Training Log

Cold but beautiful day - sunny in the afternoon, lots of kids out playing in the snow.  By afternoon, it has melted off the roads - good thing, because the Memphis area does not have any way to clear the snow! 

Had to wait for the plumber who came over at 5:30 to give a quote on replacing the copper pipes in the house.  Ran at 6 pm, the usual 7.3 mile route around the town hall lake.

Only 5 miles tonight - had to rush to get to dance class on time, so ran a shorter distance.

8:15 pm - 7 mile run in Cordova. 

8 miles in Collierville

7.5 miles in Cordova

7 miles in Cordova

6 am - 15.33 in Collierville

Rest day - cold and rainy

7 pm - cold and rainy 36 degrees.  7.3 miles in C'ville.

Ran right after work then rushed off to dance again.

6 miles in Cordova.  Tomorrow is Germantown Half Marathon.

7:30 am - Germantown Half Marathon. This is my first race in my new age group.    Now I am also a grand master when they have that category in a race.  Germantown Half is a money race with nice prizes for the top 3 in Overall, Overall Masters, and Overall Grand Masters. 

Cloudy and a little chilly today, with high humidity.  It has been raining the last few days in the Memphis area.  My goal was to try for a time close to 1:40 and also to keep a steady pace throughout.  Doing hill work about 3 weeks ago, I pulled a groin muscle, and it has bothered me since then.  So my other goal is to not injur it further and ruin my Boston run.

There's one long, somewhat steep hill at mile2, and after that, it is pretty flat until the last .1 mile when you have to run up a hill to the finish.

The race was pretty uneventful - I was able to keep a steady pace - 7:53 for the first half and 7:54 for the second half.   I would like to have gone a little faster, but my legs threatened to cramp in the last 2 miles, so I didn't push it at the end too much.

Result - 2nd Grand Masters female - finished in the money!  I'm happy.

Did a short, slow 1.5 mile cool down run.

Rest day - crazy busy at work, felt like I had the start of a stomach virus, was super tired and went to bed early.

Wish I had felt good enough to run yesterday - my legs felt very sore - from lactic acid buildup maybe?  Ran 4 miles in Collierville before dance class.

8:15 pm - about 3.5 miles in Cordova with my rat terrier, Flipper.   Other commitments earlier pushed out the run time 'til late -fortunately is was a warm evening - enjoyed the run with Flipper.

rest day

6.9 miles in Collierville

6.5 miles in Cordova

7 am - 19 miles in Collierville.  A little slow, but felt good. 

7 pm - 7.3 miles in Collierville.  Legs still feeling good.  The pulled muscle in my left leg hurts a little when I'm starting out, but it seems to work its way out by one mile or so.

rest day - it is raining hard.

Today is Ada Lovelace Day.  She is considered one of the first computer programmers, and a programming language used by the DoD is named after her - Ada.  Celebrate women in technology today!

8 pm - 6.9 miles in Cordova

6 pm - 7.3 miles in collierville

no chance to run - at work by 7 am, all day meeting, not home until 5:30 or 6, then social obligation in the evening.

7 miles in Cordova with hills

7 miles in Cordova - right knee hurts very badly - may be the hills.

6 pm - 7.3 miles in Collierville where there are hardly any hills - knee did not hurt as much running here.  Left groin muscle still sore.  Putting off the long run another day or so to make sure this is not going to get worse.

rest day - did weights instead of running.