Tag Archives: training

October 8th, 2020

I had my alarm set to wake up at 5:30 AM. I had a day with meetings starting at 8:30 with work planned all day. The only possible window to run today was going to be between 7 and 8 in the morning.

And as it would have it, I had a night I couldn’t get much of a sleep. With 3 hours of sleep, I stepped out to run 5 miles. While I did warm up, it wasn’t easy to move the body to run. There were times, I felt as though I was propelling my body forward as though I am pushing a heavy log of wood.

And almost an hour later, I did complete my 5 miles of planned run. At target pace and target heart rate.

Some runs start rough, but as I did hit the stop button on my watch, I was pleased!

On 07/31/2021 – I will be running the longest distance I have run to-date. It will be my first 50 mile race.

Today is Day 1 of the training regime in place to get my body to a place where I can finish a 50 mile race with both legs standing, with a smile on my face and joy of running in-tact.

The training will involve lots of running, many hours of gym training for the legs, core and the various other muscle groups, lots of yoga for healing the body and many other forms of healing for both body and mind.

In the course, I plan to run at least two runs of 30+ miles, a few marathon distance runs and many weekends of 20+ mile runs.

The training will also involve, for sure, a lot of mental processing to prepare not just the body but my mind for the endurance test. There will be a lot of meditation…both while running and while not running.

I will be logging the journey as I go through it. Much life will happen in 300 days.

Day 1 –

4 Miles, 49:07 Minutes

After a 14 mile run yesterday, today was recovery run on tired legs. No thought of speed or any other considerations, just pulling my legs along to be able to run was adequate. Ended the run with a sit down at the cafe for a coffee and toast on a sunday morning brunch!

Best!