A 10 Mile Walkathon

Created a new loop today, just to get some miles in. This was supposed to be an easy run after doing the 1.5 mile repeats and the hill repeats. But the heat and humidity made this run feel like a real chore. A heat advisory was in effect right at the time that I started until 8:00 PM, about the time that the storm was scheduled to move in.

Hip was a pain to deal with today. And it rained just before the run, which put a whole lot more water in the air.

I did a lot of walking to keep moving forward.

Hill Work for Building Strength in Legs, Hips and Glutes

I did another hill session today. First time I measured the hill and discovered just how much mileage I was putting on my legs during one of these little sessions.

I had first estimated the distance to be about half a track lap, a 220 or about an 8th of a mile (.125 mile). Today, I put it on DailyMile and it came out to about a tenth of a mile, which seems reasonable.

Speed Work On The Road

So today began my new venture in speed workouts.

Using the Dailymile application, I plotted out a small loop around Horseshoe Lake. After my previous run where I realized that my legs were just not providing any power, I decided that I needed a little more than a track workout but not quite up to a full-blown tempo run.

Dailymile Widget

I dropped the DailyMile widget on the sidebar. 

Dailymile has a really cool feature that lets you plot out road courses and provides you with an estimate of the mileage. 

Great way to keep track of your progress.

Create your account and give it a shot.

Feeling The Need For Speedwork

Another Hi-Lo day.

Ran the 2 hour loop and tried to put some of my speed work into practice. My thinking was since I’ve been doing all of these hill sprints and some track work, I should be able to cut some time off of the 2 hour loop so I can lengthen it out again.

Boy did I get a shock.

Marathon Training, Electrolytes, and Burnout

In spite of my best intentions, and it being one of those rare sunny Cleveland days, I felt way to fatigued to get out and do the track workout yesterday. Mentally, I was completely burned and physically, I felt wrung out. So when 5:00 rolled up, I was not motivated to go out and do even an easy run. I actually felt like taking a long nap.

In fact, I could hardly keep my eyes open throughout the day.

So instead of going through my mental motivation exercise, I stayed in and read in between some really long blinks.

Hills Again Today

Yesterday I had decent hill workout and kicked it.

Today, I got kicked... into the middle of next week.

High temperature, high humidity, and some lingering fatigue from yesterday’s hill repeats worked together to create a difficult hill workout today.  Probably should not have done back-to-back hills but it’s too late for that now. 

I was able to use different strides, integrating some bounding strides, some longer kicks, some shorter and faster steps, and some high kicks.

Felt drained, but I gave the hip a workout. I should be ready for a track workout tomorrow.


Hill run today. 40 hill repeats for an hour.  Total exposure time 2.5 hours