071910

Goals: AM LSD RUN, eat healthy

Results: 6 miles 1:06.

Diet setbacks: 1 slice of left over pizza.

Thoughts: Woke up early to beat the heat on my run this morning. It was still hot, well really more humid. I was generally disappointed with my time, but I usually am. 11 minute miles just are not good enough to satisfy me. Although one thing that I have noticed is as I increase my distance shorter distances feel like cake. The first 3 miles flew by. I also found it interesting that the second half of my run was faster by 2 minutes. I would think as fatigue sets in I would get slower, but in this case I was wrong.

Last night I sat down and re-wrote my race calender because windows ate my original. I tried to remember the majority of the races I had, but I am not sure I found them all again. They are mostly local charity runs but as always there is some strategy. My September race is supposed to be a certified course and very flat and fast, I am hoping the hilly 3 mile loop I practice on will come to my benefit and I will beat my PR and accomplish one of my 2010 goals. I also start with 5k's and work into 10k's by late fall. I am doing this because it is my plan to register for the Charleston, SC Half marathon in January. I want to do this race as a mid-winter excuse to get out of town and to build my stamina in hopes of completing a HIM next year. I would like to find one or two more sprint tri's to add in to my calendar. As my first one's I would like to find something small and local, but close to standard length. I will settle for Try-a-tri events if I can find some of those.

I am already thinking about next year's calender. the more and more I think about it, the less I want to do sprints and the more I want to do something longer. I discussed a few days ago what i read about concerns of not being fast enough and endurance comes easier that speed to me. I found a HIM training plan and it even suggested doing some shorter races earlier in the season in place of the long workout or brick workout on the plan. That got me thinking about my goals for next year. It was my plan to start next March/April as I had planned to this year and compete in one race a month for an entire series. As I re-think this, what I may do is start out with sprint, move to olympic distance and have the goal for my season to finish with a HIM. I have a lot more time to think this over and need to get myself up to the minimum distances for the training plan that I found. This may change my focus for the fall to getting my endurance up to begin that training plan next year. Friday when i had the evening to myself I also tried to contact some of the local tri clubs and coaches but none have responded back yet, but there were two races in the are this weekend.