Arie's Running Blog

Before lunch run. Did a little extra above the usual toute. Was an easy relaxrd run in a totally empty camous.

0:41:08

Was traveling to SF on Friday and didn't mannage to run so I moved it to today. Ran from my hotel to the water front and ran under bay bridge and to the ATT park and then back with some more water front running. Was feeling VERY well during the run and did a very fast pace of just a little over 7 minutes per mile. I wish it was a race day :)

0:37:00

Before noon run. Amazing day in San Francisco! 54F sunny and totally clear. I ran to the water front and then continued south near all the piers till I reached Marina drive from which I had an amzing view of the golden bridge. So Beautiful. Then I ran back. It was totally crowded and there were many parts where I had to weave my way between the people walking.

1:00:59

Did a similar run to yesterday but today San Francisco was cold 46F and cloudy and foggy and there was a drizzle. BUT I enjoyed my run a lot. It was much less crowded and I had a chance to see the golden gate bridge and also Alkatraz (I sort of missed it yesterday).

0:48:59

I have a red-eye flight to the east coast tonight, I am not looking forward to it. I hope I'll be able to run tomorrow.

3:30PM 45F light drizzle. I came last night from SF on the red-eye flight to NY and then a morning flight to NC. For years I used to not be able to sleep on the plane but I guess getting older has some benefits too. I fell asleep before take off awoke up when the pilot turned on the lights in the main cabin. I had a window seat so i could see NYC in the sunrise. Beautiful.

So being not that tired I went for a 6.4 miles did a good pace of 7:53 which felt quite good. Tomorrow i am teaching but afte that I will be heading to the tracks for 5mile tempo.

0:50:26

Speed work on my regular route. Went for about half a mile easy and then did a stretch of about 5 miles speed. and finished easy. The speed part was in about 7:20 pace which is a bit slower than what I would have liked it to be. In my defence I should say that the route is not as flat as the tracks are and that there was quite strong wind at times.

0:48:03

3:30 PM west coast time, 40F very windy. I am in Vancouver Canada. It's sunny but very windy and I went to a nice medium run in from my hotel to Stenley park. I didn't do all the water front loop but did big part of it. Beautiful. It was all clear and the mountains look amazing. One of the most amazing runs I had. The pace was slow but I was facing crazy winds.

1:02:22

4 boring miles in the gym in my hotel. Nothing special to report. Just a maintanance run.

0:31:11

2PM chilly but not windy. I missed my long run on Sunday. I came back from a second flight to the west coast (this time to Vancouver) and I was just way too tired to even think about a long run. I really needed an extra day of rest. The run went well I kept a more or less constant pace. The average was 7:46. I felt excellent after it and could have kept going in needed.

1:33:08

1:30PM went for a run on my usual long route between the campuses. Did a nice pace of 7:34 which felt quite well. I think a 7:30 for half a marathon (or the 20K I hope to do next month) is at hand.

0:48:26

1PM, 40F sunny. Went to Duke tracks for speed work. Did one mile warm up and then 4 times one mile repeats with 0.5 mile cooldown inbetween. My pace for the four repeats were 6:43,6:42,6:49,6:48. The last two are a bit slower than the forst two but I have done a 12 mile on monday and 6.5 miles yesterday and both in good pace. So I am quite happy about my speed work today. I am also trying to increase my sleeping time which is good.

0:59:01

P.S. I was not blogging for a while. I will fill in the missing reports now. The important thing is that I was running.

3:45PM, 38F but sunny and no wind. I ran an extension of a  route I often run. It was a nice run as the sun was gradually setting down. Pace was OK 7:44.

0:41:25

4PM, 25F sunny and no wind. Wow! That was cold! I might be spoiled or privileged but 25F is VERY cold in my books. I felt under dressed. I need to think better what I'm going to wear on Sunday morning for my 13 mile long run.

0:42:49

9AM, 36F, cloudy and no wind. I went for a long run. It was cold but after a couple of miles I felt much better. I kept a constant pace that was on average 7:46. There was a point around mile 11 that I started to feel tired but then I pulled myself up and finished strong. I was happy about this run.

1:40:59

Nice 7 miles in the late afternoon. It was cold (35F) but I enjoyed the run. Did 7:46 average pace which seemed OK.

0:53:56

4PM, 35F, sunny, no wind. Another 7 miles. I could not run yesterday and also had bad night sleep an decided just to go for a regular easy run. I will do my tempo run tomorrow.

0:53:53

4PM. Did a tempo run today. It was 45F and just a bit windy. I was suppose to do 5M tempo so I went to a place were there is 1.65M loop and did it 3 times (=4.95M which is close enough to 5M). The loop times were 11:49, 11:47, 11:50 which are all about 7:10 pace which is exactly what I wanted it to be. Did a little over 1 mile warm up before and the same distance as cool down.

0:52:20

Ran from my office to the trail and back and then added some short piece to get to my car. I was a bit tired but did an OK pace 7:43.

0:47:53

8 AM 30F cloudy and light breeze. I did the exact same run I did last week but I felt tired and it took me about 2 more minutes to finish this run compared to last week. Over all it wasn't too bad 7:54 pace is fine. The last 2-3 miles were a bit hard.

1:42:46

My usual run between the two campuses and then 2 loops on the east campus. Was feeling tired after the long run yesterday. It's a cut back week so I wasn't pushing myself.

0:49:50

Six miles on the treadmill. Within each mile I did a 0.2 mile on a 3-3.5% slope. It was a nice workout.

0:46:28

4 PM a storm. It was a light rain when I started but about 3-4 minutes into the run all hell broke loose. It was pouring so hard it felt like nail are been shot into my face. The wind was very strong. I did a U turn and barely returned to campus. As I approached the campus things got more bareable. So what I did was to loop around the main quad which is 0.5 mile loop. I did 4 of these in what seems to be a tempo speed but felt quite easy. I was completely wet so I was running through puddles without even bothering to try and pass in the shallow part. I got lots of weird looks. I cut the run short but it's my cut back week and I didn't want to get sick.

0:24:51

Noon., sunny, 47F, light breeze. Went on an easy run and spent the time thinking about all sort of things. It was quite enjoyable.

0:54:26

11:45 46F sunny and windy.I have a slight cold so I was rather slow today (8:00 average). It was a pleasant run and the weather was nice. I'm glad I did it. Need to rest well before my weekend long run.

0:42:51