Virtual Partner
Longest Run Of The Comeback
Great afternoon for a run, so decided to set my Garmin Virtual Partner at 7:30 per mile and see how I fared trying to maintain a fairly ambitious pace. As with all my post-stress fracture runs, I started out fairly conservatively. I did, however, manage to “catch” my Virtual Partner (Jonesy) just after the four [...]
Virtual Partner Nine Miler
Set the Garmin Virtual Guy to run 9 miles at 7:27 pace and ended up with a really enjoyable “easy” run to take me to 60 miles for the week for the first time since early March. Honestly, it took a lot of self control to hold back and run 7:27s, but the slower pace [...]
10k Race Against The Garmin 305 Virtual Partner
Yesterday’s rest day did the trick – my knee joints felt much better today and the residual upper body soreness from the hundred push ups plan has disappeared too. I fancied a slightly quicker run today so decided to race my Garmin Forerunner 305 over a 10k course. If you weren’t aware, the 305 has [...]
Week 11 – Key Run Workout #3
No 20 mile run can ever be described as easy (well, not for me anyway), but today’s long run was one of the best I can remember for quite some time. With only 5 weeks to go until my main goal race of 2007, the Marine Corps Marathon, I was in desperate need for a [...]
Week 10 – Key Run Workout #2
After Tuesday’s awful workout I was in two minds about tonight’s tempo run. I must admit half of me was tempted to take the night off and rest up for the weekend run long, but the other half was determined to shake off the disappointment of my poor performance and run the 10 miles as [...]
