Sunday Night: 4.1 Miles
It wasn't fast. It was steady. And no, I didn't walk at all.
4.1 miles, 45:47.42. Yes, a pace of 11:10 per mile. Not pretty, but I'm not beating myself up over it. I had no intentions of going out and burning up the concrete. I did the front 1.7 miles in 18:56.24 (11:08/mile) and the back 2.4 miles in 26:51.18 (11:13/mile).
Well, I got this in before midnight. So this one counted for July 30th.
Have you ever been shamed into doing something? Tonight's run came courtesy of Alex Galbraith of the Terlingua Track Club. See Alex has run every day since December 22, 1971. I knew this already, but at about 11 p.m. Sunday evening, I stumbled across an interview of Alex that was done by HARRA's first vice president of communications, Jerry Smith, and was archived on the Internet from an April 1999 issue of Footprints.
This question and answer made me go put my shoes and socks on and head out the door:
"Any minimum requirements for each daily run?: After I had been running every day for about eleven years I read an article in Runner's World which suggested that one should run at least 30 minutes a day to really benefit from running so I increased my minimum to four miles. I have always enjoyed running so much that this has generally been an easy habit to keep."
The other thing is that because I'm in leadership positions in the running community, even though I'm a media person first and foremost, there is a general - and fair - expectation that I should be doing more and doing it consistently.
Does that mean that I'm always going to do what others think? Heck, no.
But can I be positively persuaded while not allowing myself to be used? Sure.
I need to be consistent in a number of areas and while it is a challenge with my current job assignment, it isn't impossible to do.
Besides, I've seen what the mileage has done for fellow HRB member Keith Kelleher.
I still have my sights set on a 4:30 marathon. I just haven't committed to the plan to accomplish it and I haven't asked the right coach to put it together for me. (I know who it will be, but they don't know yet.) I don't know that it will be Houston. I should be able to run the full as I don't think Waverly will do the half again. If she decides to before the Marathon Kickoff Party, then I may implement the plan for Austin (even though they're going to tinker with the course.)
The other thing that I read yesterday or today came from the lastest edition of Runner's World - the 40th anniversary edition (September 2006). It is on page 78 from Benji Durden, who made the 1980 Olympics team that didn't compete because the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Games, and it says, "You can run more than one marathon per year. "If you do marathons too infrequently, you have to learn how to run them all over again every time." "
That, my friends, is exactly where I fear that I am at and I don't want to be here.
4.1 miles, 45:47.42. Yes, a pace of 11:10 per mile. Not pretty, but I'm not beating myself up over it. I had no intentions of going out and burning up the concrete. I did the front 1.7 miles in 18:56.24 (11:08/mile) and the back 2.4 miles in 26:51.18 (11:13/mile).
Well, I got this in before midnight. So this one counted for July 30th.
Have you ever been shamed into doing something? Tonight's run came courtesy of Alex Galbraith of the Terlingua Track Club. See Alex has run every day since December 22, 1971. I knew this already, but at about 11 p.m. Sunday evening, I stumbled across an interview of Alex that was done by HARRA's first vice president of communications, Jerry Smith, and was archived on the Internet from an April 1999 issue of Footprints.
This question and answer made me go put my shoes and socks on and head out the door:
"Any minimum requirements for each daily run?: After I had been running every day for about eleven years I read an article in Runner's World which suggested that one should run at least 30 minutes a day to really benefit from running so I increased my minimum to four miles. I have always enjoyed running so much that this has generally been an easy habit to keep."
The other thing is that because I'm in leadership positions in the running community, even though I'm a media person first and foremost, there is a general - and fair - expectation that I should be doing more and doing it consistently.
Does that mean that I'm always going to do what others think? Heck, no.
But can I be positively persuaded while not allowing myself to be used? Sure.
I need to be consistent in a number of areas and while it is a challenge with my current job assignment, it isn't impossible to do.
Besides, I've seen what the mileage has done for fellow HRB member Keith Kelleher.
I still have my sights set on a 4:30 marathon. I just haven't committed to the plan to accomplish it and I haven't asked the right coach to put it together for me. (I know who it will be, but they don't know yet.) I don't know that it will be Houston. I should be able to run the full as I don't think Waverly will do the half again. If she decides to before the Marathon Kickoff Party, then I may implement the plan for Austin (even though they're going to tinker with the course.)
The other thing that I read yesterday or today came from the lastest edition of Runner's World - the 40th anniversary edition (September 2006). It is on page 78 from Benji Durden, who made the 1980 Olympics team that didn't compete because the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Games, and it says, "You can run more than one marathon per year. "If you do marathons too infrequently, you have to learn how to run them all over again every time." "
That, my friends, is exactly where I fear that I am at and I don't want to be here.
posted by WalkSports.com | 12:52 AM
1 Comments:
Thats a good post and perspective. You have the discipline to make the races and I know you also will have the push to put in the base miles, several four or five milers and a long run per week will get you there. I'll be at the finish line for a chest bump when you make the goal!
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