Arie's Running Blog

7:15 AM it was 30F and the sun was starting to shine. I was doing 3 loops on the trail (each is 2.9M). Did them in more or less even pace 23:01, 22:53, 23:04. This is the end of the cut back week. Next week back to build up again.

1:08:58

Noon, 60F and sunny, light wind. REally nice outside and I ran in shorts and a t shirt - something I didn't do for a very long time. Ifelt great and did a 7:38 pace and it wasn't a walk in the park but it felt OK. Will do another 7 tomorrow but we are expecting much cooler temperature tomorrow.

0:53:28

Nice noon run. Whent to the trail and did two loops of 3.7 each. The first in 29:02 and the last in 28:56.

0:57:58

Went for a tempo run today. Wasn't the best day for it, it's cold and VERY windy. But I thought I need to face the elements.

I planned to do 7.5 miles out of which 6 miles tempo at 7:10 pace. I started way too fast. First of all my warm up 0.75 mile was in 7:33 pace, Then the first mile was in 6:46 pace which is way too fast (it's sort of my 5K pace!) Then the pace fell down gradually 7:04, 7:17, 7:16, 7:27 then after the 5th mile I just had nothing left in me and slowed down to cool down 1.75 miles in average pace of 8:10. In the last 2-3 miles of the tempo part I was facing really strong head wind. There were moments I felt like I wasn't moving.

It wasn't the best tempo run but it was a hard workout and I feel I gave what I could. Learned some lessons from it too. I think I would do MUCH better in better conditions. The over all average pace on the 7.5 miles was 7:26 and if I can keep something like that on the HM at the end of March, I will be all set for a nice PR.

3:30 cold and cloudy. Did easy 6.4 on my usual route. Legs were tired after the tempo yesterday.

0:49:32

noon, nice and sunny. Did easy 6.4 on the usual route. I think I'm doing my easy runs too fast. In fact I know I'm doing them too fast. I tried to slow down today but still did a 7:51 pace instead of 8:30.

0:50:16