Monthly Mileage:
- Just filled finished my mileage log in for March, I toped out at 97.8 miles that is up from 66 miles for March last year. (No Wonder my legs felt tired after today's run.)
- Feb was 62.5 which was up from 43 for last year.
I am excited, right now I am working on getting a little faster. I think I got going long down, now I'd like to up my pace about a Minute per mile off my time.
President's Challenge:- Last week I finally earn enough points in the President's Challenge to earn the Gold Medal. It took me about a year and three months to earn the 80,000 points for the gold. I will post pictures when I get the medals, I have to order them.
After you get the gold, it puts you on track to get the platinum medal, for that it is 500,000 points. I figure it is going to take about 5 or 6 more years or so to get that one!
Intervals:- Today was another interval workout - 9 x 1/4 mile - target was was 7:45 pace. The fast one was #1 at a 6:52 pace and slow was #8 at 8:00 - I averaged out at 7:31. I had about a 10 mph wind that was blowing mostly across my route. It only bothered me a little. I did have to walk part of three recoveries though, that kind of stunk. But I am happy with the work out.
New Shoes:- I Love my new shoes, I got a Pair of Mizunos. They are the best ones I have had yet. I need to go get another pair in the next week or two because these will have too many miles on them by the Mini (Like 250 or so) I am going to get another pair just like the ones I already have. They are great!
MISC:- In case you care, I vote for a hot shower following cold run is more soothing than a cool/luke warm shower after a run on a hot day!!
- Again thank you all for your help with pre-race food ideas.
Comments (4)
nice work george!! good mileage leads to strong runners and strong finishes!
What type of Mizunos? I run in WaveRiders.
Seems like you do intervals too fast to start with. I try to keep my slowest and fastest within 10 seconds or I figured I started too fast. takes some practice. I usually do halfs if I do any. Longer intervals for longer races. I need to step up to miles.
Im a Cleveland Browns fan. I live in Ohio, near Youngstown, they been my team since the late 70's.
ryc: thanks very much for the great encouragement!! it definitely helped, and i did end up having much better runs these past few nights!!
feeling quite relieved at the moment...
i also vote for the hot shower following a cold run!! sooooo very relaxing and soothing!
great training btw, glad to see you're excited about it! sometimes i forget to be excited, but then i check out xangas like yours and am reminded about the joy/awesomeness of it all! so thank you! :)