Archive for April 11th, 2009

Zippy run in the rain today – my Hydrolite jacket came through in a big way, really made it an enjoyable run.  Seven miles @ 8:14.

About an hour after I got home, though, I’m in the kitchen and I hear a sound like some tiny alarm coming from my office, and realize it’s my Garmin beeping non-stop.  The screen was also flashing frenetically, switching datascreens back and forth like it was having a seizure.  I took it off the cradle, turned it off and on again, then the buttons wouldn’t work.  I can only turn it off now with a soft reset (mode+Lap).  Hard reset doesn’t work either.  Oh, my sweet Garmin, what have I done to you?

I have to send it back and possibly receive a refurbished one in return.  That would be so very sad, as much as we’ve been through together.  In the meantime, I have a 205 (bought as backup when the 405 was released and 205s went cheap) so I’m fine pacewise, but my recent addiction to HR data must be shelved temporarily.  Probably a healthy thing in a way.

Tomorrow, I’d planned to do 17 but am now just sticking with 16, because that’ll give me 72 miles for the week, a new mileage PR, so I’m happy to cap it there.  It’s funny how I used to think 70mpw would be this huge, hard thing, something I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to do, but once you start adding a few here and a few there, it just grows on you.

The best part about it is, I was feeling a few twinges after March’s races, a couple of times I had to get out the foam roller, but then between last week’s 68 and this week’s 72 I feel great!  My legs are silent.    Last time I had a day off was March 2nd, so things couldn’t be better (knock on wood).

So I’m thinking about after the Lehigh Valley Half, how I should handle the months before marathon training begins in August.  I put a few potential races on the calendar for June and one for July, so that’ll keep me peppy.  I’m not sure how I’m going to portion out fast and easy runs at this point but I did want to cultivate 70mpw, and at this point, it looks like it’ll be no problem.