New Name Same Mission

Shabbat Shalom everyone!​

After a small hiatus in posting I am back, with a renamed blog to better suit what I am doing now, so welcome to "Run Rabbi Run"!​

Almost a week ago I finished the Tobacco Road Half Marathon in 1:46 - here are the official results: Tobacco Road Half for me :-)​

​My next goal is the Zombie Run, a 5k, on Sunday, May 19, 2013, at 12:30pm in Freedom Park here in Charlotte. It's only 5k (3.1 miles) and you're chased by zombies - register now and help TBE's Mitzvah Day Projects - team registration link. Run for your life save the world!

​This week I began the training program for a 5k from Run Less Run Faster. Going a little slower than recommended since I don't have the full 12 weeks between the half marathon and the 5k in May - here are those runs:
Tempo run on Wednesday - aiming for 4 miles at 7:53/mile between a mile for warming up and a mile to cool down. I came pretty close to the target time.
Long-ish run today - aiming for 6 miles at an 8:08/mile average, and ended up closer to 8:16.

More to come - follow me on Twitter or friend me in Facebook to keep up!​

Interval training - feels good!

At least, it felt good when I got back to my cool down run :-)

Meant to do 12 x 400's (quarter miles), and only managed 10, as I lost count, and number 9 was weak.

In order to get to the training program for a half marathon at 1:33:30, which seems to be what I need to do in order to start the training program for the 3:15 marathon - the Boston qualifying time, I need to be doing a 5k pace at about 20 minutes, which is 6:26 per mile, or 1:37 per quarter, and I came close to that today, sometimes!

Here's the ragged training record.

Oh, and here's the book I am using to put all of this together