Hello friends! As I shared in an earlier post, I have started working with a running coach. I am training for a June marathon – Grandma’s in Duluth, Minnesota. My goal is to go sub-4 and I’ve been building up mileage and now am officially in marathon training mode. Now that I am back to training, I will share my training recap every other week. I hope you’ll join in and link up! You can always follow my progress daily on Instagram, where I share all my runs.
Week of February 12
Monday – 6 miles easy+ core work.
Tuesday – Took a rest day and moved my workout to Wednesday.
Wednesday – Two mile warm up, followed by 8 800s and a 1 mile cool down. Every 800 was at or faster than goal time (~4:00-4:05) except for one. I was SUPER proud of this workout. Especially because it was done after work which I don’t love.
Thursday – Five easy miles.
Friday – Could not pull myself out of bed so vowed to get my workout done on Sunday.
Saturday – 10 miles with my Saturday group!
Sunday – Two mile warm up, 6 miles between 8:50-9:05, one mile cool down. Then I went out later that day for a couple of easy recovery miles.
Weekly mileage total: 40.14
Week of February 19
Monday – Rest day.
Tuesday – I loved this workout. Two mile warm up and then three miles with one minute @ 8:30 pace, and two minutes easy. Followed by a one mile cool down. This was super fun and flew by!
Wednesday – Four easy and slow miles!
Thursday – Seven miles for my long run. I had a small dental surgery Thursday so built a few down days into my plan. Luckily, my coach had already planned on this being a down week so it worked out well.
Friday – Rest and recovery.
Saturday – Three easy recovery miles. Ran at the National Arboretum and it was so lovely.
Sunday – Easy three miles to close the week.
Weekly mileage total: 23.49
Total mileage for this training cycle: 241.41 miles
This week I am taking a long weekend trip and am excited for a bit of downtime. Anyone else have a mini vacation coming up?
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