Training Update

Last Saturday I did a long run of 11.5 miles with the Albany Run Walk Group. That has been my longest run so far in October. I held a pace of 9:43 for the run. I'm very pleased with that because when I run with the Group we stop every time at the water stops and so it hurts the average pace time.


Last Saturday morning was pretty cool. Since I have Zero body fat I tend to freeze when we run during the fall & winter. But this season I'm trying not to dress too warm. My goal is to not layer up as much as I did last year. I did some race where I had on several layers and most everybody else had shorts on. So my goal is to Man Up. In the summer you do heat training - well this winter I'm going to do Cold training. If that is such a thing.


I was listening to a podcaste (I think it was Zen and the Art of Triathlon) and the guy explain why it is that you run slower in warm weather. Now I'm probably going to mess it up but it goes something like this:


When you run your blood goes to the muscles to help it out. The blood takes away the lactic acid and gives it the food it needs - sodium, electrolytes, protein or whatever it needs. But when it is hot outside the blood has to go to your skin to help keep your body cool because it is the largest organ in your body. So because the blood is going to the skin and not your muscles you get tired / fatigued faster when it is hot outside. Your blood can't go where it wants to go to help you run.

I'm hoping to take advantage of the cooler weather to help me get some fast times. Here is Jorge in the Cold.



I'm planning on doing one more short run when I get off work on Thursday. I'll run somewhere between 2 and 3.5 miles depending on how I'm feeling. I want to do something short because of the Boston Half Marathon on Saturday. I don't want to do too much and get hurt but I want to take off too much time because of this race

100 Push Up Challenge

Week 1 of the plan is in the books & I've been steady so far. I'm not sore anymore from the push ups but I don't look forward to doing them. It's hard for me to stay motivated to do any type of strength training.

Right now my max is 40 push ups. That's ten more than I could do a week ago.