http://pushback.sweat365.com Sweat365 » .Challenge Yourself to be your own Coach, until you're good enough to know you need one! Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:38:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Soo far soo good.... Next Sunday I run 26.2 miles in Vegas. I was in vegas for Thanksgiving and I was able to drive some of the course, Las vegas Blvd needs a lot of work, there is a lot of construction on the strip and the road is ... http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/29/ran-a-good-run-5/ All good. http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/23/taper-time-2/   My Seventeen week marathon training program in mild weather and a day or two of heat, wet and one day of coyotes is all winding down to just a trickle of running.  Nine miles this Sunday and then next Sunday eight. I feel like a small kid that's leaving Disneyland, all the fun behind ... http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/20/taper-time/ This is my luck, tried to do 21 miles today and at mile 19 I was done. It was very hot and the wind was blowing hard, I felt like a strip of meat in a dehydration machine, beef jerky anyone ? Hot and very dry wind blowing from the east ... http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/16/in-celebration-of-las-vegas-marathon-i-tried-to-run-black-jack-but-only-came-up-with-2-face-cards/ I'm running Las Vegas with a finish goal of 3:59:59 Is that fast enough to be the first one across the finish line.....no, how about second ?.....no, third....no! fourth....no!!! Last year I ran Vegas with a finish time of 4:15:43 when finished and in recovery My sisters son (five years old) was sad, I ... http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/13/signing-up-for-a-race-that-you-know-you-wont-win-or-will-you/ Back in the am workout again. Running at night gets me to bed at 11:00pm and then the am workout gets me up at 4:15am.  I trained my body to recover from long runs and now in a few weeks I get to see what all this time and effort ... http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/13/marathon-training/ Gu and shot blocks work well for me. http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/12/ran-a-good-run-4/ All good, today another five then Sunday in the spirit of the Las Vegas Marathon I will try to run Black Jack as my peak run, then its all down hill from there. http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/11/ran-five-miles/ Ran good. 18 mile taper next week. I looked at the time again and again and I did run this in 3:06:30 and thats with 2 GU stops and four red lights, I'm impressed. Found myself in the moment again, the perfect balance of energy needed vs energy stored breathing in vs oxygen ... http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/09/20-mile-run/ All good. http://pushback.sweat365.com/2008/11/06/ran-a-good-run-3/