Today I ran a 3 mile maintenance run on the treadmill. The treadmill has a bunch of different programs you can run. You can in a straight line if you like. Or they have a track program so you can relive your high school glory days on the track. They have a cross country program and some cardio programs as well. Really there are two different routines. Flat & not flat. The flat routine is exactly what you would expect. Boring. When I would run laps I would generally set the incline to 2.0. This more accurately reflects the difficulty level of a road. No road is totally flat.
The "not flat" routines all seem the same, they change the steepness of the rake at set intervals. For the cross country programs the intervals are irregular, with a couple of spikes thrown in for good measure. The cardio & interval programs are pretty regular patterns of flat,slight hill, steeper hill, less steep hill, flat. You then repeat for 30 minutes. Part of me wonders if I wouldn't be better off just running up a steep incline for 10-15 minutes and be done with it. Especially because hills are my weakness. What the treadmill should really do is slow down a little bit when the angle increases. I mean c'mon. You have to run the same pace up hill as down? Or on a flat? True I can always change the speed myself. But maybe I am too lazy for that.
Saturday I run 12 miles. I am still low on my fundraising. Anything help.
thanks
big hugs and love
Doug
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Ultimate!
Cross training was the name of the game today. Played some ultimate Frisbee with a bunch of people from work. I already know I am going to be sore tomorrow. Last time I played with these guys I could hardly walk the next day.
There are two teams. Today we were 11. So, five to a side and one person rotated in. There is no running and no contact. The game is about running and throwing and catching. The sprinting uses totally different muscles but it made me much stronger for Sunday's training run. Tomorrow I will be getting a massage at work. My legs will thank me.
Monday, July 25, 2005
10 miles
This week I ran 10 miles at the San Francisco site. I am really feeling much stronger. I didn't get tired at all until mile 8. The first mile is still the hardest. My muscles are cold and they aren't moving right yet. Before, my warm up was a mile. Now my warm up is two miles.
A few months ago I ran on the san Diego beach with my friend Will. At 2.5 miles I was about to die. I was exhausted and angry (mostly at him for making me run so far... Just kidding, Will.) now 2.5 miles is nothing.
This is the beginning of my fundraising.
A few months ago I ran on the san Diego beach with my friend Will. At 2.5 miles I was about to die. I was exhausted and angry (mostly at him for making me run so far... Just kidding, Will.) now 2.5 miles is nothing.
This is the beginning of my fundraising.
Why I'm Here.
I have wanted to run a marathon for years. Why? BecauseI hate running. I always have. its boring. c'mon. admit it. you think so too. but I have to run a marathon, in the same way that only Nixon could go to China.
More recently, some friends from work did it. They ran the Honolulu marathon, training with AidsMarathon.org. Seemed like a good place to start. While I've been training I have really gotten to know and understand what an effect I am going to have on people's lives. I started off this training to help me get in shape. When I am done, and with your help, we will be saving lives. That's huge. i am honored to be running this marathon. and I am excited to be doing it.
More recently, some friends from work did it. They ran the Honolulu marathon, training with AidsMarathon.org. Seemed like a good place to start. While I've been training I have really gotten to know and understand what an effect I am going to have on people's lives. I started off this training to help me get in shape. When I am done, and with your help, we will be saving lives. That's huge. i am honored to be running this marathon. and I am excited to be doing it.
Up to now
This is my first post, but my fourth training run. I joined the training program late, which has given me an accelerated training schedule.
I decided I was going to run this marathon in April. I started in just before my birthday simply enough at 1o minutes. I barely did a mile. Slowly I did 2 miles. All the while I tried getting in contact with Team in Training to run this marathon with them. They kept trying to get me to run another marathon. I didn't want another marathon. I wanted to go to Honolulu. I talked to my friend Katie, who reminded me that she ran the Honolulu marathon with AIDSMarathon.org. OI! Of course. The next day I called AIDS marathon. I was late joining so I had to do a time trial on my own. I ran three miles on Thursday. (27 minutes). I was told that my pace group will be one minute slower than my time. That put me in the 10minute/mile pace group.
Aids marathon names each pace group after famous marathon runners. My group is Tegla Loroupe.
Some more history. I currently Live in San Francisco but am working in LA. This means I commute between SF and LA a lot.
I did my three mile run in LA at lunch time.
That first week with the group I ran four miles at the San Francisco site. We run out of golden gate park, right by the ocean near the huge windmill. It is cool there. Even at 9am the fog is still strong. Since everybody else was running 6 miles, I was supposed to gradually build up my mileage and catch up with every one in a couple of weeks. But instead I ran 7 miles. Just cuz I wanted to be like everyone else.
The next week (July 17th) I was in LA. Running Sunday in LA is tough! The Sunday group runs in Griffith park. It is a lot hotter there than golden gate park in San Francisco. First of all, we start at 7am. That is bad enough. There is no ocean breeze at Griffith park and it is HOT! AND we started the run going up hill! I am really weak at hills. But I did my eight miles and all was well.
At this LA meeting I finally got my fundraising packet. Reading through my packet I realized that I am supposed to be training a lot harder than I am. I am supposed to be cross training three times a week (40minutes each time), with two maintenance runs (30-40 min) plus our long training run on Sunday. What does this mean? It means I am behind. I have only done one maintenance run each week. Though last week I played ultimate Frisbee. That uses a lot of sprinting, which uses totally different muscles. good. I need to speed up anyway.
that's enough history for now.
I decided I was going to run this marathon in April. I started in just before my birthday simply enough at 1o minutes. I barely did a mile. Slowly I did 2 miles. All the while I tried getting in contact with Team in Training to run this marathon with them. They kept trying to get me to run another marathon. I didn't want another marathon. I wanted to go to Honolulu. I talked to my friend Katie, who reminded me that she ran the Honolulu marathon with AIDSMarathon.org. OI! Of course. The next day I called AIDS marathon. I was late joining so I had to do a time trial on my own. I ran three miles on Thursday. (27 minutes). I was told that my pace group will be one minute slower than my time. That put me in the 10minute/mile pace group.
Aids marathon names each pace group after famous marathon runners. My group is Tegla Loroupe.
Some more history. I currently Live in San Francisco but am working in LA. This means I commute between SF and LA a lot.
I did my three mile run in LA at lunch time.
That first week with the group I ran four miles at the San Francisco site. We run out of golden gate park, right by the ocean near the huge windmill. It is cool there. Even at 9am the fog is still strong. Since everybody else was running 6 miles, I was supposed to gradually build up my mileage and catch up with every one in a couple of weeks. But instead I ran 7 miles. Just cuz I wanted to be like everyone else.
The next week (July 17th) I was in LA. Running Sunday in LA is tough! The Sunday group runs in Griffith park. It is a lot hotter there than golden gate park in San Francisco. First of all, we start at 7am. That is bad enough. There is no ocean breeze at Griffith park and it is HOT! AND we started the run going up hill! I am really weak at hills. But I did my eight miles and all was well.
At this LA meeting I finally got my fundraising packet. Reading through my packet I realized that I am supposed to be training a lot harder than I am. I am supposed to be cross training three times a week (40minutes each time), with two maintenance runs (30-40 min) plus our long training run on Sunday. What does this mean? It means I am behind. I have only done one maintenance run each week. Though last week I played ultimate Frisbee. That uses a lot of sprinting, which uses totally different muscles. good. I need to speed up anyway.
that's enough history for now.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
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