Today started off Week 1, Day 1 (W1D1) of Hal Higdon’s 1/2 Marathon Training and today called for some strength and stretching. For the strength part, I went for a 16 mile bike ride and pushed it on the ride. Probably not the smartest thing to do. I must admit, my legs are still a little sore from my warm up run the other day, so I thought that a nice easy road ride would calm the legs down and work out all the soreness. I don’t think I was 1 mile into it before I had it in the big ring pushing hard gears. So much for the easy spin. After I got home, ate and took the dog for a 3 mile walk into town. I got the nike+ipod calibrated and it was pretty much spot on, .02 off for every 2 miles, so I am decently happy with its results especially since there are so many variables that could cause that to be different than the GPS signal I was receiving. Tomorrow calls for the first run of the training and it is a 3 miler. I am actually looking forward to it. New toys will do that.
On the website change over news, the name is ready to go, but the theme I chose for it is being a little difficult so it might be a day or so until it “officially” changed over. I wanted it to be done today, but with so much that needs to be done to it and lack of free time, it is delayed, and I can live with that.
September 12th, 2007 - 8:16 pm
Rock!
Good luck with the running plan.
One tip though… for strength, he means actual resistance/strength training. Like, lifting heavy stuff.
September 12th, 2007 - 9:44 pm
Walking up and down the stairs for me means lifting heavy stuff….