Hello. Accountability is coming. Are you ready?

Let's resurect this blog guys....

Anyone up for it?

Fastest tempo yet in 2009

I saw the storms on the radar and decided to head out this afternoon to get a tempo run before the rain. Besides, it was nearly ideal conditions with a slight wind and mid-60s temps.

I slipped on my Lunaracers, slapped on my Garmin and headed out.

The drops started somewhere on the North side of Cricket Hill and the wind picked up a little, so I turned around and made it home just as the thunder and big rain came down.

Here are the results. Pretty satisfied:

0.0067% under the belt

That's roughly how much of my anticipated fall marathon training is complete with the official start to the training yesterday: 10 miles including 800m in sprints. Did everything in about a 7:10-7:15 average feeling like I could have stepped on the accelerator at any point.

I have put on a few of those post-marathon pounds and they need to come off in the next two weeks.

2 Miles Today...

Which way to the starting line?

Back in the saddle

Enough of this triathlon stuff!!!

Well, at least until the 19th of January. I have left the "dark side" for the next 9 weeks to making another sub-3 run @ Phoenix in the RnR Marathon. Sad thing is that my fellow compatriots have been conspicuously missing at nearly EVERY run that I have done in the last three weeks. A second straight week of Weds AM LT and just me by my lonesome (and some dude that looked like Hi Guy's long lost son with tattoos) at the Leach-mobile.

I will begin stalking other blog members here shortly as I need some speed and motivation on Sundays and Wednesdays at a minimum.

Today was a 6.65 mi LT with HR @ 165 avg. Only around 645 avg/mi. Need to get that down below 630 in the next two weeks. Woods.... where are you???

nothing to see here

just another painfree 35 minute run. Dare I move up to 40 or 45???

No pain here either

So on the topic of pain free..... I have actually rebounded this week in running. My idiotic attempt to run a respectable CDC (erroneously dubbed a half marathon) caused me nearly two weeks of calf spasms. I now have completed 5 runs in the last week of over 6 miles with minimal to no calf pain.
I am now absolutely officially out for the Chicago Marathon. As a result of my bike crash, I will be doing the Half Max Long Course National Championship the week following in Las Vegas. Would be ill-advised to try to even run any of Chicago (because I'd end up running the whole thing once I got started).
Course-side nutrition and hydration will be my duty for the day. Pearman, pick it up some otherwise I'll have to leave the post(s) before you get there.....

yet another successful pain free run

Thats 2 (two) runs this week, of 30 minutes, with no pain.... I am elated.

time to try again

well after 2 weeks of NO running I think tomorrow ill go for a little trot, to test the legs. Nothing too radical, 4 or 5 miles, hopefully the pain symptoms will be gone....

more later.