Posts Tagged ‘half marathon training’

Weekly Training Wrap-Up

6, Jun 2009

Here’s how my week went in terms of training. On Monday after work, I banged out 5.5 miles at a 6:31 pace, right on schedule. I lifted/biked on Tuesday, and then on Wednesday I was supposed to do my interval workout, but life got in the way.

Have I mentioned I hate running in the morning? On Thursday morning, I woke up and had zero ambition to run, but knew that I shouldn’t go more than 2 days without running. So I did a hill workout on the treadmill that was actually a lot more fun than I was expecting. I mostly just played with the angles, doing some 2-3 minute bursts at 7-8% incline, some flat cooldowns, some fast walking at 15%. It was challenging, but not draining. Then I lifted/biked on Friday.

Today, I did my hudson river greenway long run and felt like a million bucks, so maybe cutting back a little this week was the key.

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I started off at a brisk 7:20 pace and before I knew it, 10 miles later, my splits averaged down to 7:03 which is way fast for me for a long run. I ran the first 5 miles in 35:45 and the second half in 34:49 so the negative splits made me confident that I’ll do well in the NYC half marathon in August.

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Speaking of doing well, my lovely fiancée placed 2nd in her age group in today’s 4-miler in Allentown, PA with a time of 31:17. I couldn’t be prouder of her, especially since she had some pre-race nervousness about breaking 8-minute miles, and ended up shattering eights with 7:49 splits.

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10 Week, Half-Marathon Program?

1, Jun 2009

So far in life, I’ve been fairly unsuccessful at following any sort of rigid training program for any give race distance. Often times I’ll make up my own and then scheduling, over-enthusiasm or even injury will get in the way. Nonetheless, here’s the plan for the August 16th NYC Half Marathon that I hatched last night…

Chase Corporate Challenge, Training Thoughts

27, May 2009

We’re only two short weeks away from the 3.5 mile Chase Corporate Challenge in central park. That means it’s time for me to start thinking strategically about how I’d like to run the race. Time-wise I’d like to break 21 minutes (sub-6 splits), which I don’t think is too aggressive considering my 5k splits from March were 5:49. I’d like to think I’m a little faster now than I was then.

There are 122 men and 9 women who broke 21 minutes in last year’s Corporate Challenge, so that means there are at least 130 people that should start the race ahead of me. Since this is largely an amateur event (not being a running snob, its just true) I’m quite sure there will be plenty of runners who don’t know their starting position. But hopefully not too much bobbing and weaving at the start of the race. The full results from the 2008 Corporate Challenge in central park can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/NYCin310-JP-2008

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I traced the race’s course map on www.mapmyrun.com. Fortunately the course avoids my absolute least favorite hill in the park (north-west corner). However, the first ¾ of a mile are basically uphill, followed by a good solid mile of downhill. Then mile 2 begins a short ¼ mile ascent, but the remainder of the race is pretty much flat or downhill which rocks.

Now that I’m back on a regular training schedule, I’m thinking about the big picture and the smaller picture simultaneously…

Whoa, 1:23 Half Requires Serious Training

23, May 2009

First things first, some of the Healthy Kidney 10k pictures from Brightroom are up on their site. http://www.brightroom.com/view_event.asp?EVENTID=47214. Here are mine. So far, the only thing I’ve been able to deduce from viewing various race photos, is that I was in excruciating pain throughout the entire race…

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I ran about 8 miles this morning, with the middle four at a quicker pace (just under 7min pace) and the bookends at around 9 min. By 11am, it was just plain hot out, probably mid-70’s but it felt hotter because of the sun, which made for less than favorable conditions. Still, a good run while I’m getting back into the swing of things.

I just did a little research into what it would take to pull off a NY Marathon qualifying half on Aug 16th (13.1 miles in 1hr 23min)…


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