Author: ted

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…

That was kind of damp… The day and the race started off with some off and on rain and cooler temperatures, but overall it didn’t seem too bad. There had been over an inch of rain in the city the day before so there were lots of places where there were puddles on the course…