I have read on forums about 70 miles being the magic number where your body truly starts to respond to the stimulus of distance running and I can say for sure that it certainly does. My legs are completely wiped this week and I am just thankful that it is a rest week. In terms of adding mileage, I added an extra speed interval on Tuesday which really did a number on my legs and left me looking like I jumped in a pool when I got off the treadmill. I also added an extra 2 miles to a recovery run so now I don't run less than 6 miles in any one run. I definitely noticed some heaviness in my legs on my tempo run and it was humid so I had to pull back to 7:15 minute/miles but I continued that pace in the afternoon recovery run to make up for it.
I am really looking forward to the rest this week and my half marathon in Springfield this weekend. Colin and Tina will be joining me and it will be Colin's first night sleeping away from home so hopefully all goes well! As usual I have multiple goals going into the race, in this case the most feasible is breaking the sub-1:40 mark, the other two, sub-1:30 & sub-1:35, are going to be entire dependent on how much I can recover from this hard week of running. I am hoping that after a little rest this week and the use of my trusty energy Gu that I'll be able to match my sub-7:00 minute/miles from my training tempo runs and break the 1:30 mark. If I do it will be a pretty big milestone on my way to my ultimate goal of qualifying for the Boston marathon, something I still wonder if I am physically capable of.
Weekly Total: 70.5 miles.
| Monday: | 47 minutes easy. 6 miles. | |
| Tuesday: | AM: Intervals 3x[800@6:47; 400@6:27; 400@5:50; 1200@6:53]. 10 miles. PM: 47 minutes easy. 6 miles. | |
| Wednesday: | 49 minutes easy. 6 miles. | |
| Thursday: | AM: 65 minutes threshold @ 7:14 pace. 9 miles. PM: 45 minutes easy. 6 miles. | |
| Friday: | 48 minutes easy. 6 miles. | |
| Saturday: | Rest | |
| Sunday: | Long Run @ 7:50 pace. 21.5 miles. |
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