Saturday, October 30, 2010

Marathon Training Week 23 of 23

Week twenty-three is now history. I completed the marathon training program, and ran a marathon.

Wow.

On my 43rd birthday back in 2008 I ran 10 miles. It felt great.

Monday 11/1/2010 is my 45th birthday, and I'm going for a run. How far? I have no idea. How long? I have no idea.

I'm not going to wear a watch or a heart-rate monitor. I'm not going to plot a course or go back and try and figure it out on Google Maps. I'm just going to go for a run. When I get tired I'll stop and walk. When I feel like it I will run again. When I feel like being done, I'll come home. This will not be a training run, it will be a recreational run. My training runs are usually enjoyable -- but on Monday, that is going to be one great run!

Thanks so much for reading all these posts and following my progress. As I mentioned in my last post, I have a couple races already scheduled, and I'm hoping to break 2:00 in the half-marathon. I don't plan to blog that training, but I'll post from time to time if something significant happens.

As usual, I have the "boring stuff" posted below. But in case you're interested, if you add up all my training from 24th May through 30th October I ran over 530 miles, taking over 92 hours, and burned nearly 70,000 calories. To put that into perspective: if I started running at midnight on a Monday morning, I would finish on Thursday at 8:17 pm -- and I would have run from my house to the California border, and then back again, and then gone for another little 23.5 mile run! And, if all the calories came only from burning fat, I'd have lost 19.8 pounds...of fat!

Here's the boring stuff:

Week 23 totals:
Running Distance: 19.83 mi
Running Time: 03:25:52 h:m:s
Avg Speed: 5.8 mph
Max Speed: 11.6 mph
Avg HR: 147 bpm
Max HR: 181 bpm
Calories burned: 2,529

Cycling Approx Distance: 00.0 mi
Cycling Time: 00:00:00 h:m:s
Approx Avg Speed 0 mph
Avg HR: n/a bpm
Max HR: n/a bpm

And here's the link to week 23's "long" run of 5 miles.

Sum totals for the 23 weeks:
Running Sessions: 97
Running Distance: 531.51 mi
Running Time: 92:16:55 h:m:s
Avg Speed: 5.8 mph
Max Speed: 12.8 mph
Avg HR: 149 bpm
Max HR: 182 bpm
Calories burned: 69,285

Cycling Approx Distance: 207 mi
Cycling Time: 10:52:50 h:m:s
Approx Avg Speed 19 mph
Avg HR: 127 bpm
Max HR: 153 bpm

Monthly Running Mileage Totals:
May: 23.68 mi (24th thru 31st)
June: 95.02 mi
July: 104.11 mi
August: 102.53 mi
September: 120.72 mi
October: 85.45 mi (1st thru 30th)

Previous week's totals:
Week 22 totals:
Running Distance: 13.45 mi
Running Time: 02:19:46 h:m:s
Avg Speed: 5.8 mph
Max Speed: 14.1 mph
Avg HR: 147 bpm
Max HR: 177 bpm
Calories burned: 1,710

Cycling Approx Distance: 00.0 mi
Cycling Time: 00:00:00 h:m:s
Approx Avg Speed 0 mph
Avg HR: n/a bpm
Max HR: n/a bpm

And here's the link to week 22's "long" run of 4 miles.

~ Keith

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