Milestone Week!

I haven't done much in terms of recapping my training recently because it has been a pretty non-eventful activity.  My coach has me slowing down my easy runs and making my hard workouts brutal which I guess is the way you are supposed to train. I think it makes sense and I am buying into it because your easy miles are really there to maintain/build endurance and allow you to recover to focus on logging miles near race paces.

I had a huge milestone last week in that I logged my first ever 100+ mile week. I never really thought I would get there, nor did I ever think I would feel as good doing it. It did mean 10+ mile recovery days and hard workouts are crammed in the middle of 13-15 mile runs but hey its all in good fun. Here is a recap of the week including 2 pretty hard workouts:

Monday:		AM: 10.5M V. Easy [7:50] PM: 6M Easy [7:22]
Tuesday:		AM: 12.5M Easy [7:30] PM: 6M V. Easy [7:50]
Wednesday:		10.5M V. Easy [7:40]
Thursday:		AM: 15M w/ 12 x 250m @ 5K [5:37] PM: 6.5M Easy [7:32]
Friday:		12.5M V. Easy [7:40]
Saturday:		Rest
Sunday:		22M Easy - At 18 miles, 10 x 100m @ 5K [5:54]
Total		101.5

The most brutal part of the week definitely was the 22 miler at the end given how much mileage I had already logged, that the 5K pickups were at mile 18 of a long run and the fact that I hadn't a 22 miler since marathon training in October.

So for those that were wondering this is what a 100+ mile week looks like and yes I am crazy.  The trick now is to see how many of these I can string together to really start getting some progress rolling in my training.