Sunday Jul 31 |
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| (rest day) |
| If many many hours of gardening can be called a rest. My back is killing me. But Andy has bigger blisters on his hands from digging out hedges ... some day it will look the way we want it to. We would have a nicer garden if we didn't spend so much time running and orienteering on weekends ... just for this weekend the gardening won. |
Saturday Jul 30 |
| running (beach) 38:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Grid Shadows |
| Deeper sand again. Nice sunrise though. Last day at the beach, sniff. |
Friday Jul 29 |
| Core Strength 5:00 [1] | |
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| Abs and arms. |
Thursday Jul 28 |
| running (beach) 35:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Grid Shadows |
| Early am. Tide coming in, so I ended up in deeper sand ... |
Wednesday Jul 27 |
| running warm up/down (roads and dirt) 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Grid Shadows |
| Afternoon. Feeling okay. Racing the thunderheads at the end. I lost, but it felt great. |
| running intervals (roads and dirt) 23:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Grid Shadows |
| 4 x 3:30 at roughly 10km pace. Definitely guessing here. 3 min recovery. Concentrated on cadence (thanks MC :-) |
Monday Jul 25 |
| running long (roads and sand) 1:29:00 [2] | |
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| Early am. Back a bit stiff, but not bad. Also doing movement class all this week for 2 plus hours (well, maybe about half of it is talking, but still it is keeping me well stretched, and working lots of muscles). |
Sunday Jul 24 |
| running (roads and sand) 39:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Grid Shadows |
| Felt awful. Hot and humid. |
Friday Jul 22 |
| running (treadmill) 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: pegasus |
| Afternoon. |
Thursday Jul 21 |
| running tempo (treadmill) 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: pegasus |
| Well, not all was tempo, but I have too many days to catch up on to be picky ... |
Wednesday Jul 20 |
| running (roads) 44:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Grid Shadows |
| With Debby and David (I think). |
Friday Jul 15 |
| running (treadmill) 16:00 [1] | |
| shoes: pegasus |
| Oops, haven't logged anything for a while - first back pain, then Andy on work overload (and me on parenting overload) ... but I'm back on track now (end of July) and just have to log the last couple of weeks now ... |
Monday Jul 11 |
| running (treadmill) 30:00 [1] | |
| shoes: pegasus |
| Felt tired, then later in the day, sick. Yuck. Not a fine way to start the marathon prep. Ah well, it is only week one. Back sore too, but the good news is that the Dr says it is just muscular, and that it is probably more due to having little kids than the running. More sit ups, more Advil, more heat pad, more stretching ... and more sleep, I think. |
Friday Jul 8 |
| running (treadmill) 53:00 [1] | |
| shoes: pegasus |
| Okay, I didn't mean to have 3 days off, but life has taken over this week. I am now an employed person as of September though!
Noticed as I stepped on the treadmill at 5:40am that my back did not hurt. Guess the three days off was good for it. I was hoping that running wasn't the problem!!!!! We'll see how it goes tomorrow.
I need to replace these shoes soon. Probably the Sauconys too .... |
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| C • Job! 1 |
Monday Jul 4 |
| running warm up/down (road and grass) 15:00 [1] | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: pegasus |
| Nice morning. Warmed up pushing Bridget in the stroller, and chasing Ethan in the 1 mile fun run ... but couldn't catch him!! |
| running race (roads) 31:49 [3] 5.0 mi (6:22 / mi) vdot: 51.9 | |
| shoes: pegasus |
| My pacer went out too fast :-) Trouble is, he maintained it and I didn't! Splits were something like 6:12, 12:38, 18:53, then I get a bit blurry ... I think the last mile was faster than the 4th, so 25:30 ish?? I definitely felt like the 4th mile was nasty. And some guys I had passed earlier passed me. My right leg was tight, and my back too. Not sure what to do to get through it ... more core strength!
But overall, a good race. Got under 32, which was the goal. Weather was nice - high 70s, but not humid.
Next race is the Cranmore Hill Race ... which will be a bit slower!! |
Sunday Jul 3 |
| Core Strength 10:00 [1] | |
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| The normal. Also did some stretching, hope it helps. |
| running (trails and roads) 28:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Grid Shadows |
| Menotomy and around the neighborhood. Did a few strides. 9am and felt AWFUL. Hope this means nothing in terms of the race tomorrow!!! Perhaps I needed more coffee. |
Saturday Jul 2 |
| Core Strength 3:00 [1] | |
| slept:8.0 |
| Day off running, figured I've paid money for the race Monday, I may as well have a little rest. Couldn't be bothered to do more than abs and back (quickly). |
Friday Jul 1 |
| running (roads) 45:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Grid Shadows |
| 5:30am with Debby and David. Felt tired! |