Arie's Running Blog

6:15AM 70F ~70% humidity. What a great run. The relative low temperature and humidity helped a lot. I fet great all the way. I was careful not to start too fast. After 8 miles and some major hills I still felt good. At mile 10 some more hills came and they were difficult but after those I felt great. The last two miles were very strong. My average pace was 7:55 !

1:34:59

After the run I took an ice bath. I filled the tab with cold tap water and got in it in a bathing suit. I let my boys pour ice into the water. They loved it. After 5 minutes in the cold water I felt it was enough. My legs didn't hurt at all the whole day after. Afternoon I felt very tired and the 1 hout nap I took was a life saver.

6:15AM 70F, ~80% humidity. First day of the cut back week. I did what seems now like a really short distance. Pace was good (8:05). I hope to get to do some hill training tomorrow.

0:29:54

I jogged 0.5 mile from the parking lot near the gym to my favorite hill and then did 4 hills repeats. The hill is about 200-250 meter long and the slope starts from very mild and raises to medium from about 1/3 the way up. I tried to run lifting my knees as they say you should do (why??). I think I did OK. I took 1:15-1:20 minutes to do each climb.

Then I jogged 0.5 mile to cool down and did 4 miles on the tread mill (average pace 7:50). Did negative splits and it felt good.

0:31:19

9:15AM 85F, 65% humidity. These were not optimal conditions. Nevertheless, I felt very light and my pace was surprisingly fast for the heat (average 8:06). The route was the familiar one between the two campuses and I added two loops on the East campust. It suppose to cool down a bit tomorrow. Eventhough it's my cut off week, I might do some 400m intervals with in my run tomorrow (I'm planning to do 5 miles).

0:51:51

While running the second loop around the East Campus, a lady that was walking toward me said something like "You're cheating because I just saw you a few minutes ago". I decided to take it positively and think I'm just unbelievebly fast :-)

9:15AM, 80F, 60% humidity. The over cast made it feel not too bad. I planned to do some speed work but my schedule didn't allow it. I will try tomorrow. Instead I did my regular run between the campuses. The pace was good (8:00 falt on average).Last night my wife and I crushed shortly after the kids went to bed. I felt really rejuvinated this morning.

0:38:00

9:15AM 78F, 50% humidity. Really nice conditions this morning (relatively speaking) and these nice conditions will be here for a few days. I went to the Duke tracks and did 5.25M (I didn't count well the laps so I did one extra - my stop watch revealed that ex post). I included 4 x 400m speed laps in them (1:39, 1:43, 1:43, 1:37) with 400m jog between. I ended with 2 miles (7:50, 7:35). Walked a bit to cool down after I stopped my watch. Over all a good work out although my legs were a bit tired. I should definately do the speed work in the middle of the week rather than on Friday. But these 400m repeats were an extra and I'm OK with the not so fast pace I did them. I really like Duke's tracks, it's an excellent facility.

0:40:35

The Olympics starts tonight and I know these are usually not a big deal here in the US. But is is hard to exagurate how much I am excited about them. Looking forward to watching the openning ceremony tonight and the competitions in the following days. I plan to watch mostly the track and marathon (GO! RYAN GO!) races and some of the swimming and cycling races and of course the beach volleyball (wink)...