waiting

for new shoes to come. Went to gym and did 45 min on exercise bike while reading book, then 6 min abs (5 min abs with an extra min of regular crunches @ the beginning).

Ye gods! Foot pain!

Saturday: rest
Sunday: Gaaah I knew that a squeaky left shoe was a bad sign and shouldn't have ignored it for weeks. Luckily a new pair of shoes is coming in the mail. Boohoohoo. Biked 6 miles to Rose Bowl and back to get some semblance of exercise.

rest, 5.1

Thursday: Rest
Friday: 5.1 miles, Lacey long way, but up via Shenandoah. Also trying this thing where each easy run (assume 2 of them/week) has some 10-second all-out uphill sprints towards the end. (Mixing it up instead of just doing accelerations.) Start with 2 sprints/easy run this week and then increase that number by one each week until @ 8. See how this goes.

Weekly mileage so far: 18.5
TMS = 36

3.7 North Fields

Ran to NF and then ran every other lap running how I hoped/imagined I would run were I awesomely awesome in shape. That added up to 5 light tempo laps as the sky fell away from its peachy self into an opaque navy punctured by those really bright gym lights. Estimate each lap as 1/4 mile. That's my "speedwork" for this week. Someone told me that you can increase speedwork, or hills, or mileage, but only one at a time. So because I know the 16-week marathon plan is a steady increase in mileage (--well, it has to be--), I'm trying to use this and the next week to lift my knees up and get used to running at different gears before moving to Irvine and officially starting the plan. Wahoo!

Weekly mileage so far: 13.5
TMS = 31

Huntington: 6.3 miles

La-dee-da da...

Labor(ious) Day! 2.15

Went to the gym hoping to do some North Field or Track accelerations, but the gym was closed and the NF gate ostensibly locked! (Although there was a soccer practice going on in there...) Went to Arden and then came back through campus (2 medium accels throughout) for a measly 2.15. I think accelerations and faster runs are really important for *feeling* like I'm in shape (they make easy runs actually seem easy) so I really want to get those in. Today will just basically be a rest day with this brief shaking of the legs out.

rest, rest, 5.0

Thurs: rest (travel, sleep depr)
Fri: rest (intestinal distress)
Sat: rest (no particular reason... bad planning?)
Sun: 5.0 miles: Lacey long way

last week's mileage: (Sat-Sat 9/3) = 17.5
goal for this week: 22, including 2 "workouts" with accelerations or tempo bursts

TMS: 22.5