Running Journal Summary – Week ending 3/9.

This week v. Last week

	wk ending	runs	miles	avg dist.	avg time	avg pace	total time	best pace	max dist.
1	Mar 09 08	4	26.80	6.70	58:44	8:46	03:54:57	8:33	8.30
2	Mar 02 08	4	26.00	6.50	58:34	9:01	03:54:14	8:39	10.00

Today - (Sun March 9th)

ROWLEY, MA - This run was more like it. I started off ok and it kept getting better until the last two miles where I was really picking up speed. My full body was into it which I haven't felt all that much lately. This was the second run on the new sneakers and I feel the control is just what I need. It will be fun growing into them for the 400 miles until I start this all over again.

6 hours separated these two runs. This time was balls on with my watch. (I didn't forget it.)

5.80 miles at a 8:51 pace.

Today - (Sun March 9th)

ROWLEY, MA - I had to get this run done quick. At least I thought. I was going to try and do 11+ but my better judgment got a hold of me. I would have made Johanna and Emma late and I didn't want that. By the time they came back there wouldn't have been enough time to get it don't, not enough daylight; so I screwed myself on planning the day. So I figured double.

Started off too fast; two days off will do that to you, and it turned into a mediocre run; I guess you can say I paid for going out quick.

I did this one cave man style to a degree. I had no watch period but in know the distance. If im no going to run with my cell then I have to keep to my regular route. Just have to.

This was also my first run on Brooks Adrenaline 7. I've put about 5,000 on Adrenaline 6's thank goodness Brooks philosophy of changing gradually (or maybe not at all) paid off.

The time is my bestguess.

5.80 miles at a 8:53 pace.

Thu March 6th

ROWLEY, MA TREADMILL - I have tried 3 different times to write up what's been going on lately and just can't make it as meaningful as i'd like it to be, so here is an overview.

I stared running again. In doing so, two weeks ago, I popped in a vhs of the 1995 Ironman Championship where a triathlete named Chuckie V was featured. After the run i looked him up. He has a blog and it is amazing. He has opened my eyes more then once. One such post sparked the past two amazing runs i've entered here. Essentially its a hybrid of his Cave Man approach. I start my run on 6 mph /10 minute mile; for a couple minutes, put a shirt over the treadmill readout and go from there. What makes this different is the lack of me bitching at my, slow speed, lack of energy, pain in my legs. What changed this is the act of listening. I have become a domestic to my body. I ask it, what do you need, what do you want, i am there to server its every desire.

I have learned some much from this listening; as odd as all this might sound. I don't slave to the speed i want my body to go, rather I let my legs tell me how fast they want to go and remarkably they want to go fast... Its so amazing im thinking of expanding this theory beyond the treadmill. If it works for running, and they say it works with relationships, what else does it work well with?

For this run I ran until my body was done. I did artificially push this a little so i could watch the end of the apprentice; guilty. I have no clue how fast i was going at the end but every 5 or 10 minutes i was pushing it faster and faster. Whatever my legs wanted. It was magical. I wasn't tired, my legs weren't tired all because they were setting the pace they were making the choices.

I can't wait to see where this goes. For now its surly expedited my venture back to a pace i feel happy with (the low 8's.). Another byproduct of this is eating well.

My body is craving good food. I have helped this along with reading "the Zone". Not because im looking for a diet rather so i can learn what foods are good for me. I am utterly food dumb. This book is great at breaking out fats, carbs, etc. I could say that the runs ive done are a result of my better eating but i feel its a circular effect. Everything is working on all cylinders and i feel great.

This is why i love running; all this, and of all places a half dark corner of my basement. I can't wait to get out on the street this weekend.

Thanks Chuckie V.! You're "The True Meaning of Miles" post has made my week; and then some.

http://chuckiev.blogspot.com/2008/03/true-meaning-of-miles.html

8.30 miles at a 8:33 pace.

Tue March 4th

ROWLEY, MA TREADMILL - Tonight i left everything on the treadmill. It was all due to an amazing new approach to running that I've adopted. The details of which i will write about tomorrow.

6.90 miles at a 8:51 pace.

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