CherieFran
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2016
Week of 8/15 - 8/21
This is definitely the highest mileage training week that I've had in a very, very long time (probably easily more than a year), and by the end of the week I was feeling it. Nothing seems injured but a lot of general tiredness and soreness. But it'll make me stronger, right?
Monday: 50 minutes cross-training
Some boring walking on the treadmill for my cross-training this week.
Tuesday: 4.53 miles/40:00
40 minute tempo run on the treadmill. 10 minutes of warm-up running, 20 minutes tempo, 10 minutes of cool-down running. Felt fine.
Wednesday: 4.5 miles/39:26
Did my longer "easy" run outside again this week. Already above 80 degrees at 7 am. There can only be a few more weeks of this, right?
Thursday: 3 miles/26:28
Easy run on the treadmill.
Friday: Rest
Yay for some rest! Except I went bowling. Which I think made my hips hurt?! All I know is that I woke up Saturday morning and my first conscious thought was that my hips were super sore! Not sure why bowling would do that to me but I didn't do any other activity that would explain it. Unless my Tuesday and Wednesday workout efforts just had a really super delayed onset of soreness.
Saturday: 4.5 miles/37:16
Pace run up to 4.5 miles now! Luckily, the hip soreness eased up shortly into the run and didn't cause a big problem. The run felt decent but it also seems pretty overwhelming that I'm planning to try and maintain this pace for almost 3 times this distance in just a couple weeks! Yikes!
Sunday: 10 miles/1:31:52
Got a nice early start to my long run again this week as I wanted to be finished in time to watch the Olympic marathon. The early start helped beat the heat as the sun was still climbing for the first few miles. Then I really lucked out for the last three miles as the skies clouded over. That helped a ton in my effort to maintain my target pace! If it had been full-on sunny, it would have been much tougher!
Next Sunday is a race day! I'm signed up to run a 10-miler in Annapolis, MD. I'm struggling to figure out what my target pace should be. The race organizers warn that it is not a PR kind of race since it's a very hilly course and in August. I ran a half marathon in Annapolis a couple years ago that had a very similar course, so I know what I'm getting into with the hills (and they aren't kidding!). At the same time, my 10 mile PR pace is a fair bit slower than my half marathon PR pace so I think I could still pull off a PR even given the tough course and probable warm weather. I don't want to overdo it, though, and jeopardize the rest of my training for my "A" race half marathon three weeks later. But, also, I want to race it at least a little bit, otherwise I might as well just be doing another training run. Dilemmas.
The pug bug got a new ball this week and was so obsessed with it that he carried it around the apartment with him to all his nap locations: