I’m looking out the window of my satellite office here at my local Barnes & Noble, watching the snow fall while I take a break from writing training schedules. All in all it hasn’t been a bad winter, but boy am I sick of the snow. I’ve been jonesin’ for a trot on the trails with friends for a more than a few weeks now and can’t wait for all this white shit to melt so I can get my out-of-shape ass off the asphalt.
OK, out of shape is admittedly an exaggeration, but I’m a ways off from being able to work out with these fast folks again anytime soon. I am, however, coming around and put in 7 hours, 22 minutes and 15 seconds of total training time last week. I’m hoping to break 7:30 this week by sneaking in an extra day of running on the AlterG. Almost all of the work I’m putting in on the roads is of the easy aerobic sort, but I did add little intensity last week in the form of a progression run that went something like this: 7:49.44, 7:01.18, 6:35.35, 6:16.25, 5:48.35. This workout was a corner turner of sorts for me and for the first time in I don’t know how many months I felt like a runner again. The important thing is that I came out of it OK and came away with the confidence that my injury is fully healed and I can continue to move forward without reservation.
Moving onto other endeavors, my Owner’s Manual piece on hill training from the January/February issue of Running Times has been posted on their website for all non-subscribers to see for free. And on the filling-in-for-Peter Vigneron front, my Weekly Racing Recap for this past weekend can be found on the front page of the site as well.
In the words of another irregular blogger friend of mine, that’s all I got.