Tag: marathon

We started this week with Speed Training, and I met a large group at the middle school for 400m repeats (ten of them) on the track. With this being only the third speed session, and only the start of the third week of training, the rate at which improvement comes amazes me. Simply to compare…

I had no problem adding a minute over yesterday’s pace to each mile of today’s run. Murry put together a scenic 6-mile route through Sierra Madre and brought enough maps of it that all different paces made it through without a single wrong turn. Eric offered an alternative left-turn-only route to the NASCAR fans in…

Five Miles at Mid-Tempo Pace I saved a half gallon of gas and got an extra hour of sleep by staying in Pasadena for my five-mile mid-tempo run this morning (rather than meeting the 6:00am group at the Middle School). Following a Pasadena route (why doesn’t it let me print for free?!!), I set out…

Days 3 and 7 this week are “Off” days, and this “3-On / 1-Off” schedule seems to suit me. I feel reasonably recovered after yesterday’s Off time. This morning at the Academy, we had about fifteen people for the 6:00am class, and Eric designed the workout in “Happy Hour” or “Pick Your Poison” style in…

Well, there they were waiting for us: nasty 800m repeats – six of them, with two minutes of recovery time between runs. My target time was 3:03 for each of them, and I kept all of my runs below that, but I know I did not have many (any?) more of them left in me…

Tommie showed up for CrossFit at the Academy this morning, so he and I pushed each other through rounds of the following: Small-Block Loop 20 Dumbell Snatches (Right) 20 Dumbell Snatches (Left) 40 Sit-Ups 40 Jumping Pull-Ups Tommie, Jack, and I completed four rounds apiece in the time Ryan allotted us. Time to get ready…

After yesterday’s Off day, we wrapped up the first week of marathon training with a 6-mile run on an out-and-back course that Eric planned for us. Trish, Eric, and I stuck together on the outbound leg, keeping close to our assigned 7:25-per-mile pace, and then on the uphill return Trish and I put a little…

Training for today was the Friday night CrossFit workout at the Academy, which took me 33:41 to complete (nowhere close to Eric’s 29:49). Lots of people got to struggle through this one today, and Vanessa recorded everyone’s performances. Saturday is a Rest Day.

I joined the runners at the middle school this evening to put in proper work on my speed set. The correct target time for 400m was 1:30. My splits: 1:25 1:21 1:25 1:24 1:25 1:24 1:24 1:23 That was much more of a workout! I think I am going to have to do all of…

After taking Wednesday as an Off-Day, I met Amy this morning at the Academy for speed work. 8 X 400m with 90 seconds of recovery between each (Target time was 1:44 each. But see Note #2 below.) 1:40 1:38 1:40 1:39 1:37 1:40 1:37 1:37 Consistent, yes, and ahead of the targeted time. The mid-tempo…