Monday, October 30, 2006

Another good week on the base building and enjoying running. I was surprised at how well my 10 miler went on Sunday. No stops at all- just smooth, easy run. The temptation was there to add a couple more miles because it was feeling so good but I decided to stop with the planned 10 miles and end on a positive note to take in to my next week of running.

Mon- 10-23: No run
Tues- 10-24: 3 miles
Wed- 10-25: 5 miles
Thurs- 10-26: 5 miles
Fri- 10-27: rest day
Sat- 10-28: 5 miles
Sun- 10-29: 10 miles

Total- 28 miles

Monday, October 23, 2006

The slow base building continues at a slow rate- trying not to wear myself out in the first few weeks like I have done the past couple of training sessions. I am not sure when training for the ING Georgia marathon starts - probably sometime in mid November. I want to have a few weeks of decent mileage before starting it. Also, I will start out this time with a pretty basic program rather than the Pfitzinger program.
I started trying to figure out what's gone wrong my last few training sessions and came up with these facts:
-my priorities have changed
-I am a little older
-I weigh an all time high
-I am trying to use a very aggressive program
-My base is not where it has been in the past

So- I need to get back to the basics and have fun with running like I did when I started - no stress, and as I said in my last post, just enjoy running.

I went out and bought the new/3rd edition of "Marathon - The Ultimate Training Guide" by H Higdon. This is the first book I read that tought me the basics when I decided to start running marathons. I decided if you are going back to the basics, go back to where you started and what got you to where you were before and that's it. I am only about 100 pages in to it but I am enjoying reading it again- especially the 3rd edition.

I wanted to take a glance back at the mileage I had accumulated as of 10-23 for the last few years. It was interesting:
10-23-03: 1723.6 miles
10-23-04: 1558.3 miles
10-23-05: 861 miles
10-23-06: 884.3 miles

The last 2 weeks I have decent weeks of running. I wanted to get back out and do a semi-long run which would be about 10-12 miles for me right now. Last week it didn't work out to get it in so I had a week of shorter runs. This week, I missed a couple of shorter runs but did get a 10 miler in at Stone Mountain. The run went good but I had to laugh at how sore I was that night and the next morning.

Week Ending 10-15-06:
Mon- 0 miles
Tues- 5 miles
Wed- 0 miles
Thurs- 5 miles
Fri- 0 miles
Sat- 5 miles
Sun- 4 miles

Total: 19 miles

Week Ending 10-22-06:
Mon- 0 miles
Tues- 0 miles
Wed- 5 miles
Thurs- 5 miles
Fri- 0 miles
Sat- 0 miles
Sun- 10 miles

Total: 20 miles

Monday, October 09, 2006

The last few weeks have been very busy and I haven't made much time for running. It was just turning in to another stress in life rather than being the sport that I have enjoyed the last 5 years. I dropped out of training for a race in week 6 of the Pfitzinger program and just thought I would take a couple of weeks of R&R then go back at it, but as is the case in many instances, that didn't happen.
A catch up in miles run per week:
08-21-06 - 08-27-06: total 9 miles
08-28-06 - 09-03-06: total 23 miles
09-04-06 - 09-10-06: total 13 miles
09-11-06 - 09-17-06: total 18 miles
09-18-06 - 09-24-06: total 3 miles
09-25-06 - 10-01-06: total 9 miles
10-02-06 - 10-08-06: total 14 miles

So, not a perfect plan to be following running wise, but, I am enjoying the running. I am running when I can and what I feel like running. The only 2 races I have on my schedule right now are the Atlanta Half Marathon on Thanksgiving day and the ING Georgia marathon in March 2007. I may decide to run a couple others depending on how I feel and when I decide to get back in to training. I have not ruled out Thunder Road in Charlotte Half marathon on Dec. 9 but have not signed up for it either.

With my work schedule right now I don't want to commit to too much. Hopefully things are turning in the right direction work wise and I will have more free time.

We took a vacation and went to Panama City Beach 09-22 through 09-27. What a great time! It was Glenn's first trip to the beach and he had a blast. A couple of cool things about the trip- there was a motorcycle rally going on called "Thunder Beach". Good looking bikes everywhere!! Also, I did 2 runs while I was there- a 3 mile run and a 6 mile run. When I was doing the 6 mile run, I saw the IM symbol on the road with an arrow by it. I looked on the map for the Florida IM and saw that the place I had gone to run was part of the run course and that was the turn around point for the 2 laps that make up the marathon portion of the race. I am trying to work it out to go back down in Nov. and volunteer for the IM race but I am not sure I am going to be able to work it out.