June 2008 Training

June was a month of continued training focused on the Gary Bjorklund Half Marathon. I trained hard at the beginning of the month with a long ANT workout and long 10K pace workout and long run each week. I was primed and ready to go. My best workouts in the build up to the half were an ANT session of 2x5 miles at ANT in 27:50 and 27:55 and a session of 24x 400m reps at 10k RP. During that workout I averaged about 1:13 per 400 and picked it up to 1:11, 1:10, and 1:05 for the last three.

The half marathon itself was great until mile 10. At that point I was right on pace, but really started to feel the past two days of work in my legs. I had to work with at the Duluth Running Company booth at the marathon expo and standing on my feet for 12 hours really took it's toll on me. I ended up running a 1:16, which is a PR, but not as fast as I wanted or was capable of.

As a result of this race I changed my fall race schedule to get one more crack at the half marathon distance this season. I will now be doing the Chicago distance classic half marathon the second week in August as well as the Twin Cities marathon in October.

The remainder of the month of June was filled with base work to rebuild for my fall marathon and half and to prepare for my next race - the Voyager half marathon.

Month Totals:
294 Miles
44 Hours

Year to date:
1554 Miles
258:30 Hours

May 2008 Training

The month of May saw the end of track season and a start of my ANT zone work before the Gary Bjorklund half marathon. I began to add bigger miles into my training again this month, though you can't really tell because of the trip to Europe and its impact on my training log. Overall a good month of work with some good workouts including a session of 4x2 mile reps at ANT pace (5:40 Pace) and a session of 2x3 mile reps in 16:50 and 16:51.

Month Total:
272 Miles
30:00 hours

Year to date:
1260 Miles
214:30 Hours

April 2008 Training

As I am sure some of you have noticed, I have been less than quick on updating my blog in the last few...months...but I am here now to set the record straight. I will add three posts with my April, May, and June training.

In April, I continued slogging through outdoor track season dropping my 10000m PR to 32:50 and my 5000m PR to 15:58. (Though the 5000m PR would drop again in May) My training consisted of an average of 70 to 80 miles a week and about 10 to 13 hours a week of training. In this month most of my speed workouts were centered around 400m and 800m reps. at 5k race pace - a workout I have come to enjoy a lot and still use in my marathon training today. WE drifted away from anaerobic threshold centered workouts because of the quickly approaching end of the track season, and because my ANT zone seems to be very well developed at this point.

Totals for month:
315 Miles
40:00 Hours

Year to date:
988 Miles
184:30 Hours