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?

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

5.14-5.20

5.14 4 miles easy.

5.15 12 miles outside in the rain in 71 minutes. I alternated between faster .8 miles and slower .4 miles at about 6:45 pace. My .8 splits were 4:59, 4:38, 4:30, 4:28, 4:20, 4:18, 4:20, 4:18, 4:18, 4:17. My first 6 miles were in 36:20 and my last 6 were in 34:40. I felt solid and consider this a nice workout. Not really even a tempo pace for those repeats, but a fast, solid pace.

5.16 11 miles on treadmill easy.
5.17 11.4 miles easy on treadmill.

5.18 4 miles easy. 9 miles PM on treadmill fairly easy. 13 miles total.

5.19 9.3 miles easy in 61 minutes (AM). 4 miles easy PM.
13.3 miles total.

5.20 10 miles in 74 minutes. 3.3 early afternoon easy. 4 miles late pm easy.
17.3 total for the day.

82 miles for the week

5.7-5.13

5.7 8 miles easy treadmill.

5.8 3 miles warm up on treadmill at 2% incline. Then 13 by quarter miles at 78 seconds with 30 seconds rest in between for a total of 4.3 miles in 24:27. 6.7 miles cool down.

14 miles total. hard effort for me.

5.9 10 miles easy.

5.10 9.1 mile outside easy.

5.11 13 miles easy on treadmill at 2% incline.

5.12 3.2 miles easy AM. 3 miles easy pm.

6.2 miles total.

5.13 16 miles in 2:05. easy effort--but up in Meredith with lots of mountains. 4.7 miles early PM. 4 miles early evening in the rain.

24.7 miles total.

85 miles total running with 20 miles biking

4.30-5.6

4.30 8 miles easy.

5.1 11 miles on treadmill at 2% incline--progression run. Started out at 7:30 pace and got down to 5:30. 71:30 total.

5.2 7 miles AM easy. 7 miles PM easy.
14 miles total.

5.3 6 miles am easy. 9 miles pm in 59 minutes.

15 miles total.

5.4 11 miles.

5.5 12 miles in 89 minutes.

5.6 10 miles am treadmill. 10 miles pm treadmill in 65 minutes. I threw in some alternating fast quarter miles toward the end and did mile 5 through 6.25 in 6:56 and then mile 8 in 5:35. Hard effort.

20 miles for the day.

91 miles for the week with 20 miles on the bike, too.

4.23-4.29

It is now time to back off the mileage and intensity.

4.23 10 miles treadmill easy (2% incline).

4.24 14 miles in 97 minutes outside.

4.25 7.4 miles outside easy.

4.26 4.6 miles easy outside. 6 miles on bike.

4.27 10 miles in 69 minutes and ran faster on the last mile. 15 miles on the bike.

4.28 9 miles AM (66 minutes) 5 miles PM. 15 miles bike.

4.29 10 miles treadmill AM. 2.2 miles easy early afternoon with Duncan. 25 miles PM on treadmill. 10 miles bike.

22.2 miles for the day.

81.2 miles for the week running. 61 miles biking.