Wow, I haven't missed a single training day yet since I started this adventure. Last weeks 11-miler in 26 degree WI weather was nice and easy. I started off running pretty fast (well, faster than my MP of 8:30) but the second half got really slow as my hams started to hurt. Still hurts today. Ice and heat Troy! I prolly should retire those shoes as well.
I bought a Garmin 405 (used, but so what). What an awesome tool for a runner, biker, walker, boater! I even got a new friend out of it, my "Virtual running partner" named Egon (a play on the word 'Gone'). He beeps at me when he is catching up. It is too cool! (I know, I should find a running partner) My max heart rate is about 180 (well, thats the max it got running a 7:10mm in a 5k). At MP I am at about 165. It also gives me the calories burned (118 per mile on average). No need for me to skip the deserts anymore (well, besides the cholesterol problem)
I am also taking a breath on the indoor running and all the nOObs. Those poor people need the exercise more than me, so I am just being patient. Being angry at them will not make me any younger. I should be happy when I run, right!
So by the end of this month I will have logged 125 miles. Keep this up and I will have 1,500 miles for the year. I think this will be my yearly goal. Easily attainable, as I will also be doing the same 1/2 Marathons this year as last (the Chicago R&R with Jeff and Beth, and the Madison NFEC again). I might even do the Urbanathalon in Chicago as well. We'll see.
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Correction. 1500 will be THIS YEAR'S goal. Next year, it'll be more. Besides, if your marathon goes well, you'll keep training, trying to improve, and the mileage will go up. Besides, I may try and talk you into doing an small ultra with me...a 50K in Chicago (April 2011), and then my goal is a 50-miler sometime in 2012.
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