My Sacrifice (R)

One Day at a Time

Well, the plan was to begin today embarking on a new training plan. The one below, which I got from coolrunning.com. I’ve always liked this website, their info, advice, and training plans.

It’s Tuesday, so as you see there, I was supposed to run a 4 mile fartlek today, and I did. What concerns me about this plan though is the three days run in a row each week (Tue, Wed, Thur). I don’t know if I’m up to it. If I do this I will probably make the middle day, Wed, an easy run day on pace. As long as I get the miles in, right?

Crap, I just noticed that there is a "pretrain" regimen. See below.

Supposedly, if you are comfortable with the above pretraining plan for 3-4 weeks, you should be able to do the 12 week training plan no problem. The distances are similar to what I’ve already been doing, except it’s 5 runs a week. I would feel much better if it were 4 runs a week.

We’ll see what happens. If I hit a major snag early, I may level off and try to maintain the pretrain schedule for a few weeks before I continue with the 12 week training.

I decided to run at the Augusta Canal trail since I had a day off from work. The weather was far from perfect for this, but it was alright, nonetheless. The trail was very muddy beyond mile one (where it transitions from semi-paved to dirt). This is a great place . . . the Savannah River to one side, the Augusta Canal to the other . . . beautiful spanish moss hangs on most of the trees.

My MP3 playlist on random shuffle (for this run):

Too Many Tears (Elton John)
Everything (Alanis Morissette)
Pour Some Sugar on Me (Def Leppard)
Love Bites (Def Leppard)
Jump (Van Halen)
Dreamer (Supertramp)
If You Leave Me Now (Chicago)
Take Me Away (Avril Lavigne)
My Sacrifice (Creed)

-AR

See Route

4.09 miles (6.58 km) at the Augusta Canal Trail from Headgates to I-20 overpass. Start time approximately 2:00 PM EST on 02/01/2011. Total run time 33:41. Pace 8:14. Weather Conditions: Cloudy, 50F/10C, Dew Point 45F, Humidity 83%, Winds ESE 6mph, 30.03inHg/1016.9mbar and falling.