November 01, 2005

Running as much as I can

Posted at 02:42 in Running, Sports | | 9 Comments

I started running last august and since then I tried to maintain at least once a week. Not enough so I am trying to increase both the pace and the performance, just to test a bit my limits, here is what happened last week until today. I am trying to wake up early and start by sports every day for an hour... I know it will be difficult to maintain, let's see...

  • Sunday: 1 hour around the Stanford campus, great experience
  • Monday: 35 minutes on a machine at 7.3 mph and 30 minutes rowing, various exercises
  • Tuesday: 45 minutes on a running machine at 7.3 mph, in Berkeley
  • Wednesday: 45 minutes on a running machine at 7.3 mph in San Francisco Hilton, sucked because no windows...
  • Thursday: nope
  • Friday: back in Paris, ran about 40 minutes a few hours after the 11 hours flight, tough...
  • Saturday: 42 minutes outside, 8 km, that is 11,4 km/h average
  • Sunday: 1h10 minutes outside, I tried to time between "checkpoints" during my running and did the same after with my bike it gives me the approx distance. Don't worry about the below, it is just a reminder for me....

1>2 distance 2692m time 15 min
1>3 distance 4078m time 7 mins
1>3 going and coming back: 42 mins, 8km
1>4 (running to the other direction) 2700 m time to go and come back on 5400m: 28 mins
Total: 13,4 km in 1h10 that is 11,48 km/h average

  • Monday (yesterday), no running, 20km biking, faster and my muscles seem to feel the pain...

update: ran today again my best ever, 1h30 for about 17 km, 11,33 km/h average

do you drink any "sport drinks" like Gatorade or Powerade or more classicaly you take water or fruits...?

Joseph, November 01, 2005 at 03:22

Just water, Joseph.

Loic, November 01, 2005 at 10:48

Where do you run in Paris? When I lived there I found it difficult to find any place to get a good stretch in. Fortunately we stayed in Le Lys Chantilly most of the time and there was plenty of open space.

J Bishop, November 01, 2005 at 18:58

I'm running a lot inside World of Warcraft, but I guess that's not the same thing...

Joi Ito, November 01, 2005 at 19:59

Hey Joi, it does count of course, but I wonder if it will make you lose any weight. Actually if you started drinking virtual wine and eating virtual food, that should work ;-)

Loic, November 01, 2005 at 21:59

loïc, that's great. set a challenge to run a race - i suggest the paris marathon in april. i'll even run it with you.

keep it up. running is a great way to tour cities. remember all the running i did in our little euro-tour this spring?

munich, paris, berlin, london, wolfsburg (ugh!)

charlie, November 02, 2005 at 09:59

Loic, that's a *lot* of running... Careful you don't overtrain (and either/or injure yourself, or more importantly, begin to lose interest in training (very common when people are training like mad...))

Your HR will give you a good idea if you are... :)

Pete Barr-Watson, November 02, 2005 at 12:50

Charlie: actually posting about running on my french blog gathered about 5 french bloggers who want to train together and make a bloggers team for the Paris Marathon, you're in ?

Pete, thanks, you're absolutely right my knees are painful and my feet too today, I should definitely come down or I will get badly hurt... Pete, joining us for the Paris Marathon ?

Loïc Le Meur, November 02, 2005 at 14:51

Impressive results - kudos.

Have u tried some intervals jogs or similar anaerobic activities during your weekly schedule?

They are tougher and harder, but they have a significant impact of improving the stamina, and also to break routine.

I'm not in a position to give a professional advice, but just 2 examples from my wee experiene:

6 * 500 - full sprint each part, and then 3-4 mins. light jog. Doing with a friend is best. While you return to starting line, he's doing his sprint and vice versa.

4* 2000m - you take a light jog of around 8-10 mins between each interval. It's a very hard training, and actually it's best to start with 4 * 1000, then 4 * 1500 and see how it goes. It improves aerobic stamina magically.

I used to do both on beach - and do not recommend any hard jogging on asphalts.

You have great results - I'm jealous :)

Uri L., November 12, 2005 at 23:54

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