Month: March 2008

I’m halfway through the 5K plan now and today’s run was a practice 5K. It stormed last night and thought the rain dried up overnight, the wind was still blowing at 35 MPH with gusts up to 40 when I left the house. I drove to the park where the 5K will be held and… Continue reading More work to be done

Last week, I was “reading ahead” into Hal Higdon’s 10K and half marathon plans since I plan to run Disney’s Race for the Taste 10K in October and the WDW half marathon in January. Compared to the 5K plan, Hal elaborates a little more on the tempo runs in these plans. He talks about gradually… Continue reading Finally, a good tempo run

I hit the bike today for 20 minutes of cross training and completed 7 miles basically on autopilot. I was short for time and I’ve got a practice 5K this weekend, so I skipped my leg strength training, but I did complete an upper body strength training workout. Actual workout 20 minutes cycling Upper body… Continue reading Crosstraining

After last week’s 400 m speed work, I headed to the gym with a little but more confidence today. I ran my 200 m intervals at 5:00 minute mile pace, which is as fast as the treadmill will go. The last one was tough, but not horrible. I have no idea how people can run… Continue reading Maxing out the treadmill

We closed out our guest’s visit with my special Tequila Lime tilapia and the customary margaritas to go with it. As such, the three miles wasn’t as easy as usual. My legs were pretty tired, but I slugged through it. Afterwards, I hit the weights for some strength training and that portion of the workout… Continue reading A tough three and a good strength workout

Yesterday after my run, I spend some time wandering around downtown, then some time at the beach, then we went out to dinner. With all the wandering around, I didn’t drink as much water as usual. Plus, the time at the beach bar and then dinner lately meant that I probably drank more alcohol than… Continue reading 7 in 70

I was up pretty late last night, so I figured I wasn’t going to improve too much on my tempo run from yesterday. I set out with the goal of completing 5 miles somewhere between 40 and 45 minutes. I did pretty well. I took only one walk break and that was for 1 minute… Continue reading A nice comeback