Posts Tagged ‘workouts’
Running distance – anual evolution
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
10 k for pacing, 5 k for racing
Friday, February 27th, 2009
25 days for Lisbon’s Half Marathon and I’m getting in shape now. So in shape I’ve actually broke my 10k PB, now in a 43’59” mark. Last couple of weeks resulted in some improvements, as I shifted from some painful workouts to more balanced and enjoyable ones. Stretching and abs played a role here, as [...]
20 days for raceday
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
The Portugal Halfh-Marathon is just in the end of this month, so I started doing longer workouts. A 12k and a 15k this week. As a matter of fact, I ran today my farthest ipoded race. 15,24k in less than 1h15min. I’m focusing more on mental aspects lately (setting my mood, running relaxed…) and, I’m [...]
Race trainning
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
After browsing around for some competitions in September, I found Meia Maratona de Portugal, in the 28th. I am going to run the Half, only to finish it. Since it requires some extra preparation, I started today making longer runs, doing a 5k in the morning and a 10k in the afternoon. As I am [...]
Back to regular workouts
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
It´s been a while since I’ve wrote here and also since I’ve been running in a regular basis. Work forced me to reduce my running hobby, but I’m back! I’ve been doing some really relaxed workouts, mainly around 5k, something like three minutes bellow my PB. I’m keen on running a race near September, so [...]
Last workout before race
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
So it’s done. I’ve trained all of what I felt to be needed to train for the next race. With some 10k workouts and a 15k (race length) training, I’m fully satisfied with my performance. Taking in account that my goal here is just to finish the race, a 1h15min seems to be a good [...]
Long distance workout
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Unlike expected when I left home for running, today… I ended up making a long distance workout: 12,73 km in one hour. For future reference: I started really relaxed and controlling my pace Mentally, I opted for a kind of a zen state of mind I have no pains whatsoever Only drank water at 7,5 [...]
Races calendar
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Found a good reference calendar of races and events in Portugal. You can check it out here. I’ll get a way to put these informations better organized in the blog, namely by using a plug-in or table manager. Not easy to find one good and practical, thought. I fully accomplished my workout schedule for this [...]
New PB and preparation for race
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Seems like I stepped into a new performance level. Last races seems quite easy and I’m controlling myself not to speed up. Strangely, this seems to traduce into better and better times. My 5k
One month to go
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Made my post-valentine race today. I must say that I’m really in shape now. Running 7,2km workouts made me see my progress: 19/01/2008 – 38’51” (5’22” pace) 08/02/2008 – 37’39” (5’13” pace) 12/02/2008 – 37’19” (5’10” pace) 15/02/2008 – 37’33” (5’12” pace) The time is always near my goal, and since the mini-marathon is fairly [...]
