Marathon Training Weeks 7, 8 and 9

It has been 3 weeks since I updated my logs here.  Did the Histroric Half Marathon on Feb 21.  It was a good race and I did a bit better that I thought I would do.  It is a hilly course so I was surprised that I ran it in under 2 hours.  The day was a great tempature and the sun was out.

I've run my last couple of long runs a bit too fast.  Tomorrow I will be running 26K and I will try and start a bit slower.

Week 9
Sun Feb 21: 21.1K Historic Half Marathon 1:59:20
Mon Feb 22: 4K Steady on the Treadmill
Tue Feb 23: Rest
Wed Feb 24: 12K and 6 Hills
Thu Feb 25: 8K Steady
Fri Feb 26: Rest
Sat Feb 27: 6K Steady
Total Mileage: 51K

Week 8
Sun Feb 14: 24K LSD
Mon Feb 15: Rest
Tue Feb 16: 6K Tempo
Wed Feb 17: 11K and 5 Hills
Thu Feb 18: Rest
Fri Feb 19: Rest
Sat Feb 20: Rest
Total Mileage: 41K

Week 7
Sun Feb 7: 19K LSD
Mon Feb 8: Rest
Tue Feb 9: 5K Tempo
Wed Feb 10: 10K and 4 Hills
Thu Feb 11: 8K Steady
Fri Feb 12: Rest
Sat Feb 13: 6.5K Steady
Total Mileage: 48.5K

Vancouver Marathon training week 6

This was a great week.  Look like I figured out that my ankle pain was being cause by a tight calf muscle.  After a really good day of stretching on Tuesday there was way less pain and it continues to get better.

Had a really good tempo run on Tuesday night.  So good that it left me a little sluggish on Wednesday night's run.

On Saturday I went to the Peak Centre for Human Performance in Vancouver.  I had a run assessment done.  I haven't had one since August 2009.  The run assessment measures your heart rate, speed, and blood lactate at a bunch of stages.  Basically they keep increasing the speed every 3 minutes until you quit.  It was a tough test and I was just about throwing up at the end.  It is still really fun to push yourself as hard as you can.  I should get the result mid next week.

Here is the log for the week:
Sun Jan 31: 16K LSD.  Sport Shape up workout
Mon Feb 1: 1.2K Barefoot on the treadmill.  Sport Shape up workout
Tue Feb 2: 5.7K Tempo
Wed Feb 3: 10K Tempo
Thu Feb 4: 8.9K Steady
Fri Feb 5: Rest
Sat Feb 6: 6K during run assessment

Total Mileage: 47.8K

Vancouver Marathon training weeks 4 and 5

I had planned to do a entry at the end of week 4 but I didn't get around to it so I'll capture the 2 weeks in this blog.

I've been bothered by an ankle problem for the last 3 or 4 weeks. It is very sporadic. Some runs have no pain, some runs a bit of pain and some runs suck. I beginning to think the problem is with a tight calf muscle. If I fell the tendon pulling I stretch my calf and it feels better for a while. I tend to be a tense person so I probably need to focus on relaxing more while I run. Not easy when you are worried about your ankle.

On January 17th I ran the Rock N Roll 1/2 Marathon in Phoenix Arizona. It was so nice to run in the sun and heat for a change. Running in shorts and a singlet felt great. I ran it in 2:04:56. Not my best race but I wasn't planning on running hard and my ankle started bugging me around 15 or 16K.

Week 4
Sun Jan 17 - 21.1K Arizona Rock N Roll
Mon Jan 18 - 0.8K Barefoot on the treadmill
Tue Jan 19 -5.6K Tempo
Wed Jan 20 -10.1K Tempo
Thu Jan 21 - 8.6K Steady
Fri Jan 22 -Rest
Sat Jan 23 - 6.1K Steady
Total Mileage: 52.3K

Week 5
Sun Jan 24 - 16.4K LSD
Mon Jan 25 -1K Barefoot running on treadmill. Sport Shape Up Running Lvl 1 workout
Tue Jan 26 - 7.4K Tempo
Wed Jan 27 - 9.7K Temp
Thu Jan 28 - 9K Steady
Fri Jan 29 - Rest
Sat Jan 30 - Sport Shape Up Running Lvl 1 workout
Total Mileage: 43.5K

First Blog Post

Well this is my first blog post so I should probably introduce myself. I have been running since October 2008. I ran my first half marathon in June 2009 and I'm currently training for my first marathon. To date I have completed 5 half marathons.

During the day I'm a Network Analyst at a decent sized Automobile insurance company. I've been working on networks for the last 12 years.

Most of my life I have been over weight and in November 2006 I was at my highest weight of 224 pounds. I lost about 50 pounds of that before I started running.

Happy running!

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