Today's run was like taking your Mom's friend daughter to the prom: a little uncomfortable, some fun, and then some unexpected fun!
In the end, on a very warm day, I got the run done in heat. I felt very uncomfortable, and was hoping for water at about 2.5 miles. I just needed to get the run done! And then I realized, I am trying to concentrate so much on heart rate, that its making the runs almost go crappy. I need to go back to running on feel.
Running in the sports complex also makes me realize that while trail running can be hard, it can be lots of fun. So I gots to thinking and I know come summer time, I will have to goto Wells Mills at least once every two weeks for a nice trail run. I also need to take advantage of Freedom Fields and the soccer complex fire roads. I really enjoyed my 10 mile run in there a few years ago. Have to put getting a pair of real trail running shoes on my to do list.
The run was 5 miles in about 57 minutes and so, I think its something like a 11:24 pace ( I think). Avg heart rate was a very high 167.I have found that when I run early morning or late night my heart rate tends to be lower, don't know why???
Like I said, it wasn't all that of a run, but it was a run and I did learn a few things, so it was worthwhile.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tonights Run
Run Gone Wild II!
My runs are not exciting, I am pretty vanilla when it comes to them. But lately I feel that someone has turned up the intensity meter. This run was meant to be easy. From the start we had technical issues. Garmin didn't want to connect (it took about 6 minutes to locate satellites) then the HR monitor was all over the place, and I mean all over the place it was showing in the 180s right from the get go. After about 2/3 of a mile it finally settled down and it showed I was in the 140s. I say Hell Yeah!! Then at about 1 mile I was in the 150s and this run was now getting wild, like a college girl at Mardi Gras. This run was showing signs of being out of control.
Ah, Houston we have a problem. The alert lights are flashing!!! Pit stop is needed, good thing I am running next to woods! I can wait..no I can't...yes I can!, NO YOU CAN'T. So by Mile 1.5 I have to duck into woods. Check for ticks, check! and we are off again.
And once again the heart rate is low again. Yes, but wait I am going uphill, HR climbing as I do. NO!! Why dose this always happen!! Settle down, and I try to get the pace down, I almost succeed. Oh well, lets just get through this the best I can.
Mile 2, gone, mile 3 uneventful and then it happened. The Run took over, as I come down off the hill, I feel myself accelerating, HR is climbing, and this run is begging for beads! The sweat is pounding. I feel great and then it happened.
What is IT? It is the iPod Devil took over. A brief side note is now needed. My iPod music is all over the place, I mean all over. I have everything from classic, to metal, to hit hop, to club to whatever. When the iPod Devil strikes, its usually at the wrong place with the wrong tune (thing high tempo at the end of a long run as you are going uphill...you get it)Tonight would be no different.
What could possibly have come on? Oh my dear friends, it was sinister. It was nothing else then:
Non Nobis Domini by Patrick Doyle from the movie Henry V
Yes, a choir singing into my ear. But it was not slowing my pace, instead it was causing Me to pick up my pace. Now I want you picture this, as I run southbound, to my right across the meadow the sun is going down, so there is nothing but the orange hue of a setting sun, add to this heavenly music in my years, as light breeze nipping at my face, and my little 4.5 mile run becomes 4.75 and finally a full 5 miles. It was awesome. This nice girl of a run had turned into a wild party girl (please try to read this in the voice of Bruno Tonioli, the Judge on Dancing With The Stars)Keeping to designated heart rate or pace, gone! Trying to keep control of the run instead of it controlling me, guilty as charged!
Oh well, there will be other runs. I feel great, so something right is going on.
OK here are the numbers for today's run:
Distance: 5 miles
Time: 55:46
Pace: 11:07 mpm
Calories: 834 cal
AVG HR 161
max speed 6:45 mpm
max HR 183(somewhere around mile 5)
My runs are not exciting, I am pretty vanilla when it comes to them. But lately I feel that someone has turned up the intensity meter. This run was meant to be easy. From the start we had technical issues. Garmin didn't want to connect (it took about 6 minutes to locate satellites) then the HR monitor was all over the place, and I mean all over the place it was showing in the 180s right from the get go. After about 2/3 of a mile it finally settled down and it showed I was in the 140s. I say Hell Yeah!! Then at about 1 mile I was in the 150s and this run was now getting wild, like a college girl at Mardi Gras. This run was showing signs of being out of control.
Ah, Houston we have a problem. The alert lights are flashing!!! Pit stop is needed, good thing I am running next to woods! I can wait..no I can't...yes I can!, NO YOU CAN'T. So by Mile 1.5 I have to duck into woods. Check for ticks, check! and we are off again.
And once again the heart rate is low again. Yes, but wait I am going uphill, HR climbing as I do. NO!! Why dose this always happen!! Settle down, and I try to get the pace down, I almost succeed. Oh well, lets just get through this the best I can.
Mile 2, gone, mile 3 uneventful and then it happened. The Run took over, as I come down off the hill, I feel myself accelerating, HR is climbing, and this run is begging for beads! The sweat is pounding. I feel great and then it happened.
What is IT? It is the iPod Devil took over. A brief side note is now needed. My iPod music is all over the place, I mean all over. I have everything from classic, to metal, to hit hop, to club to whatever. When the iPod Devil strikes, its usually at the wrong place with the wrong tune (thing high tempo at the end of a long run as you are going uphill...you get it)Tonight would be no different.
What could possibly have come on? Oh my dear friends, it was sinister. It was nothing else then:
Non Nobis Domini by Patrick Doyle from the movie Henry V
Yes, a choir singing into my ear. But it was not slowing my pace, instead it was causing Me to pick up my pace. Now I want you picture this, as I run southbound, to my right across the meadow the sun is going down, so there is nothing but the orange hue of a setting sun, add to this heavenly music in my years, as light breeze nipping at my face, and my little 4.5 mile run becomes 4.75 and finally a full 5 miles. It was awesome. This nice girl of a run had turned into a wild party girl (please try to read this in the voice of Bruno Tonioli, the Judge on Dancing With The Stars)Keeping to designated heart rate or pace, gone! Trying to keep control of the run instead of it controlling me, guilty as charged!
Oh well, there will be other runs. I feel great, so something right is going on.
OK here are the numbers for today's run:
Distance: 5 miles
Time: 55:46
Pace: 11:07 mpm
Calories: 834 cal
AVG HR 161
max speed 6:45 mpm
max HR 183(somewhere around mile 5)
Last night's run
When Good (intentioned) Runs go Bad (but even become better fun)......
I had about an hour to get a run in, as the weather report was calling for some storms. I decided to try and get 4 easy miles in. Sounds good enough, right???? Yeah, sounds good in theory till you start off, and the music coming out of the iPod starts pounding away, then it became, "well lets just try to hold an easy feeling pace" which was followed by "lets try to keep the HR under 160" and transformed into "lets run by feel." For the record, I don't do the "run by feel" thing well, I never had, never will. I have tried and tried again. Last night was no exception. Besides being overdressed, sweating like I was in a sauna, I was a mess. I felt great, but I knew I was going a little hard. My heart rate didn't lie and it showed that I was pushing. Pushing is relative and given the junk miles of the past, this might have as well been a tempo run.
OK, lets take a look at the numbers:
Distance: 4.50 miles (10:54; 10:49; 10:19; 10:28; 5:11[.5 @10:22])
Time: 47:41
Pace: 10:34mpm
Calories: 764 cal
AVG HR 165
max speed 8:24mpm
max HR 178 (somewhere around mile 2.5)
OK, based upon Tuesday's run, my HR is 4 less the pace is about 45 seconds per mile faster. But based strictly on how I felt, it was great. It felt like I could have run at it for another mile. I was actually trying to hold back and go slower. I walked for almost a quarter mile, and the legs felt OK. This morning they felt a little sore, but not much. Test will be tonight, I can't wait to see how my legs recovered.
I really do feel that for most runs, you really need to have a plan and stick to it. I also believe that there is nothing wrong with slow miles. But that being said, years ago, training runs were like races it seemed, my coach always felt that the best way to get into shape very quickly was to race. He said racing got your body to remember what it used to do (whatever that means?) I do think that just based on specificity (is that even spelled correctly) if you go slow most of the time, you will go slow. But go fast in training and your body now knows what it feels like. I could be wrong but thats what I think.
Let me know what you think.
I had about an hour to get a run in, as the weather report was calling for some storms. I decided to try and get 4 easy miles in. Sounds good enough, right???? Yeah, sounds good in theory till you start off, and the music coming out of the iPod starts pounding away, then it became, "well lets just try to hold an easy feeling pace" which was followed by "lets try to keep the HR under 160" and transformed into "lets run by feel." For the record, I don't do the "run by feel" thing well, I never had, never will. I have tried and tried again. Last night was no exception. Besides being overdressed, sweating like I was in a sauna, I was a mess. I felt great, but I knew I was going a little hard. My heart rate didn't lie and it showed that I was pushing. Pushing is relative and given the junk miles of the past, this might have as well been a tempo run.
OK, lets take a look at the numbers:
Distance: 4.50 miles (10:54; 10:49; 10:19; 10:28; 5:11[.5 @10:22])
Time: 47:41
Pace: 10:34mpm
Calories: 764 cal
AVG HR 165
max speed 8:24mpm
max HR 178 (somewhere around mile 2.5)
OK, based upon Tuesday's run, my HR is 4 less the pace is about 45 seconds per mile faster. But based strictly on how I felt, it was great. It felt like I could have run at it for another mile. I was actually trying to hold back and go slower. I walked for almost a quarter mile, and the legs felt OK. This morning they felt a little sore, but not much. Test will be tonight, I can't wait to see how my legs recovered.
I really do feel that for most runs, you really need to have a plan and stick to it. I also believe that there is nothing wrong with slow miles. But that being said, years ago, training runs were like races it seemed, my coach always felt that the best way to get into shape very quickly was to race. He said racing got your body to remember what it used to do (whatever that means?) I do think that just based on specificity (is that even spelled correctly) if you go slow most of the time, you will go slow. But go fast in training and your body now knows what it feels like. I could be wrong but thats what I think.
Let me know what you think.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Todays lunch time run
I went out for a 5 mile run at lunch, and I can't wait to see the numbers breakdown, because I was all over the place. But it was a run and I did notice that I was able to settle down and feel comfortable. I see some fast improvements in the next month and then the infamous plateau.
The weather was nice, at the turn around I started to hear some rumblings, looked up and then all of sudden clouds!!! Dark clouds.
Checkout this pic from when I got back
Toady's RunDistance: 5 miles (11:13; 11:26; 11:21; 11:27; 11:01)
Time: 56:27
Pace: 11:18 mpm
Calories: 851 cal
AVG HR 169
max speed 6:50 mpm ( I sprinted across the street to avoid a changing light)
max HR 185
I really do have to say that Ocean County, NJ really could be a runner's paradise! There is enough of everything to make training lots of fun! We have some hills, flat roads, trails, parks, woods, long abandoned roads with derelicts. Yeah its kind of like that Pearl Izumi ad . Just kidding! We really don't have hills, just speed bumps. LOL
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Last night's run
So the rain managed to subside, wife took kids to the movies, and I decided to go for a run.
It was about 7:30, it was getting dark very quickly, the clouds didn't help the situation either. I didn't take my headlamp and that was just stupid on my part, because Mathistown, was very dark and scary. I swear the Jersey Devil is roaming in the woods. LOL I also need to remember to take some pictures, I want everyone to experience the ambiance. LOL x 2
So I also tried to finally get a podcast down, this was like my 4th time. I had just received my Griffin iTalk and I attached an external microphone to it. I set the iPod at high quality recording ( I had 102 MB free) and set off. I rambled and rambled, a car full of girls tried to scare me by screaming like banshees as they flashed by. I had planned on trying to go slow and once I started talking, I got very slow, like ridiculously slow. Finally after deciding I had rambled enough. I went to stop the recording and it had been stopped for quite a while, turns out at high quality, you use quite a lot of memory space. Oh well, live and learn! I listened to what was recorded and it was horrible, I had cracks and pops it was windy. I think based upon where I had it, it was bouncing too much, plus I remember reading someplace to put some foam around the mic helps to suppress some of the background noise, crackles and pops (?). So I think I found a work around for that by putting a foam ear pad from a ear bud over the mic, can't wait to try that. I will keep you informed. Hopefully I can finally put the podcast out there!
Well back to the running part, my pace was slowing, but heart rate stayed pretty good and I had no issues with breathing, Thats all good. By the time I finished I felt like I could have gone for another 2 miles, which means maybe I was going too slow. But this was essentially a shake down run to see how I was feeling, so I was cool with the very slow pace.
I did have an issue with my shoes. I went with my Saucony Omnis, mostly because of there mid sole height. I figured it would help through the puddles. It did, but at the cost of my knees feeling like crap when i finished, so I am barring them to everyday, non running use. They look good, but i never felt truly comfortable running in them.
So two weeks post surgery, I have to say that I feel very good. Plans are to go slow for a while, base train and then get on with the program. I feel good things are a coming this October. I feel very optimistic.
It was about 7:30, it was getting dark very quickly, the clouds didn't help the situation either. I didn't take my headlamp and that was just stupid on my part, because Mathistown, was very dark and scary. I swear the Jersey Devil is roaming in the woods. LOL I also need to remember to take some pictures, I want everyone to experience the ambiance. LOL x 2
So I also tried to finally get a podcast down, this was like my 4th time. I had just received my Griffin iTalk and I attached an external microphone to it. I set the iPod at high quality recording ( I had 102 MB free) and set off. I rambled and rambled, a car full of girls tried to scare me by screaming like banshees as they flashed by. I had planned on trying to go slow and once I started talking, I got very slow, like ridiculously slow. Finally after deciding I had rambled enough. I went to stop the recording and it had been stopped for quite a while, turns out at high quality, you use quite a lot of memory space. Oh well, live and learn! I listened to what was recorded and it was horrible, I had cracks and pops it was windy. I think based upon where I had it, it was bouncing too much, plus I remember reading someplace to put some foam around the mic helps to suppress some of the background noise, crackles and pops (?). So I think I found a work around for that by putting a foam ear pad from a ear bud over the mic, can't wait to try that. I will keep you informed. Hopefully I can finally put the podcast out there!
Well back to the running part, my pace was slowing, but heart rate stayed pretty good and I had no issues with breathing, Thats all good. By the time I finished I felt like I could have gone for another 2 miles, which means maybe I was going too slow. But this was essentially a shake down run to see how I was feeling, so I was cool with the very slow pace.
I did have an issue with my shoes. I went with my Saucony Omnis, mostly because of there mid sole height. I figured it would help through the puddles. It did, but at the cost of my knees feeling like crap when i finished, so I am barring them to everyday, non running use. They look good, but i never felt truly comfortable running in them.
So two weeks post surgery, I have to say that I feel very good. Plans are to go slow for a while, base train and then get on with the program. I feel good things are a coming this October. I feel very optimistic.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Today's Run 03/25/2009
This morning, I once again headed out for another early run. Out the door by 5:40 AM again. I am starting to like this whole lamp thing. Kept the intensity a little higher, for 5.5 miles my heart rate was 160 (4 more then yesterday.)
I hope that I may have finally found what will keep me going.
I hope that I may have finally found what will keep me going.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Today's Run 3/24/2009
Today's Run was OUTSTANDING!!
After getting myself from the warm bed, I got ready and made my way out the house.
Oh yeah, it was 5:15 AM, out side temps were like 22-24 degrees (with windchill it was more like 15-16).
So after donning my new Garrity headlamp and looking like a running cyclops I went out for a nice 5.5 mile run. I kept a steady pace and as was plan, kept the heart rate around the mid 150s.
I figured it would be hard, but it wasn't, it was actually easy. The miles passed with no issues.
As a side note being the comic book geek that I am, I pretended to "zap" critters in the woods with my "light beam" LOL
I started the run listening to Adam 20, the Zen Runner and at the end of the show (#7) I heard my message to Adam played. Yeah!! It was pretty funny hearing myself, but sadly I wasn't the first caller and did not win the prize. Boo Hoo, Boo Hoo.
After getting myself from the warm bed, I got ready and made my way out the house.
Oh yeah, it was 5:15 AM, out side temps were like 22-24 degrees (with windchill it was more like 15-16).
So after donning my new Garrity headlamp and looking like a running cyclops I went out for a nice 5.5 mile run. I kept a steady pace and as was plan, kept the heart rate around the mid 150s.
I figured it would be hard, but it wasn't, it was actually easy. The miles passed with no issues.
As a side note being the comic book geek that I am, I pretended to "zap" critters in the woods with my "light beam" LOL
I started the run listening to Adam 20, the Zen Runner and at the end of the show (#7) I heard my message to Adam played. Yeah!! It was pretty funny hearing myself, but sadly I wasn't the first caller and did not win the prize. Boo Hoo, Boo Hoo.
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