Training went pretty well in February, the big change was dropping from 6 days to 5 days running. My hip was really bugging me at the start of the month but by taking off a lot of days that first two weeks it seemed to recover, and after I implemented a much more thorough stretching regime it hasn't come back as bad as before. Often it still feels a little sore or wrong, but not painful anymore. I've ramped up my weekly mileage and my long run length this month, and am trying to do almost all runs under 10 minute mile. I've also lost 10 pounds since training started in January, another 10 and that could be 40 seconds/minute free speed increase?
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Total | |
| 01-Jan-12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| 07-Jan-12 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| 14-Jan-12 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| 21-Jan-12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| 28-Jan-12 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 15 |
| 04-Feb-12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 15 |
| 11-Feb-12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| 18-Feb-12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 17 |
| 25-Feb-12 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 18 |
Goals for March will be:
- increase pace slightly and continue to build mileage
- get a workout in 6 days a week, even if only running 5 of those days
- early on I was doing 2X core and 2X legs weights a week, have to get back to that...
- ramp up rowing mileage slowly
Nice work Markos. You're going to be a machine by the time May rolls around.
ReplyDeleteLets hope, though apparently Fast Alex ha picked up his game too...
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