My goal for this run was to do the 2 mile loop in under 19 minutes. I blew it away with a 16:32, which has got to be a personal best for that route. I saw the time and almost wanted to run another half mile, to see if I could also blow away my high school 4K pr of 21:06.... maybe I'll put that on my to do list for next week. I love winter break ( Read more... )

Today it was about 30 degrees, and I ran 6.07 miles in 59:30; the BB/Olbrich loop. Felt good, actually, i thought i was going a bit faster than the time turned out, but it's good to be sub ten min miles on a run that wasn't about speed ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, it's the only thing that is going to get me to run a 4 hour marathon this may. So, while I'm home, I dusted off my parents' treadmill and decided to do timed half-miles, with full recovery (3-4) minutes in between, doing stretching and ab work. Times: 4:15, 4:10, 4:01, and (gasp!) 3:53! Folks that last one works out to a 7:36 ( Read more... )

I usually do my 2 mile run to the end of the pier at Tenney and then loop back, but i ran it reversed today and missed the correct driveway. It was still really cold, about 8 degrees... makes me want to huddle down in my house and read under an afghan. The pier was full of snow, so I ran a little bit into maple bluff... just a little too far, ( Read more... )

It was about 10 degrees out today, so I layered it up in Madison and ran from my house down John Nolen out and back for 5 miles. Deciding not to use the yaktrax was a bad idea; it was really slippery and not as well plowed as I would have liked on the bikepath. I'm really trying to incorporate speed work into my training to improve my marathon ( Read more... )

Today I signed up for the Green Bay Marathon, which is May 18th, 2008. I've done a couple of short runs over break with my new running toy..."Yaktrax" basically are bungee cords with metal springs wrapped around them which attach to shoes and give great traction in snow. I tried them out about a week ago during that windstorm, 3 miles from my ( Read more... )

4.5 miles ish, down state st, up bascom hill, up and around the capitol.
Cold, 7degrees.
Miles on the supernova6s: 169.5

the little things just keep going wrong--- I woke up this morning to run, and my new-in-the-last-six months watch read error on the screen. Sigh. Still put in 2.65 miles, according to mapmyrun. And brrrr, it was cold.

Miles onthe supernova6s: 167.5

I did that 2 mile loop after an early dinner today to try and be better focused on work this evening. Good pace, 18:30, and I'm hoping to get that down to about 16 or so before I start "officially" training for my third marathon in February. (Plannin on doing Mad City again... but it's the day after Kate's wedding, hmmm, Grandma's marathon in ( Read more... )

On Thanksgiving day, Andy and I ran a 5k in Theinsville to benefit a junior women's club (what is that exactly?) out there, and my parents walked the course. My official time was 27 minutes and 11 seconds. That's an 8:45 mile folks. In high school, my 4K time was at best an 8:20 mile. So really, I haven't gotten much worse, and that's with VERY ( Read more... )