I am officially starting my Marathon Training for the San Francisco Marathon this week.
1) 6:02 AM 15 April 2008 (Long Slow Distance with “Fartlek”)
Distance—12 kms Time—1:08:48 hrs
Average Pace—5:38 mins/km Average Speed—10.6 kms/hr
Maximum Speed—14.4 kms/hr Total Calories—712 cal
Average HR—151 bpm Maximum HR—164
Running Shoes—ASICS Gel-1120 Music—Bob Marley
2) 6:08 PM 15 April 2008 (Speed Play-Yasso 800s)
a) 890 meters—4:51 mins Ave Pace—5:27 mins/km
b) 841 meters—3:52 mins Ave Pace—4:37 mins/km
c) 852 meters—4:09 mins Ave Pace—4:52 mins/km
d) 863 meters—4:01 mins Ave Pace—4:39 mins/km
e) 857 meters—4:35 mins Ave Pace—5:20 mins/km
f) 860 meters—3:58 mins Ave Pace—4:37 mins/km
***10 seconds slow jog in-between runs
Cool Down Run—2.12 kms @ 13:28 mins (Ave Pace of 6:21 mins/km)
Running Shoes—ASICS Gel-1120 Music—Bon Jovi
3) 6:16 PM 16 April 2008 (Tempo Run)
a) 3.20 kms—16:45 mins Ave Pace—5:20 mins/km
Ave HR—151 bpm Max HR—162 bpm
b) 3.20 kms—16:30 mins Ave Pace—5:18 mins/km
Ave HR—159 bpm Max HR—164
c) 3.20 kms—16:42 mins Ave Pace—5:23 mins/km
Ave HR—158 bpm Max HR—164 bpm
d) 3.20 kms—16:32 mins Ave Pace—5:18 mins/km
Ave HR—159 bpm Max HR—164 bpm
***10 seconds slow jog to drink water in between runs
Running Shoes—ASICS Gel-1120 Music—Bon Jovi & Dave Matthews Band
4) 6:11 PM 17 April 2008 ( Slow Run)
Distance—10.52 kms Time—1:03:16 hrs
Ave Pace—6:00 mins/km Ave Speed—10 kms/hr
Ave HR—146 bpm Max HR—157 bpm
Running Shoes—ASICS Gel-1120 Music—Earth, Wind & Fire
5) 7:10 AM 18 April 2008 (Race Pace)
Distance—8 kms Time—41:55 mins
Ave Pace—5:13 mins/km Ave Speed—11.5 kms/hr
Max Speed—14.8 kms/hr Total Calories—588 cal
Ave HR—157 bpm Max HR—162 bpm
Running Shoes—ASICS Gel-1120 Music—Flyleaf & Foo Foo Fighters
My running workouts for this week were done along the 2-mile route inside the camp in Jamindan and along the new 581-meter jogging lane in our parade ground.
Bald Runner 
Hi BR,
How do you do your long distance with Fartlek? I never got to figure out in doing this. Maybe I have but just didnt kow what its called. hehehe
I see that your tempo run consists of 4 16 plus minute sesssions. Maybe you can try to make one or 2 20 minute sets with a 4:54 steady pace for the entire set. The 20 minute run will not include any warm up time. I computed 4:54 based on your projected 48 minute 10k . T pace is the one used for Tempo. Here’s a link to the chart http://www.attackpoint.org/trainingpaces.jsp?dist=10000&units=meters&time=04800
You can make a workout on your garmin and even put pace alarms. It will act like your “coach” the whole time your doing your training run.
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mark, i am doing my running workouts in the mountains of Jamindan and i am doing my runs in a 2-mile route with two distinct ascending portions of 100-150 meters distance. that is where i make “speed bursts” and consider that as my “fartleks”. the descending and flat portions are my recovery points. my time here in the mountains is slower than my time in Manila for obvious reasons that the terrain here is unusual. i just added a jogging lane in our parade ground and it is relatively flat with a distance of 581 meters. just this morning, i discovered a 4-km loop course with the jogging lane added to my usual 2-mile circuit course plus one round around my Hqs Building. pls note also the time I had my running workouts (speed & tempo) in the early evening. practically, i am running in the dark here in the camp as most of the roads are not yet lighted. anyway, thanks for the “tip” and the link. it will be useful for my training for the SFM in August. see you this sunday.
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Wow, Im envious you have the hills for training. The best alternative here is the one outside Ultra. The stretch would be around 400meters. We have yet to use that though. Doing uphill speed bursts are actually safer compared to doing it in the track. I read that somewhere, probably in Runners world. Running in the dark does give you a false sense of speed. Im just glad Garmin solves that. : )
What is SFM?
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mark, that’s the San Francisco Marathon on the first Sunday of August. that will be on my retirement vacation’s rest & recreation (R & R) period..hehehe..
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Good luck BR, Run fast but be safe. : ) Sir as usual, balitaan mo kami what happens.
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