Month: April 2011

  • Another interesting race

    Here is another interesting race – I would like to run this year.  – Brian

    http://www.alpost1.org/content.php?id=86

    My schedule, so far. (as you can see my weight has not been going down lately).

  • Week 2 of my 5K Training

    It’s great to be training again!   I thought I would have enjoyed not running for a while after the marathon – but instead I hated it.  Alway greener in someone else’s backyard. : D

    Yesterday I registered for the JP Morgan Corporate Challange in NYC in June.   This race is a nice 3.5 mile evening race around Central Park, NYC which I did once before in 2009.  I ran it in 28:17 in 2009 – and hope to break that time by at least a couple minutes this year.  

    I have the following planned runs for 2011:

     The most exciting prospect for this summer is my wife’s plan to run her first 5K race with my sister.  Now that should be great!

     

  • American Heart Association Heart Walk 2011

    I am raising money for the American Heart Association – by doing the 2011 NYC Start! Heart Walk & Wall Street Run.   It is taking place on May 17th 2011 @ 6:30 PM, and I am trying to raise as much money as I can for this wonderful cause.  You can sponsor my run by clicking on the button above.  Those which have already donated – I want to say thank you! 

     

  • 5K Training (setting goals)

     

    While I take a short break from long distance running- I will for the next couple months work on my 5K time.  My goal will be to break my personal best of 24 minutes, and 44 seconds (7:52 pace), by bring it down below 23 minutes. 

    I’ve gained a few pounds over the last few weeks – but plan on bringing down to the weight to 185 lbs by the end of these training period. 

    I found this running schedule on line and figured it was time to use an advanced training schedule. 

    • Crossing-training (CT),  (biking, swimming, elliptical trainer) at moderate effort
    • Interval workouts (IW):  4 x 400 would be four hard 400s, with a 400 m recovery in between.
    • Wednesday and Saturday runs: Easy Pace
    • Tempo Run:  Run with 5 to 10 minutes easy running, then continue with 15 to 20 minutes running near your 10K pace, and finish with 5 to 10 minutes cooling down.

    In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.  (Gen. 1:1)