Thursday, July 31, 2014

Weekly Training Report - July 21st-27th

Monday: 6.5 miles (8:31)

Tuesday: No running

Wednesday: 7 miles (7:32)

Thursday: 10.6 miles (7:35)
In the middle of this run, I did 5 x 2 mins on/2 mins off.

My pace for the 5 "on" intervals was: 6:14, 6:09, 6:08, 6:08, 6:14.  And my last four miles were all around ~7:30.

Friday:  4 (7:46)

Saturday: 5.2 miles (7:58)

Sunday:No running

Weekly total: 33.9 miles
Pretty pathetic week running.  Tuesday my stomach didn't feel so great at night so I skipped that run.  And Sunday, I just felt blah all day.  I went to Jiu Jitsu 5 times this week, Monday through Friday.  We worked X guard during the advanced classes, working a bunch of sweeps from that position.  I'm finding myself gravitating towards X guard during live rolling, so this week really helped me get a few ideas of what I can do from this position.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Weekly Training Report - July 14th-20th

Monday: 5 miles (7:41)

Tuesday: 7.1 miles (7:15)

Wednesday: No running

Thursday: 5.3 miles (7:31)

Friday:  12.1 (7:35)

Saturday: 5.3 miles (8:01)

Sunday: 12.6 miles (7:49)

Weekly total: 47.3 miles
No workouts this week.  I went to Jiu Jitsu 3 times this week.  I got in a couple of medium long runs on Friday and Sunday.  Still no proper long run.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Weekly Training Report - July 7th-July 13th

Monday: 5.3 miles (7:39); 3.7 (8:34)
Went to Advanced Jiu-Jitsu, we worked on triangles and triangle defense.  Good for me, because I seem to get caught in triangles a lot.  There were 3 variations depending on how deep the triangle was setup.

Tuesday: 7.3 miles (8:28)
Average HR was 136, max 148.

Wednesday: 4.2 miles (7:13)
Sort of ran a workout today.  10 minute warm up, followed by 4 mins at 6:00 then 6 minute recovery jog.  Another 5 mins at 6:00 and 5 minute cool down.  It was hard.  All this slow running is taking any sort of zip out of my legs.

Thursday: 8 miles (7:18)

Friday:  5.1 (8:24); 3.16 (7:58)
Average HR for first run was 143, but my max got up to 166 at the end.  It was HOT.

Second run was just a short run with my wife riding her bike with me.  That was fun, I hope we do that more often.

Saturday: 6.2 miles (7:37)

Sunday: 3.6 miles (7:52)
Another botched long run.  Went out pretty late on Sunday and wanted to do 15+.  After a mile in, I knew that wasn't happening.  This was depressing.

Weekly total: 46.4 miles
Not much to say here.  Running is supposed to be my release, but lately nothing is coming easily and I'm getting discouraged.  I need to run very slow to keep my HR under 145.  And my workouts and long runs are virtually non-existent.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Weekly Training Report - June 30th-July 6th

Monday: 6.5 miles (7:47); 3.6 (7:43)

Tuesday: 10.1 miles (7:53)

Wednesday: 6.2 miles (7:40)

Thursday: 8.7 miles (8:48)
Ran with a heart rate monitor for the first time in a long time.  The goal was to keep my heart rate under 145.  Near the end it was climbing over 150, even though I was running 9 minute miles.  I'm really hating this heat and humidity.  In the winter, I did this same run and was able to run 7:30 minute miles while keeping my heart rate low.  I want to run a couple miles a week with a heart rate monitor to see if this performance gets better or worse.

Friday:  No running
No reason for not running.

Went to Jiu-Jitsu open mat and got absolutely smashed by everyone.  There's a tournament next week, but I'm not really feeling it.  My confidence in running and Jiu-Jitsu is at an all time low.

Saturday: 7.1 miles (7:41)

Sunday: No running
No reason for not running.

Weekly total: 42.2 miles
Another low mileage week and only ran 5 days this week.  I feel like I'm losing my mojo with running and I'm frustrated with how I feel lately while running.  My plan was to be running 70 mile weeks by this point, and now I don't know what to do.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Weekly Training Report - June 23rd-June30th

Monday: 5.0 miles (7:53)
Advanced Jiu Jitsu class, it was only me and Geico (a four strip purple belt).  So, it was like a private lesson!  We worked two half guard sweeps that work together, which is great getting tips from Geico, because half guard is probably his favorite position and he's very good at it.  I need to work on keeping my underhooking arm at a diagonal and keep reaching for the opposite shoulder.  I have a tendency to let it hang out down around my opponent's waist.  That is a weak underhook that usually leads to me getting darced, or cross faced and flattened out.

Tuesday: 9.2 miles (7:37)

Wednesday: 9.8 miles (7:42)

Thursday: 6.2 miles (7:41)
Went to the Randori Jiu Jitsu class and messed my back up pretty bad.  I think it was when I was trying to finish an omoplata and my opponent stacked me.  I felt my neck pop a couple times and my back is pretty sore.  I was planning on running again tonight, but not anymore.

Friday:  No running
Back is still sore.

Saturday: 8.2 miles (7:18)

Sunday: 4.1 miles (7:30)

Weekly total: 42.6 miles
This was a pretty miserable week for running.  No workouts and a hurt back kept me at a pretty low volume for this week.