What ever it takes!

Saturday afternoon I decided to take my son snowboarding, well first time getting off bunny hill lift we crashed into each other and I pulled my hamstring really bad, I couldn't even bend over to do my bindings. It hurt so bad Saturday night it kept waking me up. I thought for sure Boston was done, but after stretching iceing and relaxing all day yesterday it felt a lot better. This morning I work up almost normal. Started the run out slow to be safe but the longer I ran the better it felt. Pretty happy I seemed to get away with it this time.

12 miles in 1:27:55. 7:19 avg pace.

Pretty good run, I have to start out all my runs pretty slow just to get my hamstring loose but after 3-4 miles things start working nicely.  I'm giving myself 3 marathon pace miles today, dipped into the upper 6:2ish range between miles 8-10 and 14-15.

15 miles in 1:46:35, 7:06 avg pace

I swear I saw a Meteor just like the Russia one over the west desert this morning at 4:24, I can't find anything on the news but it wasn't your normal shooting star, it was huge and lit up the sky, anyone else see it?

Part of me wanted to just swim this morning, the other part of me suffers from a severe case of FRBmia.  The obsessive compulsive urge to post miles on Fastrunningblog at any cost. So I ran, slow, and I enjoyed it, so I'm not complaining.

8 miles in 1:06:55 followed by 30 minutes of weights.

I've been looking at this graph today, and I gotta say it looks pretty "easy"  even that little bump between 20 - 22.  Can someone who recognizes this graph slap some sense into me?

Pretty happy with my run this morning, more because I did it than anything.  I've been skipping some of my workouts lately and substituting for miles just due to not feeling good and not wanting to get hurt.  Workout called for a 4 mile LT run, I went into it thinking 5:40 pace sounded good, I really had no reason to think I could actually run that pace it just sounded nice.  Turned out 5:40 was more terminal velocity than sustainable pace, more I think because of my hamstring than my actual fitness.   Anyway, I got through it, pretty happy with it since the last time I did an LT run I couldn't even break 6:00 pace.  I don't think I've gotten that much faster in that time, I just wasn't feeling very good last time.  I think today's run is more indicative of my current fitness, not spectacular, but not horrible either.

6 mile progressive warmup, stretch and water break, 4 mile tempo, 2 mile cool down.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Avg HR
1	7:27	7:27	149
2	14:43	7:16	153
3	21:48	7:06	157
4	28:44	6:56	160
5	35:31	6:46	163
6	42:09	6:38	164
7	47:58	5:49	165
8	53:44	5:45	174
9	59:33	5:49	173
10	1:05:24	5:51	172
11	1:13:48	8:25	158
12	1:21:13	7:24	157
Total	1:21:13	6:46	161
Tempo Total	23:15	5:48	171

10 miles in 1:14:50, the last 2 in 12:30 cause I was feeling spunky.  It sure feels like I've run further than 57 miles this week.

I know, I need to get more actual road miles in.  But due to the nasty blizzard that's going on outside (according to the weatherman) Ryan and I cancelled our run this morning.That's OK, I really wanted to get this marathon pace run in.  I didn't do it last week, and next week I'm going to be very busy so I don't know what will happen.  It was pretty hard, had a bunch of different leg pains going on but it wasn't horrible.

8 mile progressive warmup, then a 10 mile marathon pace tempo.  I think I'd be better off just running it flat pace than trying to average out, but that's boring.  6:15 pace was OK much faster got pretty hard.  I'm happy with the run, I'd hope to get my HR down about 5-7 bpm for that pace by marathon day. 

I had to do a treadmill reset at 9.5 miles which was totally lame.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Avg HR
1	7:56	7:56	144
2	15:40	7:45	146
3	23:13	7:33	150
4	30:34	7:21	153
5	37:45	7:11	155
6	44:46	7:01	158
7	51:37	6:51	160
8	58:21	6:44	162
9	1:04:47	6:27	156
10	1:11:15	6:27	165
11	1:17:37	6:23	167
12	1:24:00	6:23	169
13	1:30:19	6:19	168
14	1:36:38	6:19	168
15	1:42:53	6:15	169
16	1:49:07	6:15	169
17	1:55:21	6:12	170
18	2:01:32	6:06	168
Total	2:01:32	6:45	160
Tempo Total	1:03:11	6:19	168