AVIDRNR: December 24-December 30

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

December 24-December 30

Week 5; This has been an incredible week of training! I can not believe the results that I have witnessed this week. First of all to start the week, I had an incredible tempo run on Sunday(12/24). I did not feel as if I was running that hard, but man, I got to my turn-around point extremely fast. I also returned fairly faster than previous weeks(nearly 2 minutes). I also increased my speed workout this week. The rest of the week, I had the same experience(s) as Sunday-much faster times.

Here are the results:

Sunday: 53:44/7 mi/26:31-out/27:13-in/tempo run
Monday: Unable to run (Christmas Day)
Tuesday: 1:23:08/10.5 mi/41:39-out/41:29-in
Wednesday: 53:49/7.3 mi/27:29-out(7-fartleks)/26:20-in(7-fartleks)
Thursday: 1:25:05/10.5 mi/42:57-out/42:08-in
Friday: REST
Saturday: 2:25:59/16 mi/I ran 1 hour with Allen and the rest solo.
Mileage=51

This has truly been a GREAT week of training! It was interesting when I went in to get new running shoes on Thursday. I had the opportunity to speak with one of the reps there about the Arthur Lydiard training program. He was a big fan of Arthur's and he was not surprised to hear of my results. He has read several of Arthur's books and confirmed that Arthur's program is a GREAT program if not the best around today and really encouraged me to get one or two of his books. This served as confirmation to me that I was on to something very good, as if I needed any confirmation after seeing the results after 1 month.

As you can see I missed Monday's run due to Christmas. Had I ran on Monday, that would have put me into the 60 mile range for weekly miles. For the month of January, I plan to reach the 60's and higher as far as mileage goes. My schedule will change drastically, as I run in January due to it being the last month before the marathon. Basically, the month of February will be taper time.

Schedule for the month of January:

Monday: 10 miles at 1/2 effort
Tuesday: 15 miles at 1/4 effort
Wednesday: 12 miles at 1/2 effort over hilly course
Thursday: 18 miles at 1/4 effort
Friday: REST
Saturday: 22 miles at 1/4 effort
Sunday: 15 miles at 1/4 effort

Seeing that it was the Christmas holidays, I had the incredible opportunity as last year to spend time with my lovely nephews for 5 days:

James Byron, 10
Jordan Bryce, 5
Jonathan Bradley, 2

Here are the boys at Dick's Sporting Goods Store doing some rock climbing!