Well after a short break and some maintenance running I am back on the training track. I did run one official race, the "Red Legs Run for Home" 5K at the end of May. In 9 weeks I am running the "Spirit of Columbus" half marathon and then 2 weeks after that is the "USAF Half Marathon". I am psyched about both races. I want to beat the race that hurt my back last year (Spirit of Columbus) and the USAF will be a reunion with a great friend from college as well and we have recruited a large group of people to run with us (some for their first half marathon) and the list keeps growing!!!
As before, I will be blogging my training runs and other random thoughts.
On a side, yet very cool, note while running the Pig I saw a couple of shirts with the motivational bible verse I picked to get me through the training and my first marathon, Philippians 4:13. Come to find out there is a running ministry group that has that as there mantra. They are TEAM 413. I became a fan of the group on Facebook and have ordered a shirt from them. They are worth checking out.
Anyway, back to my training runs. I have done 2 this week: Tuesday morning was speed work. I am mixing 2 training programs that I have found. One is the one I used last year training for my first half marathon and the other is a little more advanced. I'll let everyone know how it works out. So my first run was at the YMCA on the inside track. 2x 1/2 mile (averaging 4:57) 4x400 1/4 mile (averaging 2:16) and 2 stride runs. The workout was great and I felt awesome afterwards. A grand total of 4.5 miles with the warm up and cool down intervals. The second run was this morning, Friday, in Bethel. IT was a 3 mile tempo run. That run kicked my tail. The heat and humidity was already bad at 5:45am and it wreaked havoc on my time. I average a 10:37 mile, which was slower than my target speed, but you have days like that. I did rack up another 4 training miles though. I need to get a distance run in this weekend if at all possible.
In addition to my training regime, we started the "Unofficial" soccer conditioning runs for the U8 and U10 girls soccer teams that I coach (my kids teams). we get together once a week and the kids (and some parents) run a 1 mile course I have laid out which starts and ends at the local dairy barn - ice cream good. Several kids are showing up and running.
Well, I think that is all for now. I will blog at everyone again soon.
Peace,
Romans 8:31 - My "Old/New" motivational verse.
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