Everything You Didn't Want to Know About My Runs

Missed Saturday's long run.  I was planning to do 8-10, but I left it for the afternoon and I was home watching Josie all day so it didn't happen.  I did shovel two driveways full of heavy snow, though and the break helped my hamstring pull.

2 x .5 mile repeats on the treadmill. With 3 miles of warm-up/cool-down and some sub 9mm filler to get to 6.25.  It is hard to know how fast to go on the treadmill.  Experience has taught me that I can set it faster than I would run on my own and let it pull me along.  Experience has also taught me that that is a good way to get new injuries.  I did my first 1/2 mile at 7.5 (8mm).  It was too easy.  I did my second one at 7.8.  It was about right, but I think I could do 8.  I was significantly faster on my 1/4 mile splits last week.

Now that the snow has fallen, it might be time to get out my mph/mpm conversion charts since I'll probably be spending more time on the treadmill. 

6 miles on the treadmill at recovery pace (6) with a .25 mile cool-down.  Shins were sore even after stretching last night and icing the hamstring.  The ankle has been better.  It was a little stiff today, but it is in a more comfortable phase.

8 miles on the treadmill.  I warmed up at 6 for a mile and then sped up to 6.5 and monitored my heart rate.  My goal was to stay around 160.  I was in the mid 150's for a while and was considering bumping up the speed.  After about 4 miles, the heart rate moved up into the low 160's so I kept it there until the end.  I wonder if the heat inside boosts my HR a bit.  1/4 mile cool-down.

Watched a couple episodes from season 3 of Arrested Development.  The whole godzilla thing had me laughing pretty hard.

I have 40 running days left this year.  I have to average 6.27 miles per day to get to 1,000. 

More Arrested Development on the treadmill.  Today I watched the one where they found out they were getting cancelled.

Ran outside this morning.  It was nice to get outside.  My shins are very tight.  Maybe I am over doing it a little bit.

I have 10 more miles planned for tomorrow and this is already my 3rd highest mileage week for the year.  Tomorrow it will be #1.  November is also currently my fourth highest month and we're only half way through.  Tomorrow it will be #3.

239 miles to go for 1,000. 

It was hard to run today.  My shins are starting to hurt.  I'm going to have to pull back a bit.  I'm going to stop doing the speed work on Mondays for now and ease up on the weekly mileage a bit and see if that helps.  I will also do more calf stretching.  Maybe after a couple of months of doing 40 mile weeks I can start working on the VO2 again.  I just want to get past the 9mm so bad.  I need to be patient.

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