Training Log 2008.01.31 – 2008.02.10
I’ve been blog negligent for a little while, here is a recap of my last two weeks:
My left quad has been hurting a bit during some of the harder workouts. I took 2 days off, then did two easy days.
On 1/31- LA Fitness – 7.5 miles including 5 tempo miles @ 7:00/pace and felt good (no quad pain)
2/01 – LA Fitness – 1/2 mile warmup, 2.5 miles @ 8:34/pace, 1 hour 3 person racquetball (no quad pain)
2/02 – Ran with Jon L in Harrisburg – 8.5 miles averaging 8:30, last two miles were around 8:00.
2/03 – Plan was for 10 miles @ 7:25/pace. Headed out to Conewago, but was on a tight schedule to go with my wife to ChocolateFest in Hershey. I was on track and feeling comfortable for first 6 miles. A bit after the 7th mile started, I could feel a twinge in my left quad. I felt the pain staying, and stopped at around 7.5 miles (2.5 from my car). I started walking back toward the car so as not to aggravate the muscle, but I realized if I walked back, it would take too long and we would be really late to our time-limited ChocolateFest session. I ended up jogging back about 2.4 miles. In retrospect, I really wish I had taken 02/02 off, but I thought before hand that our pace would have been slower (we were averaging about 30-40 seconds a mile slower the previous weeks, Jon’s conditioning is coming back).
02/04 – Off
02/05 – Off
02/06 – AM – 3 miles @ 8:30 pace on treadmill in Philadelphia. Felt fine, cut it short to head to work.
02/06 – PM – 5.35 miles @ 8:30 pace on treadmill in Philadelphia. Felt fine.
02/07 – PM – 6 miles @ 8:30 pace on treadmill in Philadelphia. Felt fine.
02/08 – Off
02/09 – Appalachian Trail run near rt 850 with Jon L and James L. It had snowed in the morning and the trail was nice and runnable for the first 1.5 miles. It then had a lot of sections that were really rocky and some crazy steep parts too. We ran 8.3 miles in 1:44 (about 12:30 miles). The snow made the trail extremely slippery, and my ankles were getting badly beaten up (James was running behind me for a bit and said he kept expecting me to blow out an ankle). I definitely need to pick up some trail shoes this week (which will be easy, since I will be working less than two minutes from the Philadelphia Runner store). My ankles felt better later in the day, no quad pain.
02/10 – Ran 5 miles at the Carlisle Barracks with Nate and Eric at 8AM. Pretty enjoyable time, averaged just under 9:00/pace. Played racquetball with Mark for an hour in the afternoon (112 BPM). We were tied 2 games each, but had to stop because our time was up and other people had the court. No quad pain.