Another marathon week in the books and I feel great. These past 2 weeks have done wonders for my confidence. Between my race last week and this Saturday's 24 miler....I am READY to kill it on October 16th!
Lets back off...
I was in rough shape after Sunday's race and honestly a bit worried. So I ran easy around and around this 1 mile loop close to my house, 8 miles on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday I planned on running 12 with last 6 moderate progression. My Garmin died, legs did not feel good, so I decided to just run moderate by feel and finish strong, with no pressure for pace. On Thursday I had 13.5 miles with 10X1K @ 10k/HM pace. It was hot and these were hard. I ran them on the road because doing so many repeats on the track is annoying to me right now; I allowed myself to quit several times, and, of course, I did not. I managed to run sub HM pace, but I was toast after. I swam on Friday and it felt so good. Our town beach closed late August and my body misses my daily swims.
Saturday I had 24 miles easy on the schedule. I decided to set my Garmin to show only distance, and run the first 20 by feel, pushing the pace toward the end. Then, I planned to do 16X400m repeats at sub MP, with 30 sec recovery (Ryan Hall/Matt Dixon inspiration here). I started a little before 7am in 36 degree weather. I loved it. I started slow and comfortable and my legs felt good. I listen to music and really enjoyed myself. I looked at the pace (changed screens) @ 10 mile and saw 7:58, great (with an 8:38 first mile!). I kept running and ended up with 7:48 average for the 20 miles, last 4 miles sub MP, last mile 6:49. And feeling great! I started my 400ms and immediately my pace went down to low 6s. I immediately decided mile repeats sounded better, and ended up running 4X1mile with 1 min RI, at 6:55, 6:50, 6:50, 6:45 (last one on slight uphill and I won't lie, it was all out). Wow! Total average for the 24 7:37. Very happy! The rest of the day was spent driving to Storyland and running around with Petru (Chris went for a hike) for a few hours (surely ran at least 2.2 miles, to bring my total to 26.2 for the day). Nothing like going on rides for 2 days (we stayed overnight)...Petru is not 49 inches yet and he had to have an adult with him. Still, we had a ball! Sunday I ran 6 easy before the family got up, for a total of 71.5 miles for the week! Two more hard weeks before my 2 week taper. One more week before I turn my big work project in to Research Management. I don't know what am I going to do with myself when all is said and done:)
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Okay, I am on my way out the door, have not been in blog land for more than 5 minutes all weekend but just googled your blog really quick to see if you'd posted and here it is. HOLY HELL! I'll be back to digest this more but you've entered a different level of running AM! I no longer see you as a fairly compatible virtual running partner. ha ha. Can I have just a little of what is in your head lately???! Man, this is energizing! So fun watching from afar as you GO with your bad self! So fun!! So awesome! These workouts...especially the 24 miles...incredible!!!
You are little nuts, aren't you? :) And I mean it in the best possible way. Like a compliment.
But you are right. Only hard work pays off. You can't slack if you want to achieve your goals.
13.5 miles with 10x1k at sub-HM pace?!? 24 miles with 4 x mile at the end?!? Incredible. I am jealous.
Goosebumps!
You ARE ready to kill it! This I know but I LOVE to see you SAY it!! LOVE to see your confidence up there right.where.it.should.be.
You just ran darn near a PR marathon in a training run:) A 3:20 pace training run and mile repeats at the end of 24! Crazy!
Could you lend me some of your 71 miles. Like maybe about 50 of them-and I will take all the sub MP ones K!! Thanks
I bet Petru had a blast this weekend!!!! My kids are ALL 49 inches now-FINALLY!!! Happy Dance!! Now, I can just sit with a deep fried twinkie on a stick and wait on a bench for them.
Yes, what are you going to do with yourself???
Incredible 24 miler!!!! Wow!!!
You are so ready to kill it! I'm excited to be at Baystate just to hear about how it went first hand. You are so ridiculously close to that breaking 3 hour mark...
I'm game if you're still interested in running 20 on the course this weekend. I'll completely understand, however, if you prefer to run solo.
Katie, I am looking forward to running together:)
you are SO ready for this marathon lady! you are killing these training runs!
I can't imagine doing that many miles in one week, week after week! YOU AMAZE ME!
And congrats on the 18.6er! You crushed it! And I can't wait for Baystate, b/c you are just going to totally crush that too. This is your race.
Im thinking your Recovery e 21 stuff must be MAGIC! Im amzed with the intensity that you consistently pull off without major injuries. You have a body of steel!
Go Girl!
WOW, WOW, WOW.
That is an incredible 24 miler!
YOU deserve some confidence after that.
Training has you sitting in a pretty spot for your race, AM. Really looking forward to seeing how much you smash your PR by.
Fantastic stuff, lady!!
Best wishes with work. I hope it flies!
OMG speedy....you are sooo ready to kill it in Oct! Woohoo!!!
Yep. your all tuned up. Ready to roll! Excited for you. This race is going to be YOURS!
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