Posted by Pete Laurina on May 8th, 2010 |
0 commentsI’ve been getting in some great workouts lately. I recently started running Lookout Mountain (sometimes on the road, sometimes on the trail) weekly on Fridays. Yesterday I ran the trail along with some other friends, we then went and had a few drinks, then we went down to Highlands and had even more drinks. Needless to say, this morning I was feeling it. Gatorade seems to be a magic hangover cure, so I downed a bottle of that, and went to the Saturday morning running group. Only did 3 miles at an easy pace (8:30/mile) and then had breakfast. That got the day started off well and I was feeling much better. So I jumped on the bike and started from the house and rode the 22 miles to Golden and back. Averaging 17.7mph on the way there and then 20.8mph on the way back. The way there from start to finish is about 800ft difference, plus a bit of a headwind, so obviously the way back would be a little faster. Immediately after getting home I switched out to some running shoes, threw a hat on, and took off on a run. I found my rhythm pretty quickly after about a half a mile. I turned back after the mile mark and made it a 2 mile run at 8:00/miles. If this keeps up I’m going to be in great shape for the two half ironmans and Ironman Arizona by the end of the summer. Tomorrow I have a similar workout planned over on the Harvest Moon half ironman course. Going to do about 40-45 miles of the course followed by a 3-6 mile run with a friend who’s doing a half ironman in Norway where he is from, but that course he has to do is apparently a killer. So hopefully this workout will show him a thing or two about what it’s like to try to run after biking that far, I don’t think he’s actually done any brick workouts ever, so it should be interesting.
Posted by Pete Laurina on April 10th, 2010 |
0 commentsTomorrow is the Platte River Half Marathon. I signed up because my friend suggested it and I have trouble saying no to any race. It’s by no means an A priority race, but like any race you have a compulsion to do the best you can at it. After this my next big race is the San Diego Marathon in early June. So I’ll have two months of solid training before considering another taper. I do have the Colfax Marathon as part of a relay team to do for a charity, but distance wise I’ll end up either running or biking after it as well. I plan on using it as a speed workout since it’ll only be a 5 mile run, then go for a second workout later on after lunch.
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Posted by Pete Laurina on November 9th, 2009 |
0 commentsToday I pulled the trigger and registered for the Atlantic City Half Marathon. It’s this coming Sunday and I figured since I’ll be in Jersey for get together with some old college friends I might as well sign up for a race while I’m there.
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Posted by Pete Laurina on October 27th, 2009 |
0 commentsSunday was my first 5k race I’ve done since high school. With my old PR being 18:17 from back then I didn’t expect anything like that this time. The race was the Marine Corps Memorial 5k in Golden, CO. It was more of a 5k-ish race, just under 3 miles, so my time of 23:37 is even less impressive because of that.
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Posted by Pete Laurina on October 27th, 2009 |
0 commentsI finally pulled the trigger and bought the Garmin FR 305. I’d have loved to get teh 310XT, but since it’s double the price I just couldn’t pull that trigger. The 305 is awesome though, I’m just working on figuring out which sites to use to upload my data to. There’s so many to choose and each have different features, but nothing has it all.
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