Pheidippides’s BodyBlog

After about six weeks of slacking since the marathon, I finally upped my mileage last week.  4 days of running, about 34 miles.  Most of it was in the 8 min/mile to 9 min/mile range, with some faster stretches.  I also ran one 3-mile tempo run in 21:44, a 7:15 pace.  To move closer to my goals I need to stretch that out to 4 miles and quicken the pace to near 7 min/mile pace.  One of my aims this year is to make tempo runs (between 10K and half marathon pace) a bigger part of my training, because they improve stamina (my weakness).

Tomorrow if time permits I will run intervals with my running group, and will use them to gauge where my aerobic ability is right now.  I felt pretty good on my 11.5 mile long run Sunday, but I haven’t had a really good aerobic interval workout in about two months.   We’re supposed to run 800 meter intervals, which I hope to run between 3:05 and 3:15.  We’ll see.

I still have a little pain in my left hip.  I definitely pulled, strained, or tore something there about five weeks ago, and it hasn’t fully healed, although it’s better than it was. I may have to get it checked out, although it hasn’t stopped me from running lately.

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