Web guy // MA student // Recreational athlete
I guess the best I can do in blogging is to write an entry once a month tracking my fitness progress this year. After all, the last entry was in early February, showing better progress for January than I did for February. It sort of goes with the territory of completing my thesis …
The first monthly post tracking my journey back to reasonable fitness, focusing only on broad monthly averages for now. I’d like to see the average monthly mileage slowly go up, while the average paces and heart rates go down. For the month, 29 Activities (10 runs, 11 bikes, 8 gym visits), 122.19 miles, 19:11:34 h:m:s, dropped 4.8 lbs.
I have an odd history with marathons. I took a fairly large break from running up until a couple years ago and endurance races seem to be lumped into pre and post break categories. All my pre-break marathons fell in a fairly consistent range of 3:06 to 3:17 …
The week prior to April 20th was a real doozy. Not only did I have to finish off a final paper for my present MA course, but in addition to getting ready to fly to Boston I also had to shore up several details for my current big work project …
I’ve decided for this race to really pull back and taper as well as I can, particularly since my last big week was late in the game. You always go through this mental game during the taper of worrying about losing fitness prior to the race …