Marathon season is heating up, so my running is going to be increasing distance. I've got to train for San Francisco a the end of July, at which point I plan to have lost another 10lbs and be in great shape for setting a new marathon PR.
So, last month's Nike+ challenge finished. I won! Whoo hoo! With my 11 mile run yesterday, I was able to jump over the other two guys ahead of me and win by about 6 miles. Now, let's see if I can do it again for June, eh?
I celebrated by riding my bicycle to work again. That's another 1000 calories burned today, along with the 650 calories for today's 5 mile run. 14 miles scheduled for tomorrow, too.
and... after a break....
So, my training schedule for San Francisco called for 14 miles today. San Jose Fit were running 9 miles this morning, so that was a good start. I had thought I would have time to ru the extra 5 miles right after I'd got back with my group, but it didn't turn out that way. My daughter has a soccer game in Salinas, so my wife needed to leave around 10am to take her there. She couldn't take my other daughter, because they wouldn't be back in time for her game at 2pm, so I needed to be available for the trade off.
So, we met at Starbucks and grabbed a coffee and a bagel. That's my lunch for today, since I ate breakfast at 6:30am this morning, before going for my run.
Once I got back to the house, my son was finally awake -- teenagers, eh? ;-) So, now he can watch the 7yr old while I finish up that last 5 miles. Well, I don't really have a 5 mile loop, but I do have a 6 mile loop. So, that's what I ran. Total distance 15 mile, time 2hrs 4 min. Not bad.
After I cleaned up I took some new progress shots, since I'm now a pretty consistent 170lbs, which happens to be my original goal. So Whoo Hoo! me! Way to go, pat on the bad and a jolly good show and all that. Now, on to my revised goal of 160lbs by the end of July, which is what I want to weigh when I make my benchmark attempt at the Boston Qualifying time.
I guess I need to work on my tan now. ;-) Have a good weekend.
3 comments:
Wow..you're doing so awesome!!! I've been a slacker lately (well, for a few months) but I've recommitted now that I'm not worrying about the marathon :) You're definitely inspiration!
congrats on the nike win!
How are those training runs feeling for you? Are you going to be focusing primarily on road running from now until July?
Lookin good in that photo :D So cool that you've come so far!
just checked out your race calendar, and I think we might have some overlapping races in the fall :)
Dick collins, of course!
I'm thinking about trying to bag a sub 2 hour marathon at San Jose, since it's such a fast course
and I'm thinking it'd be fun to do CIM, since I didn't get to do it last year!
haha...or not on the San Jose! Didn't realize it was the same weekend as Firetrails. I don't think I'm that good of a runner yet ;)
(sorry for spamming your wall!)
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