Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

6 miles at 9:00 a.m. in 54:26 with Tina on snowy and icy roads.  Clear skies and sunny, but cold.  10 degrees starting out.  Multiple layers kept me toasty, but warmed enough the last couple of miles to determine I was over-dressed.  Fastest mile 8:18, slowest mile 9:49.  Good week at 44 miles this past week.  Will be a struggle at night this week with the cold and ice.  I see more treadmill days ahead.  Yuck!

5.1 miles on the treadmill in 42:44.  Easy first mile, about 8:30's the middle miles, picking up the pace gradually from 8:30's to finishing last tenth at 7:00 pace.  Moderate effort, felt good wimping out tonight.  The temperature was a tolerable 21 degrees outside at 6:00 p.m., but a slight wind and icy roads while walking home from bus stop made me turn to the dreadmill.  Not a bad workout. 

Cross training this morning at 5:15 a.m. between fairly easy 2 miles on treadmill and alternating with the exercise bicycle for 30 minutes with Elaine.  5.1 more miles tonight on the treadmill in 43:25, finishing at sub 7:00 minute pace the last couple of tenths.  Increased.1 mph the last mile or so.  Cold and slick outside tonight.

5.1 TM miles at 5:10 a.m.  Overall time 44:50.  Picked it up the second half.  Started at 9:30 pace for the first half and picked it up gradually .1 mph every tenth up to 6:50 pace the last tenth.  Felt good.  I hope the streets are clearer tomorrow night.  I've had enough of the treadmill, but sure I'll be back on it for while at times.

5:10 a.m. cross training session this morning with Elaine.  I did 3 miles easy on the treadmill and about 20 minutes on the stationary bike.  Tonight I did 4 miles on the treadmill at 6:00 p.m. Still cold out and slick roads, but I better be out on those roads by Saturday's long run OR ELSE!!!!  A bit wimpy tonight it was 17 degrees, after all, but there was a pretty cold breeze while I walked from the bus, so I hit the dreadmill.  Supposed to warm up on Saturday as far as the low for the day, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.

3 miles very easy on the treadmill in conjunction with some additional scross training on the stationary bike.  5:10 a.m. with Elaine.

10:00 a.m. run on a cloudy but warmer day at least.  It's weird to say the mid 20's is warm, but comparatively speaking it really seemed nice out this morning.   Did 8 very slow miles with Gina, but she had no real problems with it.  She hasn't done a long run in a few weeks and has been doing just a couple on the treadmill 2 or 3 days per week.  So it went fairly well.   Still snow and ice on some of the less traveled streets so we stayed on the main roads.  Did the town loop.  Down Droubay to 1000 N. then west past Main on the newly paved roadway.  Up around the old rodeo grounds to Coleman and more or less zig-zagged back to her place.  I did a  few more and finished with 12 total, very slow except the finishing mile in 7:52.  Good to be off that dang dreadmill!  But, more storms coming tonight, tomorrow, and into Monday.  Supposed to run with Tina tomorrow morning, but we'll see how the weather is.  Last week we were on snow-pack.  Oh, to live in Yuma, AZ this time of year!  Okay, well maybe not Yuma, but somewhere warm would be nice.  A good week with 45 miles.  That's great mileage for me this time of year and with this weather and especailly with most of it on the treadmill.