Weekly update

Last week was max mileage week till date!!
Ran a total of 22.5 miles. Feels nice!!:)
I did some track workouts with Tom on the last 2 saturdays. Thats to build my speed reserve! The track is a long way from home, almost 30 miles. But its worth it.
The other people in Tom's group are all older than I am, but their fitnees is awesome. There is even a lady called Linda, 52 years of age, who is training for a Master's meet in Spain, and will be representing the US in the 50+ age group. She is supposedly the fastest lady in her events in her age group in the US. That is some achievement!!:)
Back to my training - I basically did a little warm-up, then did something called "Strides". Strides means running at a jogging pace for 45 seconds, and then speeding up for 15 seconds, and repeating the cycle. Being on a track helps, as I can simply run slow on the curved portion of the track, and speed up on the straights. After "Strides", I did 4 400m timed laps, keeping the time to 2 mins, seperated by 1 min recovery. Pacing myself was the toughest part!!
So, I think everything is going on pretty well in the training! Hope this continues!!

Mileage Update

An update of my progress through the first 5 weeks. I hope I can keep this up!!

Testing my limits!

Today was one of the toughest physically demanding tasks I have ever completed yet!!
I completed my first 10 miler!! 1 hour and 53 minutes!!! The first 6 miles were a breeze.......then I got a glimpse of the proverbial "wall" that endurance runners talk of. It was purely "mental running" after 6 miles! Today and tomorrow are going to be full of aches and pains!! But the sense of achievement is incomparable!!!
I think I am hooked onto running!!:)