Push ups

Week 5 Rock N Roll Training

Sunday December 14 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 7:30am

Tuesday December 16 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 6:45pm

Recommended Mileage:

RNR Half 9 miles
RNR Full 18 miles
El Paso Half 7 miles

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on".
- Robert Frost

ZERO TO HERO CHALLENGE PART 1

In July of 2008 I made up my mind that I was going to run a 100 mile race. I believe in myself, and I only compete against myself so to me its just a personal challenge.I thought about doing the Across the Years race in December 2008. It would have given me 5 months of training, but I recognized my conditioning was not the same as it was earlier this year. I had taken a short break from running which ended up becoming a 7 month break.

Sticking to my Kaizen methods of training I decided to work my way up to a 100 mile race by first getting through a half marathon, followed by a marathon, a 50 miler, and finishing up with a 100 mile race.

Well today part 1 was completed as I ran my 10th half marathon in a time of 1:50:33, felt great after the race. I did get a little sore in the upper back, quadriceps from all the downhill running, I can see the lack of weight training may have made me sore in those areas. What really bothered me is the 3 quarter sized blisters on my left foot, I have never had such big blisters before.

The Plan:

Half Marathon: Tucson Half, December 7 2008

Marathon: Rock N Roll AZ, January 18 2009

50 Miler: Old Pueblo 50, March 7 2009

100 Miler: Javelina Jundred, October 31 2009

Week 6 Rock N Roll Training

Sunday December 7 - No morning run because of the Tucson Half Marathon

Tuesday December 9 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 6:45pm

Recommended Mileage:

RNR Half 5 miles
RNR Full 10 miles
El Paso Half 5 miles

"Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living".
- Mary Tyler Moore

Week 7 Rock N Roll Training

Sunday November 30 - Tumamoc Hill at 7:30am

Tuesday December 2 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 6:45pm

Recommended Mileage:

Tucson Half 3 miles
RNR Half 8 miles
RNR Full 16 miles
El Paso Half 6 miles

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good".
- Samuel Johnson

Week 8 Rock N Roll Training

Sunday November 23 - 6 miles of HILLS!!! meet at St. Marys Hospital, Run to and up "A" Mountain, then run back and up Tumamoc at 7:30am

Tuesday November 25 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 6:45pm

Recommended Mileage:

Tucson Half 5 miles
RNR Half 5 miles
RNR Full 10 miles
El Paso Half 5 miles

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses".
- Hippocrates

Week 9 Rock N Roll Training

Sunday November 16 - 8-10 mile run at Rillito river, meet in front of Windmil Inn at 7:30am

Tuesday November 18 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 6:45pm

Recommended Mileage:

Tucson Half 10 miles
RNR Half 8 miles
RNR Full 16 miles
El Paso Half 5 miles

"If you don't risk anything you risk even more".
- Erica Jong

Running The Sahara

Week 10 Rock N Roll Training

Sunday November 9 - 6 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 7:00am

Tuesday November 11 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 6:45pm

Recommended Mileage:

Tucson Half 6 miles
RNR Half 5 miles
RNR Full 10 miles
El Paso Half 4 miles

"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"-George Bernard Shaw

85 year old marathon runner

Week 11 Rock N Roll Training

Sunday November 2 - 8 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 7:00am

Tuesday November 4 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 6:45pm

Recommended Mileage:

Tucson Half 9 miles
RNR Half 8 miles
RNR Full 16 miles
El Paso Half 8 miles

"The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success."
-Elbert Hubbard

50 marathons 50 states 50 days

New movie about Dean Karnazes

Week 12 Rock N Roll Training

Sunday October 26 - 5 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 7:00am

Tuesday October 28 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 6:45pm

Recommended Mileage:

Tucson Half 5 miles
RNR Half 5 miles
RNR Full 10 miles
El Paso Half 6 miles

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower".
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mackenzie's 50

Week 13 Rock N Roll Training

Sunday October 19 - 8 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 7:00am

Tuesday October 21 - 3 mile run at Reid Park, meet in front of High Corbett field at 6:45pm

Recommended Mileage:

Tucson Half 8 miles
RNR Half 7 miles
RNR Full 14 miles
El Paso Half 6 miles

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible".
- Arthur C. Clarke