A New Week

The Sun paid Chicago a visit yesterday. It felt soooo good. It was visions of spring bouncing around in my head. The Sun does not want to spoil us so it's hiding behind the fog and clouds again. I'll have to don my rose colored glasses again. At least it's getting warmer this week.

I had a very active weekend. Saturday's run was a 16 miler. The lakefront running path is getting a little more crowded. The runners I pass by look to be more serious runners. Almost like they would be training for an up-coming race. Could it be Boston?? I ran the 16 miles in 2:15:00 at an average pace of 8:26 mi. My heart rate was nice and low at 129 bpm. So, this ended up not being an LSD run. I had too many people on the path that teased me to pass them. I set targets along the way. I would look down the way and select the next passing victim. Per my pace info I was not running crazy fast to pass people. There were a couple faster miles near the middle of my run. After those I brought the pace back down. Results are at the bottom of this post.

After my run I hopped on the bike in my basement and put in 10 miles.

Sunday, I did not run. Instead, the elliptical was the exercise of choice. I knocked off 8 miles in 64 minutes. Later in the day I wanted to train on the bike again and pedaled 20 miles. Good stuff!!

Split Time Distance Elevation Gain Elevation Loss Avg Speed Max Speed Avg HR Max HR Calories
1 0:09:09 1 475 539 9:09 4:14 114 124 77
2 0:08:47 1 272 313 8:47 6:57 121 126 83
3 0:08:43 1 348 346 8:43 7:09 121 135 67
4 0:09:00 1 953 972 9:00 4:37 120 131 70
5 0:08:15 1 114 135 8:15 7:09 129 135 80
6 0:07:31 1 70 45 7:31 6:22 143 152 87
7 0:07:52 1 23 57 7:52 7:16 140 145 87
8 0:08:17 1 73 41 8:17 7:41 134 138 81
9 0:08:28 1 152 106 8:28 7:43 131 133 73
10 0:08:31 1 75 99 8:31 7:52 130 137 69
11 0:08:17 1 98 73 8:17 7:41 129 134 61
12 0:08:06 1 174 121 8:06 7:16 134 142 74
13 0:08:18 1 290 354 8:18 6:33 136 143 79
14 0:08:35 1 367 400 8:35 6:13 132 143 63
15 0:08:33 1 274 301 8:33 7:05 134 138 71
16 0:08:28 1 376 330 8:28 6:59 136 141 74
17 0:00:03 0.01 0 0 8:33 8:19 133 134 0
Summary 2:15:00 16.01 4,135 4,232 8:26 4:14 129 152 1,196

1/11 - 1/17: WEEK IN REVIEW:

Activity Mileage Calories Burned

Swimming 2.05 mi. 850

Bike 45 mi. 2251

Run 37.4 mi. 4323

Elliptical 8 900

TOTALS: 92.45 mi 8324 calories burned

Total Training Time: 11:43




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" Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction."