Fit Mama Community + CIM Marathon Training: Weeks 6-8

Wow! I’ve been slacking on updating you all on my training – things have picked up with cross country season and I’m finding myself having less and less time on my hands. Another reason I’ve been busy is because one of my good friends and I have been working on a NEW project! Michele and I both love health and fitness, though we approach it from two totally different angles (me as a runner and her as a CrossFitter!) and when we were pregnant we had a difficult time navigating a fit pregnancy because of the lack of resources out there for mamas that want to continue exercising while pregnant (and beyond!).

So we’re teaming up to start the Fit Mama Community! We are so excited to provide a helpful resource for moms and hope to serve as a place for moms to come together and support and encourage one another. The site won’t launch until December BUT in the meantime you can follow us on Instagram + our shop is up an running if you’re interested in snagging one of these fun shirts for yourself.  

We’d love to have you join our community!

Now, onto the marathon training update – I’m currently really enjoying my training! I feel like I’ve gotten into a groove and even though my mileage has continued to climb I’m still recovering well from the workouts and the 16 mile long runs aren’t feeling like a major effort anymore. (Those first few 14-16 milers of this training cycle were ROUGH there at the beginning). My coach told me that as training progresses I’ll have one major workout during the week and then there will likely be a workout component as part of my long run so that might change how I’m feeling about my long runs – ha! BUT I 100% believe that long run workouts are the best preparation for marathons so the hard work is going to pay off in the end.

I’ll catch you up on the past 3 weeks of training and then I’ll *hopefully* be back soon with a recap of the 10K I did 2 weeks ago!

9/4/2017-9/10/2017

Monday – 7.5 mile workout

2.4 mile warm-up, 20x 30 seconds on/30 seconds off (“on” splits: 5:10, 5:47, 5:34, 5:53, 5:33, 5:54, 5:15, 5:40, 5:17, 5:16, 5:00, 5:11, 5:31, 5:07, 5:13, 5:00, 5:12, 5:03, 5:11, 5:17), 2 mile cool-down

Tuesday – 8 miles easy @ 7:38 pace

Wednesday – 10 mile workout

1 mile warm-up, 8 mile tempo @ 6:00.5 avg pace, 1 mile cool-down

Thursday – 8 miles easy @ 7:54 pace

Friday – 6 miles easy @ 7:37 pace

Saturday – 4 miles easy @ 7:49 pace + 5x 50m strides

Sunday – SANTA MONICA 10K RACE [made into a long run – 14.13 miles]

2 mile warm-up, 10K Race @ 36:52, 6 mile cool-down

TOTAL MILES: 57.5 miles

9/11/2017-9/17/2017

Monday – REST DAY

Tuesday – 9.25 mile workout

2 mile warm-up, 8x 3 minutes on / 2 minutes jogging rest (“on” splits: 5:27, 5:33, 5:39, 5:33, 5:27, 5:27, 5:21, 5:21), 1 mile cool-down

Wednesday – [AM] 7 miles easy @ 7:44 pace [PM] 3 miles easy @ 7:42 pace

Thursday – [AM] 7 mile workout

2 mile warm-up, 10x 1 minute on / 1 minute off (“on” splits: 5:16, 5:16, 5:16, 5:33, 5:16, 5:16, 5:33, 5:16, 5:16, 5:16), 2 mile cool-down 

[PM] 3 mile shake out SLOW

Friday – 8 miles easy @ 7:26 pace [in Denver]

Saturday – 14 mile long run @ 7:35 pace [in Denver]

Sunday – 8 miles @ 7:56 pace [in Denver]

TOTAL MILES: 59.25 miles

9/18/2017-9/24/2017

Monday – 8 miles easy @ 7:36 pace

Tuesday – 11 mile workout

1.5 mile warm-up, 8 mile tempo @ 5:46 pace, 1.5 mile cool-down

Wednesday – [AM] 7.5 miles @ 7:41 pace [PM] 3.5 miles @ 7:53 pace

Thursday – 10 mile workout

1 mile warm-up, 8x 1 mile with 2 minutes rest (5:37, 5:36, 5:37, 5:35, 5:36, 5:34, 5:35, 5:34), 1 mile cool-down

Friday – 16 mile long run @ 7:37 pace

Saturday – 9 mile recovery run @ 7:55 pace

Sunday – REST DAY 

TOTAL MILES: 65 miles!