running for my mind

Scheduled rest day.

I am feeling better today than I did last Sunday, even though I ran more miles and had a little longer run yesterday than the previous Saturday.

Goals for this week - Maintain right around 60-65 total miles. - Speed work on Tuesday, shooting for 800s. (I don't know how many I will do. I might do around 6, but try and do them a little faster than my previous set of 800s) - I would like to get a tempo in of 7 miles as well on Thursday.  

9.25 miles this AM. - Fun to get out with Tyler and Adam.

I felt great on this run. Nice to have an easy day after last week's miles and long run on Saturday. I still am feeling a little tight in my right lower calf from last Tuesday's speed workout I think, but it is not inhibiting my running. Those 400s really blew up my legs last week.

I need to be better about stretching!!! There is always something to work on. 

9.75 miles - 2 mile warmup - 6 x 800s - 2 x 200s - cool down.

I feel really good about this workout. I planned on doing 6 x 800s and doing the first one at a 5:45 pace and then doing each one 0:05 faster. I was stoked to pull this off. After those I decided to do a couple 200s to just rock at full speed for a bit. It felt good to let my legs fly.

repeat distance time    avg.pace goal pace
1 800 3:01.3 5:46 5:45
2 800 2:59.1 5:37 5:40
3 800 2:56.1 5:33 5:35
4 800 2:54.6 5:29 5:30
5 800 2:51.8 5:22 5:25
6 800 2:46.7 5:15 5:20
7 200 0:30.1 3:55 n/a
8 200 0:30.2 4:02 n/a

Here is a link to all the workout data. Each of the 800 repeats came in at .53 of a mile, aside from the first one. (maybe that makes the math make more sense?)

9 easy miles this morning - Planned on running a few miles before meeting Brayden and Tyler. They both had to bail so I ended up running solo. If you missed it, the moon was awesome this morning.

10.75 miles - 1.5 mile warmup - 7.5 at marathon pace - 1.75 mile cool down.

Tempo Thursday - I felt really good on the tempo. I could feel the hills a little but was stoked to keep all of my splits faster than my goal marathon pace. For whatever reason that is about all that I have to say. Overall, it was a nice time!

8.25 easy miles - roughly 2 solo and the rest with Brayden and Ashley. Ran a loop from my house. It was a fun morning run and was awesome weather! My phone said 50 when I went out at 6:15.

20 miles - Ran 10.75 solo and the rest with Brayden

This was a fun run and it was great weather this morning. I feel really good about this 20 miler. I feel like there is this mental fear with running 20 miles and today was my best 20 miler to date. Last year I felt good on my 20 milers but always struggled the last couple of miles. Today I was able to finish strong so I am happy about that. The other day Tyler said that I need to remember that I am in better shape and I am a better runner than last year. I am starting to believe him a little bit now.

Today is Grey's first birthday so we are having a little party etc. I can't believe she is already a year old.