Month: October 2013

This post is a race report more about how I did on the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Services Half Marathon than about the race itself.  For my report on the race see here. So some previous milestone race times for half marathons this year: 2:20:34 – Disney World Half Marathon – Jan 12th, 2013 1:56:16 –…

This part of my race report will be about the race itself – I have a different race report for my personal performance as well but I wanted to keep my review of the race organization separate. The race takes place at a great time of year and has a great route to take advantage…

I really had no desire to run this morning and actually went back to bed for a while – but I managed to get myself moving in the end and had a decent run despite the cold.  Goofy Challenge training is underway! It looks like there might have been some snow overnight judging by the…

Winnipeg Fire and Paramedic Services (WFPS) half marathon is tomorrow morning.  I’m not worried about the distance at all – this will be my third half marathon race this fall and I have had half marathon distance (or longer) training runs pretty much every weekend since mid-August.  I did set myself a goal of getting a…

Last training run before the WFPS Half marathon on Saturday!  Decided to take it easy and not push too hard tonight – don’t want to wreck anything this late in the game. Picked up my race packet tonight as well – it went fairly smooth with the only real issue being the woman coming around…

Started out slow tonight as I didn’t want to push too hard with the WFPS Half Marathon coming up on Saturday (didn’t want to damage anything) but I also didn’t want to go too easy.  So I started with 3 miles at 7.3 mph and ramped up from there to 7.5 mph and eventually to…

Just 2 more training runs before the WFPS (Winnipeg Fire and Paramedic Services) Half Marathon on October 19th.  I pushed hard and it felt good. I believe I could have gotten in more miles in the 30 minutes I allowed myself on the treadmill tonight but the breaker on the treadmill tripped out at 2.24…

Much, much better mindset today on my run – I was focussed but didn’t push hard (it was scheduled as a long slow run after all) and things just seemed to come together well today.  I did 13.1 miles / 3 laps of my neighbourhood and in end this came out to be the fastest…

Woke up with the wind howling outside this morning – we had our bedroom window open a crack and the cold breeze coming in was not pleasant.  It really did not help my motivation to get out of bed and get rolling! The temperature wasn’t as cold as the wind made it seem once I…

Started the training run tonight with a 0.16 mile walk at 10% incline in 2.5 minutes then got into a hard run from there.  Started by alternating 2 minutes at 9 mph and 1 minute at 7.2 mph – did that until I got to the 20 minute mark and then from there it was…