Regulating

Today seems like a good day to finally get this blog back on track with weekly running time/mileage. If you recall, the last seven documented days were:

24 January: 6 miles (40 minutes)
25 January: 8 miles (65 minutes, hill program on the treadmill)
26 January: 3 miles in the morning (20 minutes), 4 miles in the evening (30 minutes)
27 January: 5 miles (55 minutes, treadmill hill session at 10-15% grade)
28 January: 4 miles in the morning (30 minutes), 3 miles in the evening (23 minutes)
29 January: 9 miles (63 minutes)
30 January: 6 miles in the morning (40 minutes), 6 miles in the evening (40 minutes)

For a total of:

Time: 406 minutes
Distance: 54 miles

And the last seven days (31 January - 6 February):

31 January: 3 miles in the morning (20 minutes), 5 miles in the evening (36 minutes)
1 February: 5 miles, hill repeats at Patterson Park (35 minutes), 7 miles in the evening, over snow in Patterson Park (51 minutes)
2 February: 6 miles (41 minutes)
3 Feburary: 5 miles treadmill hills, 1 mile total warm-up/warmdown (57 minutes)
4 February: 15 miles (105 minutes)
5 February: 9 miles in the morning (66 minutes), 4 miles in the evening (31 minutes)
6 February: 5 miles in the morning (36 minutes), 6 miles in the evening (44 minutes)

For a total of:

Time: 522 minutes
Distance: 71 miles

So, a couple of things. First, that's a big mileage jump, especially over the past few days, but so far, no ill effects, aside from the pain in my hip as a result of slipping and falling in the parking lot walking in to work this morning. At the same time, this might be a good week (or at least a good next few days) to dial back a bit, to prevent possible burnout. I'd like to be getting more sleep than I'm getting now, so maybe that's a good focus this week (since all the extra mileage has definitely made sleeping easier).

And, for the sake of brevity, I won't carry on about tangential topics here, but I will put this sentence here as a reminder for me to post, sometime this week, at least one of the discussions of topics of more general interest that I've been planning.

Building

In an effort to get both my running and my blog posting into a semblance of regularity, here's the training recap from January 20th (the last "un-blogged" day) onward:

20 January: 5 miles (40 minutes of "treadmill hill" - 10%, at 10:00/mile, 1 mile total warm-up/warm-down)
21 January: 8 miles (56 minutes)
22 January: 8 miles (56 minutes)
23 January: 4 miles in the morning (30 minutes), 6 miles in the evening (45 minutes)
24 January: 6 miles (40 minutes)
25 January: 8 miles (65 minutes, hill program on the treadmill)
26 January: 3 miles in the morning (20 minutes), 4 miles in the evening (30 minutes)

7-day total time: 389 minutes
7-day total distance: 52 miles

So far, over the past few days:

27 January: 5 miles (55 minutes, treadmill hill session at 10-15% grade)
28 January: 4 miles in the morning (30 minutes), 3 miles in the evening (23 minutes)
29 January: 9 miles (63 minutes)
30 January: 6 miles in the morning (40 minutes), 6 miles in the evening (40 minutes)

Unless otherwise specified, all of this was around Canton/Highlandtown, so it would probably be a good idea to mix up the routes now and then to keep things fresh. In general, that seems to be a good goal going forward, since "building up" in and of itself isn't terribly exciting.

Speaking of terribly exciting, this wasn't, so I'll end here, and maybe after I think about this some more, I'll have something more interesting to say about it.

a new running blog

I made this blog for the sole purpose of making a comment on another blog. Who knows if I will ever update this thing, but theoretically, it's a good idea.

Also, since this is about running, I'm going to run some miles at some pace later today. Due to running.

STAY COOL DUDES.
(the above signature sign-off is subject to change)

p.s. - I will probably wear shoes when I run today.