Turkey Traks 5K and Rest Week

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Ran the Turkey Traks 5k and it went well considering. I wasn’t expecting the hills to be such a factor, but there is what is called the Habu trail that a good deal of the course was on and per the name, those hills will bite like a Habu. Training on the treadmill did not come close to preparing me for those hills. I didn’t do too bad on the hills, but it was after the roller coaster hills that my legs just died.

Turkey Traks 5k Run Tomorrow – Thanksgiving Day Run

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Been almost a week since my last post and I apologize to all the RunningFat readers for this.

NO! I was not out eating all week at Burger King. It was a crazy and busy week.

Knocked out a couple good workouts in and some easy runs to bring me into the race this Sunday at Futenma. It will be a 5k race and I am shooting for 20 to 21 for my finish time.

For those that may not know, I have been following the Hal Higdon Advanced 5k Training Plan for the last 8 weeks. So this Sunday will be the culmination of 8 weeks of hard work.

90 Minute Long Run

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Sunday’s workout was a 90 minute long run at an easy pace. This was an enjoyable run that I really felt the last 20 minutes. I kept the pace to a point where my heart rate was between 65-85% of maximum heart rate. The average was around 71% for the entire duration.

This was the last big workout before the 5k race on Sunday. I have an easy 2 miler and another workout of 6×200 intervals to do this week before the race, but both of these are easy quick workouts.