Long Run: 16mi @ 8:46 (Planned: 16mi @ 8:55)
| LA Marathon training program: Week 9 |
Sunday January 14th, 2007 |
Long Run: 16mi @ 8:46 (Planned: 16mi @ 8:55)
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| Weight: 189 |
Time: 8:30am |
Temp: 29f |
Weather: Winter Mix |
Route: Treadmill |
Notes:
I started the day off with a plan, to get up at 7 and run to Fowlerville. I had a 16.1 mile route all planed. My wife got up early, and offered to give me a ride there, so I decided to run from there to home. About half way there I started to worry, It was raining pretty hard. I was not to concerned with drizzle, but It quickly became sleet. And to top it off i realized that I had forgotten my head phones. I could handle running 16 miles in crappy weather, but with nothing to listen to, I don't think so.
So we decided to stop and get breakfast, and see if the weather got better, I was even going to stop and buy another set of headphones. However by the time we got out of Cracker Barrel, the rain was officially turning to Ice as it hit the ground. At this point I had to suck it up and face 16 long boring miles on the treadmill. By the time we got home there was about a inch of Ice and snow on the ground. So I think this was for the best.
The run itself went OK, my tread mill will not acutely do 8:55, so I spent the run bouncing 8:49 and 8:57. I also bumped it up to 8:00 for mile 15, and part of mile 16. I checked my heart rate regularly I don't think I ever pushed myself to hard. The only really hard part of the run was mental. I just hate doing long runs on the treadmill. All I can do is hope that the weather will cooperate next weekend. Because the idea of running 22 miles on the treadmill makes me want to cry.
Thus ends week 9, next week will most likely be the hardest of my 16 weeks, and I dreading it a bit, but If I can survive week 10, I will be confident that the marathon will be at the very least do-able. The pace is still a bit of a concerned. But we shall see.
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