Monthly Archive: May 2012

May 31

May 2012 – Running in the Rear View Mirror

Running In May I am making fantastic progress on my 2012 running goals Summary Miles Run: 152.1 Days Run: 24 Days Off: 7 Longest Run: 13.3 5/15/12 Fastest Run: 8:13 5/27/12 – Home 5K Course Best Week:  50.88 week ending 5/27/12 Most notable run 5/30/12 finished 13.10 in 01:48:59 an 8:19 pace for the half …

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May 31

Instead of Running on a Rainy Day

On Tuesday I took the day off from running, even though I was scheduled to do my long run! It seems that I have a big aversion to blinding flashes of white light and enjoy hearing then big booms after the white light fads, instead of “going towards the light”. We experienced some pretty long …

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May 31

Recovery Run and A Neat Trip 5-31-12

Today I wanted to run around a 9:30 pace for the 5.0 miles, got done with a 9:30, so my sense of pacing is starting to get better . As I was running along a fairly level stretch of the dirt road down back, it just jumped right up and tripped me? As I was …

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May 30

Sub 01:50:00 1/2 Marathon Training Run!

WOW!!!!! That is how I will start this blog post. I made one of my goals for this year and did it in a training run – I wanted to break 01:50:00 for a 1/2 Marathon and did it this morning by running a 01:48:59. I know that this is not official, but it is …

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May 29

Where the Food Comes From

One of the reasons that I run is to be healthy and another part of being healthy is how and what you eat. In fact, what you put into your body is more important than anything else that you can do for your health in my opinion. It is even more important than how much …

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May 28

Effort is There – Speed Isn’t 5-28-12

I got busy and almost forgot to post my running log today . Monday’s are becoming my rest or shorter run days or so it seems. The schedule is working out that I am doing my long runs mainly on Tuesday now, so I will just go with it for a while, one of those …

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May 28

Nike Free 4.0 v2 – After 50 Miles

What can I say – I ran 50 miles in the Nike Free 4.0 V2 this week! Never in my running career have I run 50 miles the first week I have had a new pair of running shoes. Never. That says a lot right there about these running shoes. Here is the link to …

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May 27

AVR – Week In Review 5/27/12

Today’s Run I ran around noon today, so the temps were close to 80, but there was a nice breeze. I needed 5.0 miles to go over 50 miles for the week, so I did the Notta Road O/B. I wasn’t going to go all that fast, but when I got off the dirt road …

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