2.14 11 miles in 76 minutes on treadmill at 2% incline.
My legs felt slighly mushy today, but not too bad.
2.15 10 miles on treadmill at 2% incline in 65:28. First 5 miles were in 34:08; last 5 were in 31:20. I was not breathing hard and I felt fine.
2.16 11 miles total. 2 miles warm up in which my legs felt like lead and I was left wondering if I should scrap the whole planned workout. But, I realized I had to gut this one out--or as much of it as I could. I had planned to run 4 by 2 mile tempo runs with 400 recovery jogs, but after 1 of these I knew I could manage only 3 at best, which is what I did. I ran this on a treadmill at 2% incline with a 400 meter recovery jog in between each one.
My splits were 10:48, 10:45, 10:44, which translates to an outside track at 10:36, 10:33, 10:32. 2.5 miles cool down.
Honestly, I was right where I wanted to be--maybe a couple seconds per mile too fast, which made the 4th rep seem impossible. My left hip hurt the whole time and I just felt like garbage. With that being said, I am very pleased at these times and the effort. I quite literally questioned every fiber of my being the entire 2nd and 3rd repeat! I'm going to take it easy for a couple days to recover.
2.17 10 miles outside (65:54) This felt pretty easy and I was psyched to see how relaxed running at 6:30 pace really felt. My left hip hurt so I am not happy about that, but I felt pretty okay all things considered. It seems like I am in the kind of shape now where I could essentially run 10 miles in my sleep, which is kind of cool. Last year at this time, I was monkeying around running about 2 miles a day on a treadmill at 8mph and thinking I was a bad-ass--lol. I'm still not a bad-ass,but at least I'm not a dumb-ass--or maybe I am?
2.18 4 miles on treadmill at 2% incline in 31 minutes (AM). 10 miles PM outside in 61:59. First 5 miles were in 31:36, last 5 were in 30:23. Lots of hills and my legs felt rubbery, but this was a nice effort--obviously, not a tempo run, but solid nonetheless.
2.19 8 miles pm on treadmill at 2%incline in 56 minutes. 4 miles pm on treadmill (2 % incline) in 30 minutes.
2.20 4 miles easy 32 minutes.
I developed a terrible blister on my foot and could not run anymore than I did today.
72 miles 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?
Man, your training looks awesome! I'm both impressed and scared! I think you need to get into the Paddy's race and run about 25:45.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bob--that means a lot. Like you last year, I think I am breaking through as many psychological barriers as physical ones!
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