Monthly Archive
Here I Go Again...
March 17, 2010 | 10:37 am
True to my word, there have been a few more runs popping up in my schedule these days... After a bit of a pre-St. Patrick's Day road trip with the Halifax Sauna Club guys to Ben Eoin for the Masters Ski Racing Series FINAL, I've run twice this week. Since Monday! That's big even in my race season. And it's feeling good! No music, no distance, no time... just running. And even some walking up some of the steeper hills I come across. Which I now know to be one of my stronger suits (listening to my body, swallowing my pride and thinking about the future health and big picture).
Power Hills and the Drive for Five
March 15, 2010 | 1:22 pm
It's official. I'm a runner again. Two things happened in this past week haven't happened in years. First, I burnt a treadmill out. This is less of a reflection on my fitness and more so a reflection on the quality of certain treadmills, but it still happened. I've seen it happen a few times, if you've got the treadmill going close to 12 MPH on an incline the motor can burn out. It works just fine a few minutes later, but it just stops. This doesn't happen with newer treadmills. Well, maybe it does, but you have to be a lot faster than I am to make it happen.
Spring has sprung...
March 10, 2010 | 1:36 pm
And I'm itching to run again...
It seems this happens every year, that I go into what I call sloth-mode in early December. After too many multiple-coffee days and fast food restaurant visits however, and with the sun hanging around for a little longer and the roads and sidewalks of Halifax clearing up, I want to run again.
I feel this is a good and healthy pattern for me. It's happened before, and it'll happen again, but I know that I get almost giddy at the thought of o running/biking/swimming with friends and outside.
The 'J Word'
March 08, 2010 | 1:53 pm
This past week was the heaviest week of training I've had in over a year. And I'm definitely paying the price today. Tuesday I did three sets of three 300s between 43 and 46 seconds. The third set was tough, but I managed to make my last rep my fastest. I would like to have been 42ish, but it just wasn't in the cards that day. Thursday was twenty minutes of tempo. I hate running at tempo pace; it's hard enough that it's not comfortable, but slow enough that you don't get that feeling of cutting through the air. It's just a death march.
Filling the unforgiving minute
March 01, 2010 | 10:28 am
Training has been going well. In fact, I'm actually a lot fitter than I was expecting to be at this point. The last three weeks have been highlighted by lots of tempo runs and a couple of track workouts that have gone surprisingly well. Last Tuesday in particular had me feeling pretty excited; the workout was 200m, 400m 600m, 400m, 200m and then a set of 4X200m. I ran 28.5, 60.0, 1:34, 58.5, 27.0 and then all the 200s were around 29.5. The workout itself actually felt great; but I still feel sloppy.
