sourpuss's training log

[Sharla]

I was doing a little research online yesterday and this race is starting to sound a lot harder than I originally thought. Oh well, I'm committed now.
It's 7 miles, not six. Which is fine, I'll just run slow if I have to.
I was looking at old results and saw a name I knew. A guy who is a personal trainer and elite runner. He did it in an hour. So I'm thinking 1 hour and 20 minutes.

It's hard to tell with these things isn't it! I mean so much depends on how much you like hills compared to him and well rivers - there's something I haven't ever come across so I wouldn't even know where to begin taking that into consideration!

I'm meant to be doing a marathon in September but uni has made it very difficult to train properly this week. I'm telling myself it will be ok if I don't push too hard as well. I'm really 100 % sure I'm mature enough to actually do that though!

[sourpuss]

Yeah, I know what you mean. If you're a competitive person, it's hard to be sensible about what your limits and abilities are when you're actually out there running or competing. You'll do fine though, you're in great shape.

[Sharla]

Yeah, I know what you mean. If you're a competitive person, it's hard to be sensible about what your limits and abilities are when you're actually out there running or competing. You'll do fine though, you're in great shape.

Well I don't think i'm in the best shape of my life but I'll take the encouragement anyway.

Let us know how your river crossing goes - sounds like fun as long as it's no cold where-ever you have to do this race.

Good to see you're back and you didn't leave us too by the way!

[sourpuss]

My coach is out of town so we don't start training again for a few more days.
I'm just focusing on running until the race. Today and tomorrow I'll do 1 hour runs and then probably something light on Monday. I've never run for and hour and a half straight before so this should be interesting.

[sourpuss]

Well yesterday I ran for an hour, for the first time ever. It wasn't as ahrd as I thought it was going to be and I could have went farther when I was done. So that's a good sign. But I didn't plan right and I hadn't had any water all morning and then I set out for the run at noon and it was really hot. So I got really dehydrated later in the day and didn't feel too well. Lesson learned.

[sourpuss]

I did a trail run today that I think is pretty close to the actual race course only 2.5 miles shorter. I think I can average a 12 minute mile if I take into account all of the spots where it is too steep to run and obstacles like fences and rivers, etc. Which would put me under an hour and a half. That's my goal anyway. We'll see, the low for the night before is 34° so I'm hoping it's a little warmer than that by 9am when the race starts.

[sourpuss]

Back in the gym tonight. Yay!
I'll ride my bike there (3 miles) and back. We're there for 2 hours and I assume my coach will have us doing a lot of sprints and conditioning stuff this first day back. (the others from my club can't seem to bring themselves to do any conditioning on their own....BOO!)