Long and less Long Runs - 4/30/07 to 5/06/07

[KSH]

Sunday, 12k race. Last year I finished in 1:25 (11:23 pace). My maybe reachable goal this year is 1:15 or better (10:00 pace) and ideally 1:12 or better to qualify for an earlier start next year (9:40 pace). We'll see, it's hilly, but relatively short.

GOOD LUCK Colby! I am sure you will achieve your goal!

I ran 3 slow painful kms today. 6:30 per km. (10.5 min/mile?)

Slow and painful? Shoot, I'd be lucky to run that fast!

I ran about 6 miles today, Z1 to Z2. Handled it OK. We'll see how I feel tomorrow

Looks like an upswing to me!

[Grog]

This is my last week on this thread!

I'm running (my first official) half-marathon this coming Sunday, May 6th (part of the Vancouver Marathon & Half-Marathon event) and that will be the end of my 100 km/month + running. I'll just keep the weekday runs after that.

So I ran a relaxed 5k yesterday morning (TUesday). It didn't feel that good and I was trying out new shoes (they're okay), but still fine. I might go for another 5k tomorrow Thursday and then a bit of a longer one Friday (7k maybe?) with a few bursts. I'll skip my club bike ride on Saturday (you never know when the mob is going to decide to hit the hills, and I don't want to risk my legs there!!) so I can be as fresh as one can be at the 7am start of the race on Sunday morning.

Will report.

[colby]

This is my last week on this thread!

I'm running (my first official) half-marathon this coming Sunday, May 6th (part of the Vancouver Marathon & Half-Marathon event) and that will be the end of my 100 km/month + running. I'll just keep the weekday runs after that.

Nah, you can come back and see us here anytime!!

Good luck this weekend!!! You'll do great. If I didn't have something planned this weekend already, I'd have loved to do the Vancouver HM. I love Vancouver.

[alpinerabbit]

6K tonight, I missed out on my group run last night. I will in fact miss out all of May - yikes...

[KSH]

1h 10m 35s
6.25 miles
11m 17s /mile


It was sunny when I left work. Then when I was driving home, I drove through pouring rain.

So, I went to the gym and got on the treadmill.

Settled into a long distance slow pace (my usual pace! HA!)... and kept going.

A good song came on close to 6 miles so I went 6.25 miles.

Legs hurt pretty bad and so does my right knee.

[kelownagirl]

3km with the kids at lunch today. 19 minutes again. Oh well.

[Wahine]

I was supposed to run today but I bailed.

My priority workout was a hilly bike ride with some intervals pushing into zone 4 or 5. I did that at lunch. By the time I got off work I had no motivation to run. I went over to the house to see how the construction was coming along, came home made dinner....

Oh well. I'm going to chalk it up to not being totally recovered from whatever hit me last week. I'll kick some butt this weekend.