No training today

Legs still feel a bit sore. In particular, going down stairs... Perhaps it was staying up till 2 yesterday or the 3 drinks :).

6mi 60min Back from 1 week break

6mi 60min Back from 1 week break. I missed the race on Saturday:(

May be I will run a substitute race. Also there is 15K next week which looks promising..

Ah the DOMS no training today

Saturday morning race is going to be a mess. No training today. Legs still feel heavy with light DOMS.

Rest day no running today

After a relatively heavy training day, legs are feeling a bit heavy today. I should take it easy tommorow if I want to shoot for saturday morning 4mi race.

6mi+ 55:40min speed TM & 5min stairs

6mi+ 55:40min speed TM & 5min stairs. Forgot the heart rate monitor again which sucks because today's workout was really heavy. I am sure the last 2 miles were close to 190bpm. Workout started with a quick biking routine following the last time's observation that I may not be warming up enough. First mile was 6/0. 5 6. 5/.25 7/.25. After this I steped out to watch and be the official recordkeeper for ken's rowing challenge. Ilias made it to 303 in a min but did not even come close to ken's 333. Geee I should try this sometime. I think I used do 250 as my warmup. Maybe I can crack 300 with some effort. Anyway. I tried some very heavy stairs (10 to 13 level) and I was hurting after just 5 minutes. That's just pathetic. But back to TM.After about a mile at 6mph I ramped up to 6. 5mph(9:13min per mile) and kept at it for 4 miles. This was TOUGH!!! I don't understand since I just ran a weak 4miles race at 8:43pace without effort, not to mention PR at formidable 7:29! Also just like last few times first half was worse than second half but its all relative.Anyway looks like I am going to need a lot of speed training to get my short race times up. May be its the heat and dehydration in gym. 2 full bottles of waters were barely got me through 5miles. Or may be it was the stair training. i wish I had the hrm graph to diagnose.

No training today

Lazy Saturday...no training.

6mi 60min TM flat

6mi 60min flat treadmill. I think heart rate never went above 165 but I forgot to bring the monitor. I did however bring in my blue supernova to work. Just like last three times, first three miles were uncomfortable while second half felt like cruize-control. Need to investigate. May be insufficient warm-up???Anyway. I have got one more race coming up this Sunday. I may have to skip a training run this weekend. Perhaps I should check out the swimming pool situation I have this saturday.Finally today was the second time in a row I stepped out in subfreezing temperature right after the run. Boy, its like a sauna in there at 70+ after one hour run. I should check if it is problamatic to have sudden change in temperature. May be this is like mild icing of whole body (except it feels good not painful). But I suspect, 3-5 min of stretching in freezing temp must be inconsequential.

6mi/60mi TM+hill training

After a long break, I had a nice 6mile training run. It felt effortless despite some solid hill training (max grade 5) with HR barely touching 185! I should probably take it easy next few days if i want to do the next race.

6:02pm got my seat (?) in this years NYC Marathon!!!

Just about 5minutes back I got confirmation that I am running 2007 NYC marathon....woo hoo. All that sweat and blood in 9 races last years finally paid itself. Time to go to drawing board and start planning bigger and better marathon plan for this year....

4mi 40min TM training

There is something wrong with my HRM but it works after it warms up. It was a 40min nice run on treadmill. But its too hot in gym and too cold outside. Cant wait for this freezing spell to get over. Its about time I start my CP big loop. (Next 45degrees day maybe.)

another rest day

no training today. 4 miles tomorrow?

Back to the training

3mi/30min TM. Felt a little effort to run the 3 miles. Must be mini-DOMS:-) 3mi should be enough to put me back on track.

4mi race, very nice

The race was a lot of fun. The wind chill of 3F was not anywhere as bad as I had thought. I guess warm up 1.5 mi run to start helped. The race was the first of the wave kind at cp. As usual I was at the very end and didnt get to start till 9:21. I started the race slowly and speeded up after the first mile. The last mile was the fastest. Didnt really understand why HR shot up to 210, the mechanism/battery must have failed due to extreme cold. Anyway, third mile felt a little effort but in general, the race was one of the least painful. In fact, I could easily break into all out run at end with not much effort. Btw, interestingly enough, the water cups were frozen over and I had to break the ice to get some water. very crazy.

specs:

Distance: 4.0 Miles, 6.4 Kilometers Date/Time: Feb. 4, 2007, 9:00 am Sponsor: NYRR -->Location: Central Park, NYC Weather: 14 deg., 29% humidity, wind 16 mph.

Pre-race chills (weather is going to be bad!)

Hmm. Weather forecast says 18F tomorrow morning with wind 15-25mph... thats windchill of about 3F!
The coldest race I have done so far was 34F with windspeed of 16mph (windchill 25F). So this should be interesting.

I better bundle up. Also I need a strategy. Good that I managed to get the race number in advance (I needed to make it to the nyrr office by 4:30 starting at 4 in downtown. With express trains not running, getting to nyrr office was a race itself..made it there at 4:29) Anyway, I am thinking hot shower and run to the startline just in time (9am) and continue the run and run back. -Thats may be 6-8miles total run instead of the 4miles race. Forget racing, in fact I better take it easy as I dont want to get chills from sweat early on. Boy, I get chills just thinking:-)

Testing email2blog

Testing email2blog. Please bear with me:)

No training today

No training today what so ever...as planned

4mi/40mi TM

Thursday 1st: Easy 4mi run at 10mph with few minutes at 6.5mph and 5.5mph on the forth mile. Bumped into BK in work gym. Also discovered the trick to carry a bottle to the gym. Amazing how much water I can guzzle down. I drank 20 oz half an hour before the run and managed to gulp another 20 oz bottle during 4 mi run. Another full glass after coming home should add up to a lot of water in 4 hours.

I was bit concerned about overdoing on Wednesday considering the race coming up. But the legs felt fine through the 4 miles. I will probably take a 2 day break Friday/Saturday just in case but I suspect I will be tempted to steal a quick run on Saturday. Let see...