Wow. It's been a while.
I found this new website (well, at least new for me) called Log-A-Run and it's changed my training world. It actually tallies the mileage for you and the pace. So all I have to do is just record it, so it makes life easy. And there is a note section for each day which serves as a mini-blog.
However, no matter how great that is, it can't replace this. And while I can't promise that I'll be better about blogging, I can report about phase one of the fall.
I ran a half marathon this past weekend. It was a PR - 1:09:30 exactly. 5:18 pace. I was on pace to run sub 69 minutes but fell apart over the last 3 miles. I'm actually very pleased with my run. I hadn't trained specifically for it and so the fact that I ran a PR is great!
I took yesterday off (Sunday) and only ran 4 miles very easy this morning. I'll probably take relaxed until Friday and then maybe try a light progressive.
The thing that I've learned is that I don't do well with a planned out schedule. I do much better planning on the fly. Like I know how much I want to run each week (within a range) and so I just try to get that mileage in and then I do workouts that can't fail. I do tempo runs and long reps and high volume workouts and every once in a while I do something faster and shorter.
It all seems to work out and I don't even panic about it. I run twice per day and run a lot.
Anyhow, maybe it'll all fall apart, but for now it works for me.
So, until then...
