

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Weekly Training Report for 2011-02-20

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Feb 192011
 

Workouts 4
Time 411 min
Running 36.0 miles

  • mon: Running workout. Ran 6.0 miles for 70 minutes at 11:48 pace. It was pretty brutal at 75 degrees, humid with wind and a pitching, rolling deck
  • wed: Longer mid week easy run. This is mostly to build miles for the week.. Ran 6.0 miles for 64 minutes at 10:48 pace. It was pretty brutal at 75 degrees, humid with wind and a pitching, rolling deck
  • thu: Alternate between 1 minutes of hard running followed by 4 minutes of easy running. Ran 4.0 miles for 49 minutes at 12:27 pace. It was pretty brutal at 75 degrees, humid with wind and a pitching, rolling deck
  • sun: Long run with walk breaks. Ran 20.0 miles for 226 minutes at 11:19 pace. I tried to keep the pace down. For the first half I ran with 30 second walk breaks every 4 minutes. Then I switched to 45 second walk breaks. Pace was 9:30 to 10:15 when running.
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Weekly Training Report for 2011-02-13

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Feb 122011
 

Workouts 4
Time 257 min
Running 23.1 miles

  • mon: Recovery from long run. Easy pace 1.5 – 2 minutes behind marathon pace. Ran 6.1 miles for 61 minutes at 10:06 pace. I ran faster than I should have, but felt good.
  • wed: Longer mid week easy run. This is mostly to build miles for the week.. Ran 6.0 miles for 64 minutes at 10:48 pace. Ran on treadmill at work. Did first few miles at a 10:00 pace
  • thu: Alternate between 1 minutes of hard running followed by 4 minutes of easy running. Ran 5.0 miles for 49 minutes at 9:58 pace. Workouts3.csv
  • sun: Longer mid week easy run. This is mostly to build miles for the week.. Ran 6.0 miles for 81 minutes at 13:30 pace. Workouts3.csv
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Weekly Training Report for 2011-02-06

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Feb 052011
 

Workouts 3
Time 286 min
Running 28.0 miles

  • tue: Recovery from long run. Easy pace 1.5 – 2 minutes behind marathon pace. Ran 6.0 miles for 57 minutes at 9:30 pace. Should have been a slow recovery run but everything was flowing so nicely. Hopefully I won’t pay a price for this.
  • thu: Alternate between 1 minutes of hard running followed by 4 minutes of easy running. Ran 6.0 miles for 60 minutes at 10:00 pace. Run went well but a bit sore afterwards. Didn’t have the time needed for proper stretching
  • sat: Long run with walk breaks. Ran 16.0 miles for 169 minutes at 10:35 pace. 128 laps on the 18 mile track at Latitude. Ran very well. There is no doubt my pace is improving. That was 10:34 pace including 30 walk every 4 minutes. My actual running pace was about 9:30
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