Long and Less Long Runs: 3-26 to 4-1

[rocknrollgirl]

Howdy running girls.

I traded my normal mid -week interval run for a hill run on the trails before mt biking last night. It was a tough run, but I am starting to feel the payoff of all of the intervals.

It was bout 3.5 miles.

[Deborajen]

Wahine, interesting description about nose breathing increasing use the lower lobes of the lung and the diaphragm and the blood being able to pick up more oxygen per breath. Nose breathing felt like it helped my posture and gave me a more "relaxed" feeling with my efforts. Not a big thing, but the little things do add up, especially over distance.

Tattiefritter, you're not kidding about not inhaling bugs. I like to run on a path that follows the river and there are sometimes lots of gnats. They go straight for the teeth and the eyes - ick!

Deb

[tattiefritter]

Deborajen, its not so bad at this time of year but yes, inhaling bugs is just horrible.

I did 5.76 miles yesterday according to my new toy (which I am in love with). It was 2 miles easy then about 2.5 miles of fartleks then a mile or so of easy to cool down a bit. I tried to keep my pace for the first two miles down to about 9 mins per mile which was difficult (a lot easier for the last mile though ). Then did various length fartleks and got to feel what 7mm pace felt like - ouch, there is no way I could keep that up for any length of time yet. I find the pace feature really useful, more so than heart rate at the beginning of the run - I also noticed that as soon as I switched my Ipod on my pace increased as I listen to dance music.

Got 5 miles easy today - going to aim for 8:45mm/9mm pace - as got sports massage this evening. The only drawback with the RS200 is I keep looking at the watch to check pace and I just know I'm going to run into a lamppost or something.

That will give me a total of about 17 miles for the week.

[tattiefritter]

5.6 miles today at an average of 8:45 mm but there was some serious fluctuation in pace including the short section where I just got carried away and started running fast - no idea why had to get a grip on myself. In general it was easier to maintain the steady pace than yesterday as my legs were not as fresh. 17.5 miles total this week.

I almost did run into a lampost as well! Not because I was looking at my watch but because I was running past a primary school looking at the kids playing and thinking how great it was to see so many little girls running around playing football (soccer), just looked ahead in time to take evasive action. It would have really hurt and been really embarassing as I was approaching a crossing and there was a big queue of cars!

[KSH]

Thursday:

34m 3.00 miles 11m 20s /mile

Well, it was raining, so I hit the treadmill after work.

Per instructions from my coach:

1st mile -slow- 12 minute mile

2nd mile -fast and steady- 10:30 minute mile

3rd mile -slow- 11:30 minute mile.

No side cramp. I think I'm figuring out that my body likes to run a 11-12 minute mile.


Friday:

I went to my AM swim, and did:
40m 2300.00 meters 1m 44s /100 meters

Workout:
250 W/U

4, 100's- 25 kick/50 swim/25 kick

4, 400's- 50 slow/50 fast

4, 100's- IM: Butterfly, backstroke, breastroke, free.

Then a C/D.


Here in about an hour I am heading to the gym for my slow 3 mile run. The rain has cleared some, but I didn't bring clothes to run outside in. So, back to the treadmill.

[KSH]

I almost did run into a lampost as well! Not because I was looking at my watch but because I was running past a primary school looking at the kids playing and thinking how great it was to see so many little girls running around playing football (soccer), just looked ahead in time to take evasive action. It would have really hurt and been really embarassing as I was approaching a crossing and there was a big queue of cars!

I have almost done that myself, from not looking where I was going!

[KSH]

Yesterday (Friday) I did...

34m 40s 3.00 miles 11m 34s /mile

Raining. Got on the treadmill at lunch.

Side cramp popped up at .10. Worked through it for the rest of 2.90 miles. It never got too bad, thank goodness.


And for the month of March... I have run 52 miles! I have NEVER run that far in 1 month, in my life in one month!

For the month of February, I only logged 35 miles... so my dedication to NOT missing running workouts has paid off.

Last year at this time I was barely able to run 2-3 miles and now I can run 50 miles a month!