My Long Run

Sunny day but cool and windy! 3.5 hours on the trail. I ran to the trails off Hammond Plains road where I live (about 30 minutes to get there). There are 3 main steep hills that I walk up quickly as opposed to run on my long days and then run down. During the week I run them but the 'long' days are my day to practice what I am going to do on race day.

Friday

About 45 min of going up and down the 600m hill in our subdivision.

Thursday

Just did a few hills and ran on road for about an hour!

The Heat!

Well it was a record hot day for the first day of spring....25 degrees! Did a 1 hour road run and just about died from the heat! Might have been ok if I had taken some fluids....just not in that mindset yet I guess.

Up and Down the Trails

Today Mary and I did an hour of hills on the trails. About a 500m stretch of steep trail...we just walked briskly up and ran down and repeated, and repeated and...well you get it.

Hills - Day 1

This week feels like the first real training week in preparation for The Death Race. I think that's because I am back to 2 a days workouts Monday to Friday and today I had my first 5:30am rise to get my hill training in. This morning I ran for an hour which simply involved me running up and down my hill 5 times. The hill itself is just about 700 metres. The total run was only about 8 km but it was more about time on the legs and trying to simulate the pounding my legs will experience going down the mountains during the race.
The second workout of the day was some weights. I am going to try Monday/Thursday - Push/Legs and Tuesday/Friday - Pull/ABs and Wednesday - Bike. Every day during the week I will run with Saturdays being my long run. Sundays...day totally off!