Monday, March 31, 2008

March Totals

March is over and it was my biggest month of training ever. I've been running almost exactly 2 years and the change is quite remarkable.

Here's a few statistics from March/April 2006 and March 2008
Weight: 164, 146
Resting HR: >80, <60
HR after easy 6 mile run: 158, 128
"Normal" Pace: 10:30, 7:45
"Fast" Pace: 9:45, 6:15
Long Run: 10 miles, 23 miles
Normal Week: 15 miles, 75 miles
Big week: 25 miles, 100 miles
Runs/Week: 3, 10

here's the goals and how well I did against them.....

March Goals/Actuals:
-- A solid month of training/DONE
-- Half Marathon Time Trial on 3/23 (1:26 goal)/Bailed, did 10k and 5k TT instead
-- Around 320 miles for the month - 359, or 11.6 miles/day
-- One day off (March 17th) - DONE, ran every other day

My best month by far. Started doing doubles (two runs a day) and found it very good for my legs. Weeks were 74, 85, 53 and 107

April Plans
--Move training paces to 3 hour marathon (6:29 tempo, 6:52 MP)
--Run 29 days (One day off on 4/7)
--3 big weeks, 1 cutback
--Mileage 320-360 (depending on number of doubles)
--No races
--Long runs: 3x20+milers, 1x17miler

1 comment:

Tammy said...

when you put it all side to side like that Alan, it just really shows so well your significant improvement from 2 yrs ago. That's quite impressive! Congratulations!