Running
Last Saturday I had a 10 mile run scheduled. I was a little nervous because the week before I had barely completed a 9 mile run. I decided to go down to Lady Bird Lake (Town Lake) and run the trail there with the rest of the runners in Austin. I’d never been before, […]
I hit the hundred mile mark on my shoes last night. I bought them shortly before starting the marathon training during my mom’s last visit to Austin. After last night’s run I am at 100.88 miles according to the shoe tracker on MapMyRun.com. A lot of those miles aren’t part of the “official” training (59.45 […]
It has been three weeks since I’ve started running as part of my marathon training. So how are things going? Not bad. So far: I’ve run 48.62 miles I am currently averaging 8 min 33 sec per mile (week three) My longest run was 7.39 miles in 1 hour 12 min. On average my weight […]
Last Monday I ran Yasso 800s. Basically you run at one speed for 800 meters and then run at another speed for 800 meters then repeat for whatever distance you want to cover. In case you aren’t up on your metric system 800 meters is just shy of half a mile. That is a long […]