My last two days

Yesterday I went for my first hill repeat of the official 18 week training program. After a spring of hill repeats, which grew to 10x, the 3x was a breeze. I went for a nice 2mi warm up and then a 1.5 mile cool down. I was experiencing just a little bit of discomfort in my shins (which is probably me just blowing this whole thing out of context) but to be safe I decided to do a cold water run today.

See here were I am it has been hovering in the 60's in the Fahrenheit scale, which is only about 16 degrees Celsius for those of us who prefer a measurement system that makes sense. When I woke up then this morning at my usual 4:30, the temp was at a frigid 44F and 7C. BRRRRRR! So I decided to play the chance that I might be willing to go for a run after work. Well after some mental preparation I finally plunged into our pool. Again I must type BRRRRRR! But after about 5min my legs just went numb, and if I was able to keep my torso dry, I was only just regular cold. So I ran in there for about 28min covering about 1.2 miles or 2K. Not far but come on I was running in water. Anyways I think I will be good for my tempo run tomorrow. Its not a big deal, just a 30min one.

First day is in the books!

Well here is the schedule I will be trying my best to adhere to.

Week	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun
1	3 m run	3 x hill	3 m run	30 Tem	rest	5 m pace	10
2	3 m run	30 Tem	3 m run	3 m pace	rest	5 m run	11
3	3 m run	4 x 800	3 m run	30 Tem	rest	6 m pace	8
4	3 m run	4 x hill	3 m run	35 Tem	rest	6 m pace	13
5	3 m run	35 Tem	3 m run	3 m pace	rest	7 m run	14
6	3 m run	5 x 800	3 m run	35 Tem	rest	7 m pace	10
7	3 m run	5 x hill	4 m run	40 Tem	rest	8 m pace	16
8	3 m run	40 Tem	4 m run	3 m pace	rest	8 m run	17
9	4 m run	6 x 800	4 m run	40 Tem	rest	9 m pace	12
10	3 m run	6 x hill	4 m run	45 Tem	rest	9 m pace	19
11	4 m run	45 Tem	5 m run	4 m pace	rest	10 m run	20
12	4 m run	7 x 800	5 m run	45 Tem	rest	6 m pace	12
13	4 m run	7 x hill	5 m run	50 Tem	rest	10 m pace	20
14	5 m run	45 tem	5 m run	5 m pace	rest	6 m run	12
15	5 m run	8 x 800	5 m run	40 Tem	rest	10 m pace	20
16	5 m run	6 x hill	5 m run	30 Tem	rest	4 m pace	12
17	4 m run	30 Tem	4 m run	4 m pace	rest	4 m run	8
18	3 m run	4 x 400	3 m run	rest	rest	2 m run	race

Today as you can see was just a simple 3m run plus some strength training. I did this real early in the morning (I left the house at about 4:40) and it was real nice. I think I might like this early morning running stuff. No pain, no nothing. Just a good quality run.

Here we go! 18 weeks til the marathon

Well to catch you all up on my life, I am now going to be a roofer for the summer. This is a tough job so running during the week is going to suck. So I will be running BEFORE work. I will be trying to get up at insane times like 4:30am to go for my runs. I am officially starting Hal's 18 week Marathon Training (Advanced-II) which incorporates speed work which I love so much. Tomorrow I will be doing just my normal 3 mile run with strength training.

And btw yesterday I was able to run a good 7 miler with no pain. I think I should be fine to take this program hard!