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Last night I ran 2 miles in 19:20 with an average pace of 9:40/mile.

It felt good, I didn’t look at my watch once and I wanted to do it in under 20 mins. I pushed a little harder than the night before but still maintained a comfortable level. Maybe my cardio is doing better than I thought.

I got to run for the first time since my marathon last night. It was better than I’d expected, however, my heart rate was quite high the entire time. I ran 2 miles in less than 10:00 pace.

I haven’t been able to run because when I had successfully rested from the race my knee began to hurt and only stopped hurting on Monday. Man have I wanted to run. My knee did start to bother me near the end of the run though.  I’ll just have to ease back into it.

I’ve lost a lot of ground.

Ran 4 miles in 37:03 with an average pace of 9:16/mile. (Treadmill, 1.0 Incline)

This one was a bit of a rush job. I left my place so fast that I forgot a couple of things and had to go back in to get them. When I got to the gym I realized that I forgot my mp3 player. There were a few times where I was bored and wished I had had it but over all it wasn’t that bad. I’ve heard that in order to mimic an outdoor run as best as possible, when running on a treadmill, you should run with a 2.0 incline. This is my attempt at gradually getting used to that incline.

Ran 16 miles in 2:39:01 with an average pace of 9:45/mile. (-8 Celsius)

This run was awesome. It’s the farthest I’ve ran. Ever. For those metric people out there I covered 25.6 km. This run was outside so the pace was slower than I’ve been doing on the treadmill which is entirely due to the fact that I had to travel over several large hills. On long runs I usually run out of energy and get so hungry that I can’t focus but this time I brought a little bit of food with me to eat while I ran. Best idea I’ve had in a long time.

Ran 2 miles in 19:05 with an average pace of 9:32/mile. (Treadmill)

Ran 6 miles in 50:06 with an average pace of 8:21/mile. (Treadmill)

I was supposed to run 8 miles straight but the problem is that the treadmills that I run on force you to cool down once you hit 60 minutes. I decided that I’d do a 2 mile “warm-up” and then stop the treadmill and start it up again as fast as possible, so I probably have 20 seconds max in between these runs.

The first 2 miles felt good but I wanted to keep it a true warm-up and not go any faster than the 9:30/mile that I am supposed to run. The 6 miles were awesome. A 9:30/mile pace is equivalent to about 6.3 mph, this is where I started. after a couple miles of progressively increasing the speed I finally stopped and ran about 3 miles at 7 mph. This wasn’t enough for me though so I again slowly increased the speed until I hit 8 mph with about 1.5 miles to go. I ran the final 1.5 miles at 8 mph which is equivalent to a 7:30/mile pace. I felt the extra effort that was needed to keep this pace going but it still wasn’t all that uncomfortable. It was enjoyable.

Ran 6 miles in 55:29 with an average pace of 9:15/mile. (Treadmill)

This would be considered my first successful treadmill run. It went surprisingly well, I knew how many tracks and how long my playlist was on my mp3 player and didn’t even look at the recordings on the treadmill until I was almost done. I picked up the pace a little too, I am supposed to run around 9:30/mile but I just felt real good. Then again it might be time to increase my speed again.

Ran 6 1/2 ish km in somewhere under an hour.

Overly not a hard run but I joined some friends and just ran whatever they ran at the pace that they kept. I didn’t bring my watch because I didn’t want the distraction so I don’t know exactly how far or how fast we ran.

Week 9 was kind of a bust. My watch froze up for a few days, I tried to implement treadmill runs and I wasn’t feeling well at the end of the week.  Over all I have nothing to record. This is disappointing.

Ran 4 miles in 38:32 with an average pace of 9:38/mile. (-11 Celcius)

My leg was bothering me before I left and the pain remained throughout my run, couldn’t seem to shake it. It was slower than I had hoped but still satisfactory. I don’t know how to feel about my long run tomorrow, I’ll be running 16 miles. It should take me about 2:30:00 but we’ll see.

Ran 8 miles in 1:15:39 with an average pace of 9:27/mile. (-13 Celcius)

Everything went surprisingly well. I didn’t plan on running it this fast but my heart rate % stayed quite low so once again I ignored the watch and just ran what was comfortable. Around mile 6 I began to feel my knee again, just slightly. The temperature really started to bother me today. I think I got a chill early on at work and still haven’t quite shook it yet.

Other than that, good run. Enjoyed it.