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10 days without blogging. A life time can pass in 10 days. Part of it was unavoidable, part of just didn’t happen even though I thought about it a lot. Amazing how you miss the writing aspect once you start doing this for a while. One of the great joys of doing this blog is getting to write about something that isn’t work related and won’t be reviewed by committee.
Last Wednesday night or Thursday morning a truck knocked the telephone wire off the pole to our house. We didn’t even notice it missing until we discovered the phone wasn’t working and hence the internet as well (DSL). We got the wire replace Saturday and we were back in business. We also had my mother and my in-laws here over the weekend as well. Hence things were quite hectic for a few days.
How has my running been since I last posted? Overall I’d have to say really great. I seem to be in really good place right now with my running. I hope I can hang onto this until the marathon next month in NY.
On Sunday I ran for 2 hrs 18 minutes and got a solid 27 k @ 5:05 pace. This was another of my multi-zone runs but the key point for me is that I felt really good throughout the run. Correction, the run part was really good. A few dog owners, on the other hand, really pushed my buttons while I was doing the run. The run was a lot of work still but I was able to get into the target paces really well on this run. All in all this kind of run is a really good confidence builder.
Wednesday’s run was also a really good with the “Boyz” (funny how that term has stuck with me). Luc and Jason were really pushing the pace after the first few k. I was able to stay with them for the whole 10k which is something I wouldn’t have been able to do last spring. Progress.
I’m also trying out another log/tracking package to store my run stats. I still use and will continue to use the software provided with my Garmin. However, Brian Green pointed me at another tool called SportTracks. Really interesting tool. I’ll comment more on that in subsequent posts.
My weight has been solidly between 185 and 187 all week. This exceeds my original goal of 190 very nicely. Interestingly enough I always get my most weight loss following my slowest run of the week which is usually on Monday’s. I’m burning more fat from what I can see at those speeds. I’m grappling with trying to figure how much weight I can loose. This probably tells me that I need to go see Beth Mansfield again. In the last few weeks before the marathon, I don’t want to be losing more weight. (30 days to go.) This morning I’m at 185.0.
Last Wednesday night or Thursday morning a truck knocked the telephone wire off the pole to our house. We didn’t even notice it missing until we discovered the phone wasn’t working and hence the internet as well (DSL). We got the wire replace Saturday and we were back in business. We also had my mother and my in-laws here over the weekend as well. Hence things were quite hectic for a few days.
How has my running been since I last posted? Overall I’d have to say really great. I seem to be in really good place right now with my running. I hope I can hang onto this until the marathon next month in NY.
On Sunday I ran for 2 hrs 18 minutes and got a solid 27 k @ 5:05 pace. This was another of my multi-zone runs but the key point for me is that I felt really good throughout the run. Correction, the run part was really good. A few dog owners, on the other hand, really pushed my buttons while I was doing the run. The run was a lot of work still but I was able to get into the target paces really well on this run. All in all this kind of run is a really good confidence builder.
Wednesday’s run was also a really good with the “Boyz” (funny how that term has stuck with me). Luc and Jason were really pushing the pace after the first few k. I was able to stay with them for the whole 10k which is something I wouldn’t have been able to do last spring. Progress.
I’m also trying out another log/tracking package to store my run stats. I still use and will continue to use the software provided with my Garmin. However, Brian Green pointed me at another tool called SportTracks. Really interesting tool. I’ll comment more on that in subsequent posts.
My weight has been solidly between 185 and 187 all week. This exceeds my original goal of 190 very nicely. Interestingly enough I always get my most weight loss following my slowest run of the week which is usually on Monday’s. I’m burning more fat from what I can see at those speeds. I’m grappling with trying to figure how much weight I can loose. This probably tells me that I need to go see Beth Mansfield again. In the last few weeks before the marathon, I don’t want to be losing more weight. (30 days to go.) This morning I’m at 185.0.
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