1.9 8 miles on treadmill (2% incline. I started out in 6:50 and then averaged about 6:17 until the final mile when I busted a 5:35 with the final 800 in 2:35. Time was 50:03. I am trying to become accustomed to always finishing strong and feel comfortable running easy at 6:30 and under. I feel pretty good.
1.10 4 miles am easy. 6 miles pm--1.5 mile warm up on treadmill at 2% incline. 3 mile tempo in 16:01. 1.5 mile cool down in 10 minutes. I felt pretty decent. Lots of high mileage the last few months, so I am a little bit tired generally speaking.
10 miles total for the day.
1.11 12 miles on treadmill at 2% incline. First 4 miles in 26:58. Next 4 in 26:22. Last 4 miles in 24:36 with the last half mile in 2:32. I am feeling very strong and was not breathing hard even at the end.
1.12 4 miles easy AM treadmill. 10 miles on treadmill at 2% incline in 63:32--6:20 per mile. I feel strong. 14 miles total.
1.13 6 miles treadmill(2% incline) in 43 minutes AM. 4.4 miles early PM outside. 4.6 miles late PM outside in the dark. 15 miles total for the day.
1.14 3.2 miles in 23 minutes outside--cold--early AM. Late AM--5.2 miles outside. 6 miles PM in 37:37 outside. I started out in 6:55 and worked my way down and ran a 75 second last 400. My last mile was in 5:41 and the mile before that was 6 minutes even. Last three miles in 18:00. I felt like i was jogging fast. I am clearly really gaining in strength.
14.4 miles for the day. Cold and windy out there, but I got work to do.
1.15 8 miles am on treadmill at 2% incline. 2 mile warm up. Canova Lactate Intervals: 6 x 400m. I ran the 400's in 73 seconds and then ran 800's at roughly 5:52 pace and kept alternating. 4 miles in 21:46. 2 miles cool down. I felt very good for this and just wanted to see how I felt. Last year at this time, I was around 22:21 for 4 miles and going "all-out" for a tempo. I felt relaxed for this and probably should have gone a little farther, but I had a time crunch.
9 miles pm in 57 minutes. 17 miles total.
I am amazed at how I feel running 6:15 miles now. It is as if I am jogging. I finally feel like all my higher mileage is paying off. I am so thankful, because I am training my butt off!
90.4 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?
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