Feeling good with my miles staying UP!!

Sorry its been a while since my last post.  I'll try to get back to posting on a more regular basis.  The good thing is I'm still running a lot, I've just been lazy on the posts.  Last week I finished up another 70 mile week and felt really good.  I started off this week with a 13 mile run with Kory, we moved right along for the entire run and felt good throughout.  Again I went long on Thursday since Josh was going to be out of town on the weekend.  This week Brandon joined in for most of the run(26 miles).  I ended up going 32 miles in 4:19:00(8:06/mi pace) and felt really good throughout the entire run.  The last 10 miles I dropped the pace down and was running 7:30/mi pace.  During that time I felt really good but my heart rate was a little higher than I would have liked it.  What's great is the next day I felt like I could run outside of what I think is a little tendinitis in my left foot.  I took the day off and because at this point I'd rather be safe than sorry.  Again I hit 70 miles for the week and felt really good.  This morning Kory and I went out again for 15 miles and averaged 7:16/mi pace.  I really feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger with each week that passes.  I'm excited to see what I can do as I start racing some longer races.  More to come...

Early Long Run

30 miles - 4:06:44

Josh and I decided to do our long run today since he would be out of town this weekend. I really felt good throughout the entire run. Three weeks ago when I did 30 the last 5 miles were fairly painful. Today I was sore but felt like I could have kept going. We did a big loop that went north and west of Manhattan. Part of the run took us on to Ft Riley which became interesting when a soldier stopped us and informed is that we were in a live fire area and that we should evacuate immediately. Josh told me there was nothing to worry about since it was lightning. I'm pretty sure I should have been worried about one or the other or maybe both. After todays run I have 85 miles over the last six days. Best part is I'm feeling great. More to come....

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Good Days!!

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday have been great training days. The last three days for me were 7 mi, 8 mi and 8 mi with every run being between 6:45-7:05 per mile pace. Heart rate has been low and legs have felt great. This may all change tomorrow as Josh and I are going 30 miles starting at 5am. Hoping it goes as well as it did last time.

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Running long...Racing short!!!

So I had another decent week of training as I finished this week with just under 50 miles for the week.  I did run the Poyntz Ave Mile on Wednesday and that went okay as well.  I ended up running 4:45 for the mile and got blown away by all the young guys.  I was hoping to be in the 4:30's but I'm okay with it since I haven't really done any speed work.  Yesterday I went 21 miles and this morning I went 11 miles.  Felt great on both runs and look forward to uping my mileage back up this week. 

Its been a while!!

So I took a few days off from the blog but I haven't stopped running.  I've had some good runs and some not so good runs since I was on last.  On Saturday May 28th I ended up hitting 30 miles for my run in just over 4 hours.  For the most part the run felt really good.  The last 5 miles was rather painful though.  I ended up with 75 miles for the week which is one of the highest mileage weeks I've ever done.  I decided to take a down week instead of another up week so that I could be rested for the Poyntz Ave Mile.  Last week I ran 5 days and got 36 or 37 miles if I remember right.  I didn't run long after my 30 and I didn't have a long run at the end of the week which is what hurt my mileage.  I have felt absolutely horrible over the last 4 or 5 days and I'm not exactly sure why.  It could be the heat or it could be all the mileage catching up with me.  I have the race on Wednesday which hopefully goes well but I'm hoping I can get a good week of training in.  Today didn't give me much hope though as I ran 8 miles and struggled to run 8 min/mile pace.  In the past several weeks I've felt like I could roll along at 7 min pace for a run like today.  We'll keep our fingers crossed and hope all continues on well.