12/18/07 AM

8 miles
ave. pace 11:12
max average HR: 134 (67% MHR)
treadmill 1% incline
10 hills (five .25 mile hills @4% incline and five .1 mile hills @ 2%)

A nice hill workout today. Feeling like I'm getting my legs back after all those snowstorms (shoveling, rescuing).

Keep going!

--Jimmy

I'll bite also.

Tuesday 12/18
11 miles
Ave pace 8:12
Ave HR:139 Max:150
Snowpacked sidewalks and streets, lots of hills
Ipod: REO Speedwagon

Had a cop yell at me to stay off the street. I told him to shovel the sidewalks. That didn't go over to well. Threw out a couple of Yes Sirs and I understand Sirs until the situation calmed itself, ran on the icy sidewalk for a block and then hopped back on the street. Had a couple of doughnut retorts pop into my head but decided not to use them. Hit max HR during confrontation.


Tom

Wednesday....hump day!

Temp: 37 and overcast...some light rain as well.

Wednesday -- 12.19
12.02 miles
Pace: 8:26
Weight: 187
AHR: 146 (MAF +2)
Max HR= 171

Ok, ok...I averaged above MAF today! Actually, I threw in more hills, and ran 3 miles at marathon goal pace for my February race. HR was pretty good during those miles, but it kicked me up a bit obviously.

Tossing my weight in here for motivation. I want to be 182 by the middle of February. Maybe even 180.

Struggling a little bit with motivation on the treadmill - but I leave for work before sunrise and get home well after sunset.

Tuesday 12/18 (PM)
3 miles
Avg HR 133 (MAF of 140)
Treadmill 0% incline
Audio: Ipod Shuffle
Visual: Local/National News

Trying to move from evening to morning runs with no success...may resort to requesting wake up calls from fellow MAFers.

I do them on the weekend, but just can't seem to get out of bed at 5:00-5:30AM. That extra hour means everything.

Russ

Quote from russ1910 on 12/19/2007 at 2:19 PM:

You'll struggle with the TM until you have what I call a "BELTORI." I had mine on a 24 mile run on a TM. Happened at mile 18. Realized fully the ol' Buckaroo Bonzai saying of "no matter where you go, there you are." Suddenly, I was everywhere, and free as a bird, the spinning belt became a metaphor for underlying force that moves and creates all things. The TM became a confessional, altar, and conveyor belt to the nature of my personal reality. When my wife came down during mile 23.75 and asked me if everything was okay, I just giggled and said "why are you standing so still, man? It's like I'm moving through the walls, around the world, and through all tubes, seeing and connecting with all animals, neighbors, and bakeries, and you're just like a statue, man". She came and gently wiped the drool from my chin. pushed the stop button, took me upstairs, bathed me, and dropped me at the local Zen center until I could function in society again.

A beltori.

Keep going.

--Jimmy

I ran yesterday (Tuesday) morning, but that info is at home. 'Twas around 3.5 miles at avg. hr of 128 and around 39:00 (or 38:00). I faded horribly over the last 1.3 miles as I maxed my hr at my current MAF running hr of 139. The temp was around 28F--coldest run this season.

Today (Wednesday) a rare daylight run just before lunch.
12/18/07
12:00 noon
52F temp / 34F dewpoint
3.2 miles
37:25
avg hr = 134
max hr = 146
I try to stay below MAF hr of 139.

My running the past few weeks has been sporadic. I'm not putting in nearly as many miles as I was two months ago (35-40mpw then; 20-25mpw now) and my long runs are becoming shorter. With holiday travels upcoming, I foresee my running staying sporadic, but hopefully I should be able to maintain a better running schedule with the new year.

In January I plan to return to 35-40 mpw and begin increasing my long runs back to 2 hours and longer. Hopefully, my MAF pace might quicken some and my spikes at ends of runs and at tops of uphills might become less extreme.

Quote from jimmyb on 12/19/2007 at 2:34 PM:

Good runs everyone! Very impressive, Husker.

Jimmy, I'm calculating my marathon pace basically to BQ, which for me is a 3:15. (~7:27 pace)
I ran a HM in September in 1:31:55. I ran the Twin Cities saunathon in 3:23, which while off my goal, was still much much better than most people fared that day. Had it been 25 degrees cooler I think I would have given it a run.

Myrtle Beach is in February. 3:15 is my goal, but my inner goal is 3:12/3:13. It will also be my one year anniversary of marathoning. How time flies!