Training Summary – 8/17/2014

At about 2:30 yesterday afternoon Henri and I found ourselves wondering how it was possible that the weekend was almost over. This weekend was the perfect combination of relaxing and busy. Lots of laundry, a date to one of my favorite restaurants in Boston, a Sunday morning race, the start of the EPL soccer season (and even a ManCity WIN!), reading my new Runner’s World Cookbook, and restarting Downtown Abbey from the beginning with my parents!

I will put up a full recap of the Falmouth Road Race later this week, but let’s just say it was very interesting, very tough, and I almost had my first DNF ever. Despite that it was a great event, the weather was amazing and I saw a lot of my friends and running idols so the overall experience was amazing! 🙂 Because of the race and since it took us FOR-EVER to get home from the Cape I never got my weekly training summary up yesterday so here it is for ya!

Training Summary: 8/17/2014

Monday – 6 miles @ 7:39 pace + core

Tuesday – AM: 30 mins yoga & stretching PM: 11 mile workout with NB Boston [3 mile warm-up, descending ladder of intervals on grass fields (7 mins, 6 mins, 5 mins, 4 mins, 3 mins, 2 mins & 1 min) with jogging rest equal to half of preceding interval, 2 mile cool-down] overall average @ 7:09 pace 

Wednesday – rest day

Thursday – 12 mile long run @ 7:31 pace + core

Friday – 7.5 miles @ 7:38 pace

Saturday – 6 miles @ 7:50 + pre-race preparations (stretching, roam rolling, etc)

Sunday – Falmouth Road Race [1 mile warm-up, 7 mile race, 2 mile cool-down] overall average @ 7:04 pace

Total Mileage: 52.79   Average Weekly Pace: 7:25   Total 2014 miles: 1,677.28/3,000

And since I literally have NO pictures from this weekend besides this one, here’s my new favorite photo of Laci. Sometimes I can’t tell if she is a dog or a teddy bear.

What do you think?

Did you have a busy or relaxing weekend?

If you raced how did you do??