Monday: Rest.
Tuesday: 3.88 miles, 8:22 pace. Still recovering from the St. George Half.
Wednesday: Rest.
Thursday: Missed track work out. Lazy.
Friday: 6.22 miles, 7:32 pace. Still feeling a bit tired from Saturday's race.
Saturday: 12.26 miles, 7:42 pace. Light rain, perfect weather. First eight miles felt very good. Last four miles hurt.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
13 weeks to Boston: Elizabeth
Post race week.
Monday: Nothing
Tuesday: 1 hour spin. Pretty tired from Saturday.
Wednesday: 5.7 miles. I was going to try to run 1 mile warm-up followed by 3-4 of tempo miles and then 1 mile cool-down. After warm-up, mile 2 was 8:38 and hamstring killed. I stopped and stretched. Mile 3: 8:06, mile 4: 7:58, last 1 1/2 miles easy cool-down. Hamstring still tight and painful.
Thursday: Easy mile on track. 400 m in 92 seconds. Hamstring very tight so I quit. I played 15 minutes of basketball for the ward, but hamstring was too painful.
Friday: Nothing
Saturday: 1 hour of teaching spin. Great endurance workout. Hamstring felt fine on bike.
Hopefully next week, I can get some better runs in.
Monday: Nothing
Tuesday: 1 hour spin. Pretty tired from Saturday.
Wednesday: 5.7 miles. I was going to try to run 1 mile warm-up followed by 3-4 of tempo miles and then 1 mile cool-down. After warm-up, mile 2 was 8:38 and hamstring killed. I stopped and stretched. Mile 3: 8:06, mile 4: 7:58, last 1 1/2 miles easy cool-down. Hamstring still tight and painful.
Thursday: Easy mile on track. 400 m in 92 seconds. Hamstring very tight so I quit. I played 15 minutes of basketball for the ward, but hamstring was too painful.
Friday: Nothing
Saturday: 1 hour of teaching spin. Great endurance workout. Hamstring felt fine on bike.
Hopefully next week, I can get some better runs in.
14 weeks to Boston
14 weeks to the marathon. Tom and I ran the St. George Half Marathon. I finished 6 seconds ahead of my optimistic goal in a time of 1:44:54. I finished 52 out of 608 women and 15th out of 151 30-34 year old women. Full race report can be found here. My hamstrings were tight after the race. I got a quick massage post race, but don't think it helped too much.
Full race results can be found here.
Full race results can be found here.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Our Road to Boston
We are starting this blog mostly for ourselves, as a training log and journal of our journey to the Boston Marathon.
Our journey began back in April 2008 when we signed up for the St. George Marathon with every intention on qualifying for the 2009 Boston Marathon. We both trained hard and ran St. George and both qualified.
Tom qualified in a time of 3:07. I qualified with a time of 3:38:21. Click here for my full race report.
So our road has continued although it has been pretty slow going since St. George. That is another reason we have created this blog: we need some accountability for our training or lack thereof.
Boston is 3 months away. It is time to be serious about our training. We plan to run a couple of races in the meantime and just get serious about our training.
This blog will have our weekly training logs and race reports of any races we do.
And hopefully our road doesn't end at Boston, but we find another race to train for and conquer.
Our journey began back in April 2008 when we signed up for the St. George Marathon with every intention on qualifying for the 2009 Boston Marathon. We both trained hard and ran St. George and both qualified.
Tom qualified in a time of 3:07. I qualified with a time of 3:38:21. Click here for my full race report.
So our road has continued although it has been pretty slow going since St. George. That is another reason we have created this blog: we need some accountability for our training or lack thereof.
Boston is 3 months away. It is time to be serious about our training. We plan to run a couple of races in the meantime and just get serious about our training.
This blog will have our weekly training logs and race reports of any races we do.
And hopefully our road doesn't end at Boston, but we find another race to train for and conquer.
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