Just found these new weight and calorie features. Wish it would just take my weight and distance and calculate calories for me. Im too lazy to go to some website to do that. So I think 400cal for my morning 3.65 and 900-1000 for my 8.1mile afternoon run is reasonable. I guess ill go look that up right now to confirm.
Oh, and for henry and bedoukian's information, that 167 is down from 178 just a few weeks ago. It is coming off and im not stopping until at least 150. I ran the 1:18:45 half at 152lbs and I attribute that time mostly to the weight and less so to the 80mpw the previous 3 months and less so to the long tempos and other workouts I did. Right now despite my superior PR, I think that I am the underdog. I have 5 months to match and surpass your fitness. For the first 2 months I will be losing weight and building mileage. Then in the heat of the summer I will start some serious workouts. Ive always said it is easier to train during the winter. We will have to see how this goes.
Looked up the calories and they seemed super high. Like 500ish for the AM and over 1100 for the PM. I think that must have been not subtracting out what you would have burned basal if you had not been running. I am only interested in excess calories burned for this. Overall of course I am just wanting to take in less than i burn overall but seems silly to include that in my running blog.
Red Rooster Ramble 5M (5 Miles) 00:31:03, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1
Easy Miles
Marathon Pace Miles
Threshold Miles
VO2 Max Miles
Crosstraining miles
Total Miles
6.65
0.00
5.00
0.00
0.00
11.65
AM: 3.65 Sooo tired. Probably from yesterday's 8 mile run. On blackstone there were these total poser runners who got on a block ahead of us and proceeded to run about 7 pace. This is not okay in my book. So we slowly picked it up until about a mile later we passed them. Then jamie surged for the pawtucket city line a mile out and stupidly i went with him knowing he would crush me. Anyway, nothing hurting particularly on me so thats good. Over the past few days had a bit of a scare with my ITB and some mild plantar fascitis. But good old ibuprofen came through once again.
PM: Red Rooster Ramble in 31:03 for second. I biked down there and have upped my mileage so much in the past two weeks that I am very happy with that time. It was a decently hard tempo but I figure I could go at least a minute faster racing without biking. And if tapered then maybe better. But this was really just a baseline from which to work off. Now I know that fat, broken down, and tired I can run 6:12 pace pretty well.
The calories burned includes my 22 mile bike ride 11 down and back.
AM: Jesus Christ I am tired. Went suuuper slow but oh well. That is the nature of post workout morning runs.
PM: A world of pain. But I can feel some adaptation already. And I am remembering just how much I can endure. And as always, the easy days hurt the most for me.
AM: super slow again. Im sorta glad my morning runs are alone right now. I would be very frustrating to anyone reasonably fit and I couldn't lolygag as I have been doing.
PM: 8.1 feeling decent only in comparison to how i have been feeling.
Run 4 Fun (4 Miles) 00:24:25, Place overall: 6, Place in age division: 6
Easy Miles
Marathon Pace Miles
Threshold Miles
VO2 Max Miles
Crosstraining miles
Total Miles
8.50
0.00
4.00
0.00
0.00
12.50
AM: Diana and Mellisa wanted to snipe this 4 mile race where the past 5 years 1rst place has been 5:30 pace and 2nd place has been 6:30+ pace. And there was money. Unluckily 3 brown track members showed up as well as 2 other hot shot locals. So I tempoed hard and barely beat diana lol. We did 2 miles up, 2 down, then ran 4.5 after the awards to get our mileage in.
AM: Feeling pretty good. Went to track team party last night which was wild in a very bad way. Got home around 3am. Thank god for this BS community health rotation. No way could I have done anything this morning. Woke up at 7 still drunk, ate breakfast, went back to bed, woke up at 11am and went for the run.
The weight situation is going well though this weekend was questionably compliant with my diet. So I need to remotivate. Have seen 165 twice now while somewhat dehydrated. Its a process I just need to keep at it.
AM: Finally got hit by a car. Ive been waiting for this to happen for years. Im not hurt. It was pretty funny really. The idiot was making a right turn onto the street i was running on so he was just looking left. I thought he saw me but there he went and down I went on the hood of his car. I half bounced, half rolled off the hood and just kept running without even looking back. Other than that Im feeling decent but calorie deprived. Perfect...
PM: was able to do the real haynes classic route for once because the graveyard was open after 5 for some reason. Feeling thinnish, but not fast. There is time for that.
Ugh diets suck. Feel like shit, not eating hardly anything. Can barely get through my runs. Then the same weight pops up day after day after day. I guess a few days ago I was super excited about 165 and now im frustrated by it. And I have been eating a lot of soup which is high in sodium which will make me hold on to more water, so maybe its better than it seems. Just gotta stick with it.
PM: red rooster ramble 31:44 so slow. biked there and back. but on the upside when i got back, tired and more than a little dehydrated i weighed in at 163. sure, mostly it was dehydration, but its good to see the number.
AM: 3.65 - gonna even out my doubles a bit soon as the undergrads are gone and I dont have ppl to run with in the afternoons who want to do 8. Will look at different possible courses but want something like 5 and 7 or just under on one of those.
PM: Jesus christ its hot. Prerun weight 165, Postrun weight 160. Im gonna have to start reporting both in order to give an accurate picture because im losing too much water during the run for only a postrun weight.
AM: thinking about using this roger williams park loop as my only distance route. Its 5.9 miles so twice a day would make 11.8 not bad. And that saves me a lot of the pain of running long in the evening heat. Would prefer a 5 mile morning and 7 mile evening loop but there arent many good courses leaving from my house that would work.
PM: 5.9 same course. So good splitting it up more evenly. Makes it so much more manageable. Might make the afternoon one longer and the morning one shorter eventually but for a while this seems good. Also prerun weight 164 postrun weight 162. It seems like the weight is coming off quite nicely. And im no longer feeling horrible during runs.
Shape up RI 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:22:00, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy Miles
Marathon Pace Miles
Threshold Miles
VO2 Max Miles
Crosstraining miles
Total Miles
14.20
0.00
3.10
0.00
0.00
17.30
AM: ran my roger williams park route and when i got to the carousel I saw 50-70 people standing at what was obviously a starting line. Without even stopping, the gun went off and I just went with them. I kept my pace completely comfortable and won by over a minute lol. Dont know what the time was because there were no mile markers or clocks even at the finish. Felt like it was probably low 7 pace. Seriously, i didnt speed up for the race portion of this run. Then they said that since i didnt register it didnt count even though registration was free for this race. So I got a banana and continued my run home. Probably gonna race 5k for real this afternoon so adding 3 miles onto my 6 mile morning route might have been a bad idea but oh well. Just running through it. But it was a good excuse to have a smoothie at breakfast after my run.
PM: fly like an eagle 5k - got there and saw a bunch of fast people so decided to tempo and did 19:11 lol 6th overall getting beat by a girl (who used to run super well in college). But it was 80+ degrees with no shade and several hills. 2 miles up and the course again for cooldown makes another 8.2 for some real mileage today.
AM: praying to the calendar gods for increased mitochondrial density and microvascularization
PM: meant to do 6 but diana and jenna were gonna do 8 and i can't say no to pretty girls. nelson the dog came. I have like 3 degrees of separation from this dog and I don't know why i am taking him on runs. He is sarah's neighbor's son's dog. WTF. Sarah didnt even come on the run today.
AM: Diana got me to do a speed workout with her and Melissa. The workout was 4x4x200m with 200m recovery between intervals and 400m recovery between sets. It was hot and sunny. We did 2 miles warmup, drills, striders, then got started. My goal was just to do 2 sets since its my first speed workout in like 6 months or more. I went with diana but in the second lane for the first set hitting 37, 38, 39, 35 then went on my own for 36, 34, 33, 33 then decided i would continue but keep it easy running with diana but in lane 2 for 37, 37, 36, 33 (going moderate the first 100 then sprinting the second 100 on that last one. Then i thought I was gonna call it quits but got bored and did the last 2 of the last set with diana in 35, 33. I think it was good to get out there and feel some paces faster than 6 minute pace which is the fastest ive done in a long long time.
I think im gonna be following Jack Daniels 5k-15k 24week training plan. He doesnt have a half marathon specific plan and his marathon plan is very marathon oriented. So I am on week 5 (first 6 weeks are buildup simple mileage) and shouldnt really be doing workouts till week 7 but i should be doing striders most days so Im gonna start that now. The workouts are intense and most weeks have 3 workouts per week but I think it will be good as long as I dont push each workout insanely. Given the heat im gonna have to do the workouts early mornings but hey, whatever it takes. After all, there are no compromises.
PM: active recovery 5.25 slow. Felt tight for the first 2 miles but then loosened up.
AM: did the short morning loop slow recovery with some striders at the end. Gonna do another shortish run this afternoon to try to avoid breaking down again.
Funny how bedoukian is so excited that he weighs 2 lbs less than I do after a 12 mile run vs my 6 miles. I saw 160 twice already but didnt record it because I decided it was more water weight than anything else. It is kind of a shame that it is going to be sooo easy to beat him...
so much trash talk, so little time. Oh wait, I don't need to because my record stands for itself. 1:18:47 suckas.
In response to bedoukians post:
You forget that reaching a fitness you had in the past is much easier than doing it the first time. Im gonna be running sub 6 pace for this half. Mark my words.
AM: 5.9 feeling good. Have been stretching after each run lately and I think it is really helping me feel not horrible. Mostly my left ITBand is the culprit.
PM: 5.9 + strides and stretches. Weighed in at 159.0 not bad at all. The run was cool so shouldnt be too much water weight. Trying to decide whether to do 1 more week of base after this week or go ahead with workouts next week. I started back hard 23 weeks from the Oct. 10 goal race but daniels plans are 24 weeks. Probably should get the full 6 weeks base before doing workouts. But if I am feeling bored or that it is too easy then I might go ahead with workouts next week.
