[Scratch]

Originally Posted by chinku

Keep posting.... and by the way "Set a new PR in the 5K in July with 29:35. H" is amazing.... I cant even think of it that fast....

I'm slow compared to people who have been running regularly. But I was rather happy when I broke the half-hour mark. I think probably most everyone given some time and effort would be able to run 5 kilometers in under 30 minutes. It's a great feeling to do it.

[chinku]

Originally Posted by Scratch

I'm slow compared to people who have been running regularly. But I was rather happy when I broke the half-hour mark. I think probably most everyone given some time and effort would be able to run 5 kilometers in under 30 minutes. It's a great feeling to do it.

May be its not that Hard, but when I was regularly jogging for a month and so, I used to do the 5K in an Hour (52 min).

So, its a good effort I should say.

Cheers

[Scratch]

Went out for 3.1 miles this morning. Humidity is awful right now. It's supposed to stay hot and humid too. Argh.

I remember looking at my log and figuring out that with this morning's run, I've now run over the last 100 miles without any walking breaks. When I first started running again on April 21st, I mixed in some running into the walks and gradually transitioned over to all running after May 20th.

My easy running pace is now about the same pace as the time it took me to complete a 5K, 35:37, on May 20th, because I ran that 3.1 this morning in 35:31.

That improvement in pace has occurred with most all of my training runs done at easy conversational pace. People often think of running as something that's painful and hard to do, but by and large the bulk of training runs should be done at a comfortable pace.

[BriOnH]

Right on scratch. I'm rooting for you the whole way.

[HelenM]

My easy running pace is now about the same pace as the time it took me to complete a 5K, 35:37, on May 20th, because I ran that 3.1 this morning in 35:31.

And if you run a 5km race now you'd probably be a minute or 2 faster. Well done

[Scratch]

Originally Posted by HelenM

And if you run a 5km race now you'd probably be a minute or 2 faster. Well done

I estimate right now if I could go out and run a 5K full tilt, I could probably get somewhere between 28 and 29 minutes. Of course, there's always some variation depending on how the body feels and weather conditions, I ran that last 5K in nearly ideal conditions for July, and my body and legs were well rested.

Right now though, I don't have any 5Ks planned for until mid-September, when there'll actually be one about 1.5 miles from where I live -- perfect for me to run there as a warm up, run the race and then jog home for a bit of recovery, especially since my mileage by then will certainly allow for about 6 miles of running with half of those being hard miles run in a 5K.

I hope to use that 5K to again check my progression and my projections for pace and effort I'll be capable of come November 18th. Also, I hope to find a 10K that I might race in October.

I suppose if there's one thing that I've realized from all this is that patience can especially be a virtue regarding something like this. When I started up again running, I had some considerations of whether I should aim to run my first half-marathon in September at the Philadelphia Distance Run or hold off until November. I made my decision to go with November because I realized along with it being safer to give myself 7 months to get ready (more gradual building of miles and more frequent recovery weeks), I was going to enjoy all of my running a lot more by taking my time.

[Scratch]

Dewpoint of 69 degrees today for a shortish long run of 4.6 miles. Other than the discomfort from the humidity, the run felt quite good. It's been an excellent recovery week, every third week I try to cut the miles back down a little bit below what I've run two weeks prior. Two weeks ago I ran 12.6 miles, with today's run I put in 11 miles for the week. Recovery weeks are great ways to give the legs a chance to fully heal from all the microtrauma that happens with exercise.

There are still many miles to go, but the progress is steady and I love the way it's making my legs feel.

[Scratch]

After two days of rest and an easy week, it was time again to put a little more stress on the legs this morning. It wasn't helped by heat and humidity resulting in a dewpoint of 71-72 degrees, but I got out there to do a tempo run. I started off running easy for 10 minutes, then ran comfortably hard for the next 25 minutes and then dropped back into an easy recovery pace for the last 10 to 11 minutes to get back home.

Whole lotta sweat. I sure hope cooler weather gets back into the region. But now I'm all set up for an short easy run on Thursday morning and have my legs ready to go for my longest run yet on Saturday morning.

[Scratch]

Ran 2.75 miles this morning, kept it very easy with an average heart rate of 134 bpm. I wanted to make sure my legs are recovered from Tuesday's tempo run and that I'll be ready to extend my long run to halfway or slightly beyond halfway to half-marathon distance on Saturday.

Still wish this heat and humidity would vamoose. Dewpoint was 70 degrees down a bit from Tuesday, but it still feels awful.

[Scratch]

It was time again to go and run a bit longer distance, ran 6.7 miles today in 1:21:39, ran the first half of it at a slow pace in 41:52, then picked it up during the second half and did that in 39:47. It felt good to finish it up strongly like that.

A short recovery jog for tomorrow, then next week I'll try to run a little more than 17 miles with the long run reaching 7 miles or slightly more.

[Scratch]

I was a bit bad on Sunday, instead of running a recovery jog, my head and legs were itching to find out how fast I could run a stretch of road. It was only a short distance of about 2.15 miles and it was interesting to find out, but all in all I would have been better served going easy on the legs.

Sometimes it's hard to stick to the plan.

But my legs felt okay and well recovered this morning when I went out to run a fartlek. Fartlek is Swedish and roughly means "speed play" and the idea is to speed up and slow down as you feel like doing it. Felt good while doing it, especially now that the weather has cooled off some from a week ago. Covered 4.4 miles in 46:30 and I was happy with the effort and how the legs felt.

Now I just feel like a nap would be great. That's due in part to how I woke up at about 2:45 and couldn't go back to sleep for another 45 minutes to an hour, then my alarm clock goes off at 5.

Oh well. Thursday's run will be an easy run, I did a long run last Saturday, ran short but hard on Sunday, and had a moderately tough run this morning. Need to make sure the legs don't get beat up too much and I have my longest run yet coming this Saturday.

[Scratch]

Did my easy run this morning. With the way my legs felt, I don't think I could have chosen to go hard any, all of the running on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday caught up and my legs had no spring to them today. So I just slogged out the 3.1 miles and had to be satisfied that I met the goal of distance and easy pacing.

[Scratch]

My legs still weren't fully recovered, didn't feel too springy when I started out today. But I hoped that my easy pace would take me to 12 minute miles and I'd cover the 7.5 miles planned in about 1.5 hours.

Took me 1:28:08. So now I'll take a recovery jog tomorrow, then roll into an easy week next week to give my legs a window of time to get fully regenerated after these last two weeks of more running than I've ever done before.

[Scratch]

I suppose it's a good sign that you're committed to doing it when you get up at 5:30 and it's dark, can hear it raining outside, make the coffee and get out the door at 6:10.

It was still on the dark side, it was raining, a bit windy and chilly. I did 2.75 miles in 28:49.

Next week I'm going to have to start driving to a nearby school's track for weekday morning runs. It's getting too dark and the lack of shoulders on Pennsylvania roads, well, it's getting a bit too risky.

[bajpeg98]

Seems like the best A1c's are found in this thread. I was diagnosed about 8 months ago Type1 (really type-who knows), but i found running allows me to eat all kinds of **** i normally can't and it saves me $ as i use about 40% less insulin.

I think I'll run a marathon in the next year or so if i don't get injured. My only problem is the worry if i get hypo - does anyone else carry a Capri-Sun while running? I'm looking for solutions to this problem that in some kind of belt or pack and a good heart rate monitor under 100 bucks.

N

07/14/07 A1c - 5.4
TypeI-ish
25/M