12.26 5 miles Treadmill AM with 10 strides of about 30 seconds apiece. 1st mile in about 9 minutes and I got progressively faster between each stride and was going at 12 MPH at the very end.
6 mile pm on treadmill. 1.5 mile warm up. Then 16 by 200 meters on treadmill at 8% incline at 10 to 10.2 MPH with 100 meter jogging recovery at 3% incline at about 7.2 to 7.3 MPH. 3 miles in 20:18. This was a ball buster. 1.5 mile cool down. 6 miles total.
11 mile total.
12.27 11.6 miles outside (hills galore--still in Meredith) in 1:31:26.
12.28 4 miles treadmill am easy. 4.5 miles pm easy pm.
12.29 6.5 miles treadmill easy.
12.30 13.4 miles outside in 98 minutes. 4.6 mile pm easy outside. 18 miles for the day.
12.31 21.5 miles.
Very Very mountainous route. Miles 5 and 6 and 11 and 12 absolutely killed me and averaged about 7:50 for these miles, which were straight up a mountain mostly.
I started out in 6:37, 6:27: 5:52 and then hovered around 6:20-6:30 for the rest of the miles with the exception of those 4 miles. After mile 15, I was toast, though, because mile 14 was straight down hill and I did everything I could to keep from tumbling forward. From mile 16 to 20, I averaged about 7 per mile, as the miles went up at a slight incline and I was just fried from all the changes in elevation---I picked the worst route. At 20 miles, I was at 2:15:09--6:45 pace. I jogged the last 1.5 miles. Total time was 2:26:53 and slightly under 6:50 pace total.
The overall pace was totally deceiving, because this route was insane that I ran, so I feel this is closer to a 6:15 effort, as that is what i was averaging about 9 miles in, but the hills and such just started to take their toll.
The last few weeks have been fantastic in terms of training--longer runs, some harder efforts, higher weekly totals. I feel beat up a little, but I feel stronger.
1.1 2.25 miles easy AM--I ran out of time to run any more. 3.5 miles early PM easy. 3.65 miles in 27:13 on treadmill at 2% incline.
9.4 miles total for the day.
86.5 miles total for the week
As a youth, I ran, yet I did not exist in a sense. 19 years passed. Today, I exist in one sense because I must run. Perhaps I run to escape the futility of my existence. Perhaps not. In either case, this blog, or whatever it is, will serve to chronicle my training as a runner, my development as a man, and ultimately my demise as a human, because all things pass, fade, retreat into the horizon--and while we run, as we run, the mirage that is the shimmering, glimmering future continues to assert itself just out of reach. And yet, as this picture up above connotes, it may still be beautiful. And so the question may be what is IT? What is it? What is IT?
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