March 12th- March 18th

Mileage for the Year 2012
1,000 miles

Mileage for the week 3/12- 3/18
88 miles

3/18
20 miles

I ran the entire 20 miles outside today. It was sunny and beautiful out. The sidewalks and bike paths were perfect running. Nice and hard packed snow. I ran my Boston prep route and added on to Tudor road and back and a couple loops around my neighborhood.

3/17
8+ miles (3+am/5pm)

I had a lot of fun running the Shamrock Shuffle 5K. I dressed up as a Lepercaun and started 5 minutes behind the field. Everybody I passed a dollar was donated to help pay for Marko Cheseto's medical bills. It was definetly hard to pass people the first 1+ mile and it was hard running in the suit. Very hot in that mask. Anyways, I didn't run too hard, but was able to pass a lot of people and I came in 26th overall. It was for a great cause and it looked like everyone was having fun. I didn't really warm up (just some jogging in place) and I didn't cool down at all either.

5 super easy recovery miles in the afternoon. I decided to do this run since I didn't cool down after the 5K in the morning.

3/16
18 miles (14am/4pm)

Things didn't go as well as planned. I was suppose to do a 10K Time Trial and I wanted to beat my PR of 33:23. I was on that pace for 4 miles, but I could tell from mile 1 that my legs didn't have it in them. I have to remember that I had a pretty tough workout on sunday and I may not have recovered from that yet. I did salvage the workout a little and did another 2 miles at pace. Here is how it went down:

4 mile warm-up w/ strides
4 miles (5:17, 5:19, 5:20, 5:21)
1:45 rest and then (5:17), 1:30 rest (5:15)
4 mile cool down

In the evening I did a super easy recovery pace 4 miles.

3/15
7 miles (6 x 100m striders)

Easy recovery pace with some striders. Legs felt good. We'll see how fast I run the 10K tomorrow morning. Gonna go after a PR!

3/14
14 miles

Snowing again in Anchorage. Not going to bother going outside. I could tough it out and run on some miserable trails, but I could also get hit by a car on the way to them. Better to be safe and run on the treadmill. 3.2 more inches to tie the snowfall record in Anchorage. Brutal!!!!

1954-1955 Anchorage snowfall record 132.6"
2012 through March 14th snowfall in Anchorage 129.4"
Average snowfall in Anchorage 74.5"

Started out at 7:30 pace and progressed down to 5:56 pace. I was actually kind of tired for the 1st half of the run. Not until the pace started picking up did I actually start to feel better. Just want this snow to go away and run outside again with regular running shoes. Gotta suck it up though. Stay tough!!!!

3/13
10 miles (5 x 800m w/90 sec rest)

3.5 mile warm up w/ strides
5 x 800m (2:31, 2:30, 2:31, 2:31, 2:28)
4 mile cool down

Legs felt pretty tired. I'm sure it's from Sunday's Marathon pace workout. This is gonna be a small cut back week. I wanna run that 10K faster.

3/12
11 miles (6am/5pm)

Both were easy recovery runs. Need to absorb the workout from yesterday. Legs felt pretty good.