LA Marathon training program: Week 13 Friday February 9th , 2007 Tempo Run: 5mi - 3mi @ 7:19  (5.1mi - 3.1mi @ 7:08)   Weight: 189 Time: 7:00pm Temp: 18f Weather: Light Snow Route:  Treadmill Notes:    I missed a run this week, but I did not want to skip my speed work, so I moved my tempo to friday night.     I could not help but push up the pase a bit, since It was so close to the fastest 5k I had ever done, which was at 7:14. So I d...

LA Marathon training program: Week 13 Wednesday February 7th , 2007 EZ Run: 6mi @ 8:44  (6mi @ 8:44)   Weight: 190 Time: 5:30am Temp: -3f Weather: Clear Route:  Treadmill Notes:    I had a pretty crazy Tuesday, and missed running, so I did my Tuesday run today. I am going to push my Thursday run back to Thursday night as well. But otherwise things are fine.   This run was un eventful, other then finding out that my treadmill dose not d...

LA Marathon training program: Week 12 Sunday February 4th , 2007 EZ Run: 8mi @ 8:40  (8mi @ 8:55)   Weight: 190 Time: 7:00pm Temp: -3f Weather: Clear Route:  Treadmill Notes:    I was very happy to get back to running, even on the treadmill. Even after getting off a plain, I was looking forward to getting back on schedule.  To keep thing interesting I tried to stair step the pace a bit, I started at 8:57 ...

LA Marathon training program: Week 12 Thursday February 1st , 2007 Elliptical Machine: 1hour 12minutes  (8mi @ 8:55)   Weight: 188 Time: 6:00am Temp: 5f Weather: Light Snow Route:  Elliptical Machine Notes:    I have never used a elliptical machine for more than a few seconds, I have always found the motion odd, so have avoided them. However today there was 6 inches of snow on all the roads, and I was 7000 feet up...

LA Marathon training program: Week 12 Thursday February 1st , 2007 Yasso 800's: 9.50mi - 10 x 800m @ 3:25 (9.5mi 10 x 800m @ 3:30)   Weight: 188 Time: 6:00am Temp: 8f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes:    This was my last set of Yasso 800's, or was at least supposed to be. Considering how hard these were when I started, I am quite happy with how this went. Starting at the 4th repeat, I bumped up the pace .1 of a mile each repeat....

LA Marathon training program: Week 1 1 Tuesday January 30th, 2007 EZ Run: 7mi @ 8:40 (Planned: 8mi @ 8:55)   Weight: 188 Time: 6:00pm Temp: 8f Weather: Light Snow Route: Indoor Track. Notes:    This should say 7mi @ 8:40 and 45 minutes of basketball. I think this is enough to make up for the missing mile. On Tuesdays Stardock plays gathers at the local rec. center for a game of basketball. I tend to ditch, since I am not the best perso...

LA Marathon training program: Week 1 1 Sunday January 28th, 2007 Long Run: 16mi @ 8:38 (Planned: 16mi @ 8:55)   Weight: 188 Time: 8:00pm Temp: 8f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes:    As I was wrote in my last blog, Saturday was perhaps the lowest point I have had since I began running. I think I had hit bottom, It was the end of the two hardest weeks of my program, and despite my optimistic outlook, It caught up to me.  But als...

LA Marathon training program: Week 1 1 Saturday January 27th, 2007 EZ Run: 9mi @ 8:52 (Planned: Rest)   Weight: 187 Time: 10:00am Temp: 32f Weather: Light Snow Route: Howell to Pinckney Notes:    This run was the beginning of my weekend emotional rollercoaster. Unfortunately this was entirely down hill. From the weather forecast it looked like this weekend was going to be pretty much un-runable.  Except for a brief w...

LA Marathon training program: Week 1 1 Friday January 26th, 2007 EZ Run: 5mi @ 8:55 (Planned: 7mi @ 8:55)   Weight: 188 Time: 5:35am Temp: 1f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes:    Today's run, if not a total failure, was a disappointment. I was supposed to do 7 miles, but I just could not keep running. I have no doubt that I could have finished, I just lost all will to keep going.   I'm not sure what my prob...

LA Marathon training program: Week 1 1 Thursday January 25th, 2007 Yasso 800's: 8.75mi - 9x800m @ 3:29 (Planned: 8.75mi - 9x800m @ 3:30)   Weight: 188 Time: 5:15am Temp: 11f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes:    Only one more set of Yasso 800's!!!. After last week I was a bit worried that I had fired myself, and that I would not be able to do today's workout. But all is well, I think the day off I took was well worth it.   The...

LA Marathon training program: Week 1 1 Wednesday January 24th, 2007 EZ Run: 5mi @ 8:49 (Planned: 5mi @ 8:55)   Weight: 188 Time: 6:00am Temp: 14f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes:    Yesterday I did what I never planed on, I skipped a day, without any plans to make it up. Week 10 was just a bit to much, and I needed a break.  It was totally worth it,  After my much needed day off, I was quite surprised ...

LA Marathon training program: Week 10 Sunday January 21st, 2007 Long Run:  22mi @ 8:54 (Planned: 20mi @ 8:55)   Weight: 189 Time: 8:55am Temp: 12f Weather: Fricking Cold Route: Howell to Witmore Lake. Notes:    What a surprise, 22 miles is harder then 20 miles. This was the hardest thing I've done. After the last 20 miler I was feeling pretty good. After this one I was about as close to giving up this crazy running t...

LA Marathon training program: Week 10 Friday January 19th, 2007 Speedwork:  8mi - 4 x 1600m @ 7:03 (Planned: 8mi - 4 x 1600m @ 7:03)   Weight: 188.5 Time: 10:30am Temp: 20f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes:    Tuesday we went "Gold" on Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar. As a thank you to the game team for working many long days, we were giving Thursday and Friday off. So of course I spent my day off Playing the game. The pr...

LA Marathon training program: Week 10 Thursday January 18th, 2007 EZ Run:  4mi @ 7:59 (Planned: 4mi @ 8:55)   Weight: 188.5 Time: 8:30am Temp: 20f Weather: Light Snow Route: Pinckney road loop. Notes:    Once aging I probably should not have over run, but I wanted to see how hard it would be to stay at a 8:00 pace for a distance. Unfortunately the dirt road that I was running on was covered with more Ice then I liked....

LA Marathon training program: Week 10 Wednesday January 17th, 2007 Yasso 800's: 8mi 8 x 800m @ 3:29 (Planned: 8mi 8 x 800m @ 3:30)   Weight: 188.5 Time: 5:30am Temp: 10f Weather: Light Snow Route: Treadmill Notes:    I did not get the chance to blog this run yesterday, so I have already forgotten the details of the run. But I do remember that It went well. I begin to feel more confident about being able to make it to 10 repeats. 8 was har...