This morning was a cold one. I started running at 1 degrees with the wind chill it made it below zero. I had my Underarmour cold gear cap, tights on and the only thing you could see on my face was my eyebrows and eyelashes. I had a tech long sleeve shirt and my North Face wind stopper light jacket on. I also finally got some mittens for running. I stayed warm in the run except my thumbs got cold.
I wanted to run a faster run today, but I still have a stuffy nose. Breathing with the stuffy nose made it difficult to try to run faster. My splits were (7:23, 6:49, 6:38, 6:41,6:31,6:28, 6:24, 5:59) 8.3 miles at an overall 6:38 pace in 55:13. When I got home from the run my wife was amazed and concerned, because I had icicles on my eyelashes and eyebrows. I had to keep wiping my eyes because they wanted to shut because of the ice build-up around the eyes. I feel I'm not getting enough speed work to prepare for current races and the outside weather is not helping. I think if it gets colder I might take one day in the morning and run a tempo run on the treadmill just to get some speed in. The roads are to iced over to get any speed work in. The tracks are all covered to do any track work, and there is no indoor track here to run on. I'm getting a good aerobic base which is good, but I feel you need at least one day of speed integrated in a workout. Lunch hour Ran 6.5 miles on the home treadmill in 41 minutes raising and lowering the grade. I did about 30 - 40 seconds at a 15% grade towards the end of the run (that's my treadmill's highest setting). Then I did a .2 cool down but realized I needed to get going or I would have cooled down a little longer. Evening Ran 3.2 miles with my wife and sister-in-law at an overall 11:47 pace in the pitch black night with the wind howling. Very good run my wife looked and felt strong. Her 4th day in a row running after having a headache all day. Then I ran .56 at an 18:17 pace with my three year old son Vance right after I ran with my wife. and sister-in-law.
| 