First things first – my wonderful, loving spouse bestowed upon me last week my very own Garmin Forerunner 305, and I am having a blast with it. Of course, my favorite thing about it is its GPS feature, so I can run my favorite courses through parks, on sidewalks, over bridges, and whatnot and it keeps up with my mileage the entire route. As I’m running it calculates my pace, and I can even set it to record my mileage splits. I have not used this particular feature yet, but once a course has been run, you can then run against your “virual partner” – yourself – the next time around to measure your improvement. I have elated to own one of these and to integrate it into my training.
My first week of marathon training went very well.
- Monday, 4/17 – 40 minute Foundation Run + 4×30 second strides; I then followed the progress of several Boston Marathon participants online, which fired me up about qualifying someday.
- Tuesday, 4/18 – Core Strength Training – There are certain yoga poses I am unable to get into on my own yet for core strengthening, I quickly found, but I could definitely feel the workout I was getting through crunches, stretches, weights, and plank-style pushups. My trapezius muscles were loving the attention they received the following day!
- Wednesday, 4/19 – Off (Post-call day, ie – I had been up all night at the hospital and used the post-call day for rest)
- Thursday, 4/20 – 35 minute Foundation Run + 4×30 second strides; actual time: 35:36, 4.0 miles = 8:54/mile pace
- Friday, 4/21 – 30 minute Alternative Cardio Elliptical Training; actual time: 30:00, 4.53 miles = 6:37/mile pace (too bad I can’t actually run that fast!)
- Saturday, 4/22 – 1 hour Long Run; actual time: 1:00:09, 6.83 miles = 8:48/mile pace, ran along Lake Washington for this one. I also had my Garmin Forerunner at this point, which informed me following my workout: Peak HR 174, Avg HR 156, Calories burned 1108, Total Ascent 978 ft (with approximately the same descent). Fun workout!
- Sunday, 4/23 – Core Strength Training
I’m not sure what my total mileage was for this week, but now that I have my Forerunner I will be able to post that too. By the way, my posts about my training will not always be this verbose, but I just felt like gushing today because I’m excited to be running consistently.
Here’s what’s in store for Week 2 of 24:
- Monday, 4/24 – Off (another post-call day)
- Tuesday, 4/25 – 40 minute Foundation Run + 6×30 second strides
- Wednesday, 4/26 – Core Strength Training
- Thursday, 4/27 – 30 minute Alternative Cardio Elliptical Training
- Friday, 4/28 – 40 minute Foundation Run + 6×30 second strides
- Saturday, 4/29 – 35 minute Foundation Run
- Sunday, 4/30 – 1 hour 5 minute Long Run
I will close with the comment that I ran today in a sleeveless Coolmax top and shorts – and was sweating comfortably the entire time. It is definitely late spring! I’m loving not having to bundle up each time I run outside.
Great start to your programme, and the Forerunner will make all your workouts accountable. Make sure you don’t become a slave to the thing though – I did when I got my first similar piece of equipment – every run became a scientific exercise.
Don’t you just love it at this time of teh year when you can start to relax in sleeveless tops and not have to find the gloves and hat before you leave the warmth of home.
Comment by Liam — April 26, 2006 @ 12:31 am
Jodi, awesome start. You will do well and I don’t think you will have a problem getting BQ.
It is bloody hot here already so we are all going as light as we can on the clothes.
Keep at it, you will do so well.
Comment by Kurt — April 27, 2006 @ 5:20 am
[...] As has been discussed on her blog, we got Jodi a Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS watch a few weeks ago. One of the first things we were excited about was the way you can take the data/route collected by this device and make maps with it. [...]
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