Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
CRC
Tonight's A2 workout and my times next to the intervals:
1600@ 10k pace; jog an 800; 7:55
2x800 @ 5k pace; jog 400 in between; 3:43, 3:43
1600 @ 10k pace; jog an 800; 7:59
1600 @ marathon pace; 8:15
I'm improving. I like feeling stronger and having good running buddies to push me!
1600@ 10k pace; jog an 800; 7:55
2x800 @ 5k pace; jog 400 in between; 3:43, 3:43
1600 @ 10k pace; jog an 800; 7:59
1600 @ marathon pace; 8:15
I'm improving. I like feeling stronger and having good running buddies to push me!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
long run with buddies!
Distance: 10.98 miles
Time: 1:49:00 (1:08 with buddies)
Pace: 9:56/mile
Temperature: 10 degrees
I met my girl CRC buddies Krista and Zena on the corner of Mass Ave and Beacon Street this morning around 10:00 a.m. Clad in tons of winter layers, we headed down the Charles River on the Boston side toward the Eliot Bridge. About an hour of good conversation and stomping through ice later, we had rounded the Eliot Bridge and reached Mass Ave again. We parted ways on the Cambridge side of the river and have made plans for a run near Boston College this Saturday! I am psyched to have girl running buddies here. They've inspired me to set a new goal: 1:45:00 in the 2009 Boston Half Marathon.
Time: 1:49:00 (1:08 with buddies)
Pace: 9:56/mile
Temperature: 10 degrees
I met my girl CRC buddies Krista and Zena on the corner of Mass Ave and Beacon Street this morning around 10:00 a.m. Clad in tons of winter layers, we headed down the Charles River on the Boston side toward the Eliot Bridge. About an hour of good conversation and stomping through ice later, we had rounded the Eliot Bridge and reached Mass Ave again. We parted ways on the Cambridge side of the river and have made plans for a run near Boston College this Saturday! I am psyched to have girl running buddies here. They've inspired me to set a new goal: 1:45:00 in the 2009 Boston Half Marathon.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
I've been plugging away at the gym, mostly running and swimming. I had a really fast (treadmill) run on Saturday that leads me to believe either a) my treadmill is calibrated differently from the ones at the gym and makes it seem like I am going faster and/or burning more calories at the same programmed pace/time, or b) I have increased my fitness and endurance already. I suspect it's both (i.e., 7.0 on the treadmill at home is still faster than 6.6 on the treadmill at home). My basic regime is (reluctant) weightlifting a few days a week, a class here and there (yoga or spinning), running 4-6 miles most days (long runs excepted), and swimming 30-50 laps pretty much every time I'm at the gym. This means my hair always smells vaguely of chlorine and I'm constantly doing laundry.
Anyway, I feel faster, or like my heart rate is lower when I'm running at the same, or a faster pace. I also feel like by going to the gym even when I don't want to, and sticking to my schedule (swimming 50 laps when I want to quit at 30, running 6 miles when 4 feels like enough), I've made a habit or practice of working out. I write out what I'm going to do and I follow through. It's not as fun as running outside, but there's still a certain sense of achievement (and SportsCenter on loop is its own kind of bliss), and certainly some tangible improvement in fitness. My weight even seems to be down a few pounds. I think it will be really exciting to see how I feel when I can get out on the roads again!
Ordered Brain Training for Runners, which employs some analogous theories to Chi Running (I had skimmed it when I had it from the library, but had to return it before I got much use out of it) and The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Running. The latter is part of a series (some thirty sport-specific guides in print, which made me a little leery) and features a somewhat silly-looking demonstrator, but I like the concision of the text and plans and the ease with which I can follow the plans. Also, I only have to do four exercises on a given day.
Anyway, I feel faster, or like my heart rate is lower when I'm running at the same, or a faster pace. I also feel like by going to the gym even when I don't want to, and sticking to my schedule (swimming 50 laps when I want to quit at 30, running 6 miles when 4 feels like enough), I've made a habit or practice of working out. I write out what I'm going to do and I follow through. It's not as fun as running outside, but there's still a certain sense of achievement (and SportsCenter on loop is its own kind of bliss), and certainly some tangible improvement in fitness. My weight even seems to be down a few pounds. I think it will be really exciting to see how I feel when I can get out on the roads again!
Ordered Brain Training for Runners, which employs some analogous theories to Chi Running (I had skimmed it when I had it from the library, but had to return it before I got much use out of it) and The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Running. The latter is part of a series (some thirty sport-specific guides in print, which made me a little leery) and features a somewhat silly-looking demonstrator, but I like the concision of the text and plans and the ease with which I can follow the plans. Also, I only have to do four exercises on a given day.
Monday, January 19, 2009
the race that didn't happen and short run today
Yesterday's Frostbite 15K was canceled due to snow (ironic) so I ended up sleeping through Mean Girls and Princess Diaries on the couch rather than running. Today I did 3.04 miles through Cambridge in 30:57. The only eventful item of the run: getting splashed head to toe by a car on Prospect Street. My pedestrian road rage came out in full force after that, and I spent the rest of the run crankily stomping through more puddles and snow.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
long run today
Distance: 9.85 miles
Time: 1:43:09
Pace: 10:27/mile
Temperature: 10 degrees (feels like -1)
Time of Day: 10:30 a.m.
This week's run felt infinitely better than last week's. I chalk it up to 14 hours of sleep, taking a Gu, and not having to fight through piles of snow. I accidentally overslept my CRC long run after going to bed at 7:30 p.m. and not waking up until 8:00 a.m. Oops. That wrecked my January resolution #3, but at least I got to do a run.
Time: 1:43:09
Pace: 10:27/mile
Temperature: 10 degrees (feels like -1)
Time of Day: 10:30 a.m.
This week's run felt infinitely better than last week's. I chalk it up to 14 hours of sleep, taking a Gu, and not having to fight through piles of snow. I accidentally overslept my CRC long run after going to bed at 7:30 p.m. and not waking up until 8:00 a.m. Oops. That wrecked my January resolution #3, but at least I got to do a run.
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