Training Log Archive: mariaamaya

Holy Smokes!!!!!

So, I'm traveling again, and I saw that I was suppoed to do a 6 hr run next weekend. Knowing that I will be working at least 12 hr shifts next weekend, I decided to go ahead and do the 6 hr run this weekend. I happened to find a 50K in Eastern Washington (high desert). What I got myself into was beyond words and a great wake-up call. It was literaly a mini-Leadville. I spent the first hour and 15 min walking, that's how steep it was! That was an incredibly brutal run, if you can call it that.

I started super slow thinking, "let's conserve". Then it got to the point that I was thinking, "let's survive". I was ready to quit at the turnaround 4 hrs and 10 min into it. I was just going to do another hour and then back an hour. Somehow, I played mind games and deliberated and mulled it over and finally decided, against all odds, to finish. Good mental gains!

All in all, I'm very glad to have done that race and now I feel like I need to do more to better my training and increase my fitness. I'm in terrible shape for where I need to be. I also have never done so poorly on a 50k!!

Of course, I can barely walk today. :)

Run 2: At a 400M track, run 12 laps of "sprint the straights, float the curves"

Really like going to the track, not sure why but I enjoy running laps. Good workout, nice change of pace. With the warm weather coming up, this will be great.

0-14:16, Warm up (1.35 miles)

2:14 Lap 1
2:13 Lap 2
2:08 Lap 3
2:11 Lap 4
2:14 Lap 5
2:11 Lap 6
2:13 Lap 7
2:12 Lap 8
2:12 Lap 9
2:10 Lap 10
2:10 Lap 11

13:51, Cool down (1.35 miles)

Oops! only 11 laps! :(

No time!

Slow, easy, no push

- Increase .1 mph @ 12 min, 20 min, 25 min, 30 min, 31 min, 32 min, 33 min, 34 min

0-60 min, slow, easy 6.0 mph

Run #4: hilly run w/lunges

0-15 min warm up @ 6.0 mph

15-30 min, increase 1% incline & decrease .2 mph every minute up to 15% incline
30-45 min, decrease 1% incline & increase .2 mph every minute down to flat

45-50 min @ 1% easy @ 6.0 mph

50-55 min increase 1% incline & decrease .2 mph every minute up to 6% incline
55-60 min decrease 1% incline & increase .2 mph every minute down to 1% incline

60-70 min easy cool down @ 6.2 mph

Immediately jump off treadmill and start lunges, 2 lunges per leg, 40 total. Tough!!

Run was great, felt so good, not sure if it was because the treadmill is slightly downhill or if these past few days of soooo many hills is actually helping.

Walk 6: 30 min uphill walk on TM

0-12 min @ 3.0 mph increase 1% incline every minute to 12%

@ 12%
12-42 min @ 3.0 mph
42-52 min @ 3.1 mph
52-62 min @ 3.2 mph
62-72 min @ 3.3 mph

72-75 increase every :30 sec by .1 mph up to 3.5 mph then back down to 3.0 mph then start all over

75-78 min same
78-81 min same
81-84 min same
84-90 min increase to 3.5 mph by .1 mph at a time for 1 minute then back down

90-95:45 min decrease 1% incline every min to flat
95:45-100 min decrease 1% incline every :45 sec