Sleepless Knight
Jedi Knight Seeking His Jedi Princess
- Joined
- May 15, 2008
And now a real update from me. The week went well. Aside from yesterday at the office when the phone decided to stop me from getting all sorts of other things done. Still on track to get through the end of this month though. May have to ignore the phone to make sure that happens.
After getting through the survive and advance portion of training, I successfully started writing notes after my runs again this week.
10/22/18
4.44 miles. I feel like running blind is helping on the longer runs when I run not so blind since I want to make sure I practice fueling properly. Starting Friday evening of last week, I noticed some knee pain in the left knee. I fear it has something to do with the 10K tempo. It has yet to be a major problem and I will not let it become one. I learned in training for Dark Side this year that I can function perfectly well with either no knee pain or minimal knee pain by slowing down.
New feature for my updates. I'm going to start noting days where I do some form of strength training. I hope this will allow me to address some of the challenges I faced during the Giant Race and thus prevent them from happening during the marathon.
10/23/18
2 miles at 17:30, 0.5 miles at 110 12:00/30 seconds 17:30, 1 mile at 17:30, 0.5 miles at 110 12:00/30 seconds 17:30, 1.5 miles at 17:30. I was concerned that my knee might protest, but not really.
4 minutes peak
73 minutes cardio
24 minutes fat burn
131 average heart rate
25 minutes leg strengthening exercises after the run.
10/25/18
3 miles at 30 seconds 17:30/30 seconds 14:45. I think I’m beginning to better understand how cumulative fatigue works. I felt more tired than normal after a 3 mile run, but I think that’s due to the 9.5 miles I ran on Monday and Tuesday.
15 minutes upper body weight lifting before the run.
10/26/18
5.46 miles at 30 seconds 17:30/30 seconds at 14:45. Feeling the fatigue, but that’s okay. I definitely think running blind helps me more mentally. Since I don’t know how long I’ve been going, I think I settle into the zone quicker.
12 minutes of lower body strength training before the run.
10/27/18
8.44 miles at 30 seconds 17:30/30 seconds at 14:45. Didn’t feel as tired as I thought I would this morning, so that’s good. It was supposed to be fuel practice run, but I sort of failed and sort of succeeded. I had planned to take a sport bean at around 45 minutes of the run. I chose to run this blind in the hopes that it would make the run not feel quite so long and perhaps that idea worked a little bit too well. When I checked to see how long I’d been running, it had been almost an hour. I took a sport bean then and then another one about 40 minutes later.
25 minutes of lower body strength training/stretching after the run.
I also realized this week that this I ran close to the same number of miles this week as I would run in the longest week of a Galloway 10K/Half challenge plan. That realization is helping me work through the mental barrier of the long run being substantially shorter than the actual race distance itself
After getting through the survive and advance portion of training, I successfully started writing notes after my runs again this week.
10/22/18
4.44 miles. I feel like running blind is helping on the longer runs when I run not so blind since I want to make sure I practice fueling properly. Starting Friday evening of last week, I noticed some knee pain in the left knee. I fear it has something to do with the 10K tempo. It has yet to be a major problem and I will not let it become one. I learned in training for Dark Side this year that I can function perfectly well with either no knee pain or minimal knee pain by slowing down.
New feature for my updates. I'm going to start noting days where I do some form of strength training. I hope this will allow me to address some of the challenges I faced during the Giant Race and thus prevent them from happening during the marathon.
10/23/18
2 miles at 17:30, 0.5 miles at 110 12:00/30 seconds 17:30, 1 mile at 17:30, 0.5 miles at 110 12:00/30 seconds 17:30, 1.5 miles at 17:30. I was concerned that my knee might protest, but not really.
4 minutes peak
73 minutes cardio
24 minutes fat burn
131 average heart rate
25 minutes leg strengthening exercises after the run.
10/25/18
3 miles at 30 seconds 17:30/30 seconds 14:45. I think I’m beginning to better understand how cumulative fatigue works. I felt more tired than normal after a 3 mile run, but I think that’s due to the 9.5 miles I ran on Monday and Tuesday.
15 minutes upper body weight lifting before the run.
10/26/18
5.46 miles at 30 seconds 17:30/30 seconds at 14:45. Feeling the fatigue, but that’s okay. I definitely think running blind helps me more mentally. Since I don’t know how long I’ve been going, I think I settle into the zone quicker.
12 minutes of lower body strength training before the run.
10/27/18
8.44 miles at 30 seconds 17:30/30 seconds at 14:45. Didn’t feel as tired as I thought I would this morning, so that’s good. It was supposed to be fuel practice run, but I sort of failed and sort of succeeded. I had planned to take a sport bean at around 45 minutes of the run. I chose to run this blind in the hopes that it would make the run not feel quite so long and perhaps that idea worked a little bit too well. When I checked to see how long I’d been running, it had been almost an hour. I took a sport bean then and then another one about 40 minutes later.
25 minutes of lower body strength training/stretching after the run.
I also realized this week that this I ran close to the same number of miles this week as I would run in the longest week of a Galloway 10K/Half challenge plan. That realization is helping me work through the mental barrier of the long run being substantially shorter than the actual race distance itself