The Mother of All Posts - Week in Review

Thanks Chris K for reminding me that the blog world still cares about my posts!  :)

Wannabe Week In Review

Sun		rest
Mon	Base	5 miles @ base + 6x30M strides	drills	weights	5.35 miles @ 12:10
Tue	Interval	wu + 8x400M @ 8:40-8:56 + cd			Target 8:40-8:56 Interval Split Avg Pace Avg HR Max HR 1 2 8:33 147 176 2 4 8:40 141 151 3 6 8:46 140 152 4 8 8:47 143 156 5 10 8:56 141 155 6 12 9:20 143 153 7 14 9:27 143 154 8 16 8:49 146 157 Avg 8:54 143 Max 176
Wed	XT	Elliptical	drills	weights
Thu	Tempo	wu + 2x3K @ 10K + cd			Target 10:13 Interval Split Avg Pace Avg HR Max HR 1 4 10:14 141 151 2 7&8 10:15 144 150 Avg 10:14 142 Max 151
Fri	Easy	2 mi + XT (2 hrs of Squash)	drills
Sat	Long	5 miles @ base + 4 miles @ faster ea. mile			Mile Avg Pace Avg HR Max HR 1-5 12:17 122 160 6 11:28 124 132 7 11:00 127 133 8 10:31 130 139 9 9:52 143 150

28.72 total miles ... and only 4 weeks to go at my attempt at a sub-30-minute 5K in Guelph at the Billy Taylor 5k on Sunday April 17th at 10am.

New Running Equipment

I went to the Running Room Poor-Man's Outlet on North Queen in Etobicoke in the week, and bought myself two pairs of shoes.  I've put about 700 miles on a pair of Asic Gels, and I needed to retire them.

I bought a pair of Black and Red Mizuno Wave Rider 13s for $69 (regular $139) and a wide pair of White and Lime Brooks Summon for $39 (regular $89). I'll keep the Mizunos as my regular running shoe, with the Brooks as backup.  And I'll use the Brooks as my XT, weight and drill shoe, with the Asics as backup.  I have a wide foot and I run on the outside of my feet, so the best I could do was purchase neutral balanced shoes at this outlet.

I've also been raiding the Running Room for Shot Bloks.  I buy a box of 18 at a time for the fact that I get one free!  (Can you tell that I am cheap from the last couple of paragraphs?)  I find that this is the only "engineered" nutrition that I can manage while running.  The Mexodexotrilmaltilotsugaralcihol in GU is way too sweet, the XOODs and Gator Aids really make me want to puke when I really just need a cool swig of fresh water.  I say "engineered" because I have ran with a toasted bagel in my pocket, and it has really hit the spot at mile 5 of a long run.  And I have been known to call ahead to order pizza for the half-way rest stop.  One thing I don't enjoy is all that water on my fuel belt rocking around.  I'll have to look into a camelbak.

The busy-ness I've been experiencing in the last few weeks looks to continue until we can hire a few people, so I need to apologize in advance for my absence from the blogosphere!

Well Wishes

Good luck to everyone running this weekend at Seabrook TX, Long Valley NJ, Moab UT, and Rome Italy!!!!  And I hope you can all send me your successful mojo as I train to beat my next race.