Friday, March 12, 2010

The March Laundry List

Today's Run:  7.07 miles through Bath (Work)
Total Time:  55 minutes, 55 seconds (7 minutes, 55 seconds per mile)
Type of run:  Easy
Total Miles this week:  27.35



It's been a quiet work week as far as running goes.  The times of my easy runs are back to normal.  The weather is calm and pleasant, averaging in the upper 40s.  Everything feels good and ready for the 5K this weekend.

The planning and scheduling phase, however, is far from quiet.  Here's my to-do list for the month of March:

Recover from Hyannis.  After the monkey wrench in my Marathon goal, the objective was to just make sure there were no lasting effects from the race.  After a week of very sluggish running and a respectable 5K, I seem to have returned to normal.  In essence, this objective is complete, but I still want to pay attention to muscle aches in my body and not push too far in my non-race runs for another week.

Run a race PR in the Irish Road Rover 5K.  I didn't really have any particular goal set - I just had two benchmarks to see how well I would recover from Hyannis:  beat 21:29 and get as close to 20 minutes as possible.  The former was reached, the latter was a bit unrealistic.  All in all, mission accomplished.

Register for the Eastern States 20-miler.  Done today.  It wasn't really a high priority to register right away but I wanted to make sure I got that done so I didn't have to worry about it.

Register for the Beach to Beacon 10K.  Today is open registration for Cape Elizabeth residents (of which I am not).  Tomorrow morning at 8AM is when official registration begins.  4,000 open slots to grab.  Last year it took 2 hours to fill 6,000 which makes it extremely important that I register as soon as the site goes up.

Run a race PR and beat 20 minutes in the Kerrymen 5K.  The PR time to beat is 20:20.

Run a 20-mile PR in the Eastern States race.  Sunday, March 28.  This is the important big race in between Hyannis and Sugarloaf.  The closer to 2 hours, 20 minutes I get in the race, the better.  Some changes are taking place in the race due to construction, so I'll keep a close eye on things and plan my strategy accordingly.


Then it's on to April!