26/30 Group: Week 1 Nov 1-7

Day 1: ran RoseBowl10k w/fellow 26/30 Dave, Lisette, Jesse, there was a 5k group as well. We ate breakfast afterwards to start our day off exercised, well fed, and w/great company.  How was your day?

Run: 6.14mi in 58:55

Well i whent for a run today . one mile I did preaty good .

ran 1mile in 15.66 min

There's nothing like a brisk, early morning run after not doing any execise for over two weeks.  It was a great wake up call.  The almond roca, cakes, snickers and all other chocolate that I can't keep my hands off of officially came to an end today.  I was already wanting to take one of my "four off days" this morning, but luckily Marvin convinced me otherwise.  THANKS!!!  It's nice to mentally think and feel that "The journey starts here!"

Did a ~3.3 mile run (longer than yesterday by 0.1 - hey it's an improvement!).  The shin splints are here to stay but I had some reassurance halfway through the run.  I remembered what Mr. Steve Mackel had talked about at our last meeting, and decided to quicken my cadence and do more lifting of the feet with the hamstrings.  Well my hamstrings started to announce their existence, and my shin splints nearly disappeared. 

This seems to be the perfect month to work on such things since we'll all be running so often.  Pick one thing a day to focus on and see if it comes natrually next time you run.  Let's see if my shin splints completely go away after 26 runs.

By the way, nice photo, Sue!!!   Am I going to have to find an even YOUNGER picture of myself?!?   (No, I don't have any...okay "many"...pictures of me in dresses...there was Halloween a couple years ago when I went as a 70-year-old Snow White!)

I guess I am going to officially join the 26/30! I was training for a half on Nov. 25 (Seattle) but my training was interrupted by a car accident (got whiplash) followed by a bad cold. So now I will just see how much I can do this month. Ran 3.5 last night in the dark. I prefer mornings, but couldn't get up the morning after Halloween  so waited until after work. Will run my 4 mile loop tonight.

-Ingrid

Day 2: Slept too late to run before work so ended up on the treadmill when I got there. I haven't done that in years. Wasn't sure how fast I should set it initially but managed to get going pretty good. Ran 5 miles in 45 minutes. Started slow, ended fast. I would have never run at work today if it wasn't for this commitment. I gave myself no choice and have told everyone I work with for added pressure. It worked. It felt good.

I am worried about running too much too soon. I usually run 3-4 days a week, usually not in a row, for 7-10 miles with hills. I've always been interested in distances and love the challenge of the hills, but I know I can't run that everyday. I'm not sure how much to cut back to on these daily runs and how far the long one should be. I have seen weekly training plans out there and was wondering where I should start.  I want to run a Half in late Jan and a Marathon in late April. Any ideas?    Thanx!

Hi Rocks2000.  Welcome.  I hope your running will be as satisfying for you as it has been for me.  Which event are you training for?  My only suggestion (I'm not a coach) at this point is, if money is a bit of an issue or you just want to save some money, do what I did last year, when I was preparing for my first marathon, I followed the FREE program from Hal Higdon.  He is a well accomplished runner and I felt great following his marathon plan.  He has FREE plans for other distances as well.  His web site is www.halhigdon.com .  I hope it helps you as it did me.  (That's me sweating, not crying.)

 I'm even following one of his plans this year.  7 miles scheduled for tomorrow and 14 miles on Sunday....YUCK!!! 

DAy 2- This is Marvin, playing administrator again under Joe's name, forgot to relog in as me. Ok it's still nov 2, 11:24pm in SoCal. I had early meeting at work, on the road all day and a planned dinner at my Mom's cross town tonight so after work went home grabed runnining shoes, dirty running shorts still on the floor from yesterday, Tshirt, and drove off.  Got to Mom's said hi dinner ready yet?  not for 30 min she said, I said  great be back in 25, changed and ran around the ol hood.  planned on 25min but stopped at 2.5 mi.  Never would of done that if I did not have to report to yall tonight!  Thanks.  Long group ride tomorrow.  Brick in the off season?  I'll see how motivated i can get. might be the off day.

 2.5mi in 22:00

ps. to margorita first way to go w/the work treadmill!  if you are increasing to 6x watch your milege, decrease from your usual at least the frist week then eval how you feel and increase if you must, just be careful.  Rocks, ( what's your name) training very hard sounds, well hard.  again just be careful and if the race is important (and more important to you then the 26/30 goal) then train for it as you see best . this 6x plan may or may not fit you.  Eventhough i believe that if you are healthy and injury free you can tweek the 6x/wk to suit you by doing the proper distances and intensities.  I'd just hate to see any of you run yourself into injury. BTW I'm no coach or expert either just a fellow runner living and learning like you. love to hear other opinions out there.

-marvin

Hey well tanxs to everyone thats send me advice. my friends call me kal.

I am  traning for  a personal goal , and mostly I just whant to loose wieght I need to loose 20lbs in 3months. I have a very important event I am in athletics at my school and I have a meet coming up  next week .

Hey do those anyone know where I could star I ran this morning (it was  the first time ) I never run on weekends(but it takes determanation)

I am ran 1mil in 14.67(is that good)

thanxs ,

kal

Per my running plan, I was not to worry about my pace yesterday, but it was important to get in my 7 miles, so while I'm down here in San Diego for the weekend, I did my 7.1 miles in 1:05.  I am reading these posts this morning because I am trying to gather more motivation to go out and do my 14 miles today.  I really don't want to, but this group is definitely helping.  I am just about the appropriate distance away from Fiesta Island (the birthplace of triathlon), so that is motivating me as well to run to that area.  Ciao for now.

 I ran 2 day 2.5mil I felt great I have never run during the week end  I did great I am tired and hungry .(I only had coffe)

out for a healthyyyy lunch!

kal

Just checking in:

11/1 3.4 miles (easy)

11/2 3.4 miles (tempo)

and

11/3 3.4 miles (easy)

All 3 were just a simple loop in my neighborhood. I was feeling a little sick last a week or so ago, so I'm taking it pretty easy. It might have just been all the pollution from the fires.

updates:

11/4 ~4.4 miles

In spite of being kind of tired tonight, I had a really good run.  I started off at a comfortable pace, and increased the speed with each mile.

Let's see... 14.6 miles so far.  I guess I'll shoot for ~28 miles this week.

So far, so good!

11/1  3.5 Miles (Normal)

11/2  5.75 Miles (Normal)

11/3  4.36 Miles (Hills)

11/4  3.25 Miles (Easy)

Total 16.86 Miles

Lenard,

you gotta send me a Muddy-Buddy picture to post!!

Quicko update...

Was thrashed on Sat after PTC bike ride.  INTENDED to brick, but didn't have it in me.  A nice 9-miler on Sunday, and then 3.2 this a.m.

 Anybody else a day (or more) behind yet?!  (Don't worry, Sue, you can catch up later!)

Bruce Rauhe

You know what they say about best laid plans...my 26.2 miles planned for Sunday turned into a big goose egg. Got sick Saturday night, lost most of my pasta dinner, bailed on the Sunday race. Weekend didn't feel like a total loss only because I got to help Tex get ready for his first marathon, got to watch him finish. He finished in 4:42!  Pretty impressive!

I thought it might be good to move around some today, despite taking the day off from work. And, yeah, taking 3 days off in a row in the first week would pretty much kill any chance I had of keeping to the 26/30 challenge. So, I did a 25 minute jog around the block. Not sure how much my stomach appreciated it, but was nice to get outside, do something exercise-y.

Back to the couch for me,

Sue

I'm a run commuter!  No client visits, meetings or appointments so today ran to work and then at night ran home.  My first 2-Per since last years 26/30.  I feel very environmental and healthy to boot.  A day with no money, cell phone, wallet, keychain, or car just my office key.  Refreshingly wierd.

AM 3.1 miles in 26:16

PM 3.0 miles in 27:29 almost ran into a pole in the darkness.

hope you get better Sue.

Ran to school today, and OOOOOHHHHHHHH the shin splints.  I can't wait to run back...

Feeling sorry for my labmates who have to smell me all day cus I'm too lazy to shower.

Hi everyone!

So I have started this 26/30 off a bit slow. I had high hopes of joining you all on Thursday morning last week but had way too much fun cruising around town on my bike on Halloween. I did run on Friday morning for 35 minutes and Saturday evening for 35 minutes while in Dallas. Plan to run a lap this evening at the bowl. Are the only group runs Thursday morning or have others been formed?

hi peeps. i'm with you guys, even if i don't see you guys.

i hit it on thursday 11/1 about half hour after you guys. my wife went running in the morning 6.30a with her girlfriend. i ran around our block a couple times. Hilly SoPas.

i ran on fri 11/2 i ran the hills around SoPas again.

On sun 11/4, i took the kids running around the hills in SoPas. One in the jogger stroller and one running, then switching. my kids are 7 and 5.

On mon 11/5 and today tues 11/6, i took to the rose bowl. went from RBAC and 1 loop around. it's cold in the morning. thankfully, the sun is up with day light savings over.

cheers!

joe wong

Hey Rich! I saw you finishing as I was driving to the Rose Bowl to start my run. Looking good there! Didn't check the website this afternoon, otherwise would have joined you.

Didn't get to run till after dark so yet another lap around the bowl. Sigh. Was hoping to do 6 mi, but was feeling pretty drained after 3, decided not to push it. Big day planned for tomorrow, still recovering from being sick. On the upside, these 3 mi felt much better than yesterday's jog.

Sue

I couldn't run Monday and wrote it off as a rest day. I took advantage of the rest and did the long run Tues. I don't know if it was the temp change ( it finally cooled off here in Fla), the day of rest or the past few days of 3-4 milers but it was the easiest, most refreshing 7 miles I had ever run.  I wasn't sore or wiped out after.  And didn't need a nap, which is highly unusual.  So encouraging!  It felt so good that I decided to run another 7 today. I know that back to back long runs isn't always the smartest thing but I had some head clearing that really needed to be done and sometimes only a long run can do it.  So I ran a little longer and added a few hills and it went great.
Tomorrow will be an easy 3 miler on a treadmill.

Day 5: no run

Day 6: 7.06  1:05:30

Day 7: 7:31  1:07:29  (hills)