Easy 9; hour & 10 minutes.

4 Deep

Today marks 4 weeks of training for Boston 2010. I feel like my legs are starting to come around. I've taken it pretty easy for the most part (a couple of outliers aside). :) The way I see it, it's time to start running for real. Next week, I hope to run somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 miles.

This morning I got in 9 miles. My quads were just a tad sore from yesterday. Other than that, there were no ill effects. 63 miles for the week.

LR Surprise

Since I missed the Turkey Trot on Thurs & wasn't going too far today, I decided to add a little twist to this ML long run. The plan was pick up the pace just slightly for the last 6 miles. The idea in my mind was to run even 7 min miles for the last 6, which in reality meant not running above 7 min pace for any of those miles. That is how my mind works when running. And I also didn't want to go below 6:50. During the first 10, I was unsure if I would stick w/ the plan. I mentioned it to the guys/gal & no one was biting. Still, when the time came, I did my deal:

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Doing what I did really wasn't hard, because I mean if you really think about it, that is not a terribly fast pace. At least not for any of the people I regularly run with. Breathing was relaxed & my form was too. The only thing that maybe I would have changed was to stop for some water...but then again, i think there is some value in occasionally not stopping more regularly than the the #1 City Bus (for waters).

16.08 miles for the day ~ 724 avg

Updated Running Plans

I had hoped to have run a couple races by now, but those races just didn't fit into my schedule for different reasons. Anyway, I just got done browsing the winter race calendar to make a new list of races to run. Here's what I've come up with:

1)RunTex 10&20 on 1/10 (will probably do the 10 mile option for strategic reasons)
2)3M Half on 1/24
3)20 miles (Austin Marathon) on 2/14
4)Boston 4/19
5)Bun Run 5K May 2nd

I feel like the above race schedule will work as an excellent build to Boston. Only thing, I would have liked to have found a race to run in March, but I figure Steve will have us more than occupied w/ race preps & the like so it should be all good. I'm ready to go to work!

Changing gears, I ran 9 miles from Rogue this AM. Kept it pretty easy, 7:32 pace. Hit up the gym routine afterward. That's all I got for now.

Wed (un)official group run

there must of been 10 people running w/ us this AM. So it was damn near a TR group run. Easy 8 at a 7:18 pace, I swear it was "easy."

3 mo'

Three mile shake-out after work, that moves my total mileage for the day up to 16 & change. Now let's see if I can get my ass out of bed in the AM.

Tighten Up Tuesday

Planned to get in 14 today, but either the route was short or we took a wrong turn. Dunno. Anyway, the run was great. The mile splits were consistently between 7-720 most of the way. There was one mile that deviated pretty significantly. Here, you can find a solid recap. 13.15 miles total. I may have something to add this evening...