Week 9

Monday March 20th: Day off
Tuesday March 21st: Day off
Wednesday March 22nd: 5.315 miles @ 6.7 mph (8'51") in 47:07.56 @ 169 bpm
Thursday March 23rd: 3.86 miles at 5.9 mph (10'03" mile) in 38:51.88 @ 143 bpm
Friday March 24th: Day off (forgot my socks).
Saturday March 25th: ran 13.31 miles (1/2 marathon) at 6.0 mph (9'57" mile) in 2:12:34 at 163 bpm. Walked another 2.2 miles in 0:25:17 to cool down. For a total of 15 miles in about 2:37. Lessons learned:

• Hydration is important. I have to learn to manage it while I run. That seems to be a dilemma. I really don't want to carry water with me but I might as well learn to do so.
  


• I can do 15 miles on 3 Cliff Shot carbo cubes and no water. Dumb ass.
  


• I should wear sunscreen and comfortable clothing. Scraped my right side with my poly shirt I wore.
  


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  Drinking wine the night before running half marathon is not a good idea.
  


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  This run was a bit different from our Longmont flatlands trails. I just started running from our house in Westminster and made it past Lafayette bikeshop about a mile north of Arapahoe on US 287. Up and down them hills. Then walked/ran back to the bikeshop on Baseline and US287, drank like a fish, consumed a pack of Enervit R2/recovery and called Nancy to come over and pick me up. Didn't really feel that bad but felt that I should not really push it any further. Not yet. I wonder if I could average the same speed and bpm on the way back. If so, then I could run a full marathon in about 4.5 hours. Hmmm ....
  

Sunday March 26th: Day off.


Pretty cool week. Didn't do any bike nor swimming. The weather really sucks, Saturday was the only reasonable, relatively warm day with no wind. The rest of the week it's either cold or windy or both. Today is Monday March 27th and I seem to be fully recovered from the Saturday madness. Still taking today off, we'll see what the weather will be like tomorrow.


Short term goal: run a full marathon sometime in next 2 weeks? Hmmm, I'll keep it on my mind. Definitely do not drink wine the night before. The hangover lasts about first 5 miles.