An icy cold Bud Light goes out to my friend RoseAnn who just completed her very first big run the other week -- the Rock n' Roll Marathon in San Diego!! Go Ro Go!!
RoseAnn enlightened me about a very interested training program developed by this fellow Hal Higdon. Apparently, I must be the last runner on earth to learn about this guru and his magical fitness programs. Given my complete novice status, I guess my ignorance can be pardoned.
From the looks of the basic program, it seems like my training is right on target for the time being. I'm happy to see that he recommends some cross-training because I would not want to completely sacrifice my bike riding for this silly running business.
I'm still in search of a good running diet and RoseAnn made a couple of suggestions which I might check out.
This coming Sunday (Father's Day) I will be running race #8 in Central Park, the WABC Father’s Day Fight Against Prostate Cancer (yes, yet another cancer-related event). It's only 5 miles so, in a sense, it's really a waste of my time because it's not part of my training regime. However, it will count towards my nine NY Marathon qualifying races for 2009. I'll post the results of that race some time next week.
Last night I ran eight miles on the treadmill in the gym. I was not really paying close attention to the time. Instead, I just wanted to get use to the distance. Unfortunately, that was probably not the best thing for me to be doing because everything I am reading talks about doing smaller runs during the week (less than five miles) and leaving the longer runs for the weekend. I need to start paying attention to the subtleties of this project or I am going to get myself good and hurt.
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