Gaudi , intervals , Gaudi , long run , Gaudi (MT Week 4,5,6/17)

anat — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:41:44 +0000

In the past few weeks I ran all over Bouc Bel-Air and Barcelona, swam out of three different beaches , kayaked twice and road through France for 80km with my mom. Leave it to me to turn a family vacation into a training camp… and drag others along with me

My mom on our bike trip

I’m starting week 7 out of 17 training weeks for the NYC marathon. I’m at the point where every long run is the longest I’ve ever run in my life. Today I ran for two hours and thirty minutes when only a few weeks ago, two hours seemed long. I noticed that the concept of time is beginning to change as I go for longer and longer runs. I find that I’m only thinking about half of the run. For example, if I have to run two hours and thirty minutes , all I think about is how I need to run for just an hour and fifteen minutes in one direction and then run home.

Why can’t we have these in Israel?

During one run, I got caught in thunder and lightening. This is me after my run… soaked to the bone.

Here is a hill workout that I did in Bouc Bel-Air. I think it’s great because you can see how the altitude corresponds exactly with my heart rate. I found a good hill and ran up it over and over again for a period of time. Boring? maybe… but I was was running up a hill with trees on both sides (=shade) so I was happy.

This next one I did on the beach front path in Barcelona. I tried to find my heart rate blip when a drunk guy blocked my way but it must be buried in all that HR data.

Whats in store?

Today I went for a 2:30 long run and I’m giving it my all this week. After that, who knows how much time I’ll have. I start working next week at Barclays Capital as an analyst. I forsee long work days in my future

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Gaudi , intervals , Gaudi , long run , Gaudi (MT Week 4,5,6/17)