Week 2 recap

Wow I have been a busy bear!!

Run#1 4x800:
I have mentioned a place where I live call Green Lake and it is a 2.8 mile loop and has 1/4 mile marking along the whole thing which I have found to be very helpful on my Interval training runs.
Instead of doing them on a track and getting very bored because I would be making about 14 loops around it. I get to run near water and have a little less repetition. I felt pretty good on this run it is amazing how when you have a few small task to finish it make you time feel like it flies by. You just concentrate on keeping up your speed for just one half mile that's it. Then you get to rest ( and by rest I mean jog at a slow pace to let you HR recover). I got done with my work out and was faily impressed on how short it felt come to find out it was because it was short 31 mins actually. Good run.

Run#2 Tempo 4 miles:
This run started out BAD all my bells and whistles decided not to work so I had no timing, no pace and no distance metering. I did have my trusty stop watch and I have already knew how far I had to run so it worked out. I did this Run in 43 mins. These i feel are the most difficult runs because they are made for you to push through your comfort zone. So for me this means finishing up the run with a side ache ( which I despise). I know these will get easier I hope but for now still on track.

Run#3 7 miles:
After disusing a good route for this run with my boss, Sunday rolled around and I was trying to think of a reason to push this thing until Monday. But I bit the bullet and ran, and well, it felt good no side ache...ish just a nice slow cruising pace. I did get a little bit of a side ache and had to concentrating on breathing for about a half a mile and then I was good to go again. This run however I got some stomach pains they didn't last long but it was kinda weird. When I was done the farthest thing from my mind was food. Which is weird because I have mentioned I sometimes run to eat:) but I thought if I ate I might puke. My run was 1:22.56 long and so I may have needed to take a supplement when I was running but oh well the feeling passed and I had a great dinner about 1.5 hours later. I think it may be time to start really looking into what I am eating on my long run days. Also my activities the night before probably didn't help I did a little "fast living". While I was making dinner I looked down and before I knew it I had powered down a bottle of wine. I then thought, what am I going to drink with this delicious steak I just grilled. Instead of making the wise decision (water) I decided in my one bottle down the hatch state of mind that wine would be delish!! So I may not have prepared myself in the best way possible for a nice little 7 mile jog, but I finished and it was not too bad, lesson learned.
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6 miler down.

Well after my long run for the week I feel pretty good. I did it last night even though I was supposed to do over the weekend but with my travel plans (helping my sister shoot a wedding in Cali) I made the executive decision wait until Monday. I Had plenty of time off from my last workout which was last Thursday oops. I will be getting better at a schedule but at least I am getting my mileage in. During this program of mine I am supposed to do my long runs at HMP plus 30 secs so last night run should have been about 1 hour and 12 mins. As of right now my HMP is 11:30 secs. I feel that will get faster because I have been away from consistent running for so long..ish that my pace is slow!! Last night's run took 1 hour and 15 mins so I was close to my goal but missed it. The good news is that the 6 mile mark is when I got injured last time I was training for a half. So to be done with it and not be injured and feel pretty good I do have some soreness but nothing really out of the ordinary. I did do ice last night just to be sure and reduce my soreness. I have the running bug and am now excited about training once again so that is great and this running only 3 times a week is fabulous. Pumped for tomorrow speed work.
Now for the cross training portion of the program. I have recently picked up a road bike thanks to Santa and My mother. I have had it for a day and I love it I have not gotten to ride much because well I've had it for one day, but have decided to ride to work when I can. So today I set out on my quick 10 min ride to the office which I did not realize is ALL UP HILL. So my quads were burning just a touch due to the run the night before and the not so leisurely stroll to work. I have it planned that after my long runs I will have a day off but the short bike ride to work took me by surprise not that it was long by any means but it was sure a burner on the old quads. I'm looking forward to cross training on my bike and being able to put in some real miles.
Week 2 Plan
4x800
4 Mile tempo
7 mile long run.
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Week 1's Recap

Training run #1: 4x400:
This was a great little run to get thing started and well it felt easy probably due to the fact that is was short. I cruised through it with no problems at all but because I had taken some time off of my pre training I was a little more sore then I have been in past runs. All in All I give this run a 8 on a 10 scale.
Training run #2: 3 mile tempo Run:
The goal of these runs are to increase my speed I was set for a pace of 11:15sec miles. I missed this goal by about 1 minute meaning I did not run 15 secs under my HMP so this was not a successful tempo run I felt like I was moving pretty good but apparently not. Next time I guess.

First long run is happening today and it is set for 6 mile and I am supposed to run this at my HMP plus 15 secs. This help with stamina to make sure I can continue running for a longer period of time. I should be done with this run in 1 hours and 10 mins. We shall see how this goes it is the longest run I have gone on in quite some time. I am sure I will struggle through it at times so I am just going for finishing the whole thing:)
I will give you the update tomorrow or tonight if things go well.
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