Saturday and Monday Run Updates
Posted on July 16, 2007
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Adria has been really really sick from dehydration for the last 3 days so I’ve been running solo. I’m really not sure what it is, but I’ve been feeling frisky/over-zealous/fantastic on my runs the last couple days. On both runs I met my training requirements - and just kept going. I felt GREAT and didn’t feel like stopping. I didnt go some remarkable distance or anything, but I just kept going for almost double my training on both days.
On Saturday, the training was 145 for 50 minutes. When I was about 25 minutes into it, I decided that I needed to get quite a way up that mountain over there. So, I altered my course and headed up. It took me a while because of the steepness of the hills, but I made it 4 1/2 miles before Adria called and said she needed me home and was coming to get me. I wanted my reward, so I turned around and burned back down the mountain.
It was 90 degrees out, I ran a total of 5.88 miles with an average HR of 145 and an elevation gain of 988 feet.
Today was kind of the same but I didn’t feel like heading up the moutain, the training plan was to do 35 minutes at 150. I stayed on flat ground and went 5.81 miles in 1:09 with an average HR 150.
Nourishment wise, I was unprepared though. If I had completed my circle I would have gone 8 miles but at 5.8 I was suddenly hit with a blood sugar problem so I pulled it into a gas station and called Adria. I asked the gas station attendant if she would mind if I stood there and ate some food while my wife brought me money. She said absolutely - that they had a guy stop there last week and pass out on the ground from running. She didn’t want a repeat of that! The reason I say I was unprepared is that I hadn’t eaten breakfast. I got up and started working and suddenly got the urge to go running, totally forgetting that I hadn’t eaten.
Fortunately I’m doing just fine, in fact I feel great! My leg muscles are a little tired, but nothing major. I was very careful not to slip into the anaerobic zone so I don’t think I’ll have any actual soreness in my legs. I really enjoyed these two runs, the extra time and distance was a blast! And unlike a few days ago, running at 150 didn’t bother me at all this time. I just hope that Coach doesn’t tell me my exuberance is going to negatively affect my training schedule.
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Ha ha… That’s the 2nd time you said “I hope the coach won’t…”
Doubling your the time and distance in your program without a proper preparation period will bring you up short as you probably already suspect. Running long when you feel great is perfectly fine and keeps the training from getting too mundane - so go do it.
Do most of your running on the flat and let the mountains be a treat because after awhile, you will find you are “strength training” and not “aerobic conditioning”. Not that this is bad, it just won’t you make you faster over the long haul - which is our objective.
I hear you on the breakfast. Happens to me sometimes.