Week of November 14th - 20th, 2005

Monday 11/14
10am – I ran 60 minutes from the house to the IF fields and ran two laps and then ran home, but added on 10 minutes when I got there because I felt good.
6pm – I ran 25 minutes with Barry. We went up to the house and dropped off some forms to our new landlady (hopefully).
13 miles

Tuesday 11/15
7am – This morning I ran 20 x hills at Morris Williams with the MD guys. We run about 200m up a hill and jog down. I lapped them almost 4 times, since they were crawling on the recovery down the hill. When I got back to the track I ran 9:15 for two miles in my flats. I felt very strong, and ended with a 20 minute cool down to finish off.
15 miles

Wednesday 11/16
4pm – This afternoon it was actually kind of cold out, maybe in the 50’s and a stiff cold wind. I ran 90 minutes easy from the house around town lake and then cut short across the pedestrian bridge. I added on about a mile when I got back along the warmup loop.
14 miles

Thursday 11/17
11am – this morning I ran 40 minutes to IF and back after class.
9pm – tonight I ran 40 minutes again around campus
12 miles

Friday 11/18
7am – I ran a workout on my own this morning at Zilker Park. Tom helped me out bigtime by mapping the course for me. I ran a 28 minute warmup and then 10 x 1km in 3:00 with 90 secs jog rest. The first one felt really slow in 3:08 (trying to get the course down), but by the end I was hitting 3 minutes right on the button. The last one was 2:57. It was tough to run fast out there today, maybe it would be faster if I had spikes on. In the evening I ran 20 minutes just to shake out the legs.
16 miles

Saturday 11/19
10am – I went down to Runtex and traded for a pair of Elite 2’s, they are sweet shoes, and then I drove to the Greenbelt and ran 50 minutes, but in the old shoes. In the evening I broke out the new shoes and ran 30 minutes with Barry.
12.5 miles

Sunday 11/20
9am – This morning I ran 2 hours from the house. I ran down to Town Lake and then all around the loop, averaging about 6:15. Then I added on a little bit along the northeast end of TL and then ran home. My legs felt a little tight from the Greenbelt yesterday.
19 miles

Week Total – 101.5 miles (my first 100+ mile week!)