8 yesterday and 5 today. I was really hurting yesterday and had a random side-ache, which I NEVER get anymore, and had to slow way down at mile 5, so I finished with an average pace around 9:30 (like serious slowing, like 12-minute mile for a couple of minutes and then slowly built up to 10/mile to finish). I think I just ran too hard at the beginning.
Anyway, took it easier tonight and hung out around that same 9:30 pace with a few intervals. Another 5, which gives me 27 for the week, which is pretty good for my first post-race week, I think! And 110 for the month, which means I am way overdue for some new shoes, since I have completely worn the soles of my current favorite pair down to the next color.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
5/27
Five tired miles tonight! My original schedule had me doing 2 Monday, 3 Tues, and 4 today, so I guess I'm just bumping it up.
Tired today because I didn't get a chance to start running until really late--I spent virtually all of my free time today assembling bunk beds and then the kids were so excited by the new beds that most of them took over 90 minutes to fall asleep--agh! Luke was the ONLY one who fell asleep as he normally does. So I didn't start running until really late, and then the headache I've been battling all day was so bad that I stopped to take some ibuprofen after the first 2 minutes. Ran until 4 miles, stopped, sat down at the computer to log my run, and then decided to run another mile, so I did, and then walked half a mile to cool down. Last mile was the fastest but even so it wasn't very fast--I think around 9:09.
Tired today because I didn't get a chance to start running until really late--I spent virtually all of my free time today assembling bunk beds and then the kids were so excited by the new beds that most of them took over 90 minutes to fall asleep--agh! Luke was the ONLY one who fell asleep as he normally does. So I didn't start running until really late, and then the headache I've been battling all day was so bad that I stopped to take some ibuprofen after the first 2 minutes. Ran until 4 miles, stopped, sat down at the computer to log my run, and then decided to run another mile, so I did, and then walked half a mile to cool down. Last mile was the fastest but even so it wasn't very fast--I think around 9:09.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Monday, May 25, 2015
5/25
Race Saturday was okay but not my best; I went into it really tired bc Nathan has been up a LOT at night lately. At 2 am Friday night I was walking around with him thinking about the fact that I had to get up in 3 hours, and I decided that I just wanted to run a sub-2, which I did (1:58:26). So not a PR, but it was my second-best time.
The course wasn't too bad, but I was just tired! To PR, I needed 8:53/mile, but it was ragged and not a good race. It was hot enough that I stopped to walk through every water stop except the one at 12.5. This burned up quite a bit of time, but mid-race I was dizzy from heat and lack of sleep, so...oh well. I will say that I felt like CRAP this entire race and was saying things like, "Running is stupid," and "Why did I sign up for another marathon? That was even stupider than running." Oh, and we were under a boil-your-water advisory all day Friday, so I didn't drink nearly as much as I usually do.
Mile splits:
1: 8:31 --too fast. Pacer stunk and I dropped back as soon as I realized that he was going too fast.
2: 9:22 --I don't know what's going on with this. My Garmin told me I was on pace for this lap so I have no idea where this came from. I do know there was a water stop here and I vaguely remember choking while trying to run and drink and then having to stop and drink it so maybe that's it?
3: 8:40--felt pretty good this mile, but it was through a boring neighborhood.
4: 8:51
5: 8:48
6: 9:02 -- heat started to get to me. Water stop and walked. First mile marker appeared and was .35 early according to my Garmin and everyone was stressing about it. I slowed down because I thought I was going too fast and I was going to kill my pace. Stupid mile marker. (I left a Facebook comment about the lack of splits and markers and got a lot of likes--apparently this was a real issue for a lot of runners!)
7: 9:07 -- another water stop. Another misplaced mile marker--.34 too early.
8: 9:05 -- lots of rollers in the woods. Had to pull back running down because they were so short I couldn't accelerate well. Mile marker was closer but was 1.2 miles after the last mile marker.
9: 8:52-- vaguely remember feeling really good this mile; the woods had evened out and I was feeling strong.
10: 9:26 -- single-track along a busy road and stuck behind a slow guy. It took forever for traffic to clear so I could pass him. The road was SUPER cambered and it hurt so bad--my right side tightened up a lot. I saw a ton of complaints later on Facebook about this road!
11: 10: 30 -- rock in my shoe--tried to ignore it but finally had to completely stop and get it out. I was so dizzy that it took me a really long time to get my shoe back on and I thought I was going to either pass out or throw up.
12: 9: 22 -- picked it up a little but stopped for water and then ran back to the water stop to get a Gu. I still had blocks but was hoping that the Gu would shake things up a little bit--mostly it just tasted like, well, Gu, so I threw it away after half a mile or so.
13: 8: 50 -- just put my head down and ran because I wanted it to be over so bad! And my Garmin only clocked 13 miles!!! I ran tangents aggressively so maybe that's it? The course was certified but who knows given the mile marker snafu...
All in all, I'm glad it's over. I finished feeling like crap but I think I felt better than Neil, who was just sort of lying on the football field for a long time afterwards--then again, I'd been training much harder and he just ran it cold. So kudos to him for pulling it out! He finished 10 seconds faster than I did (he dropped me at mile 12, but I almost caught him during mile 13 and just about smacked into him in the finish chute because he expected me to be much farther back).
3-mile recovery run tonight after sunset (still pretty humid thought!) to shake it out after a long day of mowing the lawn, putting in the garden, zoo, two playgrounds, and a parade. 10:30 first mile, 10:19 second mile, 8:45 third mile (strides). Felt great afterwards which is good because marathon training starts today!!!! See? First run all crossed out and done. :-)
The course wasn't too bad, but I was just tired! To PR, I needed 8:53/mile, but it was ragged and not a good race. It was hot enough that I stopped to walk through every water stop except the one at 12.5. This burned up quite a bit of time, but mid-race I was dizzy from heat and lack of sleep, so...oh well. I will say that I felt like CRAP this entire race and was saying things like, "Running is stupid," and "Why did I sign up for another marathon? That was even stupider than running." Oh, and we were under a boil-your-water advisory all day Friday, so I didn't drink nearly as much as I usually do.
Mile splits:
1: 8:31 --too fast. Pacer stunk and I dropped back as soon as I realized that he was going too fast.
2: 9:22 --I don't know what's going on with this. My Garmin told me I was on pace for this lap so I have no idea where this came from. I do know there was a water stop here and I vaguely remember choking while trying to run and drink and then having to stop and drink it so maybe that's it?
3: 8:40--felt pretty good this mile, but it was through a boring neighborhood.
4: 8:51
5: 8:48
6: 9:02 -- heat started to get to me. Water stop and walked. First mile marker appeared and was .35 early according to my Garmin and everyone was stressing about it. I slowed down because I thought I was going too fast and I was going to kill my pace. Stupid mile marker. (I left a Facebook comment about the lack of splits and markers and got a lot of likes--apparently this was a real issue for a lot of runners!)
7: 9:07 -- another water stop. Another misplaced mile marker--.34 too early.
8: 9:05 -- lots of rollers in the woods. Had to pull back running down because they were so short I couldn't accelerate well. Mile marker was closer but was 1.2 miles after the last mile marker.
9: 8:52-- vaguely remember feeling really good this mile; the woods had evened out and I was feeling strong.
10: 9:26 -- single-track along a busy road and stuck behind a slow guy. It took forever for traffic to clear so I could pass him. The road was SUPER cambered and it hurt so bad--my right side tightened up a lot. I saw a ton of complaints later on Facebook about this road!
11: 10: 30 -- rock in my shoe--tried to ignore it but finally had to completely stop and get it out. I was so dizzy that it took me a really long time to get my shoe back on and I thought I was going to either pass out or throw up.
12: 9: 22 -- picked it up a little but stopped for water and then ran back to the water stop to get a Gu. I still had blocks but was hoping that the Gu would shake things up a little bit--mostly it just tasted like, well, Gu, so I threw it away after half a mile or so.
13: 8: 50 -- just put my head down and ran because I wanted it to be over so bad! And my Garmin only clocked 13 miles!!! I ran tangents aggressively so maybe that's it? The course was certified but who knows given the mile marker snafu...
All in all, I'm glad it's over. I finished feeling like crap but I think I felt better than Neil, who was just sort of lying on the football field for a long time afterwards--then again, I'd been training much harder and he just ran it cold. So kudos to him for pulling it out! He finished 10 seconds faster than I did (he dropped me at mile 12, but I almost caught him during mile 13 and just about smacked into him in the finish chute because he expected me to be much farther back).
3-mile recovery run tonight after sunset (still pretty humid thought!) to shake it out after a long day of mowing the lawn, putting in the garden, zoo, two playgrounds, and a parade. 10:30 first mile, 10:19 second mile, 8:45 third mile (strides). Felt great afterwards which is good because marathon training starts today!!!! See? First run all crossed out and done. :-)
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Last week
Whew, I have some catching up to do!
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5 on Wednesday, rest Thursday (sooo exhausted and still achy from hiking), 4 Friday before I drove up to Chicago to help my sister apartment-hunt, 8 Saturday morning along the Chicago lakeshore, 7.5 walking around Chicago on Saturday. Rest Sunday (after driving home), 4 yesterday, 4 today. Actually, today was supposed to be a 30-minute tempo run but I was feeling great at the end and thought I'd run out the last .7 to get to 4 miles to cool down--I ended up keeping the pace pretty high for the cool-down (8:27) but it was the best part of the run.
Planning to do a short shake-out run tomorrow, go hiking, do yoga Thursday, and take Friday totally off before the race Saturday.
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5 on Wednesday, rest Thursday (sooo exhausted and still achy from hiking), 4 Friday before I drove up to Chicago to help my sister apartment-hunt, 8 Saturday morning along the Chicago lakeshore, 7.5 walking around Chicago on Saturday. Rest Sunday (after driving home), 4 yesterday, 4 today. Actually, today was supposed to be a 30-minute tempo run but I was feeling great at the end and thought I'd run out the last .7 to get to 4 miles to cool down--I ended up keeping the pace pretty high for the cool-down (8:27) but it was the best part of the run.
Planning to do a short shake-out run tomorrow, go hiking, do yoga Thursday, and take Friday totally off before the race Saturday.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
5/12
I was planning to run while we were gone, but I overestimated the opportunity to go running while camping with five small children who woke up at the crack of dawn and went to sleep at 10 PM. Just not something where I could leave Neil alone with the kids--and a fire!!--so I hope that all the hiking counted instead. We drove 8 hrs on Thursday, spent four hours at Dollywood, spent the next entire day at Dollywood, hiked 4.5 miles Saturday, 4.4 Sunday, and 3 on Monday, then drove home Tuesday and I ran 4 miles after the 8-hr drive and all the unpacking and cleaning up...man am I tired! Honestly, I don't know if I could have done much running while we were gone; my ankle was really hurting for the first two days and I was having some IT band issues the second couple of days (all the trails were steep, rutted, and full of stones, so it was actually pretty exhausting hiking up with a toddler strapped to my back!). Definitely got in some good cardio even if it wasn't running.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
5/6
It's been a tiring couple of days; I had to do some schedule rearranging for this weekend, so I ended up running a very long and miserable 12 miles on the treadmill Monday (115:38; really trying to follow the slower pacing guidelines in the Pfitzinger book with 20% slower than MP for the first half and 10% slower than MP for the second half). Totally exhausted Tuesday but ran 3 to shake it out. 5 today and after just a couple of minutes the tendons in my ankle were hurting so much that it affected my running, so I stopped to stretch. Started again and it was still awful, so I walked for a couple of minutes and then very, very, very slowly took it from a 12-minute mile back up to a 9-minute mile. Not a fun run, but I did get fast enough by the end that even with the walking and the crappy pace for the first 2.5 miles I managed to get about 9:58/mile average pace for the whole thing.
5/4: 12
5/5: 3
5/6: 5
5/4: 12
5/5: 3
5/6: 5
Saturday, May 2, 2015
5/2
Hard 11-miler last night; tons of hills. So many hills. Finished around 10 PM and we were really dragging; tried running it waaay slower than usual as per advice of all the books I'm reading and the online running message boards. Avg pace was 10:47/mile but that doesn't account for a few stops, so it was at least faster than that.
Started out fast tonight but had to slow down bc of achiness from yesterday's run. Gradually took it up until I was at HMP and the last three miles were pretty good; last mile was 8:28 and then I ran another slow mile to cool down after the scheduled 5'er.
That makes 30 miles for the week and 17 for the month thus far...all two days of it.
Started out fast tonight but had to slow down bc of achiness from yesterday's run. Gradually took it up until I was at HMP and the last three miles were pretty good; last mile was 8:28 and then I ran another slow mile to cool down after the scheduled 5'er.
That makes 30 miles for the week and 17 for the month thus far...all two days of it.
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