Training 2008-W10

Ca. 25 miles again this week:

Wednesday treadmill for 5x[2min on, 2 min off] where on=7:50/mi and off=10:15/mi. About 4 miles with the warmup jog. Running the 'off' sections any quicker and I'm not sure I could have dialed the speed back up after two minutes of panting; any slower and I would have looked like I belonged in the walking-and-reading-the-Plain-Dealer section of our cardio room. A few rounds of basic core exercises remind me that, despite increasing my running pace, I suck.

Thursday after school I joined the BME marathoners (many of whom are neither BME students nor training for marathons) for tempo hills in the Heights. About 6 miles at 8:40/mi over the elevation profile below.



Friday and Saturday it snowed, and snowed, and snowed. I shoveled out Sunday morning just enough to blast red car out of the drive and join four of the bravest BME marathoners for our weekend long run. This was snow-plodding at its best: the roads only had an inch of two of uneven, semi-packed snow. My limbs chatted ("hello, ankles"; "hello, knees") for 14.5 miles at 10:17/mi.