Total Miles: 19.66
Tuesday: 60 min elliptical
Wednesday: 60 min elliptical + 4 (including D5K)
Thursday: 60 min elliptical
Saturday: 7.66 (including Devil's Chase 6.66 miler)
Sunday: 60 min elliptical + 8
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Devil's Chase 6.66 Miler 2019
I ran the Devil's Chase race in Salem this morning. It's an odd distance - 6.66 miles in honor of the Prince of Darkness. The weather was good, about 50 degrees, little wind and most importantly, no rain. I managed to run it more than 2 minutes faster than I did last year. In fact, my time this year is a PR for this course (but then I've only run it 3 times). My goal was to average a sub-8 minute mile pace, which I didn't quite get (8:03 pace in the event), but I'm satisfied with the result. I ran it about the pace I did the Mystic Classic 10k this summer, and the Devil's Chase course is a bit more difficult than the Mystic Classic course.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
This Week in Running 10/20/19
Total Miles: 19
Tuesday: 60 min elliptical
Wednesday: 60 min elliptical + 4 (including D5K)
Thursday: 60 min elliptical
Saturday: 60 min elliptical + 10
Sunday: 60 min elliptical + 5
Tuesday: 60 min elliptical
Wednesday: 60 min elliptical + 4 (including D5K)
Thursday: 60 min elliptical
Saturday: 60 min elliptical + 10
Sunday: 60 min elliptical + 5
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
This Week in Running 10/13/19
Total Miles: 15
Tuesday: 60 min elliptical
Wednesday: 60 min elliptical + 4 (including D5K)
Friday: 90 min elliptical
Saturday: 60 min elliptical + 5
Sunday: 60 min elliptical + 6
Tuesday: 60 min elliptical
Wednesday: 60 min elliptical + 4 (including D5K)
Friday: 90 min elliptical
Saturday: 60 min elliptical + 5
Sunday: 60 min elliptical + 6
Sunday, October 6, 2019
This Week in Running 10/6/19
Total Miles: 18
Tuesday: 60 min elliptical
Wednesday: 60 min elliptical + 4 (including D5K)
Thursday: 60 min elliptical
Saturday: 60 min elliptical + 10
Sunday: 60 min elliptical + 4
I had a breakthrough on the D5, running a 22:54 and taking more than a minute off my recent times. In fact, looking back through my results, it's the fastest D5K I've run in several years. Admittedly the course - which was never quite 5k - is even a bit shorter since the "hangout place" was moved from Osborne Tavern to Panini Pizza early this year. Now the course is just short of 3 miles. Nevertheless a 22:54 is right around the time I was running the D5K while training for the Wineglass Marathon in 2017, when I was running my fastest and before the arthritis problems kicked in. It feels good to know I can still run as fast as I ever did, given that at times during the last two years I doubted whether I'd be able to continue running at all.
I attribute the progress to the elliptical training. I've never dogged it on the elliptical, but the last few weeks I've changed my approach. My workout plan is the "hill program", where the elliptical simulates going up a hill for 5 minutes then down for 5 minutes. So that is six up/down hills in an hour. My old approach was to work harder on the uphills then take it easy on the downhills. I'm still doing that but now in the 2 minutes at the top of the hill I go all out for maximum intensity, leaning into the machine, getting on my toes, and working both my arms and legs as hard as I can. That's the only difference, but it apparently has made a huge difference in my running speed.
Typically I might be able to get one of the D5K miles under 8 minutes, but last week I did all 3 under 8 minutes and put in a 7:24 last mile, by far the fastest mile I've run in a long time.
Tuesday: 60 min elliptical
Wednesday: 60 min elliptical + 4 (including D5K)
Thursday: 60 min elliptical
Saturday: 60 min elliptical + 10
Sunday: 60 min elliptical + 4
I had a breakthrough on the D5, running a 22:54 and taking more than a minute off my recent times. In fact, looking back through my results, it's the fastest D5K I've run in several years. Admittedly the course - which was never quite 5k - is even a bit shorter since the "hangout place" was moved from Osborne Tavern to Panini Pizza early this year. Now the course is just short of 3 miles. Nevertheless a 22:54 is right around the time I was running the D5K while training for the Wineglass Marathon in 2017, when I was running my fastest and before the arthritis problems kicked in. It feels good to know I can still run as fast as I ever did, given that at times during the last two years I doubted whether I'd be able to continue running at all.
I attribute the progress to the elliptical training. I've never dogged it on the elliptical, but the last few weeks I've changed my approach. My workout plan is the "hill program", where the elliptical simulates going up a hill for 5 minutes then down for 5 minutes. So that is six up/down hills in an hour. My old approach was to work harder on the uphills then take it easy on the downhills. I'm still doing that but now in the 2 minutes at the top of the hill I go all out for maximum intensity, leaning into the machine, getting on my toes, and working both my arms and legs as hard as I can. That's the only difference, but it apparently has made a huge difference in my running speed.
Typically I might be able to get one of the D5K miles under 8 minutes, but last week I did all 3 under 8 minutes and put in a 7:24 last mile, by far the fastest mile I've run in a long time.
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