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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Training Week 9 to 15 Dec 2013

Weekly Totals:
  • Miles: 61.93
  • Time: 11:31:41
  • Avg Pace: 11:10
  • Gain: 7,053'
  • Beers: 6



  • Monday 9 Dec: After a 2 day rest over the weekend which was the first time since mid-september since I have done that, I felt recharged, amped, and ready to run. After wearing too much clothing Friday, I went with too little today. I had frost nip on my forearms and other parts that took a few hours to go away and my MAF pace seemed to be slower than normal and I ended up with sore quads after the excruciatingly slow run. Probably half as long out there in the weather may have been wise but maybe it will toughen me that much for a race or mountaineering or maybe even fatherhood. I also ended up getting a stomach ache during the run and I wondered if it was from the cold exposure and lack of layers needed. My stomach ended up hurting into the evening and I went to sleep on the couch at around 7:30, moved upstairs around 10 and slept until 5:30 AM.

    Running Stats:
    • Miles: 8.51 (5 warmup on treadmill and rest outside)
    • Time: 1:22:22
    • Pace: 9:40 avg
    • Gain: 193'
    • Surface: Rocks and snow
    • Additional: NA
    • Feelings: Maybe didn't wear enough clothing!
    • Weather: 8 Deg (-1 with windchill)

    Diet Stats:
    • Breakfast: Herbal Tea with Honey, 2 eggs, 1.5 strips turkey bacon, 1/3 red bell pepper.
    • Morning Snack: 1 cup of raw almonds, string cheese
    • Lunch: Leftover eggplant lasagna
    • Afternoon Snack: apple, cutie
    • Dinner: lots of chips and salsa
    • Beers: 2
    Tuesday 10 Dec: The wife had surgery today so I stayed home from work. After completing some homework in the morning, I snuck in my run. Used the zero shoes to log an hour on the snowy rock Island path in 3-4" of snow. Rocked the normal walking warmup and cooldown and felt good until I turned around to realize that I had a tail wind. Coming back was fun to say the least but I was happy for the change in weather from the past several days of relentless cold hell.

    Running Stats:
    • Miles: 6.5
    • Time: 1:02:33
    • Pace: 9:36
    • Gain: 43'
    • Surface: Snow over dirt
    • Additional: NA
    • Feelings: Great
    • Weather: Sunny, windy, and low 30s.

    Diet Stats:
    • Breakfast: 2 cups black coffee, 1 serving oatmeal with brown sugar and leftover potatoes and egg scramble
    • Morning Snack: small salmon pouch
    • Lunch: 1 cup raw cashews, 1/3 red bell pepper, cutie, apple, seaweed rice crackers, sugar snap peas, cherry tomatoes
    • Afternoon Snack:
    • Dinner: brined chicken, butternut squash, cheesy broccoli
    • Beers: 0 (1 wine)

    Wednesday 11 Dec: Woke up this morning with a bad headache. Perhaps it was the wine? Got in a solid 8 in the afternoon at the now normal 155 MAF heart rate with warm-up and cool down. It was a little colder than I hoped it would be but with long sleeves, gloves, a headband, and shorts seemed to do it with the zero shoes.

    Running Stats:
    • Miles: 8.0
    • Time: 1:11:23
    • Pace: 8:55 (Includes warmup and cooldown)
    • Gain: 192'
    • Surface: mostly paved
    • Additional: NA
    • Feelings: pretty good
    • Weather: high 20s low 30s with about 8-10mph wind.

    Diet Stats:
    • Breakfast: scrambled eggs with veggies and ham, honeydew melon, herbal tea with honey, black coffee
    • Lunch: 1 cup walnuts, broccoli sprouts
    • Afternoon Snack: leftover brined chicken, leftover eggplant lasagna, broccoli, cutie
    • Dinner: Chicken Marengo, Brown Rice, Pumpkin Soup
    • Beers: 0 (2 White Russians)
    Thursday 12 Dec: Today was a weird day for running. I was supposed to be feeling good and running my last 8 mile day before having tomorrow off and then the big fun run on Saturday. After warmup, I began to realize that my MAF pace was way slower than normal and that is the first indicator that something is wrong and I should not continue to run. I ended up walking a lot and got 5 miles total in. Debating if I want to do some tomorrow since today was so off. I'm thinking it was lack of sleep due to having to deal with the baby from 3-6 AM this morning.

    Running Stats:
    • Miles: 5.1
    • Time: 54:47
    • Pace: 10:50
    • Gain: 131'
    • Surface: Mostly paved
    • Additional: NA
    • Feelings: Felt good but heart wasn't cooperating
    • Weather: mid 50s and almost no wind

    Diet Stats:
    • Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with veggies and ham, honey doo melon, tomato juice, black coffee, herbal tea with honey
    • Morning Snack: string cheese, walnuts
    • Lunch: Leftovers
    • Afternoon Snack:
    • Dinner: Crockpot roast with garden grown potatoes, onion, and mushroom
    • Beers: 0
    Friday 13 Dec: Off day of running. I really wanted to run but decided to save it for tomorrow so I purposefully left my stuff at home.

    Running Stats:
    • NA

    Diet Stats:
    • Breakfast: 2 over easy eggs, turkey bacon, tomato juice, herbal tea with honey, black coffee
    • Morning Snack:
    • Lunch: Almonds, string cheese, gourmet salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar for dressing, cutie
    • Dinner: Taco Night~ had 2 home made ground beef tacos in whole wheat tortillas
    • Beers: 0

    Saturday 14  Dec: Fatass#2 day. Today was sawmill 50k+ day. Ran with over 50 other people (some did one loop of around 17 miles) and few completed the 50K+. I know it was only a fatass race but without trying too hard, I was somehow able to finish third which felt good.

    Running Stats:
    • Miles: 33.82
    • Time: 7:00:24
    • Pace: 12:25
    • Gain: 6,494'
    • Surface: Rocks, trail, lots of snow
    • Additional: Are you kidding? Just 12 oz curls
    • Feelings: Pretty good. Tripped at about 6 miles in and bruised hip but otherwise very well.
    • Weather: Started in teens, got up to mid 40s on bottom side and finished in low 30s up top.

    Diet Stats:
    • Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs, black coffee, banana, a few almonds
    • Race Food: Just race food, didn't keep too well of track but maybe 5 honey stingers, an oatmeal square bar, a multigrain blueberry bar, Clif Gummies, Honey stinger gummies, a handful of prunes and apricots, 20 oz mountain dew, Roughly 90 oz of water with Hammer Perpetuem mixture, and a few oz of chicken noodle soup.
    • Afternoon Snack: Wendy's Junior Bacon Burger and Small Chili
    • Dinner: Party food at friend's house, cheese, salami, beef something over rice, sugar cookie, olives
    • Beers: 4
    Sunday 15 Dec: And on the 7th day he rested. God wants us all to rest on the Seventh day of the week so that's what I did today. It wasn't really on purpose but probably well needed. All morning was filled with an Epsom salt bath and then stomach ache. Took Astaxanthan last night and this morning to kill free radicals and popped garlic, Emergen-C, Echinacea, and more vitamin C. Afternoon quickly filled with goodwill shopping trip and family time and I was still a bit sore so the rest was good. Hopefully I can get back out tomorrow despite being sore.

    Running Stats:
    •             NA
    Diet Stats:
    • Breakfast: Egg frittata with random veggies and ham, black coffee
    • Lunch: Chipotle Sofritas Salad with black beans and all other toppings you can get for free.
    • Afternoon Snack: Snacked on lots of unhealthy stuff at family party: peppermint ice cream, chocolate cream pie, lemon squares, cider, few raw veggies
    • Dinner: Kind of skipped it.
    • Beers: 0

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