My journey as a marathoner...

Monday Mar 21 AM 8 miles, 63min PM 7 miles, 53min + pool Tuesday Mar 22 AM 6 miles, 43min PM 12 miles, 1:22min, drills + strides Late PM Massage from Monica ( Massage Envy Burlington ) Wednesday Mar 23 AM 6 miles, 42min PM 13 miles, 1:31min Thursday Mar 24 AM 5 miles, 35min Noon : ART with Dr.Pete PM 15 miles, 1:30:28 workout: medium effort progression progressed every 2.5 miles for 10 miles (55:12) on treadmill with incline on 1% @85%MP-14:36 @90%MP-14:09 @95%MP-13:28 @MP-12:59 Friday Mar 25 AM 8 miles, 55min PM 10 miles, 68min Saturday Mar 26 AM 10 miles, 70min + strides PM 6 miles, 42min Sunday Mar 27 AM 20 miles, 1:51min with intervals (on UML track, 39 degrees, windy) 20 miles, 1:51min warm up: 1.5 mile, 10min workout: 17 miles, 1:27:56 cooldown: 1.5 mile, 14min First 8km- 77.76,77.90,77.50,78.50- 5:10.41 (5:10.41) 74.00,75.82,76.86,76.36-10:18.00 (5:08.06) 76.82,76.00,75.00,75.18-15:21.45 (5:02.62) 76.10,75.72,76.07,75.50-20:24.79 (5:03.44) 75.64,76.07,75.47,77.18-25:29.27 (5:0

Photo by Andre T. Gallagher Monday Mar 14 AM off PM 22 miles, 2:32min Tuesday Mar 15 AM 5 miles, 35min Noon ART with Dr.Pete PM 10 miles, 70min Wednesday Mar 16 AM 7 miles, 49min PM 11 miles,1:12min 4 mile warm up, 29min 5k tempo 15:00.15 (2:59.97, 2:59.44, 3:00.81, 3:01.13, 2:58.80) 4 mile cool down, 28min Thursday Mar 17 AM 6 miles, 43min Noon ART with Dr.Pete PM 13 miles, 1:31min Friday Mar 18 AM 6 miles, 41min PM 10 miles, 67min + 10x strides Late PM Massage from Josina ( Massage Envy Back Bay ) Saturday Mar 19 AM 10 miles, 70min PM Ice bath Sunday Mar 20 AM 17 miles, 1:37min New Bedford Half Marathon (debut) - 1st place, official time 1:05:24 ( Results ) warm up: 2 miles ,16min race: 1:05:25 cool down: 2 miles, 16min splits from GPS watch: 00:05:00.31 at 1 mile 00:05:00.80-10:01 at 2 miles 00:04:54.31-14:55 at 3 miles 00:05:02.23-19:57 at 4 miles 00:04:51.37-24:49 at 5 miles 00:04:51.99-29:41 at 6 miles 00:04:51.55-34:32 at 7 miles 00:05:02.90-39:35 at 8 miles 00:05:05.87-44:41 a

Monday Mar 7 AM 12 miles, 1:23min + strides PM 7 miles, 50min Tuesday Mar 8 AM off PM 21 miles, 1:55min warm up: 1 mile, 7min (some light stretching) tempo 20 miles on Davis Rd in Lowell 1 00:05:21 2 00:05:29 3 00:05:17 4 00:05:21 5 00:05:18 6 00:05:20 7 00:05:16 8 00:05:18 9 00:05:16 10 00:05:17 11 00:05:22 12 00:05:25 13 00:05:23 14 00:05:33 15 00:05:34 16 00:05:24 17 00:05:28 18 00:05:28 19 00:05:29 20 00:05:39 20 miles in 1:48:07 (5:24.3 pace) Wednesday Mar 9 AM 6 miles, 46min PM 7 miles, 51min Thursday Mar 10 AM 9 miles, 64min + strides PM 12 miles, 1:24min Friday Mar 11 AM 5 miles, 35min PM 19 miles, 1:44min w/ intervals 3x4mile + 3 mile warm up 1 mile (8min) splits: 5:09, 5:14, 5:10, 5:13 (4 miles - 20:46) 5:42 recovery (less than mile/ bathroom break) 5:12, 5:13, 5:11, 5:10 (4 miles - 20:46) 6:04 recovery mile 5:12, 5:13, 5:13, 5:12 (4 miles - 20:50) 6:04 recovery mile 5:14, 5:15, 5:19 (stopped at 3 miles - 15:48) tot

Monday Feb 28 AM 6 miles, 48min PM 6 miles, 46min, speed drills + pool Tuesday Mar 1 AM Off (busy) PM 15 miles, 1:30:32 Workouts: Medium effort progression progressed every 2.5 miles for 10 miles (55:18) on treadmill with incline on 1% @85%MP-14:50 @90%MP-14:08 @95%MP-13:26 @MP-12:54 Late PM massage Wednesday Mar 2 AM 8 miles, 56min PM 13 miles, 1:33min Thursday Mar 3 AM 5 miles, 35min PM 17 miles, 1:33min warm up and cool down, 2 miles 14min workout 4x3mile at MP with mile rest 15:27 (5:10, 5:06, 5:10) mile rest at 5:45 15:23 (5:09, 5:07, 5:06) mile rest at 5:40 15:21 (5:07, 5:06, 5:07) mile rest at 5:48 15:32 (5:06, 5:10, 5:14) total workout 15 miles in 1:18:59 Friday Mar 4 AM 6 miles, 44min PM 8 miles, 67min, speed drills+hurdle drills Saturday Mar 5 AM 14 miles, 1:31min (5:37 last mile) PM 8 miles, 59min Sunday Mar 6 AM 20 miles, 2:18min PM off (very tired) 126 miles Decent week of training. MP intervals went better than I thought. I ended up averaging 15:25 for the repetitions.

Yesterday I had my Marathon Paced specific workout and thought I should describe it here fro some of you. The workout on the schedule was 4 x 3 mile @ MP (for me about 5:10) with 1 mile recovery at about 90% MP. This was done on an indoor track (Reggie Lewis), so you can already imagine the amount of laps I did. I didn't necessarily feel fresh going into this workout. I did a light progression run on Tuesday (10 miles at low 55min), and did a 8/13 double the day before. I had about 135 miles in the past 7 days going into this workout, but I wasn't worried about that. I was worried about a few other things: fluids, blisters and stomach issues. I did experience some trouble with a little bit of each. I had some cramps because my cytofuse fluid was a little too sweet. My mouth felt sticky as a result of the sweet fluid, next time I will just try water.I should've watered it down more. Also, I was already recovering my blisters from Sunday which were still hurting me. Anyway

For those of you that have been following my blog for a while now, I have acquired the domain name listed above ( http://www.rubensanca.com/ ), which will forward everything to my blogspot platform. No need to type "blogspot" anymore. Expect more changes in the future. Thanks for following!