18

Did 18 today. Ran from my house to the lakefront which totally sucked. The icy, slushy crap is treacherous as all hell. 3.5 miles to the lakefront then south along the inner drive to Navy Pier -- footing was good there and the rest of the way south on the lakefront all the way to McCormick Place. Pace was 8:19 -- but that included some walking over icy patches. Every winter I swear it is the last winter I'll spend here -- and 20 years later I'm still f-ing here. Going to be below zero tomorrow. Can't wait. Still overweight - 159 lbs/18.1% body fat. Down 6 pounds for the week.

Tough long run

Ran with the CRC today. Long run on VERY hilly course. Total ascent 1650 feet. same for descent. Net elevation change 3300 feet. 25 miles at 7:15 average pace, a solid workout. I'm beat...

102 miles for the week! yay!

4 more

Did 4 more miles today as a recovery from the ball-busting core/strength/power workout that I participated in at Vision Quest Thursday night. It's one hell of a good workout... but I am pretty f-ing sore today. I did a training session with Bill this morning -- which was also rough given the 11 hours of recovery I had from Thursday night's torture session and then went out for 4 easy miles on side streets in Bucktown.

I'm still fat. 158 pounds today (down 7 lbs since Monday!) with 18.8% body fat and my appetite is out of control. Lots of belly fat to shake.

Marathon course

17 miles on the course today, a recovery run at about 7:45-8:15 pace... there is still some hills there.

Back to Cricket on Fridays

Not the perfect day for returning for the Friday Ledesma Memorial Hill Run. The snow on Cricket is not uniformly deep nor trampled. The south access has a lot of deeper snow closest to the path with a deep section also right before the summit (if you can call it such). The west side is just a plain mess.
So, not so much fun for the circuits that I did today. Great time for B, but I have decided he enjoys runs when:
a. Snow creates poor footing for humans (or others on this blog that don't qualify for that description)
b. I'm exhausted and draggin' ass
c. He's been in the house most of the week and I've been traveling

I had all of the above this week. Maybe tomorrow and Sunday will be better. Off to San Fran for a run on Monday AM. There will be hills there... we'll see if I can manage them.

Moving forward, unless I'm out of town on Friday, the hill run is back on the schedule. Giddy up, boys.

Track workout #2 this week

5 x (1200 @ 5:30 pace, 200 jog, 400 @ 5:55 (Intended Marathon pace)). with some easy miles and a tunisian cirsuit to boot.

Tomorrow, hills.

Darned Spaniard

So after two days of running with Ed, I figured to put a few miles in around the Big Apple this morning before my flight. Sooo, up at the spry hour of 415a EST (that's 3a for real people), I went out to run some of the NYC course (end of it, mind you). I believe that my legs were transplanted onto someone else and I have been given the legs of a 82 yr old man. Wow..... that was a tough 6 miles. Thankfully, the buildings kept the Garmin from finding the satellites, so I have no laps to report. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

40+

Topped 40 miles for the week for the first time since late last August -- with two days to go. 160 pounds with 19.1% body fat. (My weight is going down and my fat % up???) Ran a 10-k course on my treadmill that simulates Central Park -- lots of ups and downs. I am grateful that my treadmill is capable of providing downhill in addition to uphill... Just under 48 minutes for the hilly 10-k.

Connect Four

162 pounds. 16.8% fat.

3 miles of hills on the treadmill and a strength/power/core session with Bill.

4 straight days of running. 35 miles for the week. No pizza.

Training Courses with Hills

Pick one for this weekend.

Course	Location	Distance	Climb	Elevation Change
Cary March Madness	Cary	13.1	671	1341
Lemont Hill	Lemont	11.2	788	1616
The Hills	Palos Park	8.27	448	897
Trial Run	Lake Zurich	13.13	533	1065
Home Economist	Barrington	11.38	499	994
Barrington Ultimate 20	Barrington	20	989	1996
Barrington High School	Barrington	16.37	720	1437