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Four Miles a Week

Aside from races, I have been running about 4 miles a week for the past few months, sometimes more... sometimes less. =O

My Garmin has been collecting dust, in favor of my heart-rate monitor.  On these 4-mile runs (they are familiar, so I don't need GPS), I run slow yet reach heart rates up to 188 BPM, with 175 being about average.  Clearly, I am out of shape?

By the lack of mention of running on this blog, maybe that's not surprising, though it surprises me.

This past week, I ran 4.5+5 miles... that's almost ten.  "The Ukrainian" took me on that five-r, and the 4.5 came out of the blue when I had to deal with something pretty unpleasant.  I haven't had one of those runs in quite some time.

And a couple of weeks ago, I bought running shoes for the first time in a YEAR (another Saucony Stabil CS2).  Although not intentional, I'm happy I waited, as I scored a deal on Amazon and was able to actually get a color besides blue in the wide-width.  =)


I'm planning on running LA Marathon in March (for the sixth time!) and hope to train more than I have in the past -- but I will somehow need to strike a balance between not training and putting in the long miles, burning out, and blowing it.

At the moment, I have no real training plan, just a goal to "run more often."  After things calm down around here a bit (within the next few weeks?), I will aim for 3-4 days a week, one of those being a "longer" run.  I don't think I'll be running with a GPS and worrying about my pace until 2013... but I will stick to heart-rate monitoring to see if it starts lowering after a while.
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  1. JessNovember 6, 2012 at 9:15 AM

    You're pretty busy right now, I think runnign will forgive your low weekly mileage.

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  2. KenleyNovember 6, 2012 at 10:35 AM

    1 mile is better than no miles. Hang in there and dont forget your true reason for running in the first place. Nice shoes! Amazon Rocks!....sometimes. lol

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  3. TeamarciaNovember 8, 2012 at 6:51 PM

    I think you're wise to take a breather for awhile. I am doing the same (no Garmin for now).

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