I have finally got caught up with my blogging, and I am no longer blogging yesterdays runs! Today was a short 30min tempo run. I normally would have done a 45min one, but since Hal has me running a 5k on Sat, I am in a mini-taper. However that did not stop me from going fast. Towards the middle I was was running pretty well, and even posted a 5:54 mile for mile number 3. I think that I am ready for the race. I feel great both in my wind and in my joints. So after tomorrow's recovery run (or rest day if I feel like it) I hope that I can break 20min for the 5k.
BTW the McMillan Running Calculator says that based on me running a 5:54 mile I should be able to run a 5k in 20:23
So considering that I could have done the mile faster than that had I not already run two, I think I can make this goal.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
I guess I have a blogging backlog
As far as yesterday went...
It was a recovery run. I felt good and had to constantly put on the brakes as I noticed I was going too fast. That is one thing that I always find hard to do, is not go out and give 100% every time. In every sport I played as a kid my coaches would always be talking about giving maximum effort. One quote that really stuck with me was
"You will play the way you practice, so practice the way you want to play"
I want to run fast, so how do I run fast? I run slow during practice. Such a strange philosophy in running. But it works.
Also yesterday at my university, the health and human performance department had their annual health fair, and a friend of mine have a yearly competition to see who has the lowest body fat %. The first year we did it, I came in at about 6% and he was about 7%. Then last year I blew his 8% out of the water with my 4%. This year he came in at 10% keeping his trend going, and I keeping mine got 2.9% body fat.
Now this is not a good thing. The minimum amount of body fat to be considered healthy is about 8%. I guess last year my switching from skim milk to 2% and margarine to butter did not quite work. I eat about 4000 calories a day and plenty of fatty foods, I just burn it all up. Perhaps I need to start eating 5000 calories a day, but that would make me sick. Hell last week I got a gallon of chocolate ice cream and ate that in 3 days! How do I gain some fat? I wish I could just have people sell me their fat and I then burn it off for them. That way I would make money by selling burn calories, and I would also save on my grocery bill! Now to find a way to sell burnt calories....
It was a recovery run. I felt good and had to constantly put on the brakes as I noticed I was going too fast. That is one thing that I always find hard to do, is not go out and give 100% every time. In every sport I played as a kid my coaches would always be talking about giving maximum effort. One quote that really stuck with me was
"You will play the way you practice, so practice the way you want to play"
I want to run fast, so how do I run fast? I run slow during practice. Such a strange philosophy in running. But it works.
Also yesterday at my university, the health and human performance department had their annual health fair, and a friend of mine have a yearly competition to see who has the lowest body fat %. The first year we did it, I came in at about 6% and he was about 7%. Then last year I blew his 8% out of the water with my 4%. This year he came in at 10% keeping his trend going, and I keeping mine got 2.9% body fat.
Now this is not a good thing. The minimum amount of body fat to be considered healthy is about 8%. I guess last year my switching from skim milk to 2% and margarine to butter did not quite work. I eat about 4000 calories a day and plenty of fatty foods, I just burn it all up. Perhaps I need to start eating 5000 calories a day, but that would make me sick. Hell last week I got a gallon of chocolate ice cream and ate that in 3 days! How do I gain some fat? I wish I could just have people sell me their fat and I then burn it off for them. That way I would make money by selling burn calories, and I would also save on my grocery bill! Now to find a way to sell burnt calories....
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Yesterday's Hill Repeats
Despite my running all day on 3 hrs of sleep from my frantic work the night before, I somehow managed to drag myself out onto the road to do some hill repeats! Since I was feeling a bit lathargic and due to the fact that my 5k is on Saturday and my racing flats are not quite broken in, I wore the Waffles! I did a nice slow jog to my hill, which is a pretty steep section of a hill that rises for about 2 miles (not vertically mind you). Its actually a pretty fun hill to run all the way up, probably because I like the challange.
Like I was saying, yesterday I was supposed to do 9x repeats, and despite being tired I managed to do all 9 at a pretty good clip. I think the shoes helped a bit, even though my body felt like it had gotten beat up at the end. I guess I did not anticipate that I would be running 6 miles in those shoes. I am almost positive I will not be running a marathon in those shoes, but if I give it a little bit longer, I might get used to them and take them out on a 10k race.
On the injury front, I have been doing a good job I think of keeping myself from relapsing into either the shin splints, or the hamstring tendon rupture by not doing any full out sprinting, and maintaining a steady dose of ice and stretching after and before my runs, as well as throuout the day.
Today I got much more sleep, and will be nice and rested for my recovery run today. Such a weird phrase, but I had to use it.
Like I was saying, yesterday I was supposed to do 9x repeats, and despite being tired I managed to do all 9 at a pretty good clip. I think the shoes helped a bit, even though my body felt like it had gotten beat up at the end. I guess I did not anticipate that I would be running 6 miles in those shoes. I am almost positive I will not be running a marathon in those shoes, but if I give it a little bit longer, I might get used to them and take them out on a 10k race.
On the injury front, I have been doing a good job I think of keeping myself from relapsing into either the shin splints, or the hamstring tendon rupture by not doing any full out sprinting, and maintaining a steady dose of ice and stretching after and before my runs, as well as throuout the day.
Today I got much more sleep, and will be nice and rested for my recovery run today. Such a weird phrase, but I had to use it.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Yay, done with the paper!
My Seminar Paper
Now that it is just about 4am here, I think I will goto bed. I think tommorow's run is going to be a bit rough. :(
Now that it is just about 4am here, I think I will goto bed. I think tommorow's run is going to be a bit rough. :(
Slow Recovery Day
I'm taking a break from writing the final draft of my senior semiar paper entitled:
"Quantitative Verification of the Which-Way Experiment Using Single Photons"
Phew.
anyways once I am done I just might post a link incase any of you physics geeks feels like reading up on my pittiful undergraduate research that just re-does what people with higher degrees than me have already done to more accuracy than me 10 years ago.
But back to running. Today was a slow run, a recovery run and I milked it for all it was worth. I was running close to 10:00 min miles as my body was a bit fatiqued from my weekend's runs. But I did not mind as who cares about times during a recovery run. Plus I need to keep those nagging injuries from coming back.
I guess the one thing about recovery runs that really suck is that most of my friends know I am a serious hard core fast runner, and while I am out plodding along at a very un-me like pace, I happen to see one of my good friends. Now the question I must ask is why can't they ever drive/walk by when I am doing speed work?!?! They are probably thinking to themselves "pfft, I bet he can't even run a 8:00 min mile, he's just full of hot air"
I guess perhaps that is extra motivation to do well at this weekends 5k. So when I see that person next, they will invariably say "I saw you running." and I can say, "Oh yea, that was pretty slow for me, this weekend I ran a X:XX 5k" and then they go Ok and don't think of me as some big liar, and instead just some arrogant prick who has to tell them their 5k times. I'm screwed either way.
Tommorow is a 9x Hill run. I'm excited to get back into that! And please somebody drive by! :P
anyways once I am done I just might post a link incase any of you physics geeks feels like reading up on my pittiful undergraduate research that just re-does what people with higher degrees than me have already done to more accuracy than me 10 years ago.
But back to running. Today was a slow run, a recovery run and I milked it for all it was worth. I was running close to 10:00 min miles as my body was a bit fatiqued from my weekend's runs. But I did not mind as who cares about times during a recovery run. Plus I need to keep those nagging injuries from coming back.
I guess the one thing about recovery runs that really suck is that most of my friends know I am a serious hard core fast runner, and while I am out plodding along at a very un-me like pace, I happen to see one of my good friends. Now the question I must ask is why can't they ever drive/walk by when I am doing speed work?!?! They are probably thinking to themselves "pfft, I bet he can't even run a 8:00 min mile, he's just full of hot air"
I guess perhaps that is extra motivation to do well at this weekends 5k. So when I see that person next, they will invariably say "I saw you running." and I can say, "Oh yea, that was pretty slow for me, this weekend I ran a X:XX 5k" and then they go Ok and don't think of me as some big liar, and instead just some arrogant prick who has to tell them their 5k times. I'm screwed either way.
Tommorow is a 9x Hill run. I'm excited to get back into that! And please somebody drive by! :P
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Good Sunday LSD
And for you out there that arn't familiar with running lingo, LSD is not the psychedelic drug that the Beatles sang about. In running it stands for Long Slow Distance. So today's LSD was scheduled for 9 miles, and 9 miles I went. My body was a tad sore after yesterdays double run, but it was not bad. I ran a little slower than I am used to, but that is probably a good thing, since I am still trying to make sure that my knee and shin problems do not come back.
One think I really like about LSD is that I can go find some strange country road to run down, and get out of the constant turning and changing of direction the suburbs of my town. I also usually find it worthwile to bring my little ipod shuffle micro miniature music thing. (I don't know exactly what it's called, but it weighs only .5oz, so its small) Its a good time to just go out and relax while running. It was a good day
One think I really like about LSD is that I can go find some strange country road to run down, and get out of the constant turning and changing of direction the suburbs of my town. I also usually find it worthwile to bring my little ipod shuffle micro miniature music thing. (I don't know exactly what it's called, but it weighs only .5oz, so its small) Its a good time to just go out and relax while running. It was a good day
Today was a 2 for 1
I did get in my extra run today. Since it's late and I want to break my stay up late sleep pattern I will make this quick. I ran a 30min tempo, I felt great, no nagging injuries, I ran fast. I can't wait for tomorrow when I can run again. God I missed running!
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