Doubling What My Coach Said To Do
Posted: February 17, 2012 Filed under: City Running | Tags: miami, sand 9 Comments »
When I pondered my run from yesterday, I felt kind of lame. Yeah – I had the excuse that running on sand is like running in molasses, but I still didn’t feel like I worked nearly as hard as a should. So when I saw that today’s run was a mere 40 minutes, I decided to double it.
I have a double long weekend coming up – 2 hours on Saturday and 2:40 on Sunday. That’ll be about 25 miles or so. With the 6.46 I ran today I’m already at 25 miles for the week so I’ll have the potential for the first 50 mile week in a long time. And that feels important to me since I’m about two months away from a 50 mile run in Sacramento.
I can’t seem to get much pace at all for the segments on the beach. I’m doing an 8:2 pattern and as you can see from my 135 average heart rate I’m not really working that hard. Or maybe my heart is just in awesome shape since I’m running at sea level and it’s been trained at 5000 to 9000 feet. Regardless, my recovery time was quick – an hour after I finished I feel like I could go for a run again.
We’ll see how I feel on Sunday afternoon after another 25 miles of this.
Like this:
The Only Difference Between Snow And Sand Is The Temperature
Posted: February 16, 2012 Filed under: City Running | Tags: beach, cruise intervals, miami, sand 7 Comments »
I’m on Miami Beach working on my Startup Communities book. Actually, today was the first day I’ve written anything – I spent the past two days getting acclimated. Ok – I spent the last two days procrastinating, but that’s how it works for writers. Maybe I’ll go on a bender all night long, sit by the pool with a bottle of whiskey in the morning, and crank out 50 pages.
Or maybe I’ll try my cruise intervals again. 6 minutes fast, 3 minutes walking times 5. One minor problem – I forgot that I’d be on sand for most of it. Have you ever tried to run in sand? It’s like running on snow except it’s warm. As I started the first interval, I thought to myself “ok – let’s go.” After a minute I was depressed. I was working hard, but not moving very fast. After two minutes I decided to change my attitude and just run. I ended up with some boardwalk on the way back and turned in an 8:26 and a 9:19 which was a solid way to end.
I’m back to procrastinating. This blog post was another delay tactic. Soon I’ll need to take a shower and go out to dinner. Writing a book is really hard.
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