Supa Mojo Tuesday
In the words of Ice Cube, today was a good day.
Exercise Mojo
Today starts my 2 month training program for running two half marathons in October. I've been running informally which usually makes it very easy to skip running. From now until October I will run every Tuesday in the Hansons Speed Work training session; and in the Thursday Hansons running group. In addition I'll run a long run (8+ miles) every weekend. I'll start with those three but maybe will add some cross training or another short run.
So today's speed work consisted of running quarter mile sprints followed by quarter mile recovery jogs. This was to be repeated 10 times. So with a 1 mile warm-up, I got in 6 miles, with 2.5 miles of that being sprints. I'm going to try posting my times here for my own future reference, and to get your admiration/ridcule. Here's how I did today, time in min:sec for each split. 2m:05s was my target, which is an 8min 20sec mile. Every other rest jog was longer than a quarter mile, hence the longer times (no I was not running a 16min mile):
Quarter 1: 1:54
Quarter 2: 2:29
Quarter 3: 2:12
Quarter 4: 3:30
Quarter 5: 2:10
Quarter 6: 2:39
Quarter 7: 2:09
Quarter 8: 3:41
Quarter 9: 2:05
Quarter 10: 2:45
Quarter 11: 2:05
Quarter 12: 3:46
Quarter 13: 2:08
Quarter 14: 2:50
Quarter 15: 2:08
Quarter 16: 3:45
Quarter 17: 2:02
Quarter 18: 2:48
Quarter 19: 2:08
Quarter 20: 3:52
So averaged around 2:07 for the sprints, 8:28 mile. I'm VERY happy that I was maintaining that pace at the end of the run. 6 miles is as long as I've run lately so I didn't think my sprints would be much better than my jogs by that time, but they were!
Next Run: Thursday, 6 mile run. 9:30 pace target.
Food Mojo
Okay the food journal is looking very good, but it is assisted somewhat by an awful food day yesterday.
1 coffee
4 PowerBar
-12 run 6 miles
1 gatorade
8 2x tortilla pizzas
3 2x pbj
6 2x boca garlic burger
Total 23pts (w/ no APs) (target 24)
Water 60oz (target 80)
Nick
Exercise Mojo
Today starts my 2 month training program for running two half marathons in October. I've been running informally which usually makes it very easy to skip running. From now until October I will run every Tuesday in the Hansons Speed Work training session; and in the Thursday Hansons running group. In addition I'll run a long run (8+ miles) every weekend. I'll start with those three but maybe will add some cross training or another short run.
So today's speed work consisted of running quarter mile sprints followed by quarter mile recovery jogs. This was to be repeated 10 times. So with a 1 mile warm-up, I got in 6 miles, with 2.5 miles of that being sprints. I'm going to try posting my times here for my own future reference, and to get your admiration/ridcule. Here's how I did today, time in min:sec for each split. 2m:05s was my target, which is an 8min 20sec mile. Every other rest jog was longer than a quarter mile, hence the longer times (no I was not running a 16min mile):
Quarter 1: 1:54
Quarter 2: 2:29
Quarter 3: 2:12
Quarter 4: 3:30
Quarter 5: 2:10
Quarter 6: 2:39
Quarter 7: 2:09
Quarter 8: 3:41
Quarter 9: 2:05
Quarter 10: 2:45
Quarter 11: 2:05
Quarter 12: 3:46
Quarter 13: 2:08
Quarter 14: 2:50
Quarter 15: 2:08
Quarter 16: 3:45
Quarter 17: 2:02
Quarter 18: 2:48
Quarter 19: 2:08
Quarter 20: 3:52
So averaged around 2:07 for the sprints, 8:28 mile. I'm VERY happy that I was maintaining that pace at the end of the run. 6 miles is as long as I've run lately so I didn't think my sprints would be much better than my jogs by that time, but they were!
Next Run: Thursday, 6 mile run. 9:30 pace target.
Food Mojo
Okay the food journal is looking very good, but it is assisted somewhat by an awful food day yesterday.
1 coffee
4 PowerBar
-12 run 6 miles
1 gatorade
8 2x tortilla pizzas
3 2x pbj
6 2x boca garlic burger
Total 23pts (w/ no APs) (target 24)
Water 60oz (target 80)
Nick
