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June 30, 2006
Running Too?
Lately I've been feeling like I'm ignoring my running a little. Or maybe I've been feeling like that for a long time. It's challenging for me to get the running in, partly because my feet limit me in many ways and partly because I have SOO much to learn about the other two sports that I don't want to spend too much time on the sport I already know about.
Anyway, today I did a tempo run and I think it has motivated me to put some more miles in. Nothing crazy, but I think I should be able to fit in at least 15 mpw (in 3 runs) with the other "stuff". The tempo run wasn't horrible by any means and in fact I actually felt pretty strong, especially at the end, but the two mile splits I took while doing my 15 minutes hard were 7:00 and 6:38. The 7 was on a slight uphill and the 6:38 was that same mile going the other way (slight downhill). That's not too impressive. I was hoping to run more like 6:30-6:40 for both. And truthfully, I should perhaps be aiming for something even faster.
I am going to try to add another run in on non-race weeks and see how my feet (and body) handle it. One of my runs is the 25-30 minutes I do off my bike once a week which doesn't really even count. Finding a balance in tri training is difficult and I think my tendency is going to be to do too much too hard so I'll have to keep and eye on myself... :) Anyway, the tempo today was 15 easy, 15 hard and then another 15 minutes easy during which I did 6 miles on our rails to trails.
Tomorrow is my first Trizilla group ride and I'm pretty excited about it. I'm going to ride the road bike (that isn't mine that I've been riding in the crits) and so my poor bike will spend another day in the garage! I will get plenty of chance to ride it next week though. Good thing too - I don't want to forget what it feels like to be down in those aerobars!
Posted by beth at June 30, 2006 10:23 PM
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Thanks for playing along on the tag :) I really think the job category is the most interesting!
Posted by: Audrey at June 30, 2006 10:55 PM