Wednesday 8/30

Solid effort today

Ran 1 mile warm up
Ran 4 miles @ 9:00-9:05 pace, with one mile near 8:50
Ran 1 mile warm down

not bad considering the early morning temps in the high 70s to low 8os with not much breez

Tuesday 8/30

Tuesday

Rested, mind was not right today.

Monday 8/29

Ran 1.25 mile warm up
Ran ~ 20 min of hill intervals with group-medium effort for 15 minutes, hard effort for alst 5 minutes
Ran 1.25 mile warm down

Sunday 8/28

Rest and Recover

Sunday

Saturday 8/27

Saturday

Group long run: ran ~ 14 miles, easy effort 10 miles, picked up effort for 4 miles
stretching, no problems, handled heat much better than last week

Friday 8/26

Day off

Thursday 8/25

Ran ~ 60 minutes, easy to medium effort
Felt good, no problems,

Wednesday 8/24

Wednesday

Ran 1 mile warm up
Ran 6x800s in average of 4:05-4:10 with 3:57 as fastest, 1 min rest between

Stretching and hydrating

Tuesday 8/23

Another day off, because that's what I wanted.

Monday 8/22

Day off. Long run was on sunday instead of saturday. Need today to be restful.

Sunday 8/21

Sunday

Long run: 2nd attempt. Ran 12 miles ( 4 loops of memorial park). 1:58 with water and gatorade break.
hot and humid as usual.
Stretching

Saturday 8/20

Saturday

Group long run: plan was for 13 miles, but it became an aweful 4 miles, turned around with stomach issues, fatigue, and went home . Could have been dehydrated, or had a heavy stomach.

May reattempt on sunday.

Friday 8/19

Friday

Day off. slept an extra 1.25 hours, felt refreshed a bit. Resting legs for saturday long run.
Hydration throughout the day. Trying to keep stress level down.

Thursday 8/19

Ran 6 miles-easy pace.
stretching

Wednesday 8/17

Wednesday
5:15 am start, temp: 83 with no breez
ran .5 mile warm up
4 miles progressive from 10:00 to 8:50
ran 0.5 warm down
core exc, planks, push ups, balance and stretching

Tuesday 8/16

Tuesday

AM:
Ran 55 minutes-easy to medium effort

PM:
One hour bootcamp class

Monday 8/15

Monday

~15 minute warm up
Ran 2.5 mile of hill intervals
Ran .5 mile warm down

Rushing to work, couldn't stop sweating, my body couldn't calm down and cool off until 9 AM, hot hot hot, and really humid. It's really tough this month.

Sunday 8/14

tired, day off, YES!!

Saturday 8/13

Saturday

Group long run: drop back mileage run, first official long run for houston marathon training season.


Ran ~9 miles, easy to medium effort. Temp at start (5:30am) was 83, and almost 86 at end. Another brutal hot run.

Stretching, cooling off, hydrating the rest of the day.

Sary

8/12

Friday

Day off

Thursday 8/11

Thursday

one hour bootcamp class

another hard effort

Wednesday 8/10

Ran 6 miles easy pace
hot and humid, just hanging in there

Keeping a close eye on fluid replacement and eating light and healthy.

Stretching

Tuesday 8/9

Tuesday

One hour bootcamp class-hard effort

Monday 8/8

AM:

Ran 6 miles -easy to medium effort. Hot and humid, but managed it better.
Stretching

Sunday 8/7

Sunday

recovery day, hot and miserable. Sore.

Saturday 8/6

Saturday

Group Long Run: Ran 12 miles- started at 5:40 am, temp near 84, ridiculous. Stuffy, no breez, sun was brutal. Just finished the distance, nothing special at all. Probably around 9:50-10:15 average range. Had to adjust.

stretching and stretching, hydration and cooling off.

Friday 8/5

Friday

Day off!

Thursday 8/4

AM:

Ran 6 miles- easy effort 3 miles, medium effort 3 miles
84 degrees and hight humidity at 5:45AM

stretching, feeling it still in the afternoon.

July 23rd-August 3rd

7/23-8/3
Out of town
Vacation in Oregon and Colorado
Exercise highlights

Oregon:

• 2 days of hiking 4-5 miles in Crater Lake National Park at 4500-5000 ft altitude

Colorado:

• Ran 5 miles in colorado springs at 6200 ft. altitude. new feeling, very hard 5 miles


• Hiked 11 miles at 10,000+ ft. altitude in Rockie Mountains National Park

the rest is R&R and some indulgence I have to compensate for now that I'm back to reality.