Less than 15 hours to go to the Twin Cities Marathon. If you are interested, you can track my progress here at Maptracker. My bib number is 2230.
Wish me luck!
Later…
Aaron
Posts Tagged ‘fitness’
9 days and running…
Sep 28th, 07
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Another great workout today. 6 miles on the treadmill – tempo run. 2 miles easy (9:23 pace), 3 miles short tempo (7:47 pace), and 1 mile easy (9:2 pace) for a total of 6 miles. I felt solid and while the 3 at short tempo were hard, I made it though them in good shape and finished the run strong.
I think the marathon is going to go just fine.
Random picture for the day
David always loves to have his picture taken…
Only 9 days until the Twin Cities Marathon.
Aaron
48 to the start…
Aug 20th, 07
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Here is the workout from today:
1 x 500 yard warm up
6 x 100 on 1:25 descending
4 x 75 kick on 1:30
2 x 400 on :10 sec rest
1 x 200 cool down
2400 yards total – nice effort, good workout.
48 days to the Twin Cities Marathon.
Later…
Aaron
51 to go and back in the groove…
Aug 17th, 07
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Thursday
Good workout – I had today off from work, so that necessitated switching up my schedule a little. Work has been killing me, so I was behind this week, so I did the tempo run today – I’ll do speed work tomorrow, with a 20 miler on Sunday. Also, Saturday is hose testing day at the fire department, so that should be good cross training.
Here is Thursday’s run:
1 mile easy @ 9:22
4 miles @ mid tempo 8:00
1 mile easy @ 9:22
This was a good run for me, I felt pretty solid throughout. It was, however, very HOT!
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Friday
Here is the workout from Friday:
10 minute warm up – 1 mile
1 mile @ 7:15 pace
2 miles @ 7:30 pace
2 * 800 @ 3:29 pace
10 minute cool down – 1 mile
Actuals:
1 mile – 7:11.51
2 miles – 14:54.78
#1 800 – 3:24.97
#2 800 – 3:22.07
Once again, I felt really good. These speed workouts are my favorite, I really feel good running them and I’m able to be very consistent.
I have the Woodbury Country Mile 1/2 Marathon next weekend, I’m really looking forward to seeing my results.
Good luck!
51 days to the Twin Cities Marathon.
Aaron
53 and struggling…
Aug 15th, 07
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Let me start by saying, I love my job. I have been so lucky to find a place that I can really stretch myself and have loads of opportunity to excel. But lately, mainly just the last two weeks, my job has been playing havoc with my training. I’ve been crazy busy and my priority is work and my family, with running coming when it can. I have been able to minimize the impact to pretty much just a reduction in my cross-training, but cross-training is an integral part of the training program I am using, so I’m a little concerned. This week has been really tough, I missed Monday and Tuesday cross-training, and today I missed my speed workout. This is really the first run I’ve missed in a long time. So, here’s the plan:
- Tomorrow – run in the morning, tempo run / swim in the evening
- Friday – run at lunch, speed workout
- Saturday – swim in the morning, before hose testing at the fire department
- Sunday – long run, 20 miles, 9:10 pace
If I can stick to this schedule, I’ll still get in my minimum 5 workouts for the week. That wuld be a good thing after a rough start. We’ll see how it goes.
I had a good long run last Sunday – 18 miles, 2 hours 54 minutes. Not bad, but a little slower than I’d hoped. Really I felt pretty good all the way to the end – kind of exciting! Also, I did something a little different than normal during my run, I listened to almost three hours of Steve Runner’s Phedippidations Pod Cast. I really enjoyed it and will definately listen again and again. Steve has a way of really making the time go by. I’ll write more in another post about my thoughts on his thoughts – thoughts on thoughts.
Here is my route:
53 days to the Twin Cities Marathon.
Later…
Aaron
