Training Summary: 2/19-25/2018
This week was the first week since November that I hit 70 miles! It’s been a long time coming but I’m thankful that my coach has built my mileage up slowly since CIM. Since I’m currently focusing on training for shorter distances my workouts have been much faster and harder than my marathon workouts were – running fast workouts beats me up a lot more than running long workouts. So it’s been a good balance to back off the mileage a bit and but my energy into killing my workouts and recovering as quickly as possible afterwards.
My workouts this week were both tough but went really well. I’m feeling strong and ready to run my first track race of the season in a little less than two weeks!
Training Summary:
Monday: 9 miles easy @ 7:38 pace + mini band exercises
Tuesday: 9.5 mile workout [2 mile warm-up, 8x 1km @ 3:20, 3:20, 3:18, 3:18, 3:20, 3:18, 3:19, 3:19 w/ 3 minutes rest + 2x 400m @ 74, 74 with 90 seconds rest, 2 mile cool-down] + strength and core
Wednesday: 9 miles @ 7:44 pace
Thursday: 10 miles @ 7:18 pace + mini band exercises
Friday: 10.2 mile workout [2 mile warm-up, 5x 2km @ 7:10, 7:08, 6:52, 6:56, 6:48 w/ 3 minutes rest, 2 mile cool-down] + strength and core
Saturday: 7 miles easy @ approximately 7:45 pace, my watch was dead so I ran 55 minutes and called it 7 miles
Sunday: 16 mile long run @ 7:39 pace
Total Miles: 70.7