Yesterday was my new longest run to date: 13.1 miles. I'm not happy with my pace at nearly 14-min/mile, but I already know a bunch of ways I screwed up in prep for the run. Not to be too detailed, but I got a crappy 4 hours of sleep or so the night before, didn't eat anything before I went out at 6:30 a.m. and in general felt sorry for myself for half the run and didn't want to be there. Hard to keep a level head when it's undernourished to begin with ...
On the bright side, I did finish it. I also did six days of exercise last week, including two-a-days on three of those days, with one of them being a ride and then a ride/run brick.
Lessons learned: Get enough sleep. Pay attention to pre-run nutrition. Figure out new ways to go zen on the run rather than get sucked into my head on a negative day.
This week's focus is a 4 with a magic mile (likely Friday instead of Saturday), and the next LD run is 14 miles on Sep. 8. I will be sure to get plenty of sleep, lay out my clothes and nutrition for the run and tackle that one with zest.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
LD: 11
Holy cow, it's been three weeks since I posted. Not much news though in my defense. Still plugging away on the cross-training for the Brewers 1/2 marathon on Sept. 22, and looking ahead to what races I definitely want to do next year. I think I'd like to do one Priority A long (1/2 Ironman tri) and 2-3 other smaller tris, plus the Brewers 1/2 again and possibly a full marathon.
As of Saturday, my new longest run is 11 miles. It took about 2:20, so I'll have to up the pace in the next month to do that 13.1 in 2:30 or less. Looking back at my workouts over the last three weeks, I've had very few two-a-days.
To catch up, here are July's stats:
178.12 miles covered (run, bike and swim).
22.5 hours of exercise.
21 days with at least 30 minutes of exercise.
26 total workouts.
18,122 calories burned through exercise.
And now that I look at it, I don't see June's numbers. They are:
As of Saturday, my new longest run is 11 miles. It took about 2:20, so I'll have to up the pace in the next month to do that 13.1 in 2:30 or less. Looking back at my workouts over the last three weeks, I've had very few two-a-days.
To catch up, here are July's stats:
178.12 miles covered (run, bike and swim).
22.5 hours of exercise.
21 days with at least 30 minutes of exercise.
26 total workouts.
18,122 calories burned through exercise.
And now that I look at it, I don't see June's numbers. They are:
269.66 miles covered (run, bike and swim).
28.5 hours of exercise.
23 days with at least 30 minutes of exercise.
32 total workouts.
23,449 calories burned through exercise.
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