60 Day Milestone

Today was day 60 in my planned 100-day running streak. Not sure why this seems so big to me, but it does. 60 days. 2 months. 60% done. It's all good! Once I hit 90 days, there will be no stopping me...unless this turns out like last year when I died at 95 continuous days. Yikes. Gotta keep humble. No speed sessions on the treadmill. Just good old basic running. I'll keep under control with the assistance of my fancy Garmin GPS watch and heart rate monitor...and a soon-to-arrive matching foot pod (so I can track indoor workouts and running cadence). Technology will save me this year. Below is my Day #60 run of 8-miles on a combo of roads and trails (clickable for more details).


And here is my latest "Training Load" data from a great Sport Tracks plug-in:

Pretty cool information. Blue is my "chronic training" fitness effect (more is better), the red line is "acute fatigue" (low is better), the green is "training stress balance" (positive is good). The bars going up from the bottom are individual runs and their "training impulse"--higher means a more difficult run (higher "impulse"). Notice the two that reach "epic" levels--those are my last two 50K trails races. Indeed, they were epic!  I only installed this plug-in yesterday, so I'm still figuring out what it all means...but I'm enjoying it none-the-less. It'll be my secret weapon as I approach races.  You can set target race performances and the software will suggest tapering and peak workouts. I only have the free trial version of the software... might need to upgrade to the full version soon ($12). There's no stopping me now. Woops, gotta stay humble. Don't taunt the running gods. One day at a time.