Pacing the Platform
May 3, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 5 Comments
My body, firmly in flight mode, will not stop moving. The chemical cascade caused by the afternoon’s hill workout yet courses through my veins. While I await the Metro’s arrival, I pace the platform. I pace for 15 minutes. In closing out my best training week of the year I am left wanting more. This [...]
The Week of February 25 – March 2, 2008
March 10, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 7 Comments
Synopsis of Week’s Training: Oh, the joys of the really lengthy long run. With the Old Pueblo 50 on Saturday, I managed to run the fewest number of days in any week in 2008 – 3 – and yet still have my highest mileage week on the year with 61.5 miles logged. The early part [...]
The Week of February 18-24, 2008
February 27, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 2 Comments
Gretchen and Mason dropping me early on Friday’s run. Synopsis of Week’s Training:For reasons I do not recall, I took Monday off. Tuesday, I logged a decent 7.5 miles around Arlington, while I ran home from work on Wednesday. I took Thursday off as my sis and I tried to beat an ice storm down [...]
The Week of February 11-17, 2008
February 18, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 4 Comments
Synopsis of Week’s Training:Another week and yet more progress in the right direct. I started the week off right on Monday by reintroducing my “Walker’s Fear” loop back into my training. Essentially, Walker’s Fear is my already hilly 6.5 mile loop with mile and a half out and back that adds two long climbs. I [...]
The Week of February 4-10, 2008
February 12, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 8 Comments
Synopsis of Week’s Training: Hi, my name is Bryon and I’m a runner. This past week and this past weekend, in particular, definitely showed me that I’m a runner again. I started the week with an easy run of my flat five mile loop (actually a 4.75 miles), except I added on a bit over [...]
Optimal Endurance Base Building or What's the Longest Period that You've Trained for One Race?
February 6, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 9 Comments
As this post is longer than I originally intended, I’ll ask my question to iRunFar community up front: What is the longest period of time that your dedicated to training for a particular race? More fundamentally, what is the minimum amount of time it takes to develop an optimal endurance base? While I’d like to [...]
The Week of January 28-February 3, 2008
February 4, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 4 Comments
Synopsis of Week’s Training: Now THAT’s what I’m talking about! Six days of running this week with a 10 mile weekday run, a 16+ mile run on the weekend and feeling fresh when the whole thing is done. As a bonus, I ran in shorts more often than not. Monday, I ran an easy 5 [...]
Running With Friends and Other Stuff
January 29, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 10 Comments
Most of the time I end up running alone. In fact, a quick query of my mental mainframe reveals that I’ve run everyone of my 28 runs in 2008 by my lonesome, as I’ve done for each of my past 29 runs. In fact, the last run I can remember logging with another person was [...]
The Week of January 21-27, 2008
January 27, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 4 Comments
Synopsis of Week’s Training:After two back-to-back harder efforts, my legs were a bit tired on Monday. I headed out planning on run 8 to 12 miles, but bagged that idea early on. As the run progressed, my planned mileage continued to drop until I wrapped the run up after just 3.5 miles. However, during what [...]
The Week of January 14-20, 2008
January 23, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 3 Comments
Synopsis of Week’s Training:I came into this week having run 13 straight days, including my YTD longest run of 8 mile the preceding Sunday. On Monday, my legs felt tired. This was awesome! This feeling was totally different than the zero-energy problem [link] that resulted in me taking off the second half of December. Also, [...]
