Running in the Zone...
Today I ran in the ZONE....we left the house to drive to the beach at 10am. The car was parked in the shade up from the boulevard which to me seemed weird as there was plenty of shade at the parking down on the boulevard, the real reason for this became clear at the end.
I also learnt to really run in one pace and I did fantastic (although I say so myself), not only did I again run for just under an hour without any breaks (58 minutes to be exact) but this time we covered more distance...almost 11k (25% of the Marathon!) For the first time ever I felt the Marathon in April was going to be doable in under 4 hours, which is my goal. Today, I actually still had energy left at the end and soon realised why the car was parked up on the road, it required me to do a 10% hill at the end as a end-sprint, or "achieve proper conditioning" as it was explained to me with a laugh, sooner or later I will know all his tricks.
The "ugly" person roared as well, but only after about 35 minutes of running, and this time the dialogue was kept internal (I hope) and me being in the zone really helped keeping it at bay.
The rest of time, outside re-setting my running boundaries is nice and quiet like a much deserved holiday (haven´t been for too long), pool side relaxing (well can´t walk much further anyway), movie last night (very funny we saw "Break Up") long chats on the patio, and loads of sleeping....(nice..)
Next run (or Boundary!) Tuesday AM, we are meeting another running person as well so it will again be three of us, looking forward to it.
Take care and keep in touch (Thanks for all the comments!)
AZ
PS. I have decided to rename both my VRB´s (Virtual Running Buddies) to OJO´s (Ooh Jealous Ones) til further notice. One replied saying: "Don't remember beer being part of a training plan????" although admittingly he ended writing that he would do as much sport the next days as possible as a token of solidarity, which is very supportive and I may consider putting him back in full fledged VRB status soon... the other simply went into a long email rant, going on about us not starting to run until noon on Friday which probably meant we got too pissed the night before and ended writing "Sounds like a holiday to me!" but what did you do eh? Not one word on your running progress except for not going on Thursday because I was flying...
Righto! So now that you read about my super performance today above I dare you to enter a 10k race with me in October... I leave you in the dust with all this "big air" training... not that I am competitive, but any takers??? And yes, OJO´s this is directed at you... ;-)
I also learnt to really run in one pace and I did fantastic (although I say so myself), not only did I again run for just under an hour without any breaks (58 minutes to be exact) but this time we covered more distance...almost 11k (25% of the Marathon!) For the first time ever I felt the Marathon in April was going to be doable in under 4 hours, which is my goal. Today, I actually still had energy left at the end and soon realised why the car was parked up on the road, it required me to do a 10% hill at the end as a end-sprint, or "achieve proper conditioning" as it was explained to me with a laugh, sooner or later I will know all his tricks.
The "ugly" person roared as well, but only after about 35 minutes of running, and this time the dialogue was kept internal (I hope) and me being in the zone really helped keeping it at bay.
The rest of time, outside re-setting my running boundaries is nice and quiet like a much deserved holiday (haven´t been for too long), pool side relaxing (well can´t walk much further anyway), movie last night (very funny we saw "Break Up") long chats on the patio, and loads of sleeping....(nice..)
Next run (or Boundary!) Tuesday AM, we are meeting another running person as well so it will again be three of us, looking forward to it.
Take care and keep in touch (Thanks for all the comments!)
AZ
PS. I have decided to rename both my VRB´s (Virtual Running Buddies) to OJO´s (Ooh Jealous Ones) til further notice. One replied saying: "Don't remember beer being part of a training plan????" although admittingly he ended writing that he would do as much sport the next days as possible as a token of solidarity, which is very supportive and I may consider putting him back in full fledged VRB status soon... the other simply went into a long email rant, going on about us not starting to run until noon on Friday which probably meant we got too pissed the night before and ended writing "Sounds like a holiday to me!" but what did you do eh? Not one word on your running progress except for not going on Thursday because I was flying...
Righto! So now that you read about my super performance today above I dare you to enter a 10k race with me in October... I leave you in the dust with all this "big air" training... not that I am competitive, but any takers??? And yes, OJO´s this is directed at you... ;-)
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