Well now I know what is is like to take a run in water. It wasw so hot this morning I felt like my body was under water. Even though I was able to complete 12 miles. Have been slacking on my blog and running lately, but with this heat it is hard to get motivated to do anything. The news around our area is the fire - Mason Gulch. 12,000 acres burned in 6 days. Now I don't want to be called a realist but, does it seem particularly odd to anyone why there are people that are against cleaning our forests. Not that the so called "Tree Huggers" are bad but if the Forest Service was allowed to mitigate the forests then fires like this would not happen. Even allowing selective tree cutting would be helpful. but instead when these fires start - they get out of control so quickly that there is no chance of stopping it. Just my opinion. Back to running - it is so much simpler. Training has taken a back seat to the heat but this week it starts up again. At the end of this month is the Colorado Springs Grand Prix - a flat, fast 6 mile race. this will be just a training race this year, next will be the Georgetown-Idaho Springs 1/2 Marathon. Traing schedules should be built on a gently increasing mileage. Increasing mileage about 10-15% per week until about 3 weeks prior to the Marathon. many marathoners try to get at least 2-3 20 mile runs in before the marathon. PRior to my last marathon I only did one. This time I have 2 scheduled. The body needs to become accustomed to the 3-4 hour pounding. Otherwise you just can't get past 18 miles. You "hit the wall" Scheduled should be at least 12-14 weeks depending on your aerobic level. So training is a long process. The reason most people so not stay running is because they tend to increase thier mileage too quickly, which usually causes an injury of some sort. More on training later. Well my time is up here. I'll get into more detail later on the training schedule. |
