Month: September 2008

I stayed awake too late after Tuesday night O-lift at the Academy, so I did not join my usual early-morning group for today’s scheduled six-mile mid-tempo run, which is the first time we have run this far at mid-tempo pace. Instead, I took advantage of the fact that today’s workout of the day (WOD) at…

A half marathon, 800m repeats, and now today’s MetCon-taxing WOD at the Academy. I am so ready for tomorrow’s rest day! That is not to say I did not have fun though! If you look at the results for the day, you will notice that a lot of the regular names are missing from the…

Today’s schedule had four 800-m repeats with two minutes of rest in between, and thanks to a rubberized track with no potholes (at Caltech), I was able to complete all of them on time (faster than 3:03 apiece) despite having run a half marathon distance yesterday. Good thing: only after I finished my last run…

Today we had another half marathon, again a marathon pace (7:37 per mile). I considered this the biggest test so far of the training because if I did not feel better this time than I did two weeks ago, the, the actual marathon would be nearly impossible to complete on schedule. Ten or twelve of…

Ran five mid-tempo miles in the local area. Target time was 35:00 (7:00 per mile), and I hit that successfully by almost a minute.

Today was Deadlift Day at the Academy. Make seven single attempts at deadlift, with the goal of setting a PR by the final lift. I worked my way up to 310 pounds by the last one. This is not a PR, but it protected a sore glute from further injury.

Five of us came to the middle school track for 1-mile repeats at 0600. Carrie, Jeff, Jim, Tommie, and I took a couple of warm-up laps in the dark, and by the time we completed our stretching and other loosening up, it was light enough that the pot holes were not going to break our…

I have had a cold coming on since about Tuesday, and it is well upon me now. I ditched Wednesday’s double-5Ks out of concern for what that kind of output could do to my currently taxed immune system, but I felt confident enough to run 10 miles today on a course Jeff put together at…

A high-speed workout at the Academy this morning woke the whole Team 0600 early-morning crew. Details of the workout, together with results, on the Academy’s blog.

Today’s schedule called for a 1-2-1 tempo run: One mile at an “easy tempo” pace, two miles at “mid-tempo” and one final mile at the easy pace again. My goal for the two-mile mid-tempo portion was to maintain a pace of 7:10 per mile, which would have me finishing that segment in 14:20. I used…