Nyc Half Marathon Training Runs 24/45 and 25/45

Two posts in one.  

Saturday was supposed to be a lobg run day - 11 miles. Let's say tgat I did not get anywhere close to that - a measly 6.3 miles. At the start of the run, I knew that it was going to be a struggle: 

  1. I did not get much sleep. 
  2. My route was dumb.  
  3. I still had some soreness in my hip flexors and in my upper left theigh.  
  4. I just was not feeling it.  

Nothing much to write about. The run was dumb, and I sucked at it. The only good part of the run was exploring Bushwick, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, on foot.  

The route

 

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Training Run 25/45

4.00 mi; 8'29" min/mi pace; 140 ave bpm; 5, 078 steps; 429 calories burned

After my disastrous long run in Saturday, I was elated to do my favorite training run on Tuesday - INTERVALS!!!! 

The route and the run.  

  

Pretty simple, huh.   

Pretty simple, huh.   

  • 0.5 mi warm up
  • 4x o.5 mi fast (7:15-7:45 min/ mi) and 0.5 mi recovery (sub 8:00min/mi)
  • 0.5 cool down.  

This run was done in Saratoga park, which is in my neighborhood and is becoming one of my favorite local parks. I love this park for intervals, because the outer loop of the park is approximately 0.25 miles - similar to a real track. This similarity allows me to practice really racing conditions with my intervals. Plus, 0.5 miles is the lowest increment that my Runtastic and Fitbit Charge can do, so I can run my 0.25 mi intervals without constantly looking at my tracker to check my distance. 

This run returned some of the joy that I had lost doing that long training run on Saturday.  

That is it for now. I think that I will try to do some weight training sometime this week.

Btw, I do not know if I really like Squarespace's blog feature because it is very struggle. 

  1. You cannot change the order of uploaded pictures with the Squarespace blog App on a mobile device. 
  2. Image uploads take forever. 
  3. Half the time, I do not know if my edited pictures will come out the way that I want them once I post the blog entry. 
  4. Many times it is very difficult to edit the images that I uploaded using the mobile app on desktop app. Plus, the mobile app does not allow you to edit the images. 

I will see how long  I will continue using this format.