Five miles at mid-tempo pace (7:10 per mile for me). Jeff, Jim, Ted and I met at 6:00am for this one. Target time for completion… 35:50. Actual time… 35:01 on a course Murray has used a couple of times. All of us were a minute or two behind schedule coming to the top of the…
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Marathon Week 7, Day 7 – Recovery From Injury
The reason for the lack of posts over the last week and a half: on Tuesday (Week 6, Day 2) following the 5k/5k run that went so well for Tommie and me, I strained a muscle in the back of my left leg, possibly the distal end of the semitendinosus. After nearly two weeks of…
Scout Adventure Race – 2008
A member of another team posted his account of the 2008 Southern California Scout AR at http://www.zdap.com/racereports/viewtopic.php?p=9092. I was on a fun competitive team with Ryan, Kate, and Lauren. Originally posted at http://www.michaelkeating.com/weblog/2008/07/scout-adventure-race-2008.html
Marathon Week 6, Day 1
Even though I have not posted any information lately, training is going forward at full pace. (I might use that as one of the reasons I did not post during Week 5.) One significant point from last week: on Wednesday, July 23, I ran my fastest 5k in the past 27 years, covering the 3.1…
Marathon Week 4, Day 7
Jeff, Ted, Trish, and I met at the Middle School for the 2-3-1 run that Jeff describes. I ran the 3-mile “Short Tempo” part in a detour-adjusted 20:45, which is a pace of 6:55 per mile and right on my target. The detour was caused by my not wearing contact lenses for this run. Boy-o-boy,…
Marathon Week 4, Day 6
Yesterday, Day 5, was an “Off” day, and then today a group of almost a dozen of us met at the Rose Bowl to train. We were to run 5 km, which is one 3.1-mile lap around the facility (including part of the Brookside Golf Course) at our choice of paces: either our Marathon Paces…
Marathon Week 4, Day 4
I was part of the Jeff-Jim-Ted-Tommie group running sprints at the middle school this morning and had a fun time with everyone, including the part where we had to run 200m… twelve times. My times (all in seconds) were as follows: 37 37 37 36 36 36 36 37 37 37 37 35 Each one-minute…
Marathon Week 4, Day 3
I made a rare visit to the Team 1700 workout this afternoon, and I have one thing to say about that: It is hot when the sun is out! I have to get back together with my heliophobic Team 0600 friends soon. We did the posted Workout of the Day, which was 5-5-5-5-5 deadlifts. My…
Marathon Week 4, Day 2
Monday was the official “Off” day, and today we jumped back in with five miles of running at a mid-tempo pace. For me, that is 7:10 per mile, which should have brought me to the five-mile point at 35:50. I got to it in 34:36, which puts me at just over 6:55 per mile. For…
Marathon Week 3, Day 7
Today was supposed to be a CrossFit/Bootcamp training day, but I spent most of it recovering from Saturday’s Adventure Race. If I had woken up early enough, I could have joined a group digging a trench at Ryan’s house. Oh well.