Anyway, I was in pretty good shape then as shown by the blue shaded area in the graph above. My fitness continued to improve up through January of 2009 and gradually went down until my birthday in April when I decided to get off my butt and start training again. It went up and stayed up until most of the summer and in the fall my training dropped off, way off. The red line is the amount and quality/intensity of the training over the last 2 weeks. It dropped quickly in August of last year and my fitness (blue area) slowly dwindled.
Out of shape due to lack of training, but signed up for the Goofy Challenge for the first week in January, Eve and I trekked to Orlando and did the Walt Disney Goofy Challenge Race which is a 1/2 marathon on Saturday and full marathon the following day. It was my 5th Goofy Challenge and Eve's second one.
Well the next week I blew out a disk in my lower back. Who would have seen that coming? And thus no training until Eve and I ran a 5K race on June 18th. This kicked off my training again.
The 5K had a TRIMP score of 72 which is a measure of total effort. The TRIMP scale is 100-Low, 200-Medium, 300-High. 1000 is EPIC! By the way, the Pumpkin Butt race was a 985. Just say'n.
So if you look at the graph above, you will see I was doing pretty good. Got lazy. Had a birthday and got motivated. Got lazy again. Lost my fitness, ran a 1/2 and then full marathon in two days. Hurt my back. Took a long, I mean l-o-n-g time off. Then started training again with a 5K race.
So far this training series looks pretty good.
Eve and I have a 9 mile trail/mountain race tomorrow.
Wish us well.
I have a long way to go...
...but look forward to every step.
