. Running is really quite simple for me , to run long I have to run long and to run fast I have to run fast and to run long and fast I have to run long and fast and to run really long I have to learn to run slow and eat like a horse
March saw a 10% increase in volume over February and April will be a 10% increase in volume over March... at least that the plan. I am pretty much where I need to be with the 100 mile looming at the end of May. There were no races in March and only two long runs a 43 km and 46 km run at the Y.
Ran a total of 36 times in March not missing a day. The breakdown is as follows...
Snow Shoe - 3 Runs for a total of 12.2 km
Treadmill at Work - 22 Runs for a total of 141 km
Road - 1 Run for a total of 15.2 km
Trail - 8 Runs for a total of 75.1 km
Track - 2 Runs for a total of 89 km
Looking forward this month I have a 1/2 scheduled April 9th and my first Trail 50Ker April 30th . They should fit pretty well with the Ks I need to log to get to the 100 miler.
Just a little 5Ker on the backyard trail before work today. 1C , Sun , no wind made for a rather pleasant running. Still about 20% icy sections that were a must walk and even then it was dam slippery.
Its Monday and I am back to work on Eves. Its pretty cool when work = get your run in... logged a 7Ker at a mostly 5:00 pace with 0.2 K 4:45 farltleks at 4,5 and 6 K mark with a cool down ending in a 0.3K walk.
Wasn't sure what I wanted to Run today. Was leaning towards long at the Y but the Sun was shining and was just a little above freezing so I decided to take to out side. Started looping the backyard trail then decided to take it on the neighboring trails. Ended up running trails , road, back road, tractor trails and more trail logging 15.2 km ...I am happy with that.
This was too cool not to borrow so I can come back to it from time to time. Got it from a down under trail run magazine free dl .... "TrailRun" VOL3. ED13 // WINTER 2014 // AU/NZ/ASIA. The editorial is by a fellow named Chris Ord.
Ticking away the moments that
make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an
offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground
in your home town
Waiting for someone or something
to show you the way
- Time, Pink Floyd
I look at my daughters, four and six. I
watch them dart around the garden. Doing
everything at once and nothing at all. And I
yearn so badly to be a child in that moving
but endless moment again.
That moment is one where time exists as a
broken metronome. Tick. And the tock takes
hours to show up, despite it only taking a
second.
As an observer – a supposedly ‘grown-up’
parent – my kids’ two hours running around
barefoot, climbing the apple tree, laughing,
bickering, sulking, crying, laughing, takes but
seconds. I look down to my computer screen.
I look up two seconds later and they have
had five lifetimes of adventure (I can see it
in their smiles and the grass stains on their
knees). Yet I have only half written these first
paragraphs.
The universe, apparently, is expanding
at an accelerated rate and so to my life is
accelerating; time is speeding up, robbing me
of my life, stealing my children’s childhood,
running me out of time faster than I could
ever have imagined back when I was up that
backyard tree plucking at the juicy apples of
my own ‘when I grow up’ dreams.
Life. Slow. Down. … … … Please.
Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
No one told me when to run. I missed
the start, absolutely. But when I did start
to run, properly run, I tried to (and still try
to) do it like I was a child. Like I wasn’t late
to the party. Like life had only just begun.
Like my kids. But you can’t outrun time.
Nevertheless, I try. I run more. And in the
moment it works. When I am not running, I
am going faster. Everything swirls around me
– life, family, work, friends, events, words,
jobs, happenings, dishes, renovations, crises,
dinner, stop, stop, stop. Give me a moment.
And I run. Into the trees. And my watch,
thank Christ, doesn’t work. And so I am
timeless. I’m running but I am going slower
than I have for decades. Maybe I haven’t
gone this slow since I was darting around the
backyard as a child. And so I run further into
the trees, away from time.
And you run, and you run to catch
up with the sun,
but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind
you again
The sun is the same in a relative way,
but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer
to death
Every year is getting shorter
Technology, the pace of connected life, the
number of emails, the rate of my Facebook
updates, the sheer number of things I am
now plugged into…everything is being
crushed under the weight of having access
to the entire world and its vast store of
information. I can talk to anyone on the
planet, yet I don’t think anyone is listening,
really. Everyone, including me, is just talking.
Louder, quicker, more. I eye off the trees.
They look quiet. There’s no-one there. Not
even time Herself.
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
is
the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I’d something more to say
There remains sixty seconds in a
minute and sixty minutes in an hour. But
that doesn’t mean time hasn’t sped up.
For thousands of years, the Schumann
Resonance or pulse of the Earth has been
7.83 cycles per second. Since 1980 this
resonance has reportedly risen to over 12
cycles per second. Even if you don’t subscribe
to the theory, look at it the perceptive
way: what you can fit into 60 minutes (or
sixty seconds) today, took much longer
yesteryear. Communicate to your friend in
England? Three months back then. Today,
a millisecond. Travel from Melbourne to
Sydney? Months once upon a time. Today,
you can get there in a few hours by plane.
And what you are expected to achieve in any
one time span today is much, much more
than ever before. Just ask your boss.
Effectively, time has sped up because we
squeeze more action (if not result) into each
tick of the clock. More, more, rush, rush,
squash it in. It is no wonder our perception is
one of accelerated – or looking at it another
way, lost – time. And the feeling that we
have no time for anything. Especially the
important things.
Perhaps, then, it is a good thing, that I am
not a runner who tries to go fast. In fact,
running for me is all about slowing down.
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside
the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic
spells
5Ker at lunch today. Feel like I am fully recovered from the back to back long ones on the weekend. I think I will get another back to back in this weekend. May or may not hit the Y or perhaps take it to the streets and trails...so flicked!
New phrase Maximum Average Heart Rate derived by running your Max Speed for 30 min averaging the last 20 min of the run. That more or less what I did in the last 10K I did an AVG 161 bpm therefore my MHR is 144 BPM ... below this is my " Aerobic Zone" where 90% of my time should be and is spent. Above 144 it is my Anarobic Zone ..... not such a good place to hang out.
Inadvertanatluy I have been doing something right and have been training my body to burn body mass vs glycogen.
Another 5Ker logged at lunch. My cadence has really increased and the HR has dropped considerably. Must be something to do with the back to back long ones ... cleaned the pipes out I guess. Notice that my vert osc increased when I moved to the front of the treadmill in the later stages of todays Run!
Headed out again with Grant today. He had a planned 25Ker after yesterdays Y run so I decided to join him. It wasn't too bad but I was definelty feeling the 46K I did yesterday. The weather was nothing short of amazing , bright Sun no wind and temps just at the freezing mark. Wore a single layer , tights with compression shirt...slightly warm but OK. Logged a total of 25.2 Ks in 3hrs21 min.
46K logged on the track at the Owen Sound Y yesterday with Grant. Once again I ran on empty ...no calories just 3L of water and E Load Caps . Tried to get to 40K in 4 hours but was a few minutes off the time. At around 32K mark I "hit the wall " and geared down to about a 6:30 pace ...no big deal but thats when a few calories would have helped. Ran through 43K then I walked the last 3K to aid in a quick recovery. Hitting the trails at Allan Park this afternoon for a planned 25 Ker.
5K the usual way on the treadmill on my meal break today. Still have the right leg trying to collapse 3-8 min into the run. It was bad on Sat and Sun but just tweaked me a bit today.
Before my " lunch run " I weighed in at 169 lbs...yikes! I haven't gone under 170 since the Summer of 2009 the year I re-shingled my roof! I gotta start drinking more Beer ...bring on the Hammock!
Logged 12K on my meal break exactly like last weekends run. HR was a little higher mostly mid Zone 3.
Its not often I miss a blog post but I forgot to add my Wednesday Run a combo of road and trail logging a get er done 5Ker.
Another backyard trail run yesterday logging 10.5 km's looping away. It was still 80% covered in Snow and Ice so it was tough slugging but I was loving it.
Circled the snow free trail in Blue
I wasn't the only thing running in the forest yesterday. Shot this on the way home.
9.7 km logged looping a snowy or should I say very hard packed icy trail yesterday. It was just one of those runs that was incredibly slow because it was incredibly tough. I could have doubled the Ks hitting the road but I recognize the value of a tough run...what I do on the weekends isn't easy! I went longer then I expected , 1hr57min yeah pretty slow for 9.7 km and yes it was running!!!!
More or less the same as yesterday. Missed a couple of fartleks when I blew the safety strap LOL...not really it sucks! The collapse leg came a knocking but I didn't fall down. 12K logged just like earlier this morning.
12 hour night shift so that makes for a longer lunch thus longer run. 12K @ 5:00 pace with 4:45 fartleks at 4,5,6,7,8,9 and the 10th K it was a .5K fartlek followed buy a long cool down.
Funny thing happened the last 2 runs a few minutes in my right leg collapsed as a result of a very brief , very intense pain. I am able to run through it but its just weird and a bit startling.
Yesterday breaking trail took a huge effort. Made a total of passes over my 1K of trail and it was just starting to get a touch easier when I packed it in. Once again today I woke up after about 5 hours of sleep , had breakfast , tried to go back to sleep but wasn't successful so what the heck I decided throw the Snowshoes on again. It was a whole lot easier but still a little tough. Logged a total of 4.1 km in 59 minutes.
A good dumping of snow made for a rather messed up day. Couldn't get into to work at midnight our road was impassible. Slept some overnight and got up with the Sun to do Snow. Finished in good time then loaded up the car and headed to Blue for a few hour of Alpine Skiing. Got home after noon and had a bite before heading out for a Snowshoe Run. I dont think I have ever put out as much effort as I did today taking nearly 25 minutes to cover the first K ... YIKES. I walked the first K then tried to run albeit rather slowly on the second lap but that was it. Now I do have a really good trail broke in the knee deep snow so lap 3 would have been a little easier but I was exhausted and called it a day heading home logging 2.3Ks in 49 minutes!!!!! I had no problem cathing a few hours of sleep late in the afternoon!
I am a little behind on the blog ... stupid snow, stupid night shift!
Slept less then 4 hours ... rather lousy sleep after Mid 1. Strangely enough I woke up and felt like going for a trail run. It was just starting to snow and all that was required was the Gortex , Gaitors and Yaktrax and I was good logging 5.5Ks.
Snowshoe - 5 Runs 31.8 km
Treadmill - 17 Runs 103 km
Track - 3 Runs 125 km
Trail - 6 Runs 41 km
There were no races this month. I was suppose to do the Oracle Race but was a DNS. I was happy with the distance I covered and the 3 long runs at the Y were very good. I am pretty much where I need to be now and should be able to increase the volume a little bit each of the next 2 months.
Marked the leap day with a 7.3 km run looping the backyard trail. The weather was really windy and really snowing hard but I was sheltered by the hill and heavy cedars so it was really kind of neat. The surface was rock hard after the thaw/freeze and it was quite uneven very good training for ITT LOL!
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