What ever it takes!

So, reading everyone else post their yearly mileage I decided I wanted to figure mine out too.  I got my Garmin 305 last Christmas 2009,  (a few weeks early).  Before then I didn't really track my mileage.  So 2010 is really the first year I ever tracked for an entire year.  I was really consistant logging on Garmin Connect until I joined the Blog in April then my Garmin logging started lagging.  I'm going to try and keep both logs up to date this year.

Anyway,

January 1st - March 31st = 827

April 1st - December 31st = 2209

Total = 3,036

That seems pretty good for my first full year of running.  I suspect 2011 will break that.

Since it's January 2nd and a time to set goals, here are my running goals for 2011.

3 Marathons - Ogden, Des News, St. George

4 1/2 Marathons - Provo River 1/2, Hobble Creek, Provo Halloween 1/2, Just Cus.

Some 5K or two - Sub 17 Min.

Goals

Top 10 in every race I run.

Marathon 3:36

Stay injury free all year,

Loose another 10 -15 lbs.

5:00 am.  One of the hardest treadmill workouts I can remember.  I was reading an article by Ryan Hall last week about training for Boston and simulating the Newton Hills on a treadmill.  I couldn't remember exactly what his work out was but I put together my own version.  1 mile warm up, 2 mile climb, 1 mile downhill sprint, 2 mile climb, 1 mile downhill, 2 mile climb, 1 mile downhill. for a total of 10 miles.

I kept increasing the incline each interval to a max of 5% for the 1 mile climb.  I wimped out a bit on that last mile climb, looking at my HR I probably could have pushed it a little harder but mentally I wasn't into it anymore and was feeling pretty weezy at that point.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:26	6:26	0%	135	148
2	6:25	6:25	2%	151	158
3	6:32	6:32	3%	162	165
4	5:42	5:42	-1%	163	166
5	6:31	6:31	3%	166	168
6	6:50	6:50	4%	168	170
7	5:37	5:37	-2%	166	169
8	7:05	7:05	4%	167	169
9	7:30	7:30	5%	167	170
10	5:35	5:35	-2%	168	169
Total	1:04:15	6:25	1.6% (845')	161	170

5:00 am.  Still feeling my legs from yesterdays rolling hills simulation.  Wanted to take it easy today, but I tend to always get carried away.  Tomorrow I swim.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:50	6:50	0	157	186
2	6:39	6:39	0	141	146
3	6:35	6:35	0	147	152
4	6:30	6:30	0	152	154
5	6:28	6:28	0	154	156
6	6:23	6:23	0	156	159
7	6:18	6:18	0	158	160
8	5:52	5:52	0	163	166
Total	51:46	6:28	0	153	166

Didn't count that first 1 mile HR.  I wish I knew why my HR always shoots up when I start a run.  Is that a good or bad thing.

5:00 am.  2400 M swim in exactly 1 hour, including a quick potty break after 1 mile.  I sure like swimming as a recovery but boy that first 30 seconds jumping into cold water after coming in from outside is really painful.

5:00 am.  I wanted to do some sort of speed work today but wasn't sure what to do, I didn't really feel like a long tempo run, and 1 mile repeats are to long.   So I warmed up for 4 miles wondering what to do and decided to do 1/2 mile repeats with 1/2 mile rest in between, just cause it's easier to keep track of than 1/4 mile rests :)  Ended up doing 6 X 1/2 mile.  I really had no idea where to start my pace so I kind of experimented each time, first set started at 5:42 and worked up to 5:30, last set started at 5:21 working up to 5:10.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:28	6:28	0	143	167
2	6:24	6:24	0	150	156
3	6:19	6:19	0	155	159
4	6:22	6:22	0	158	162
4.5	2:48	5:36	0	166	170
5	3:29	6:58	0	158	169
5.5	2:45	5:30	0	168	172
6	3:32	7:04	0	159	171
6.5	2:44	5:28	0	169	173
7	3:32	7:04	0	160	173
7.5	2:40	5:20	0	170	175
8	3:33	7:06	0	162	175
8.5	2:39	5:18	0	171	176
9	3:37	7:14	0	162	175
9.5	2:37	5:14	0	171	176
Total	59:37	6:15	0	159	176

 I wasn't sure I wanted to mention this, but it's been disturbing me all morning, since this is a public forum I'll try to be a bit subjective on my personal feelings on the subject, but this morning after my run, like I often do I went down to the hot tub to relax and stretch, when I got in there were 2 other guys in the hot tub standing awfully close to one another, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and figured maybe they were just having a conversation and couldn't hear each other over the sound of the water fall.  Then they started massaging each other and quickly the situation got very un-comfortable, I left.  So here is the question,  personal believes aside on the subject.  Is it appropriate for 2 people, man and woman or man and man to be getting that close in a public hottub.  Granted, if it were a man and a woman I probably wouldn't have been as un-comforatble and may not have gotten out as quickly.  But fact of the matter is, if I was there with my own wife I wouldn't share affection like that in public fearing it might offend someone and the fact than now, I have to share a locker room with two people that I saw like this makes it a bit awkward.  I might as well go share the womens locker room now.

Sorry, I'm not usually one to start a controversy but just thought I'd throw it out there.

5:00 am.  Another easy run gone hard, it's just been so much fun running fast and being injury free lately that I can't seem to help myself, in another week when I start following a schedule again I'll try to tone down my easy days but this last month or so of just running with no plan or goal has been alot of fun.  Just wake up every morning and experiment with different things.  I'm getting really excited for this year or running.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:25	6:25	0	152	183
2	6:20	6:20	0	152	156
3	6:09	6:09	0	158	160
4	6:08	6:08	0	162	165
5	6:02	6:02	0	164	166
6	6:00	6:00	0	166	168
7	5:57	5:57	0	168	169
8	5:46	5:46	0	170	173
Total	48:47	6:05	0	161	173

 Didn't count that crazy 183 HR first lap again.  Really crazy how it does that, it shoots up for about 3 minutes and then immediately drops down to 145.

6:30 am. Met Ryan at Maverik for our normal Saturday loop, we both needed to get home early to get ready for the day so we cut the run a bit short.  14 planned, cold, foggy morning, some pretty slick spots on the road but the JRP trail was clear and nice.  We kept a really good pace going the entire run, especially considering some slick spots to navigate.  We both looked like snowmen when we where done from all the fog stuck to us.

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Incline	Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:53	6:53		140	155
2	6:50	6:50		156	160
3	6:36	6:36		160	163
4	6:29	6:29		162	165
5	6:39	6:39		158	166
6	6:31	6:31		161	163
7	6:41	6:41		161	163
8	6:44	6:44		162	164
9	6:44	6:44		160	164
10	6:44	6:44		160	162
11	6:57	6:57		160	163
12	6:45	6:45		164	169
Total	1:20:39	6:43		159	169