I guess I'll give some results

The sunny skies and 90 degree temps dashed my hopes of BQing at the Twin Cities Marathon. I finished a personal worst of something like 4:18, but yet it was a personal best of where I finished percentage wise. So one worst, and best in the same race! Yea.

I guess I will have to try next year. I'm thinking of Grandmas.

Still running.....

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!

Quick Update

Well on Monday I went for my first ever bike ride with a road bike, and after 28 miles I simultaneously blew both of my tires! AHHH. But my mom was riding with me and was able to ride home and pick me up with the car. Then later on that day I went on a ride with my dad and uncle and my uncle blew a tire after hitting a nail! I never realized there was so much waiting biking.

But then today I went for a real running run in between job interviews. It was only 2.5 miles but I was able to make it a quasi tempo run. First mile 9:30, Second mile 7:10. Since I FINALLY got the pool ready to go I might take easy tomorrow and do some water running.

I aquired a road bike today!

My uncle Erv who is majorly into road biking lent me his old bike for a while. It rides great from the little 300m trek I went on today, and I'm excited to get out onto the road. Also I finished preparing our pool today, so I can go watter running tomorrow too! Its all so exciting that I get to start working out again.

So I completely failed on my last couple weeks of the spring training. I still benefited greatly from it, and based on my 5k time, I should be training for a sub 3:00 marathon! Things are looking up for me!

Another day of rest

I rested again today. Unfortunately our pool is not yet ready for people, but hopefully tommorow I can run laps in it for about 30-45 min. I'm just really dying to get out and start running like I am used to.

On a side note I figured out today while playing a little basketball, I can feel my shins hurt as I go UP when jumping, and not so much when I land. I always figured it to be the opposite, but I guess when you are running, all the pain kinda melts into one. Perhaps I can learn to take off a little more gently rather then trying to land softer like I have been. If nothing else, its just one more thing to try.