September Summary

Today is a rest day so I can write this up with the risk of the numbers changing.

What can I say it’s all about the run, run and run.

• 21 workouts, 26:22:59 for 170.50 miles. There is one more run not showing on the graph below which was yesterday, the first run of Week 10
• Run, well see above basically. Compared to last month that’s 2 less runs and 8.49 miles more
• Bike zip!
• Anything else…nope nada!

As I am monitoring the terrain training this is how it’s shaping up.

As you can see overall a drop in trail running, this is really a function of life more than anything, as you can see Week 7 is over 50% treadmill, that’s just the way it is some weeks. I have a 20 miler coming up this weekend which is the first of many and the following week is the Pt Mugu 18k race, I will have to tack on some extra miles to keep to the plan and it’s only a tune up race, the Marathon is 5 weeks away.

SCM Week 8 (Step Back)

This week was a step back. It’s pretty standard practice to build for 2 – 3 weeks and then step back to rest and capitalize on the gains. It’s come on the back on a solid three weeks of 40+ miles each and also coinciding with a pretty busy and stressful week at work so it was well timed;

So this is how it shook out;

• Monday. 5 miles Recovery. I decided to have some fun in my neighborhood

Round and round and round…

• Tuesday. Off, check
• Wednesday. Oops missed.
• Thursday. 6 miles. Ran my local 6 mile out and back on a teeny tiny single track trail. It was much harder than it needed to be, reflective of bad week at work and not such a clever diet

Playing with Google Photo Sphere, click on image for link…it’s pretty cool!

• Friday. 4 miles. Fudged up the first mile with my Garmin and then just muddled through the last 3 miles…really blargh!
• Saturday. 6 miles. Another run on the treadmill, actually felt good for this one and felt that my mojo was coming back
• Sunday. 14 miles. After a tough trail run during the week I knocked these out on a local trail. I followed my nose and made up a nice loop with a fair bit (2720’) of climbing

  And that was the week. Back on chain gang next week. Pt Mugu race in 2 weeks and Santa Clarita Marathon in 5 weeks!

Running Styles…which one are you!

I came across and it made it me laugh...