Monday, November 13, 2006

Tokyo Marathon in 14 weeks


My autumn 2006 objective is to stop the downward spiral of my running career.  The triathlon training is not carrying me.  A week ago Wednesday I struggled to maintain 3:25 pace for the monthly 6 x1000 interval training.   My teammates were shocked and dismayed.   "Jay, you are a shell of your former self" they all said. 

I entered the Tokyo Marathon on February 18, so I need to regain at least some minimum level of fitness.

Presumably my struggles are a result of the low mileage I mentioned in my Edogawa Report Blog.  Since the second week of October I have begun to pickup my training a bit.  Here is my weekly mileage (in kilometers) since the Sado Triathlon:

Sept  4-9        17
Sept 10-16     18
Sept 17-23     33
Sept 24-30     18
Oct  1 - 7       14
Oct  8 -14      35
Oct 15-21      38
Oct 22-28      43
Oct 29-4        49
Nov 5-11        43
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:04 AM

    I recommand the mini mika training programme, bike in the morning run in the evening (or the other way around) !!

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  2. Stephen Lacey4:10 PM

    Ha! Somebody else who has foolishly migrated to beta blogger. I have found it a complete pain in the arse and regret it. I now cannot comment on non-beta blogs except the ones who allow anonymous comments. This is my first chance to comment on a fellow beta blogger. Let's see how it goes.

    By the way, you still have another 65 km per week worth of mileage to go. ;-)

    Steve

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  3. Stephen Lacey4:12 PM

    It worked. Halleleujia! Maybe instead of kicking beta blogger I should proselytize it to get everyone I know migrated.

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  4. Jay7:13 PM

    Steve - I migrated to beta blogger a while back. Since much of the time I simply email in my posts, as you suggested, and do not even visit the blogger site I may fail to take advantage of new features.

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