I took Wed. Thurs. Fri. and Sat off. On Sunday I jogged 6 miles with a buddy from work. She made me run fast and I was tired. Good stuff. I plan on doing 5 runs this week.

Jogged 4.5 miles. Was tiring. THen a day off. I hope to get in a jog tonight. I get my new bike and I am apartment hunting!

day 8- Ran Fartlek and did streches

Day 9. Ran 4.5 miles on hilly teraine

Day 10- ran 8.5 miles on relitively flat terraine, streched.

did weight trainig, jogged 3 miles, did abs

jogged 4.5 miles. My hips are hurting me.

Rested on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Last night I ran 8 miles. I went from my house down to harvard sq. Took the esplanade to Kendall / MIT. Jogged back through inman sq. It was hard and I jogged very slowly the last mile. My legs hurt and my hips especially hurt at the end. Does anyone know why?

day 4 did 4.5 Miles of Fartlek. Fartlek is where you motivate yourself to run fast while on the route. So you might sprint to a stop sign, then slow down and when ready sprint to another landmark or sprint up hills and jg back down it and spring back up the hill again. I did this and was dead afterwards. But it felt great! I wa suprised I could run ( Read more... )

ran 23 minutes - 3 miles
did full body weights
did 200 ab crunches

So I decided I am going to use Livejournal as a log for my training for my 7 mile race to keep track of my progress and keep me motivated.

Day 1- ran 7.5 miles in an hour. ran 7 miles in 55:54 on a treadmill with no hills

Day 2- ran 4.5 miles with hills at a 7.5 (8 minute per mile) pace. Streched.

It is a 7 mile race on cape cod. all the money i raise goes to Children's Hospital Boston to help needy Children. Please contribute if you can! I need to raise 750 by then. Any little bit helps!http://giving.childrenshospital.org/pfp/falmouth06/DavidAltman