“Good things come slow – especially in distance running.”

[nancipants]

Nice job listening to your body!

When can we come over for a party?

 

[LSUlakes]

Nice job listening to your body!

When can we come over for a party?

In the fall because its to hot to stand in front of that thing all afternoon until its at least in the 60's again lol. Then it needs to not rain the day of use or the day after so water doesnt get into the hot bricks lol.

 

[LSUlakes]

A little late with the holiday with last weeks running recap but here we go.
May 19-25 Running:
5/19 - 5.1 Miles
5/20 - 4 Miles
5/21 - 6 Mile Tempo Run
5/22 - 3 Mile Recovery Run
5/23 - 10.1 Miles Long Run
5/25 - 4 Miles

Ended the week with 32.27 miles according to Garmin. Had to move some things around due to my daughters dance recital on Saturday but made it all work. Running on a Sunday, and it not being a race is not part of the normal schedule lol. It continues to warm up so I am taking the miles a little slower... or maybe because its warm the pace is slowing. Overall a good week of running and building a good base! Starting in June I will have a few 2 mile races in the afternoon and I am very interested in seeing how those go. I will use those race times to help build pace goals for speed work days and long run days. I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend and at a minimum will be back next week to go over this weeks runs.

 

[LSUlakes]

Looks like I went almost all June without a post here. Running wise not much has happened, I ended the month with 72 miles. The good news is some of those miles took place during our week long trip to Disney that we just got back from. 1 run from ASM to the parking lot of Blizzard Beach, and the other runs took place at the Boardwalk! The early mornings felt decent and saw a decent amount of folks also getting some miles in!
I have a 10 mile night trail race coming up in 7 weeks. So, with the vacation over it is time to start focusing on that race!

 

[LSUlakes]

July 7-13 Training Week:
7/7 - Tempo Run, 1 Mi WU, 3 Mi 7:34 ave pace, 1 Mi CD
7/8 - 3.1 Mi Recovery Run
7/9 - 6 Mi, 1 Mi WU, then 3 mile repeats w/ 0.5 mi recovery and then .5 mile cool down. Ave pace on the repeats 7:08
7/10 - Rest
7/11 - Long run, 13.1 miles
7/12 - 3 Mi easy

30.2 Miles for the week. For July, thats a good week of running. I have struggled with what pace to run the tempo and mile repeats. In garmin I have tempo runs set up for 7:30 - 8:00 pace, with a goal of 7:45, and mile repeats I have 7:00 - 7:30 with the idea of hitting 7:15. This past week I was low on both. I set the paces with the idea of running WDW marathon at 8:00 pace. I have 10 mile night trail run coming up in about 5 weeks. With it being at night, on trails, and hot... I think 8 min pace would be a success. I will have a better idea of where things are in October when temps come down and I have a half I am running. I would love to hit 7:30 pace for that one. It's just hard to tell at the moment if these paces will come down once the temps do.
I may be able to run a 2 mile race Wednesday afternoon. Its on top of the levee and unless its raining, its HOT up there!!! I havent fully decided if I am going to do it or not. Work is busy and I may need to work late and I dont run that morning and work late, then its a missed run
The weather man is also telling me we have a chance of some tropical system coming visit us later this week. Guess I need to check on the generator and gas supply... plus whatever else we may need. Hope its just a little rain and not much else.

 

[FFigawi]

Looks like I went almost all June without a post here. Running wise not much has happened, I ended the month with 72 miles. The good news is some of those miles took place during our week long trip to Disney that we just got back from. 1 run from ASM to the parking lot of Blizzard Beach, and the other runs took place at the Boardwalk! The early mornings felt decent and saw a decent amount of folks also getting some miles in!
I have a 10 mile night trail race coming up in 7 weeks. So, with the vacation over it is time to start focusing on that race!

Of all the parts of the marathon course, this is not the one I'd be practicing during training

 

[LSUlakes]

Of all the parts of the marathon course, this is not the one I'd be practicing during training

I havent run the marathon when it has gone through it before and wasnt really sure how big the parking lot really was. Since I was curious and able to / needed to get 2 miles away from resort before returning, it seemed like a good idea. Typhoon Lagoon has a much bigger parking lot lol. Id rather pass through the water park parkin lots than WWOS complex. However, its worth asking me that again after the actual marathon!