Strickland5 Gets Back to Running

[Strickland5]

Well I'm back ... not sure if I ever really left, just sort of stopped being as active here as I used to be. New Forum messed with me some, folks I talked with left, so on and so forth. 

 

 

But hey I'm here.

 

 

GOAL Complete Hal Higdon Training for my fall half

 

 

No time goal this time around

 

 

Feel like I'm starting from zero basically so don't want to stress about time.

 

I'm a bit heavier so much slower than last time I ran a half.

 

 

 

Keeping it simple. 

 

[Rebel Pilot Gar]

Love the gifs and your plan to keep it simple. 

 

I keep hearing good things about the Hal Higdon training programs.

[Strickland5]

On 8/8/2017 at 6:17 AM, Rebel Pilot Gar said:

Love the gifs and your plan to keep it simple. 

I enjoy the gifs very much .... hard to find good running ones though.

 

On 8/8/2017 at 6:17 AM, Rebel Pilot Gar said:

I keep hearing good things about the Hal Higdon training programs.

I've use his Novice plans first half and full and had decent success. 

[bgvanbur]

Simple is always a good plan

[Frost of the Gloaming]

Heavy Runner UNITE!!!!

 

Goals sound good

[Strickland5]

18 hours ago, bgvanbur said:

Simple is always a good plan

 

59 minutes ago, Frost of the Gloaming said:

Heavy Runner UNITE!!!!

 

Goals sound good

 

[The Borg Queen]

Ooooo going for intermediate! Fancy. Lemme know how you like it.

[Baldilocks]

On 8/7/2017 at 5:42 PM, Strickland5 said:

Well I'm back ... not sure if I ever really left, just sort of stopped being as active here as I used to be.

Hay, life happens.  Good to hear from you.  

[Strickland5]

Sunday was a 6 miler - which was made tougher by the 5+ mile walk we did Saturday

 

Today was 40 minute "crossfit" day which was an hour long walk to stretch out our tired legs

[Strickland5]

3.5 miles of fun this morning!

 

 

[Strickland5]

5 miles this morning was tougher than I thought - mostly cause my legs tired from the back to back running and long walks on non-running days.

 

 

[Strickland5]

Did my 3.5 miler this morning and then had some coffee

 

 

[Strickland5]

Friday was a rest day

Saturday was a 3 miler - no map as my Garmin decided to not charge X_x

Sunday was a 7 miler through the Panhandle and Golden Gate Park

 

As we're traveling this week and next so we'll be shifting some runs around so that we can get in the long runs

[bgvanbur]

Good job with all the nice runs

[Strickland5]

Got in a 6 miler this morning due to tomorrow is a travel day 

 

Definitely need to work in more hills as the half is going to be HILLY

48 minutes ago, bgvanbur said:

Good job with all the nice runs

Thanks! Just getting out there pounding pavement ... slowly but surely

[bgvanbur]

On 8/22/2017 at 0:31 PM, Strickland5 said:

Thanks! Just getting out there pounding pavement ... slowly but surely
 

 

Still faster than the lack of runs before

[Strickland5]

Yesterday's 4 miler was cut short as the wife stumbled and fell scraping her knee and arm. 

 

We'll be doing 8 tomorrow because we fly to DC Sunday AM.

[Strickland5]

Back from Vacation - ran a lot saw a lot etc ... missed 1 run as we couldn't make it work with the traveling ... so I'm calling that a win

[Strickland5]

4.5 miler got cut short as the wife had an extra early call - still manage 3.8 miles on SUPER tired legs, which I think is partly the point of the program. 

 

The Wife is talking about potentially doing another full, I'm debating it. We will want to find a training group as doing it by ourselves for the first one was rough and doing it with a half-training group while nice wasn't as great as it could be.

[Strickland5]

Well in one month/four weeks of training I've missed one run ... I call that a success.