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Category Archives: training technique
Day 1 Week 17 – Getting Ready For Racing
8 mile easy pace + 6 strides, cool & 71 degree Entering the last week of my Marathon Specific Phase, I feel recovered from the Saturday’s 21 miles run. My body shows no sign of fatigue as if my empty”tank” … Continue reading
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Day 6 Week 16 – What Does “Spent” Feel Like?
21 miles long run (230 minutes), cloudy & 78 degree. Running consumes energy. For average person, that is about 100 calories per mile. And our body is capable of storing up to 2000 calories. So for endurance running, 20-21 miles is where … Continue reading
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Day 1 Week 16 – Tempo Intervals Reappraised
2 miles warm up, 6 x 1 mile @ 10K pace w/ 90 second rest, 1 mile cool down, sunny & 84 degree Today’s tempo intervals was more ominous in thoughts than in reality. First, the weather. The sun was … Continue reading
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Day 6 Week 15 – Fast Finish Long Run
16 miles (8 easy pace, 4 steady, 3 tempo, 1 cool-down), cloudy & 76 degree Another high volume workout (distance + intensity). Incorporated the “fast finish” in my long run. The goal was to prevent marathon fading while finishing strong. So … Continue reading
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Day 5 Week 15 – Balancing Fun & Fitness
6 miles easy pace, cloudy & 71 degree. The marathon specific phase of the training is high volume. Meaning it’s both long in distance and high in intensity. Sounds ominous? Only if you let it. I have determined to keep … Continue reading
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Day 4 Week 15 – Running On Empty (Stomach)
6 miles steady pace, 1 mile warm up & cool down, cloudy & 76 degree. I am a morning runner. Not only I like to run early to get my blood circulating, I run without ingesting any food other than … Continue reading
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Tagged daily writing, marathon, training
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Day 3 Week 15 – Running Intensity?
6 miles easy pace, cloudy & 81 degree. Still tired this morning. Not sure if I was feeling the carryover from yesterday’s high volume workout or from my trip to the Big Apple. But the “easy pace” felt harder than … Continue reading
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Day 2 Week 15 – High Volume Alternating Tempos
3.3 miles warm up, 6 mile alternating tempos btwn 8:00 and 7:40 w/ no rest, 3.3 miles cool down, cloudy & 73 degree. Actual splits: 8:00, 7:27, 7: 59, 7:30, 8:03, 7:35. Ran the alternating tempos on local school track … Continue reading
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Tagged daily writing, lactate threshold, marathon, training
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Day 1 Week 14 – Connect With Self
5 miles easy pace, 6 X 20 sec. stride, light drizzle & 77 degree I am an introvert. I prefer working things out in in my head before announcing publicly. However just because I am an introvert, it does not … Continue reading
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Day 6 Week 13 – Body Intelligence Meditation
20 miles (220 minutes) long run, cloudy & 67 degree Long run today ended up 20 miles and 3 hours 40 minutes. A bit longer than I originally planned but why not. Had good company of fellow SRCers (Brandon, PJ, … Continue reading
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