30 minutes on the "dreadmill"

Walked 30 minutes with Lucy this morning. I guess walking is now a workout!

In the afternoon I drove over to Shawsu and ran 30 minutes on the treadmill keeping to a nine minute pace. I have to keep reminding myself that this is equal to a 6:37 pace at age 30. I tried to use the same running posture that I use on the roads to minimize back issues. We'll see if it works.

I wore my HRM. It didn't go past 70% until around 18-19 minutes. From then on it slowly creeped up into the 75-77% range and stayed there.

Napping

Ran the college today ( with some walking thrown in at the end ). 65 minutes, most of it with Danny.

At noon I walked for around 40 minutes with Lucy. I was planning to run on the treadmill too but I ended up falling asleep and napping for about an hour. Decided to put off the treadmill until Friday.

Not sure that the treadmill and elliptical aren't hurting my back. Have had persistent problems the last month.

Big hat, no cattle day

60 minutes of running with Danny over at WVC. Threw Valle Vista into the mix. Got in a ten minute  walk-cool down.

At lunch I walked to Tom's and back with Bob. Another hour. Then drove home and picked up Lucy ( the wonder dog ) and walked some more.

So...maybe 60 minutes of running and 80-90 minutes of walking.

Exhausted....gasp...

200-200

30 minute walk with Lucy. Then I drove over to Foothill College and ran an easy twenty minutes followed by 32 x 200 with a constant 58-60 second 200 followed by an easy 200 jog.

Memory run....

Opted for three quality days this week versus four days of slogging.

Another shock

It was just Danny and I this morning. Tom was off to the lake house in upper Wisconsin (think cheese). We ran a very easy 60 minutes around the college as usual.

In the afternoon I went to Shawsu and cranked up the pace to 8:30 and ran it for 13 minutes (1.5 miles). A short sharp workout at the pace I hope to be running soon. No question it was a shock just like three weeks ago when I got on the treadmill and started running a 9 pace. But after around 5 minutes I settled in and began to feel comfortable. Just decided not to push it for too long.

None of these paces sound very daunting but if you age grade them, you'll get the idea.

A 9 minute mile is the equivalent to 6:37 at age 30  and 8:30 is equivalent to 6:15.

It's a shock because I have been running 10-11 minute miles which is roughly 7:30 to 8:00 pace.

Big Day

Big day.

60 minutes of run walk (3-1) in the morning with Danny and Tom. Then 25 minutes walking Lucy followed by 3 miles (27 minutes) on the dread-mill. 9 pace seems to be getting easier. Haven't put a HRM on it yet.

North of 9 miles total.

100 minutes

20 minute dog walk followed by 80 minutes around Foothill and up Moody Road and back. Pretty much like last week. Finished up on the track with 4 x 100 with Dimitri. Windy, cooler, cloudy day. Temps really dropped.