Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The good, the bad, and the ugly

Its been a few weeks since I have posted. Lifes has been busey and never got around to updating my blog. I have run a few races since my last post, Midwest Snowshoe Champioships, and the Human Race 8k in St. Paul, Mn.  The fact there was snow for the snowshoe race in Cable, WI was amazing. It was only my 4th time on my snowshoes all year.  The course was groomed but the slushy snow made for a tough 10k and I had to settle for 3rd about 2mins behind thw winner and 50secs behind my friend Jim Felling. I ran about 2mins faster than last year on the same course so that wasa plus. The good from the weekend was winning the 4x3k, having the fastest split of the afternoon, and having a good time with my friends.

The second race a week later did not go as plan.  80 degrees and windy on Sunday in March doesn't always make for teh best race conditions. Mentaly never was in teh race and just kinda went through the motions. I have realized over the last week that you have to shoot for a goal race or races inorder to give your training some directions and focus. Otherwise all you are doing is running into a foggy haze with no bright light house in sight.  I have come up with some goals for the rest of 2012.

Goals
5k - 15:25
10k - low 33 or sub 33
Run a solid 50k
Run 2:35 marathon

Within the the next week to 10 days I am going to pick some goals races to focus my training towards.  Until then keep running

Friday, March 9, 2012

Time to catch up and Snow running

I realized I hadn't posted about last weeks training and this week is almost over with so I figure I would post a quick run down of the weeks training.

Sun 2/26/2012 Morning Normal Run 14.5 Mi 1:44:00 7:10/Mi
Mon 2/27/2012 Morning Normal Run 10 Mi 1:09:00 6:54/Mi
Tue 2/28/2012 Morning Normal Run 11 Mi 1:15:00 6:49/Mi
Night Normal Run 5 Mi 35:00 7:00/Mi
Wed 2/29/2012 Morning Normal Run 14.5 Mi 1:45:00 7:14/Mi
Night Normal Run 5 Mi 34:00 6:48/Mi
Thu 3/1/2012 Morning Normal Run 10 Mi 1:05:00 6:30/Mi
Evening Normal Run 5 Mi 35:00 7:00/Mi
Fri 3/2/2012 Morning Normal Run 6 Mi 41:00 6:50/Mi
Afternoon Hill Training 10.5 Mi 1:10:00 6:40/Mi
Sat 3/3/2012 Morning Normal Run 10 Mi 1:09:00 6:54/Mi

Sunday I ran at Afton State Park with some friends. Its a great park with a lot of trails, hills, and home to the Afton 50k and 25k at the beginning of July. The 2 workouts for the week were a hill workout on friday with Shad and Timmy and a 14 mile trail run in slush/snow/ice on wednesday after we recieved thick wet snow fall tuesday night. All I can say is that tired out the legs. I am a big fan of snow running when either there is not enough snow for snowshoeing or snowshoes are not available.  It strengthens the legs and lungs like a tempo with out having you go anaerobic. Total mils for the week was 101.5.

Tomorow I am racing my first snowshoe race of the winter in snowshoes in Cable, WI. The race is teh Midwest Champioships so it should be competive.  The race distance is 10k with a 4 x 2.5k relay in the afternoon. I will have another post on Sunday recapping the week and race.