8.2 mi. Today was supposed to be a rest day. Business travel has me in Southern Virginia and here is an opportunity to run in the daylight, on a trail with rolling hills. A way better option than rural roads in the dark with no sidewalks... Tomorrow will now be my "off" day! How is … Continue reading And gravel and hills
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6 miles. When I travel, I try to select interesting places to run. Today was a chance to see the venue area before it opened. Was the parking going to change? Was the brewery across the street from the park a place to visit before w go in? I dropped John at LA Fitness and … Continue reading Zip by the Festival Venue
5mi. It's light out when we start the intervals, meaning we get to see each other and the far side curve of the track for all of the intervals. Paul drops a finishing 1200m at the end of mostly short intervals, I wasn't much surprised however. Not this time! 1 mile warmup on Alton 200m … Continue reading Sun sprints
5 miles - This was my first "do 20 minutes at tempo pace" run of this marathon training cycle. I ran from my hotel, the Smithfield Station, up the rural road and around some restaurants then retracing my route back. I returned in my car after breakfast to take a few photos of the things … Continue reading 1st Tempo run of training cycle
6 mi. After flying PBI-> ATL ->Norfolk, Va, I went on a tour of the USS Wisconsin battleship. Then I drove to the Virginia Beach boardwalk for the 6 mile run on my schedule for today. I haven't been here since coming on a family vacation with my parents in 1982. I think I found the … Continue reading Va. Beach Boardwalk
5mi. Getting a schedule together and placing a real marathon on the schedule means this is week #1 of training. With 8 weeks of base training, I can now follow a plan for the next 15 weeks. This is the first track run, with my short intervals to be at 5:36 pace and long (>800m) at … Continue reading Feeling some of the miles
6 miles. Could it happen again, the same thing as yesterday? Yes, in spades. Today is the first day of following a self-authored marathon training plan. Sure, I'll go to yin yoga, but I think I can see a gap in the thunderstorms to get a 6-mile loop of a run in. I know rain … Continue reading Re-run
5 mi It's my first visit to the very western part of Texas. My hotel room overlooks... Mexico! That red "X" lit sign is the Mexico/USA southern border. I wanted to run to the border, minus the Taco Bell implications. It looked plenty closer than it was... my 5am start allowed me to go 2.5 … Continue reading El Paso
5 mi. Last year we had such a mile season for cool weather. I didn't have to dress "warm" except for when I thought my wimpy fingers would need gloves. Surely this was "global warming" hitting the homefront. Today I started in 36 degree temps with an 11 mph wind coming from the NE. At … Continue reading Our winter runs
5mi. Today I used a different approach. If my challenge is breathing, I worked harder on the intervals and didn't jog all of the 100m recoveries. I wanted to spend the energy on the track while the time was elapsing. It worked out ok, no tremendous breakthroughs. I ran behind James and Steve. Seth was … Continue reading More on the intervals
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