Trepanation

What I need, unlike a hole in my head, is a fall East Coast 100 miler to run. I don’t know of any. (TWOT doesn’t count… it’s not an event… it does not and never has existed.) Why isn’t there one? A 100 in Vermont, New Hampshire, or upstate NY in mid-September would be a [...]

Haven't Hadd Enough

I think that the next time I hit the track I’ll run my first Hadd mini-test. The mini-test is a free and easy way to determine where your lactate threshold (LT) is at the moment. (Your LT should change – that’s the whole point of the training. ;-D ) Once you know your threshold effort [...]

Recreation, Rethinking, and Reinvigoration

At the moment, I’m on a plane flying back from a great weekend in the Rockies with my dad. After two months of working myself ragged with the home purchase and then renovation, I was in desperate need of some rest and relaxation. Mission accomplished. After flying into Denver Friday morning, my dad and I [...]

Higher and Higher

I forgot to mention one aspect of my workout last night – my runner’s high DURING the workout. While I’ve had many runner’s highs over the years, I cannot recall ever having had one during a workout. After 6 miles or so, I was not my normal self. I wold find myself looking around, staring [...]

Who Needs Cruise Intervals?

While some friends are off galavanting around the world and running cruise intervals, I hit the track for some fun. I set off with my normal plan – to run continuously for a number of miles at less than threshold pace. I’ve been adding a half mile to my primary workout each week, so as [...]

Round and Round We Go

Continuing with the sea change in my training regimen, I hit the track again last night with the plan on doing an unknown number of miles at around 165 bpm. I almost stopped a half mile in as my stride/legs felt awkward, but worked through the tough little barrier I seem to have early in [...]

A Blur

Ok, super quick update here. (1) I have no idea how much I’m running these days, only it’s not much. (2) Without time for long runs or even runs everyday, I started working in some harder efforts three weeks ago. The runs are continuous efforts at slightly easier than tempo/threshold pace. I’ve been shooting for [...]

Home Depot Run

Last week was not a good week for my training. I ditch running Miwok and instead took the whole week off to spend 9 consecutive days renovating my new house. I only got out to run 3 days after.. .which stinks after a promising two week stretch of training. Fortunately, I’m still jonesing to run. [...]