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.

Half Marathon Training for the Fat Guy

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

So my fat running butt has been slacking when it comes to training for a half-marathon. For some reason, I am barely motivating myself to run for 30 minutes at a time. The exception being this weekend when I ran for an hour on the treadmill Saturday and on Sunday.

I have to get my stuff in gear. This fat tail is not going to dig the half marathon if it is not ready for it.

Half-Marathon Training Begins

Friday, March 20th, 2009

 

Been thinking very seriously lately of starting some training for running the half-marathon. Body is feeling very good and I am quickly getting back into shape. I think I have always been meant for endurance stuff, like the long distance runs, but have never really pursued it due to my job and schedule.

 

Training for the half-marathon requires time and energy, both of which in the last 18 years, I have not really had. I have been through a marathon training cycle twice working up to a marathon, but always had career obligations that prevented me from actually doing the marathon. One of my schedules I actually reached a long run of 21 miles only to be cut short by work requirements two weeks before the marathon.