Category Archives: 04mi

Two weeks later

0, 04mi

Start time: 9/22/09, 7:30am
Location: North Arlington
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:40min/mile
Total Miles For September: 36 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 605 miles

Well, the doctor said it was a strain, and gave me something to put into my right shoe to hopefully keep it from happening again. (Fingers crossed.) I was also told to take two weeks off, so 14 days later… back out I went. I had gone swimming a few times as well as gone to spinning class, so I wasn’t sitting on my butt the entire time, but still, it was not pretty out there. Ended up taking two walk breaks in the second half of the run; just really tired and winded. It’s amazing how quickly one’s endurance can fall back when you don’t run for even just a week or two. On the bright side, no calf problems.

I have a 5K on Saturday and we’ll see if I actually run it or not. My last 5K in November was right after being sick and it was a miserable experience; part of why I’d signed up for this one was to finally get an official 5K time of what I’m actually capable of, not ones hampered by sickness or having just run a marathon a week earlier. Whatever time I could’ve done two and a half weeks ago is certainly long gone. As long as I can lower expectations enough in advance, though, I’ll give it a stab.

Discouraged

0, 04mi

Start time: 9/8/09, 6:00pm
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:29min/mile
Total Miles For September: 32 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 601 miles

I was planning on running 6 miles after work today, but two miles out, my right calf started hurting. This after several months of it being fine. Dammit.

Definitely dragging

0, 04mi

Start time: 8/27/09, 7:30am
Location: North Arlington
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:32min/mile
Total Miles For August: 92 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 551 miles

Decided to run my more regular 4-mile loop with an option for a fifth if I was feeling it. Sooooooooooo tired this morning. I think I need to just worry about getting more sleep tonight and Friday if at all possible. It wasn’t a huge speed drop (only about 15 sec per mile) but still, the zip was not there.

Back to the grind

0, 04mi

Start time: 8/18/09, 6:40am
Location: North Arlington
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:13min/mile
Total Miles For August: 57 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 516 miles

Uggggh when will August be over? Sick of this heat.

Post-Sick

0, 04mi, new shoes

Start time: 8/13/09, 8:15am
Location: North Arlington
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:23min/mile
Total Miles For August: 45 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 504 miles

Ah, the best-laid-plans and all that. I originally had this week’s exercise all mapped out:

Mon: 4-5 mile run (morning), lap swimming class (evening)
Tue: spinning class
Wed: 4-5 mile run
Thu: rest
Fri: 7 mile run
Sat: 14 mile run

Instead, I came down with what is either allergy problems or a nasty cold starting on Saturday; the jury is still out on which it was. All I know for certain is that it knocked me for a loop through the end of Monday, but even Tuesday and Wednesday still had lingering effects. So, I ended up taking those days off. Under the circumstances, my 7/14 run for Friday and Saturday seemed like a pretty bad idea. So instead I just went for a four-mile run today, and then I’ll run some on Saturday. As it was, today’s run definitely was tough towards the end; in the last mile I ended up taking a minute walk-break because I was feeling majorly beat, but even with that it’s not a bad pace at all considering how badly I was feeling earlier this week.

On the bright side, I could really feel the difference with the new shoes this morning. And since the last pair was retired at the 500-mark for the year, it’ll be easy to track how many miles this new pair has!

Run Bike Run

0, 02mi, 04mi, brick, gym

Start time: 8/5/09, 6:10am
Location: North Arlington
Distance: 2 miles & 2 miles
Average pace: 8:13min/mile & 8:16min/mile
Total Miles For August: 20 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 479 miles

Greg vs the duathlon! Sort of.

To switch things up a bit this morning, I got up early and ran the first two miles of my 4-mile loop, which conveniently has my gym just past the 2-mile point. I changed my shirt, headed in, and went to spinning class… well, except the instructor never showed up. (Oops!) Still, I did get my 45 minutes of cycling in, just without someone pushing us extremely hard. (One of the people in the class did lead us as best she could, though, which was nice.) Then, I grabbed my stuff, jogged over to where I’d left off, and ran the remaining two miles home. It was a nice little way to have transitions of sorts, and to make the morning a little more exciting. Plus, the plan was to go get burgers and fries at lunch today, so an extra caloric burn was definitely a good thing.

Hot and Tired

0, 04mi

Start time: 8/4/09, 7:30am
Location: North Arlington
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:16min/mile
Total Miles For August: 16 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 475 miles

Slightly later start than I’d really wanted today. After being at a wedding until late Sunday night followed by a 7am flight home, though, I was seriously beat. So beat that I didn’t wake up until the alarm went off this morning (a rarity) and then it took me forever and a day to get going. That said, despite being tired and the humidity to boot, it was a good (if sweaty) four mile run.

Confidential to the guy in the white undershirt and the Notre Dame basketball shorts: I genuinely felt uncomfortable looking at your choice of running clothes, and the fact that (when we were both stopped at Pershing & Washington) you commented on how hot it was? Please, please, please consider switching over to a technical fabric for a shirt at the very least. I think you’ll feel a little better. (Good pace though!)

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3024271

Run run run

0, 04mi

Start time: 7/30/09, 7:15am
Location: North Arlington
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:12min/mile
Total Miles For July: 80 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 459 miles

80 miles! I can’t remember the last time I’ve done that much in a month, which is kind of sad.

I was originally going to title this post something like, “Too much exercise.” Monday I ran in the morning and swam in the evening. Tuesday was running. Wednesday was rowing machine followed by spinning class. And then more running this morning. So when I was out there I was feeling sluggish and slow and I was envisioning a 39 minute finish time for my 4-miler. Well, as it turned out, 32:46. So I guess I wasn’t moving that sluggishly after all, oops. All in all, very pleased. Nice jump in speed for me. Let’s see if I can maintain this into next week or not.

Also, mental note to myself: time to get new shoes soon. At just about the 300-mile mark. (Already.)

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3024271

Two by Two

0, 02mi, 04mi, indoor track

Start time: 7/28/09, 5:45pm
Location: Thomas Jefferson Community Center
Distance: 2 x 2 miles
Average pace: 8:15min/mile & 7:53min/mile
Total Miles For July: 76 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 455 miles

Been a while since I’ve run at TJ, but as it’s in the 90s even after work today, inside it was. I ran two miles, then stopped for about 40 seconds or so to get a drink of water from the fountain, towel my face off, and then back off I went. Pretty pleased with the splits. Also amused at the little kid who kept trying to catch me… and failing. But that kid was fast. And he probably clocked 2 or 3 miles, too. I wish I was that good a runner when I was under ten years old!

(8:25, 8:04, 7:50, 7:55)

Surprise Monday Morning Run

0, 04mi

Start time: 7/27/09, 7:15am
Location: Local neighborhood
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:42min/mile
Total Miles For July: 72 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 451 miles

Charlie surprised me last night with a request to go running this morning. I’ve got swimming in the morning, but a quick four-miler sounded nice. So, off on the 4-mile loop we went. It was a nice easy-going run, and it hadn’t gotten too cloudy/humid just yet.