For the Week between January 14 -20.
This week really tested my endurance and I was, quite frankly done. After a second week in a row of not so pleasant Thursday workout, I had to ask for schedule re-do that incorporated more recovery. I ain’t 20 years old, so I need more time to recover between workouts.
In fact, I not-really celebrated my 40th this week.
Tuesday consisted of a Strawberry Hill Repeats which were good. I like these. But I discovered that after a nasty fall (see pic) in November on Cat Hill, I have developed a deep, near-primal, fear of doing U-turns at high speeds at the bottom of a hill. I slowed down to a crawl there, and ended up getting beat by a ton of folks. Oh well. It’s not like it’s a race.
Wednesday, I had to wake up at 5AM to put in 10Ms. Well, the day was snowy, sleety, yucky, so I did it on the treadmill. Being on the treadmill for an hour and a half or so at 6AM is not fun. My choice of TV shows were “Debt Ceiling” or “Lance Armstrong”. Speaking of Lance…I don’t really care if he doped. No sports athlete is ever ‘au natural’. If you’ve ever taken a Gu or a Gel, you’ve taken performance enhancers. I’m more irritated that he was such a nasty bitch about it to others. Anyways, I digress.
Thursday. Yes. This was a bad day. It was a simple tempo interval workout and my legs didn’t move at all. I felt like I was running a 3K race all the way.
2 mile warmup. 1 mile at 7:40/mile, 1/2 mile recovery, 1 mile at 7:30/mile, 1/2 mile recovery, 1 mile at 7:20/mile, 1 mile cool down. So roughly Marathon Pace, Half Marathon Pace, 10K Pace.
Here is attempt #1. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/263215102
I was so disappointed, I started crying at one point. I am SUCH a drama queen.
Not being happy with this attempt, I ranted on my training partner, then proceeded to attempt #2 in the evening: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/263215111
I’m still not hitting the paces, but I had much better run and felt a little better. The day ended up being a 15mile day, which is bit much, but I felt good about it. Besides, think about all the calories!
Next day, I had a good meeting with my Coach. By the way, the guy rides a bike in 20F weather, so he’s a bit off kilter. We discussed and reworked the schedule so that I have a "be nice to an old person" recovery day between the midweek mid miles and the second set of hard/speed/hill workout.
We decided have the second hard day on Friday, allowing for a recovery run on Thursday…ONLY to be thwarted by weather. This coming week, I will not get a recovery run Thursday due to snow and sleet on Friday… So after all that, we’re still on 3 day (Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday) hard schedule.
I need to do stronger marathon pace long runs now. This weekend's was not all that great. Yea, I hit the lower end of the pace (7:52), but ran out of juice and fell victim to the 20mph head winds.
Marathon Mantra: What doesn't kill me will make me stronger (or something like that).
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