Month: June 2014

With a total of over 17 miles for Sunday and Monday I have managed to hit a grand total of 900 miles so far for 2014!  A very strong year for me so far. I hit a total of 1400 miles for all of last year and I should hit that by the end of…

The weather forecast last night had thunderstorms for this morning so I had resigned myself to running on the treadmill…but since the forecast was incorrect I got up early and got in an outdoor run after all.  Very toasty with the humidity though so I only did the scheduled one lap around the neighborhood instead…

Tonight I hit the treadmill while the wife took the kids into the backyard pool – this gave me some incentive to get through the run fairly quickly so I could go join them. I did a 5 minute warm up at 7.5 mph and then did most of the rest at 8 mph with…

Yep – a massive headache while I was in the pool with my daughter about an hour before I was going to run. It had to have been something I ate today causing it, whatever it was at least it disappeared before I had to get on the treadmill. And in the end it was…

So tonight I knew I needed to get back into the speed work. I had no desire to get on the treadmill at first but I figured if I did speed work I would get the blood pumping quickly and it would set a positive tone for running this week. I started out doing 1…

Got a late start for the run this morning – sun was up and strong when I got started. It has been a while since I have had a warm morning to run in so I enjoyed it and didn’t push too hard. Could feel the impacts of the heat on my performance though. I…

Felt good mentally out there – was even up earlier than I planned to make sure I got the run in (very busy day planned today). I could tell very quickly though that my right hip was very stiff and sore and it wouldn’t let me go all that quickly. It felt like that the…

Now that I have completed the 2014 Manitoba Marathon it is time to review my training schedule, update it for solid summer maintenance and for running 2 half marathons in the fall. And of course to cover off training for the 2015 Dopey Challenge! Current summer maintenance and 18 week Dopey Challenge / Goofy Challenge training plan…

A solid run tonight with no drama. Started out at 7.5 mph for 5 minutes and ramped up to 8 mph for 15 minutes. I then bumped my speed 0.1 mph every minute until I hit 8.5 and did that for 5 minutes. Then ran the last 49 seconds at 9 mph. Finished strong and…

After supper tonight I spent an hour in the pool playing with our daughter while the wife had our son at a birthday party. I did a bunch of swimming pool resistance exercises for the upper body while in the pool as well and made sure to get the legs all stretched out. After we…