What ever it takes!

Today was suppose to be just an average paced run but I decided in order to get hill workouts in I would add incline to all of my "General Aerobic" runs listed on my schedule.  I may re-evaluate hill workouts after today cause that was hard.  Did a 10 mile rolling hill simulation.  Its probably one of my favorite new workouts but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone I consider a friend :).  Tried to keep the pace up but once I got to the 4% incline range it was pretty tough.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:47	6:47	0%	131	142
2	13:24	6:37	2%	151	156
3	19:59	6:35	3%	159	163
4	25:41	5:42	-1%	161	163
5	32:31	6:51	3%	162	164
6	39:30	6:59	4%	165	166
7	45:18	5:48	-1%	164	166
8	52:30	7:12	4%	164	165
9	59:55	7:25	5%	165	168
10	1:05:33	5:38	-1.5%	161	167
Total	1:05:33	6:32	1.6%	158	168

 

I'll have to update splits later, crazy morning.  I'm sitting at the airport getting ready to board a flight to NYC.  Good run this morning!  Woke up at 3:45 am cause I knew I'd have to shovel out 1' of snow to get out and had to hurry to get my med/long run in.  Got the the gym at 4:30.

14 miles in 1:28:35  6:19 avg pace

Crazy, crazy last 24 hours. 

So the New York Marriott Marquis is one of my companies biggest clients and ever since we installed a new network in the hotel it has been plagued with many problems.  This part of the company is not what I normally do but my boss asked me as a last resort if I could fly out here last minute and see if I could fix the problem.  I was really reluctant and didn't want to come at all, mainly cause I didn't think there was anything I could do.  So I got here yesterday afternoon and immediately went to work, worked till about midnight last night but I was in fact able to identify the problem and have put a band-aid fix in place.  I'm pretty excited about the fix though, I actually got to use the skills my company hired me for :) and fix a pretty major problem.

Anyway, to relate this to running.  New York is probably my most favorite place to come for running.  I love to wake up early and run around Central Park....... However, it's frickin cold and windy here, and since I was up late last night, couldn't sleep at all and have a full day full of meetings trying to make our customer love us again I opted for the hotel gym, which as far as hotel gyms go this one is about the coolest I've ever been to.  It's up on the 23rd floor and the treadmills are right against the windows over looking Time Square, really cool feeling to just be 300' in the air running into the most famous intersection in the world.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace
1	7:06	7:06
2	13:57	6:51
3	20:38	6:41
4	27:16	6:38
5	33:48	6:32
6	40:06	6:15
Total	40:06	6:39

Seriously New York is the coolest place to run in the world,  Tried to get to bed early last night so I could wake up and get a good run in today.  Woke up at 5:30am EST and headed out the door.  It was cold but I had brought my cold weather running gear, at least most of it.  Started from Time Square, ran down Broadway to the North West corner of Central park, ran out Central Park West and ran the entire perimeter of the Park, which I've never done before, that loop was about 6 miles so then from the North East corner of the park I ran the inner circle out and around the big lake,  I usually like running the little dirt trail around the lake but when I got up there it was solid ice so I went back down to the road.  Ran that loop back to Broadway and back to the hotel.  My Garmin never did pick up satellites so I had to come back and MapmyRun it,  I was trying for 12 miles, map my run said 11.5 so I'll go with that.

Central park is the neatest place to run, seriously 100's of people of all fitness levels out early in the morning running, walking or biking around the park.  There were guys there that were probably 2:15 marathoners to little old men just scootin along, all out enjoying the park together.  I can't remember what time my flight is tomorrow but I really hope I have time to get a quick run in the park before I have to leave.

Here is my mapmyrun course in case you ever come to NewYork and need to know an 11.5 mile run.  :)

No watch so 11.5 miles in ~1:20:00  7:00min/mil avg, with traffic on Broadway and my little lake path detour. 

Quick jog in the Park before going to the Airport 2 hours early to fly home.  Pretty cold this morning at 5:30 am but a nice run.  Ready to go home.

Well, back in Utah.  Texted Ryan yesterday to make sure he was up for a run?, he said sure, I said, 20?, he said sure, I said 28.3? He said NO.  :) 

I was in the mind set that after my busy week I'd be doing pretty well just to get through a 20 miler today.  Un-benounced to me, Ryan had much grander plans in mind.  Apparently he wanted to do the whole run at or below 6:30 pace.  I was feeling good at first and kind of led the pace pushing for the first 5,  we were pretty even for the next 4 then he just kind of took off like a rabbit for a couple miles, I stayed with him but it was rough.  We took a quick bathroom break at the Smiths on Redwood in Saratoga Springs and then took off again pretty quick, but not as fast as before.  Around mile 16 I started really lagging he got about 10 seconds out in front of me and for the last 4 miles it was pretty much all I could do to keep him in range.  Still ended up pretty close to 6:30 for the whole run, his watch said he did it so I must have been about 30 seconds behind to finish :(.  Pretty good though, we used to struggle to keep a 7:00 pace on that exact run 1 year ago. So good progress.

 

Distance	Time	Avg Pace
1	6:52	6:52
2	13:31	6:39
3	20:10	6:36
4	26:27	6:17
5	33:26	6:59
6	39:48	6:22
7	46:10	6:22
8	52:35	6:25
9	58:58	6:23
10	1:06:28	6:30
11	1:12:43	6:15
12	1:18:54	6:11
13	1:25:27	6:33
14	1:31:49	6:22
15	1:38:20	6:31
16	1:44:51	6:31
17	1:51:20	6:29
18	1:57:46	6:26
19	2:04:24	6:38
20	2:11:04	6:40
Total	2:11:04	6:33