Yesterday: Morning run of 6 miles plus 6 strides. Just easy to ‘race prep’
Today: THE RACE
First time since college
First half marathon. Ever.
First mile: 5:46. Second: 5:42.
A bit on the quick side. I had been telling myself beforehand about how I couldn’t get caught up in the race, and it was all about just pacing and [...]
Yesterday I did Yoga. It always makes me way more sore than I think it will. Like, I do it to work on flexibility, but there’s a definite strength component that I’m never prepared for.
Today I ran abou10 miles. Felt a bit sluggish but I don’t think the pace really suffered. Its probably just all [...]
So
Wednesday: off, unplanned
Thursday: off, unplanned
Friday: meant to run, biked ~15 on the Oberlin bike path instead
Saturday: ran 10.5 around big res and some by the other res and such. It was wicked hot, and I thought I was going to die. But not too bad overall.
Sunday: off, unplanned (Conor was supposed to call me but [...]
So Corey was still here today. We ran about 7 miles along the river trail. It was an out and back… to the zoo! So it was a punctuated 7 miles, with like an hour of animal watching in the middle, but it was a lot of fun. Not quite the serious miles that I’ve [...]
A little less than 6 miles today with the one and only Corey Z Squire! He’s up visiting before he hits up Oberlin for commencement. This brings 2 things to mind. 1) Lansing sucks. A lot. 2) Running with people > running alone. I mean obviously its good that its Corey instead of some random [...]
Today 11.5 miles. Felt great, sub 6:30 pace the whole time with no issue. I’m pretty confident now that my half marathon will go fine. I’m not really planning to race it, just run fast enough that I get into the A corral at Chicago. Really takes the pressure off, though I won’t win the [...]
Yesterday was my off day for the week. It felt nice. Instead of running I tried to do karaoke with my brother in law and his co-workers but the DJ ‘lost’ at least 4 of our slips of paper. I suspect he didn’t want us to go on, knowing that we’d rock the house and [...]
Okay so due to inclement weather (and a foul mood from a day at work) I didn’t take on the 3×1 mi @ I pace workout I said I was going to. In fact, I almost didn’t run. Then at 5:50 I decided that I needed to run to fix the mood (it worked). Anyways, [...]
So… I passed my Preliminary Oral Examination on May 6th! Other than that I have really bombed the last week+.
Running has been really sporadic with little motivation (even with a 5k race coming up next weekend). Since my last post I have run:
May 6: 3 miles easy in the morning to “calm my nerves” (it [...]
Yesterday just an uneventful 7.5
Today I went back to the neighborhood I got lost in a few days ago to try to figure it out. I promptly got lost again. But this time I paid enough heed to the street signs that when I got back I was able to look at a map and [...]