Update from February

Time for my monthly update.

February went as quickly as January did, and the totals were close to the same.  Again, I did not get out on my bike at all.  I went on 15 runs during the month. That's one fewer than January, but my total miles were a little more, mostly because my long runs were gradually increasing.  There were 97 miles total running for the month.

Training for my first half marathon is going well.  I am still doing three lunch time runs of either 4 or 5 miles, and one long run on the weekend.  The long runs this month were 12, 10, 14, and 14.  Only three weeks now until my first half marathon, so I plan on tapering my runs until then with no more long runs on the weekend, except for the actual events.

My running event schedule for the next few weeks hopefully will include the following.

St. Patrick's Day Run Green 8K, March 5
Tobacco Road Half Marathon, March 20
Flying Pirate Half Marathon, April 10

See you on the road.

Update from January

Well, January went by quickly.  It was a good month for running, I kept to my schedule of training for my upcoming half marathon.

My training schedule has been to get out for 3 lunch runs each week.  These runs are either 4 mile runs, where I concentrate on speed (very little speed in my case, trying to keep near a 10 minute mile pace), or a more leisurely run for a full hour.  Then on Saturday I do a long run, which I will be increasing by one mile each week until I get to 14 miles.  That should be about 3 weeks prior to my half marathon. At that point I start cutting back on each long run a bit until the race.  I am up to 10 miles now on my long run, this coming weekend I will go for 11.

Totals last month were 16 runs for 89.7 miles, no time on the bike.  I found one more online site to track my training logs on, and it looks pretty good.  I really like the way I can add widgets to the welcome page, which you can see here.

See you on the road.