Saturday, August 28, 2010

Marathon Training Week 14 of 23

Week fourteen has come and gone, fairly uneventfully. I've knocked down the heart rate range for cross-training and plan to pick that back up next week. My long run was only 8 miles, and for some reason I felt tired and bored. I had my iPod, listening to an audiobook of short stories that were not very engaging. Maybe that was the problem. Or maybe it was that I went out fairly fast, feeling like I *couldn't* run slower, which made it hard to finish well? I don't know -- I just hope next week's 18 miler wil be better than this week's 8-miler in terms of boredom and do-ability. Only one way to find out (no iPod this time!)

Here's the boring stuff:

Week 14 totals:
Running Distance: 20.35 mi
Running Time: 03:33:01 h:m:s
Avg Speed: 5.7 mph
Max Speed: 12.6 mph
Avg HR: 145 bpm
Max HR: 172 bpm
Calories burned: 2,598

Cycling Approx Distance: 00.0 mi
Cycling Time: 00:00:00 h:m:s
Approx Avg Speed 0 mph
Avg HR: n/a bpm
Max HR: n/a bpm

And here's the link to week 14's long run of 8 miles.

Sum totals so far:
Running Distance: 318.31 mi
Running Time: 55:32:20 h:m:s
Avg Speed: 5.7 mph
Max Speed: 12.8 mph
Avg HR: 149 bpm
Max HR: 182 bpm
Calories burned: 41,891

Cycling Approx Distance: 207 mi
Cycling Time: 10:52:50 h:m:s
Approx Avg Speed 19 mph
Avg HR: 127 bpm
Max HR: 153 bpm

Monthly Running Mileage Totals:
May: 23.68 mi (24th thru 31st)
June: 95.02 mi
July: 104.11 mi
August: 95.5 mi (1st thru 28th)

Previous week's totals:
Week 13 totals:
Running Distance: 34.35 mi
Running Time: 05:55:39 h:m:s
Avg Speed: 5.8 mph
Max Speed: 13.2 mph
Avg HR: 149 bpm
Max HR: 176 bpm
Calories burned: 4,514

Cycling Approx Distance: 00.0 mi
Cycling Time: 00:00:00 h:m:s
Approx Avg Speed 0 mph
Avg HR: n/a bpm
Max HR: n/a bpm

And here's the link to week 13's long run of 16 miles.

~ Keith

2 comments:

KandN said...

The book can make all the difference in the world!

Can Opener Boy said...

For sure! The right book and I'm lost in another world. The wrong book and I'm slapping at mosquitos, annoyed and vexed.