Growing-up’s BodyBlog

Well, on Monday evening they run of participations, they said to come back on Tuesday, same story, Wednesday… same story, on Thursday I told my office I will be going first to the Runners store before and… all sold   Usually they run out of 10 km first and there are always 22 km left for the run; not this time, every one that is going to run Tamarindo took this one as training camp.

Well it started at 8:10 nice weather, 22C (71,6F) first lap felt full of energy, with a speed of 5:23 min/km - 10.5 km in 00:56" I’m walking on water.  Nice, starting second lap, kept my pace this time I’m on fire, to take on the flats of the course, holding my pace down to relax after the climb of Intel, first group of people is catching on me, meaning I’m slowing down.  Finished in 02:10".

How I felt?
For one thing, my speed is catching up nice, but I have to do more hill training.  Shoulders and back hold fine for the whole run, def. more and more I’m convinced that people should do some kind of cross training for long distance running.
I use a sweek mixture of 1 Gatorade (sorry people of Powerade) with 1 bag of serum (powder) and 1 bag of PowerBar Gel / refuel; Step 2.
What else?   Not much, just happy to be alive and well.

Today while doing one of the last runs for 16 km I run out of fuel in the sense I had to stop run stop run for the last leg of the route.  Could be the temperature 27C, could be the humidity 58% but I did felt not that well for next Sunday’s 22 km run of the Powerade Challenge on the 23rd
I’m starting to question if the nutrition I followed was the correct one or not.
Also I’m considering that I will need to carry my own hydration in a runner’s camelback.
Too many questions for a run, that I feel I need to resolve before this next week is over.

Have not, could not, go for the last two weeks, and have not run for the last week once.
What has happened?  The evil tooth extraction!  this is what happens when they do all things wrong since the begening the tooth in this case the molar starts to suffer until there is nothing left to do.  I these days that is a terrible sin.

Today I will be there, lifting light just to recover a little of weights air.  In preparation for the http://www.run.com/showroute.asp?map=932445 Reto Powerade.

Today we were bless with a great day for running, starting at 8:30 sharp the day was overcast, with very little wind to the west, and a temperature of only 22C / 71,6F.  Total distance was 11.8 km / 7,33 miles.

I was able to finish it in: 00:54:20" achieving a pace of 4:36 min/km.

Tight spots were the usual suspects climbing to the Alto de las Palomas.  I’m very happy with the results:

830 kCal, 15% Fat,

Heart Rate Max: 180 bpm / 102% climbing the Alto de las Palomas, Average Heart Rate: 167 bpm / 94%.

Wish you peace, I just took a power nap, I feel pretty happy.

Yes tomorrow I will get my participation for the Clasica Santanena (Santa Ana, Calssic race) 23 years of being organized and raced, one of my first races when I was in School, and still love it.  Now that I live there in Santa Ana, it has more meaning.  It is fast race but like all races in Costa Rica, you have a lot of hill work to do, up hill, down hill it has it all.

See you at the finish line.  Enjoy.

For all my American Friends, happy 4th of July.
Train well burn all those extra calories of the celebration, and drive home safe.

This coming Sunday we will be running the "Reto Musmanni" just another 10 km run, with the characteristic that it has a climb of almost 3.7 km, starting Musmanni Pavas 200 metres east from the American Embassy making circuit in Panadería (bakery) Musmanni Escazu and returning to the the starting point, climbing another 2.7 km.  What goes around comes around.  I’m not afraid of the climbs but the fact that what goes up, must come down!  Thinking about the strategy, I will hold my taper and hold a step of 5 min /km.

This is going to be a lot of fun.

After Sol y Arena in the province of Puntarenas I have started training as hard for the coming of the Reto Jaco Extremo, something like the Jaco (beach) Extreme Challenge.
Training is happening with good results, I’m feeling as strong as I was ready for the Sol y Arena, running every other day in the morning for 10.1 km in a circuit near my home, and in the afternoon for one hour in the track located in San Antonio of Belén, Heredia.

Part of a good training is the good food you need to consume in order to keep training!  I’m getting that from the Holy Week food.  As Christians - Catholic that I’m the tradition at least in Costa Rica is to eat a lot of sea food.  All the Omega group present, raw proteins, and yesturday for Good Friday I ready a Paella that the rest of the family enjoyed.

After eating clean for the whole week, the only thing I will like to add is that we should celebrate Holy Week every other week

I think that in the end that is what matter, after 11.5 km (7,15 miles) I think we enjoy the challenge of climbing for more than 40 minutes with small recoveries and then more climbing.  The final time was around the 01:13:03 (waiting for the official time), not bad since she does not like the sun or going out for a run.

My GF. like the fact that she was just 3 minutes behind of her neighbour and we finish before the time I set for the race to finish considering her endurance level 01:15:00.  Not bad for her first race.

This year I got my clean bill of health specially my knee is now rehabilitated to run.  I started early in Dec. 08 and I have felt again the power of long distance running.
My GF. called me early this week (Tuesday) and told me she will like to run the UNED sin límites (UNED Unlimited) road race 11.5 km.
I asked her if she has been training since every time I told her that I’m going to her place to go out training she kindly says that she is doing something else.

Well I told her that since I don’t know how she is (what is her current state shape) I told her that I will help her through the race as a recreational run, she agreed, yesturday she called me saying that she will like to finish the run in a better possition than 01:20:00 which is aprox what I think we might end it.  Oh well, she is opening a nice challenge, I will let you know how it ended.