Sunday, September 26, 2010
Big Race Next Sunday.
I only have to run about 10 miles between now and then. I ran 11 today. i managed to maintain a speed of 6.5 miles/hr the whole way. I think I was pretty steady. 48-55 degrees and cloudy helps a ton.
I was thinking about running a 5K a couple weeks after the big one. It'd be like a balls to the wall sprint after all this distance running. There's one down in south Minneapolis the third weekend of October. They're not quite as easy to find as I'd like them to be.
I wonder if there'd be any money in gathering info on races all into one website. I think I could get into that. Do research, google around, call people - post it to the web.
I've been wondering what my "passion" is. That pretty much describes it.
Googling right now, the first one in the future is MTCM's on Saturday. I'm sure you could still sign up as of now. I won't be running anything that day.
Here's the answer to my question: nope, there's no money in it.
I was thinking about running a 5K a couple weeks after the big one. It'd be like a balls to the wall sprint after all this distance running. There's one down in south Minneapolis the third weekend of October. They're not quite as easy to find as I'd like them to be.
I wonder if there'd be any money in gathering info on races all into one website. I think I could get into that. Do research, google around, call people - post it to the web.
I've been wondering what my "passion" is. That pretty much describes it.
Googling right now, the first one in the future is MTCM's on Saturday. I'm sure you could still sign up as of now. I won't be running anything that day.
Here's the answer to my question: nope, there's no money in it.
Sunday, September 05, 2010
I'm starting to get into some distances that I'm proud of in my running.
So, I may just be blathering on more about my workouts than I have been. Today I ran, according to Map My Run, 19.2 miles in 3½
hours (3:29:30 to be exact). That's at least half a mile farther than I was estimating during the run, and at an average speed under 11 minutes/mile, or 5.49 mph. I was doing better than 6 mph at least through mile 12.
Map My Run also tells me that I burned 2926 calories doing it.
Now, the temp didn't get above 65° F, so that, no doubt, had a considerable bearing on my results. Once again, it was sunny and dry. Absolutely gorgeous day! September is a wonderful month. And, I've got to praise my new New Balance shoes for keeping my feet comfortable. That's the same brand as my old shoes, but they were breaking down and causing me knee pain.
I have some bizarre-ass feet, so what works for me might not work for you. If you're thinking about taking up running, you've gotta at least go talk to a professional running-shoe expert, or go to a lecture on it, like I did. It's made a huge difference in my shoe choices, both for running and wlalking/work. I no longer have the foot, knee and hip pains that I was contending with before. Or, when I do, I know how to fix them.
I invented a trick to help me pick up the pace when I catch myself dogging it: I start to breathe deeper, inhaling to a count of four steps and exhaling to the same count.
hours (3:29:30 to be exact). That's at least half a mile farther than I was estimating during the run, and at an average speed under 11 minutes/mile, or 5.49 mph. I was doing better than 6 mph at least through mile 12.
Map My Run also tells me that I burned 2926 calories doing it.
Now, the temp didn't get above 65° F, so that, no doubt, had a considerable bearing on my results. Once again, it was sunny and dry. Absolutely gorgeous day! September is a wonderful month. And, I've got to praise my new New Balance shoes for keeping my feet comfortable. That's the same brand as my old shoes, but they were breaking down and causing me knee pain.
I have some bizarre-ass feet, so what works for me might not work for you. If you're thinking about taking up running, you've gotta at least go talk to a professional running-shoe expert, or go to a lecture on it, like I did. It's made a huge difference in my shoe choices, both for running and wlalking/work. I no longer have the foot, knee and hip pains that I was contending with before. Or, when I do, I know how to fix them.
I invented a trick to help me pick up the pace when I catch myself dogging it: I start to breathe deeper, inhaling to a count of four steps and exhaling to the same count.
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