Sunday, May 31, 2009

May 31, 2009 - marathonish day

well, i had a good time at the Ron Hynes concert last night, but that was a late night, so i slept in longer than usual today. finally left the house at 12.40 pm and ran over to the pool to catch the second half of the 2 hour swim. i made it a speed work out as i was full of energy. swam 2.75k in 52 minutes, then ran back home, fueled up, and set out for a series of long slow distance sets.. 8k, set, and 11k, set and an 8.5k set, each with 30 minute breaks in between. in all, i covered 33.5k running and 2.75k swimming in a total work out time of about 4 hr 18 min.

it was hot and somewhat humid today so i was really sweating. i don't think i have ever gone thru so much gatorade in a 33.5k run. but all went well. i could feel the wall hitting late, but i ran as hard and as fast as i could and managed to keep up almost as fast as when i started.

at the end of the day, i feel pretty good and speculate that i could do it all over again tomorrow if i had to.... in fact, i just might do that! hehe..

444k in may, the second highest total ever. only my insane august from last year was more, when i ran 10 marathon training runs in 17 days.

hoping for a good weigh in tomorrow, then 4-6 weeks of long slow endurance workouts in attempt to drop more weight, yet manage the knees.


just for fun, here's a review of my monthly km since Jan 2008....

2008 - total - net
January - 126.3 - 126.3
February - 114.5 - 240.8
March - 299.5 - 540.3
April - 317.1 - 857.4
May - 347.0 - 1204.0
June - 352.6 - 1556.6
July - 415.4 - 1972.0
August - 572.8 - 2566.8
September - 325.4 - 2892.2
October - 300.9 - 3193.1
November - 241.9 - 3435.0
December - 176.6 - 3611.6 km

2009 -
January - 392.8 - 392.8
February - 353.1 - 745.9
March - 342.6 - 1087.5
April - 226.1 - 1313.6
May - 444.0 - 1757.6




Jenn

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