Running The Road Blog

July 18, 2010
It’s been a while since I have done a blog on my training. Just been so busy lately with trying to keep up with work and the other normal everyday activities and along with all the training time it leaves me very little time for anything else. I barely have enough time for [...]

June 23, 2010
Was feeling pretty good this morning and didn’t feel any undue fatigue from yesterdays tempo run, but the heat and humidity was terrible this morning ( 75 @ my 8:30 start and the dew point was already 72) so that added some extra effort to the run.  Avg pace for today was 9:58 [...]

June 22, 2010
This morning was a 4 mile tempo run with a goal pace of 8:39/8:28 w/2 mile warm up and a 1 mile cool down for 7 mile overall.
The humidity was the usual with a dew point at 67 and the temp was 73 when I started at 8:30 am. The heat and humidity [...]

June 19, 2010
Last Saturday on my planned 16 miler I had to call it quits after the 13th mile. Only 3 miles to go, but I was used up and had enough, humidity had kicked my butt! I felt pretty good for about 8 miles, but he was relentless and wore me down quickly after [...]

June 16, 2010
I have a 3.5 mile loop near my house that has some hills through out the course. They aren’t huge, just some that are steep, but short and some that are longer, but with a low incline. So, this morning I used that loop for my hill workout and ran the loop three [...]

June 14, 2010
My recovery week went well with 27 miles total. Had 30 miles scheduled, but with the humidity being so high (75 dew point) on Saturday my 16 miler fell 3 miles short. Normally with only 3 miles to go I would have finished come hell nor high water, but the body said it [...]

June 8, 2010
Not much happening for this week. My left ankle was feeling a little sore from the half marathon on Saturday, but is feeling fine now, thank goodness! Didn’t do anything on Sunday as far as running goes and Sunday is my normal rest day anyway. The calves were feeling a little tight and [...]

June 6, 2010
I ran the Sunburst half marathon in South Bend, IN yesterday and was planning on trying to run this race at close to my BQ pace of 9:09 to get an idea of where I’m at with BQ pace and find out what I need to work on for the next 4 months [...]

Went out this morning for a short tempo run, just long enough to get my legs loosened up. Was feeling some fatigue, but it’s mostly work related.
They are letting me off early Friday night so that is a load off my mind. I was suppose to work a 10 hour shift like last Friday before [...]

June 1, 2010
I had some speed work planned for today, but it was pretty warm and humid yesterday and wasn’t feeling that great during the 10 miler I was doing and also had a little fatigue left over from the 10k Saturday so opted out of that and did a 5 mile foundation run instead. [...]