Monday, March 24, 2008

week 38

Monday- 47 minutes, moderate to hard... town lake under mopac to zilker, lap on road around, and then out on stratford to redbud to lake austin to town lake under mopac

Wednesday- 49 minutes, moderate to hard... forest to left on windsor to right on pecos to left on 35th up to mt bonnel road till bridge, turned around ran back stayed straight on pecos past windsor to left on enfield left on exposition right on bridle path left on forest. Ran early morning 6 am, had forgotten how good it felt to run before starting my day

**rest of week off going into cap 10**

Monday, March 17, 2008

week 37

monday- moderate 4 miles, + 5 minutes of fartleks (was going to run 800 repeats but the track i ran to was not a 400 m track)

tuesday- moderate to hard 4 miles... bull creek near 45 th headed north to hancock then west to shoal creek to white rock and back (miles 13 and 14 of the 2008 at&t austin marathon)

thursday- massage

friday- 7 miles, moderate to hard, up and down... forest to right enfield to hopi to left on windsor right on rockmoor around sweetbrush back to right on windsor to right on matthews down to scenic to pecos and back to windsor/rockmoor intersect straight on rockmoor to left on cherry till right on hopi left on enfield to left on forest

Saturday- 92 min (10 miles) easy to moderate, forest to right on enfield to left on lake austin to exposition, (met up with jo and beth) turned around ran lake austin to rockmoor to scenic to left on pecos right on 35th right on exposition, left on lake austin to town lake (beneath mopac) ran up trail to enfield to forest and home

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

week 36

Tuesday- 5 miles easy... forest to windsor to scenic to pecos and back*

Wednesday- Same 5... only faster (still mere medium effort)

*SXSW requuired hours of standing each day and much more walking around... that, combined with minimal sleep,maximum alcohol and eating only occasionally, did not make for a good week to put my body to the running test*

Monday, March 3, 2008

week 35

Sunday- Little Rock Marathon, 4:08:56... did better with pacing at the start but was troubled by knee and achilles pain so i eased up.

**rest of the week almost off completely, due to 2 marathons in 2 weeks**

Thursday- Massage

Friday- stretching, 10 min run

Saturday- 4 miles easy, enfield-exposition-lake austin... loop