Spotted this on the bulletin board outside the Porter Square shopping center:
Archive for January, 2008
Two for one
Another quick post, lest you think all I do is run. I am also a graduate student, and recently I had a paper accepted into MSPC 2008. The idea was a little project we worked on over the summer, and we didn’t know how to proceed with it. My friend suggested this workshop, which turned out to be perfect. We plan to submit a full paper on the topic for OOPSLA 2009; we’ll see how that turns out. The reviews were all very positive, and I hope we get some good discussion at MSPC that we can roll into the full paper.
I would post a link to the paper, but (a) the final version won’t be ready until the end of the month, and (b) then you anonymous Internet people would know who I was! If you do know who I am, then search for my name on Google, click on my homepage at my university, and it’ll be there under my publications at the end of the month.
The other thing about this is that I get to go to Seattle in March! I’m excited because I’ve never been to the Northwest, and I hear they have excellent beer there.
Half marathon
Long time, no write. Well, this will be a quicky. I’ve decided to run the Run to Remember half marathon in May. I’ve got more than 6 months of solid base under my belt, and I’m ready to up the mileage. An “equivalent performance” calculator says I should be able to run a 1:45 half, so that’s what I’m shooting for.
My training plan is as follows. I took a light week last week to recover from 10 straights weeks of 25 miles per week (mpw). (By the way, I ran 1002 miles last year. I’m very proud of that.) For the next 3-4 weeks I will build my base, doing easy runs and adding 2-3 mpw. This week I ran 27 miles, including a 9-mile long run today. Next week I’ll do 29 miles, then 31-32 miles, then 34-35 miles. After that I’ll start my official 16-week training schedule, dropping back to 26 mpw but adding in some light speedwork (tempo runs and hills). I’ll build to a peak of around 40 mpw, extend my tempo runs, and add in more intense speedwork (intervals). Hopefully that will be enough to get me to my goal time. And hopefully the increased training volume will help me improve my 5k time as well.
