Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Week of 21 Sept 2009:
The last couple of weeks has been tough and with the added mileage I have had I was getting exhausted. Going in to the weekend I wasn't sure if I was going to do a 20 miler or make this a cut back week and do 12. When I woke up Sat. morning I opted for the latter. I turned over and went back to sleep- not for long but the added sleep was nice. Once up I lounged around for most of the morning and then the day got kind of hectic. I decided to do 6 on Saturday and 12 on Sunday. The rain and storms ended my 6 mile run at 4.6 miles. The 12 run on Sunday was excellent!! I am still kind of tired but I think the cut back week was exactly what I needed.

Mon- bike- 10 miles
Tues- run- 6.2 miles; bike- 10 miles
Wed- run- 8.3 miles; bike- 10 miles
Thurs- run- 6.2 miles
Fri- rest day
Sat- run- 4.6 miles
Sun- run- 12 miles

Total- Run- 37.3 miles; bike- 30 miles

Monday, September 21, 2009

Another solid week of base building. My 18 miler had rain, heavy fog, then rain again. A little bit of a struggle to keep pace for the last couple of miles but mentally stayed good and finished out the run positively.

Another couple of weeks of base building and I will start adding speed and strength workouts in for a few weeks.

Week of 14 Sep 2009:
Mon- bike- 10 miles
Tues- run- 6.2miles; bike 10 miles
Wed- run- 6.2 miles; bike 15 miles
Thurs- run- 8.3 miles; bike 10 miles
Fri- rest day
Sat- run- 18 miles
Sun- run- 6 miles

Total- run- 44.7 miles; bike- 45 miles

Monday, September 14, 2009

Loving and living life. Training still going strong.

I had a good week going last week. I had planned regular runs of 5-6 mile distances during the week with a step back to 10 miles on the weekend and a 5 mile recovery run on Sunday. We left for the lake as soon as Glenn got home from school and in the haste of trying to get gone quickly I left both pair of running shoes on the rack in the garage. I had clothes packed but no shoes….. so no running. I ended up sitting around and resting a lot as Glenn wasn’t feeling well and we ended up just hanging out around the lake house all weekend. Turns out that Glenn and Kathy both contracted the swine flu. They stayed home from school/work all last week, took tamiflu, and are healed now. I somehow managed to stay healthy and not get it.

I can tell I am starting to get up there in miles. I had thought about extending my long run by another mile Saturday morning but in hindsight see that I stopped right at the right time. I ended the week with a nice 6 mile recovery run on Sunday.

Week of 31 Aug 2009:
Mon- bike- 10 miles
Tues- run- 5miles; bike 10 miles
Wed- run 6 miles
Thurs- run 5 miles; bike 10 miles
Fri- rest day, left for the lake
Sat- forgot running shoes- nothing
Sun- forgot running shoes- nothing

Total- run- 16 miles; bike- 15 miles

Week of 07 Sept 2009:
Mon- nothing
Tues- run- 5 miles
Wed- run- 6 miles
Thurs- run- 6 miles
Fri- rest day
Sat- run- 16 miles
Sun- run- 6 miles

Total- run- 39 miles