"Avoid late-nights, long shopping trips, and any other potentially exhausting activity the day before a long-run. The long-run is the most critical element of marathon training. If you go into the long-run tired you are most certainly going to negatively affect your training."
Shopping trips? Mine usually consist of walking around a 3-block radius of Harvard Square or shopping online.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
long run
Distance: 12.25 miles
Time: 2:05:01
Pace: 10:13/mile
Temperature: 85 degrees at end of run
Time of Day: 8:00 a.m.
Today I ran around Cambridge (did mapmyrun but my Internet crashed so I lost the picture), wishing I'd managed to drag myself out of bed at 6:30 a.m. instead of 7:40 a.m. I stopped for a Black Cherry Propel to wash down my espresso Gu one hour and 10 minutes into the run and did a cooldown walk to get a slurpee at the end of the run. I'm making progress re: preparation by at least having gels and Propel, but need to get better with hydrating the night before! Weirdest catcall of the run: Homeless lady screaming "I wanna be skinny like you!" at mile 12. That kept me from stopping at the Mass Ave 7-11 and continuing to the Harvard Square one--sometimes the Central Square homeless folk are a bit odd.
Time: 2:05:01
Pace: 10:13/mile
Temperature: 85 degrees at end of run
Time of Day: 8:00 a.m.
Today I ran around Cambridge (did mapmyrun but my Internet crashed so I lost the picture), wishing I'd managed to drag myself out of bed at 6:30 a.m. instead of 7:40 a.m. I stopped for a Black Cherry Propel to wash down my espresso Gu one hour and 10 minutes into the run and did a cooldown walk to get a slurpee at the end of the run. I'm making progress re: preparation by at least having gels and Propel, but need to get better with hydrating the night before! Weirdest catcall of the run: Homeless lady screaming "I wanna be skinny like you!" at mile 12. That kept me from stopping at the Mass Ave 7-11 and continuing to the Harvard Square one--sometimes the Central Square homeless folk are a bit odd.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
running on the beach
I've been in the Outer Banks since Saturday and have run twice on the beach so far. I ran for about 30 minutes with one of my fellow beach-goers in super humid weather on Saturday, and we managed to get lost by forgetting both the access path to the beach and the address of our beach house. A frat boy directed us to his aunt's house, where we found some very helpful people who let us check our gmail for the address and then Google map the way back.
Today I ran for 43 minutes on the beach at 7:30 a.m. The heat was so much less oppressive than it usually is, and there were interesting passerby (e.g., old lady in full pink regalia with poodle, crabs scuttling around on the sand) to look at during the run. The softer, flatter sand was wicked hard to run in--my shoes sank down two inches with every step. The hard packed sand nearer to the water was easier to run on surface-wise but also quite tilted.
Today I ran for 43 minutes on the beach at 7:30 a.m. The heat was so much less oppressive than it usually is, and there were interesting passerby (e.g., old lady in full pink regalia with poodle, crabs scuttling around on the sand) to look at during the run. The softer, flatter sand was wicked hard to run in--my shoes sank down two inches with every step. The hard packed sand nearer to the water was easier to run on surface-wise but also quite tilted.
Friday, June 27, 2008
long run today
Distance: 10.77 miles
Time: 1:54:45
Pace: 10:38/mile
Temperature: 85 (feels like 90)
Lesson learned: Start drinking Propel and eating Clif shot blocks or Jelly Belly sport beans again. I was supposed to run 12 miles today but absolutely conked out because of the heat and my insufficient preparation. I stopped at home after the first 49 minutes to replenish my water bottle, but the water warmed up so fast that it felt useless. Other lesson learned: don't leave your running shoes in Boston by mistake...I've been running with an old pair so I picked up a pair of Asics at Lady Foot Locker in Ballston today. I'm probably going to run on the beach in the Outer Banks (out-and-backs so I don't end up running one way on a banked surface the whole time).
Time: 1:54:45
Pace: 10:38/mile
Temperature: 85 (feels like 90)
Lesson learned: Start drinking Propel and eating Clif shot blocks or Jelly Belly sport beans again. I was supposed to run 12 miles today but absolutely conked out because of the heat and my insufficient preparation. I stopped at home after the first 49 minutes to replenish my water bottle, but the water warmed up so fast that it felt useless. Other lesson learned: don't leave your running shoes in Boston by mistake...I've been running with an old pair so I picked up a pair of Asics at Lady Foot Locker in Ballston today. I'm probably going to run on the beach in the Outer Banks (out-and-backs so I don't end up running one way on a banked surface the whole time).
Thursday, June 26, 2008
various virginia runs
Am catching up on blogging--I've been fairly good about keeping up with running (just not track workouts) since I've been in Virginia the past week.
6/19/2008 3 x 1 minute easy, 1 minute easy/moderate, 3 minutes moderate, 3 minutes walking plus warmup and cooldown
6/20/2008 Ran 2 miles (8:36, 8:46) plus four sets of bleachers at W&L track.
6/21/2008 (10 miles, 1:42:50, 10:17/mile)
Ran with Sam (blogidarity!) from mile marker 2.0 to 4.5 and back on the Four Mile Run trail, then from mile marker 3.5 to 6 on the W&OD trail. Virginia hills and humidity kick my butt now! I'd only run the Four Mile Run trail once before, and was happy to find out that it splits into two parts (one boring one and one through streams). It also has way less bikers than the W&OD or Mt. Vernon trails. I really appreciated all the water fountains and presence of an Exxon near W&OD mile marker 6.
6/23/2008 Ran about six miles during a WH4 trail.
6/24/2008 (3.75 miles, 36:41, 9:47/mile)
6/25/2008 (1.96 miles, 17:09, 8:45/mile)
6/26/2008 (3.58 miles, 34:37, 9:41/mile)
It is 90 degrees outside (weather.com says it "feels like 95."). Ow. I'm going to start plotting a 12-mile run for tomorrow (since I won't have time to do it on Saturday when in the Outer Banks)...now I'm actually motivated to get up at 6:00 a.m.!
6/19/2008 3 x 1 minute easy, 1 minute easy/moderate, 3 minutes moderate, 3 minutes walking plus warmup and cooldown
6/20/2008 Ran 2 miles (8:36, 8:46) plus four sets of bleachers at W&L track.
6/21/2008 (10 miles, 1:42:50, 10:17/mile)
Ran with Sam (blogidarity!) from mile marker 2.0 to 4.5 and back on the Four Mile Run trail, then from mile marker 3.5 to 6 on the W&OD trail. Virginia hills and humidity kick my butt now! I'd only run the Four Mile Run trail once before, and was happy to find out that it splits into two parts (one boring one and one through streams). It also has way less bikers than the W&OD or Mt. Vernon trails. I really appreciated all the water fountains and presence of an Exxon near W&OD mile marker 6.
6/23/2008 Ran about six miles during a WH4 trail.
6/24/2008 (3.75 miles, 36:41, 9:47/mile)
6/25/2008 (1.96 miles, 17:09, 8:45/mile)
6/26/2008 (3.58 miles, 34:37, 9:41/mile)
It is 90 degrees outside (weather.com says it "feels like 95."). Ow. I'm going to start plotting a 12-mile run for tomorrow (since I won't have time to do it on Saturday when in the Outer Banks)...now I'm actually motivated to get up at 6:00 a.m.!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
run today w/ emily
Distance: 5.1 miles
Time: 46:35
Pace: 9:09/mile
Same run as usual, but better weather. I only had coffee this morning but felt fine because it wasn't excessively humid. And as I am writing this, my friend Biba gchatted me to say she saw me running. Odd!
Time: 46:35
Pace: 9:09/mile
Same run as usual, but better weather. I only had coffee this morning but felt fine because it wasn't excessively humid. And as I am writing this, my friend Biba gchatted me to say she saw me running. Odd!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
running when angry
Distance: 8.53 miles
Time: 1:20:53
Pace: 9:29
I was, and still am, mad at the world today...so I ran for a lot longer than I was expecting to. That felt damn good.
Time: 1:20:53
Pace: 9:29
I was, and still am, mad at the world today...so I ran for a lot longer than I was expecting to. That felt damn good.
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