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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 18, 2023, 11:01:29 am »
lost week, i went out to run on monday evening and my heel hurt so i stopped right away. then the rest of the week was just nuts with work and life stuff. layoffs like that are always demotivating for me. got back out today w/gf just to do something.
- run 30:10, 5.00 km
blah. at least it's nice out.
- run 30:10, 5.00 km
blah. at least it's nice out.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 12, 2023, 03:54:47 pm »
- run 1:16:05, 12.98 km
a spectacularly miserable day: about 39/4 degrees and raining/hailing, and on the ascent home the wind picked up. always feels good not to quit on myself but ngl this was not an enjoyable run.
a spectacularly miserable day: about 39/4 degrees and raining/hailing, and on the ascent home the wind picked up. always feels good not to quit on myself but ngl this was not an enjoyable run.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 10, 2023, 07:30:12 pm »
- tempo
-- warm up x 2 km
-- 6 km @ 4:17 [4:20, 4:18, 4:14, 4:21, 4:14, 4:16]
-- cool down
pleased with that. i lowered the pace substantially and added a km, and i managed to not quit on myself when, somewhere around halfway through, i started trying to tell myself that it'd be fine to stop at 5 km.
4:17/km average is just over 1:30 half marathon pace. five weeks out, there is no way on god's green earth that i'm running 3.5 times the distance at this pace on 18 march. but it's okay.
-- warm up x 2 km
-- 6 km @ 4:17 [4:20, 4:18, 4:14, 4:21, 4:14, 4:16]
-- cool down
pleased with that. i lowered the pace substantially and added a km, and i managed to not quit on myself when, somewhere around halfway through, i started trying to tell myself that it'd be fine to stop at 5 km.
4:17/km average is just over 1:30 half marathon pace. five weeks out, there is no way on god's green earth that i'm running 3.5 times the distance at this pace on 18 march. but it's okay.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 07, 2023, 07:43:42 pm »
- run 54:02, 8.62 km
glacial pace. ran w/gf and she had done a sprint workout yesterday so was very sore. have long since realized that it's more important to me to treat running as shared time with her than to maximize every workout from a fitness standpoint.
glacial pace. ran w/gf and she had done a sprint workout yesterday so was very sore. have long since realized that it's more important to me to treat running as shared time with her than to maximize every workout from a fitness standpoint.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 06, 2023, 06:48:28 pm »
- run 47:52, 9.09 km
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 05, 2023, 03:12:53 pm »
- run 1:17:14, 13.42 km
about a km less than i meant to run, miscalculated the return distance. whoops. warmer than yesterday, really nice out.
about a km less than i meant to run, miscalculated the return distance. whoops. warmer than yesterday, really nice out.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 04, 2023, 04:44:12 pm »
run 30:52, 6.41 km
it's cold (just below freezing) so i did this fast.
it's cold (just below freezing) so i did this fast.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 01, 2023, 06:43:44 pm »
- run 47:33, 9.37 km
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 31, 2023, 08:34:35 pm »
- speed work
-- warm up x 2 km
-- 800m x [3:00, 2:55, 3:00]
-- cool down
added a rep, will add another next time. these are probably too fast for half marathon prep - i'd be better off doing more, slower - but i like keeping them in as a way to measure progress against the eventual goal of a sub-19 5k.
-- warm up x 2 km
-- 800m x [3:00, 2:55, 3:00]
-- cool down
added a rep, will add another next time. these are probably too fast for half marathon prep - i'd be better off doing more, slower - but i like keeping them in as a way to measure progress against the eventual goal of a sub-19 5k.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 30, 2023, 08:26:39 pm »
- run 57:13, 9.36 km
w/gf, so pretty slow and relaxed. felt nice, we ran in the park in the moonlight.
w/gf, so pretty slow and relaxed. felt nice, we ran in the park in the moonlight.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 28, 2023, 10:39:48 am »
it's right in the pad of my heel, and it doesn't affect me when i run later in the day. just was starting to the last time i tried to make a push to run in the mornings, so i was glad when running on the treadmill last weekend didn't bother it. racing today didn't, either!
- race
-- 5 km in 20:11 (chip) and ~20:20 (watch)
course measured a little short per watch. i would have finished right under 20 mins chip time but my fucking shoelace came untied about a mile in. lost about 13-15 seconds. it's never come untied before so that was extra annoying. lesson learned: double knots. anyway came 10th overall. goal was to run under 20:30 so feel pretty good about it.
gf ran the 10k and finished as the third-place woman. the winning 10k time was 34:10! winning 5k time was low-17s.
- race
-- 5 km in 20:11 (chip) and ~20:20 (watch)
course measured a little short per watch. i would have finished right under 20 mins chip time but my fucking shoelace came untied about a mile in. lost about 13-15 seconds. it's never come untied before so that was extra annoying. lesson learned: double knots. anyway came 10th overall. goal was to run under 20:30 so feel pretty good about it.
gf ran the 10k and finished as the third-place woman. the winning 10k time was 34:10! winning 5k time was low-17s.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 26, 2023, 01:51:21 pm »
tuesday
- run 6.5 km
- run 6.5 km
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 22, 2023, 05:29:01 pm »
thursday was crazy with work and friday i was in transit.
saturday
- treadmill intervals x 3
-- 0.5 mile @ 6 mph
-- 0.5 mile @ 9.5 mph
in charlotte for grandpa's funeral. woke up and got this in, which i'm glad about for two reasons: (1) it's always good to follow through on a commitment to train, and (2) my achilles didn't hurt despite this being at 7 AM.
today
- run 54:01, 9.83 km
cold-ish and raining, felt great.
saturday
- treadmill intervals x 3
-- 0.5 mile @ 6 mph
-- 0.5 mile @ 9.5 mph
in charlotte for grandpa's funeral. woke up and got this in, which i'm glad about for two reasons: (1) it's always good to follow through on a commitment to train, and (2) my achilles didn't hurt despite this being at 7 AM.
today
- run 54:01, 9.83 km
cold-ish and raining, felt great.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 18, 2023, 06:34:52 pm »
- tempo
-- warm up x 2 km
-- 5 km @ 4:23 [4:23, 4:26, 4:20, 4:23, 4:24]
-- cool down
heck yeah, was breathing a bit hard by the end because the final bit of this route is uphill but this felt great. under target pace (4:25) overall and only one individual km over it.
-- warm up x 2 km
-- 5 km @ 4:23 [4:23, 4:26, 4:20, 4:23, 4:24]
-- cool down
heck yeah, was breathing a bit hard by the end because the final bit of this route is uphill but this felt great. under target pace (4:25) overall and only one individual km over it.