Saturday, May 24, 2014

I'm doing a long hard run on the weekends, an interval run in the middle of the week and otherwise very slow running. Except for the long hard run, almost all my running is on a treadmill with a 6% incline. And the easy stuff is just 14.6 minutes per mile. 

Only been training this way a few weeks and taking usually just one day off (day before the long run). Today I did 12 miles in 1:44:12, including a final mile of 7:49, which is a pb for a looped course. 8:41 pace. No big deal, I really ought to be able to run close to 8 min/mile pace for a half marathon. Being big makes it harder, but I expect that with training this way for a while, I should at least get close. 

Otherwise just hitting a heavy bag while holding 5 or 8 lb weights in each hand. Weight staying about 206lb. Have a half marathon race in two weeks.

Oh, did get first place in my age group (40's) in a couple small 5k races. Just ran 22:50 and 23:10, meh.