One more record week - 53.1 running miles, beating my previous best week of 51.1 miles last week. This week's highlights included a third half marathon trial Saturday, and an 20-mile long run Sunday. I struggled toward the end of this week. I had to push harder than I should have to maintain pace on the Thursday, Saturday and Sunday runs.
Today was my weekly long run. I hadn't run twenty or more since May, and I'd been wanting get back to that level. This may not have been the best day for it, since I struggled a little on Thursday's and Saturday's runs. It wasn't pretty, but it's done. The first fourteen were OK, but the last six got pretty tough. Good training on the mental game. Easy pace that went downhill toward the end: 10:24, 10:00, 10:14, 10:00, 10:14, 10:06, 10:15, 9:56, 10:02, 9:27, 10:17, 10:04, 10:16, 9:46, 10:15, 10:26, 10:47, 10:48, 10:48, 10:57. I felt much better at the end of last Sunday's 18-miler than I did at 18 today.
Saturday was a third half marathon tune-up. On the previous Saturday, running this same course at 8:37 pace seemed almost too easy. Today was a struggle to get average pace around nine. Splits: 9:40, 9:07, 9:14, 8:49, 9:06, 8:57, 9:05, 8:54, 8:55, 8:44, 8:57, 8:49, 8:16, 0:56 (0.1).
Weekday runs were 6 mile repeats at 8:02 pace Tuesday morning, and easy 8 miles at 9:25 pace Wednesday morning, and a 6 mile tempo run at 8:37 pace Thursday morning.
Same weights schedule: chest and biceps Monday, shoulders and legs Wednesday, and back and triceps Friday.
Struggling on the last 3 runs of the week tells me that I need to cut a few miles out of next week's schedule. My normal pattern is to run a slightly lighter week after every 2 or 3 heavy weeks, and it's been 6 weeks since I've had a lighter week. I'm overdue.
Running miles - YTD: 1,666; November: 104.2, Week: 53.1.
My daily yoga streak is at 78 days!
2 comments:
Congrats on beating your previous week miles!
Thanks, Brittany!
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