Hey guys! Happy Saturday!
I know it's been awhile since I've checked in. This week has been really busy. I started a new job at the company I work for so it's been a little hectic trying to adjust. It's exciting though. So I just haven't had a ton of extra time to blog or reply to emails and stuff - hopefully going to clean that up over the weekend.
I wanted to do a quick training recap for this week because... I'm at my first 50+ mile week of this training cycle!! I don't know why that "50" is such an important number to me, but it makes me feel pretty bad ass;). So here's what's been going down this week.
Monday - 2m WU&CD, 5x1mi. tempo (2min recovery), 4x200m cut downs. 10.5 miles total.
*Tempos are still by HR but my legs just weren't wanting to go very fast today, so they weren't my best times, and the four 200's at the end were the real kicker, I was toast!
Tuesday - REST thank god
Wednesday - 4.5 easy
Thursday - 2m. WU&CD, 4x200m (equal recovery), 3x1k (90% recovery), 2x400m (equal recovery). 10 miles total.
*This kicked my butt, 'nuff said!
Friday - 6 easy
Saturday - 15 long run
Sunday - 4 easy
Today's long run was great, what wasn't great was the temp outside. I swear this is the coldest winter ever! So when my alarm went off and I saw it was only 1 degree, I said screw that and took my run to the treadmill. I told myself to break it up into 3x5 miles just to makes it easier in my brain - sometimes you gotta play tricks like that. Because I was inside I was totally that weirdo at the gym running for a million years, sweating buckets (my tank was a completely different color by the end - no longer light blue), wearing compression socks and eating GU. Yep I got some strange looks and yep I had about 5 people ask how far I was going but I like to think I'm working on my mental strength - cause lord knows I'll need it come June when I'm pushing myself for my goal race.
I came home, mixed up some tasty hot apple cinnamon Skratch ( seriously AWESOME stuff - try it, now), and took a lovely ice/snow bath. This is how to have fun on a Saturday morning, trust me ;)
Oh! I also have some pretty exciting news on the running front, but need to wait a bit to fill you in. I'll just keep you all in suspense.
OK, that's all for me, hope you all have a great rest of the weekend. As for me, I'll be stuffing my face with pizza tonight.....hey, I ran 15 miles, I deserve it right?!
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I always break my long runs up into shorter runs like that. When I do 10 miles I either do 2 5 miles or sometimes even 5 2 miles if it's a really rough day. It makes it so much easier! And it really takes a lot of mental toughness to be able to run 15 miles but to do it on a treadmill takes so much more! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Good to know I'm not alone in needing to use some tricks to make it through a run :)
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