Hobby Jogger Training Log/discussion

Cool! I will stay tuned. Your times are pretty good for your weight and especially background (not a lot of endurance). Questions: why is your goal 5k- HM? When are those races and why are you training for both? HM training is vastly different from 5k-- are you doing 5ks and working up to HM? Just curious. Keep it up!

Goal is 5k/ half marathon mostly just because of the abundance of road races in my area for these distances. You can find a 5k here almost every weekend, and multiple half marathons fall, winter and spring. If there were mile races more often that is probably what I would target the most but there’s only one a year in my city, and no big track races for post college runners.

Had the first rust buster race today. Ran 5k in 20:26 on a pretty hilly course.

We had major snowfall this week that interrupted training a bit so happy with the race.

Monday saw an 11.2 mile run on bike greenway, at about 8:45 avg miles. Felt very good.

Tuesday was a rest day at the fire house, with some strength training.

Wednesday, 45 minute progressive tempo run on the treadmill. Avg’d 8:10 for the running dipping low 7:00s the last two miles with low heart rate. Just to be disappointed the treadmill is aging and 0% grade is really about a 2% decline. I’m on the fitness committee at the fire department so we have someone coming out to look at it.

Thursday morning I slipped on ice leaving work and took an unwanted rest day. Most paths/ and roads were icy anyway so might have been for the best.

Friday5 miles moderate on the treadmill followed by 6 15 second strides at 6:00min/mile flat pace. Knee felt totally fine after the slip.

Saturday race day. Great course, was nervous the roads would be icy but some sun had mostly cleared them. Decently hilly with 180ft of gain on the course.
splits were according to my watch

6:42, 6:44, 6:16 with the final .13 being off from not stopping the watch. 3rd mile had almost all of the downhill on the course.Great race.

I’ll round off the week tomorrow with a 11 miler pretty easy, this training schedule has me feeling strong.

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Another week down.

A large part of this block is experimenting and finding what works for me. I really enjoy this aspect of self coaching, so I’m mixing things that have been tried and true for me, with some new ideas and seeing what sticks.

I had a 10.5 and a 12 mile steady run this week. My lungs and cardio fitness are starting to feel really good on these. Like I’m barely breathing at some faster paces, but my legs are feeling so tired and my stride is getting awkward by the end. I think I need to start working more tempo paces back into my schedule, which brings me to two different workout days.

My first workout day this week I wanted to try a double. Instead of the double threshold hype I wanted to try 2 different stimuli on the same day. In the am I went for a short 5 mile progression run around a 2k gravel loop. I did one warmup lap, then tried to pick it up gradually. Did not execute pacing well and went way too hot. Too hard of a workout for what should have been a light tempo run splits went 9:00, 8:00: 7:30:, 7:25, 7:10. Too anaerobic feeling.

pm workout met my brother at the track. After a warmup we did 300m at mile effort, shooting ambitiously for a minute per rep, with a walk around the 100m curve back to the start for a rest. Only hit 5. Splits were 1:05, 1:05, 1:03, 1:03, 1:02.

Wasn't pleased with either workout both felt like I really forced it and didn’t do a good job listening to my body. Because of this I didn’t get the volume I wanted on either run.

This weeks workout I really wanted a good tempo emphasis. So I did a 10 mile progression with the first 6 at normal longer run pace around 9:00-8:30 a mile on nice smooth trails. I picked up the last four miles with splits of 8:05, 7:40, 7:35, 7:20. It was pouring freezing cold rain which made my breathing feel totally untrained but my legs felt really cold and heavy. Even though paces weren’t that different this workout felt much more aerobic and less strained like I wanted. I put the tempo at the end of a longer run specifically to make my legs tired so I wouldn’t get too excited the first mile.
Don’t think I’ll try any double workouts again any time soon. And next tempo progression I probably don’t need to do 6 miles before picketing it up. Maybe just 3 or 4. Not the greatest workouts this week training wise but I did learn a lot this week. Had a very easy 5 miler today and am taking it to the track tomorrow morning for a light hills and 200s workout. Focusing on relaxed fast running and not forcing anything. Gonna try not to worry about paces really.