Run 4 Fun

After doing numbers, I have only one thing to say. I HAVE BEEN LAZY!!! 24.5 (Starting 7/13/2009) 30 32.5 35 36.5 20 One Week Off Just For Fun!!! 18.5 5 Weeks off to India (Total 28 miles including 10 miler race) 30.5 28 36 33 43.5 26 47.5 23 36 39.5 53 Planned Taper Mileage 32 (Taper Week 1) 24 (Taper Week 2) 37 (Including Final Big Day of Race)

Running Summary for the month of July, 2009: Last three weeks of July are part of training program for Houston Marathon 2010. In next 3 weeks, I will ramp up the mileage from 30 to 40 (~10% increase every week). Week Starting Easy Miles Marathon Pace Miles Threshold Pace Miles VO2 Max Miles Total Distance June 29 -  July 5 18.5 0 5.0 0 23.5 July 6 - July 12 9.5 0 5.0 0 14.5 July 13 - July 19 19.3 0 5.0 0 24.3 July 20 - July 26 25.1 0 5.0 0 30.1 July 27 -  Aug 2 27.5 0 5.0 0 32.5 Total 99.9 0 25.0 0 124.9

I must say that I had a great spring running season. I placed in my age group in the following races: 1) Run Wild Half-Marathon: 1st Age Group, 1:34:41 2) Bellaire Trolley Run: 2nd Age Group: 19:37 3) LP Run: 2nd Age Group: 4.93 miles in 33.33 minutes 4) Cinco De Mayo: 3rd Age Group: 21:11 (Ran after 5 days of donating blood) 5) Impact a Hero 5k: 3rd Age Group: 19:40 6) Deer-Park 5k: 1st Age Group: 20:21 My other notable performances during spring were: Bayou City Classic 10k: 41:09 (PR) Flying Owls 5K: 19:16 (PR) I ran tracks from Feb-May and it gave me confidence to run fast as well as accompanying speed. I loved track workout and it is too bad that at Rice they dug up tracks to install new ones. What is the matter with Rice? They always dig up things. Summer is almost over and we are all set to start our training for Houston Marathon. I ran my first marathon this year in Houston in 3:38. Although, realistically I think I was in 3:30 shape :-) For 2010, I want to run a 3:10...

First, I will admit that my perception of 5k's used to be wrong. I used to think that there is not enough kick in 5k's and they are perhaps little easy to run. I stay corrected now. 5k's can be truly challenging races if you run them HARD. My first 5k was in early December last year with a time of 20:44. I signed up for Bellaire Trolley Run because many runners told me how fast this course is and that I must run this race. I signed up for Flying Owls 5k because this race was held at Rice University and being a Rice student I HAD to run it. Only $5 entry fee for Rice students was another incentive. I went into Bellaire Trolley Run with a target of running a sub 20 race. It meant running about 6:27 per mile. I thought I could do it if everything went according to the plan. I was in for many surprises. First surprise was my split for 1st mile at 6:10. Second surprise came in the form of utter helplessness in my breathing and heart rate half way into the race. I ended up slowin...

There are some pictures I took before the start and after the finish of Houston Marathon. Enjoy, :-)

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