Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Training for Berlin

Nothing interesting to blog about since May! Training can be pretty boring--Debi and I have been quite focused on sticking to our training schedule. Weekdays (evenings after work, neither of us are morning people) 10-13K (7-8 miles) in Marinella and long runs during the weekends are mostly in Lucca; we did two 21K (13.1 miles) in training on consecutive Saturdays. Last Saturday was a washout due to rain, but on Sunday we ran/walked 25+ K (my Garmin showed 15.75 miles) in Lucca's, 6 times around the city walls. It was very crowded due to the Ferragosta (Assumption day) holiday and the great weather after a stormy Saturday. On the other hand, trying to dodge/run around cyclists and strollers (both people and baby), and groups stopped in the middle of the road to chat, kept us alert. We had been experimenting with the run/walk method, and found that the 1:4 interval works pretty well for us. At least running in Lucca is interesting and trees provide some amount of shade on the route. Running in Marinella is closer to home (30 min vs. 50 min drive) but recently, like this evening, we were running into swarms of gnats (I think) and mosquitoes. Pretty gross when bugs end up in hair and stuck to sweaty skin. I found that insect repellent works OK, but did not prevent the bugs from buzzing around your head, and sometimes getting into eyes and mouth. Yuck!

Only 39 days to the Berlin Marathon, wish we have more training time!

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