Fit and Strong
Today is the Rock n Roll Seattle marathon and Irene is running it. Go Irene! Actually, by this time, she ran it but I don't know her results yet. It won't be her fastest marathon, but she is recovering from a serious injury and the fact that she can race at all is a miracle.It's been a good week and I ran a total of 36 miles. My running confidence is restored after running 15 miles on Tuesday. Seriously, I was not sure if I could even run 12 miles and we (Bunny and me) didn't start out to run 15 miles. We ran along Hwy. 1 from Cambria towards the San Simeon pier and couldn't resist putting in another mile so that we could use the bathroom at the pier. We ran strong on the way back and even picked up the pace at the end.
Yesterday I did some speedwork on the treadmill, running 8x800s (Yasso 800s)after a 1.5 mile warmup. I ran the 800s in 5 minutes and took 5 minutes recovery in between. Supposedly, if I can do 10 of these, I can run a 5 hour marathon. I didn't think I'd even do 8, because I hadn't eaten more than a bowl of cereal three hours before my workout and didn't even have a Gu with me. But a challenge is a challenge and I was happy to be able to finish. I'll try again next week.
Today I cross-trained by doing a spinning class for 45 minutes. It was pretty good, not as challenging as I expected but maybe I needed to increase the tension. Whatever. As we were climbing a hill, the instructor said something inspirational. I'll leave you with this thought:
You are stronger than you think you are.
posted by Dori @ 2:31 PM
13 Comments:
San Diego! Today was the Rock n Roll San Diego marathon. Freudian slip. I noticed the error just as I pressed Publish.
I like that final thought you left us with.
Nice mileage for last week and great job on the Yassos. I never made it up to 10 - those are tough!
Oh my, oh my, thanks for that final thought. Will get back to you tomorrow with results.
Speed work on a treadmill is impressive.
I think your last thought is very true. We all need to push ourselves more!
Thanks, Dori, for the props! Ironically, we had Seattle type weather here in San Diego! It was perfect running weather! I had a really good marathon. It was an over all good day for me and I never hit that wall! It's not my fastest marathon, but not my slowest, either. I'm feeling very content right now.
You are definitely fit and strong Dori.
Love the inspirational comment and look foward to hearing about your excellent run in Seattle.
Miss you mucho.
Congrats on a good week and your 15 miler. That's great! Speedwork and cross-training, too... sounds like everything is going very well. Yeah!
Great job on the speed work and long run.. keep it up
Thanks for all your good words. Appreciate your comments.
Hope you can make it for one of the Minneapolis Marathon/Half races next year.
Anyway! Congratulations!
Good job on those 800s, Dori! I don't know how it works but have heard that same thing about the time in minutes you can run them being the time you can probably run a marathon.
Hope your friend ran well and, yes, I love that quote about being stronger than you think you are.
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i love that final thought. I need to remember that! great mileage! i'm stuck at around oh, 8 mpw. sheesh.
good job on the yassos, too. you are so strong!
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