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 25
Monday – 5 miles easy+ core work.
Tuesday – Two mile warm up, then seven miles alternating an 8:40 mile and a 9:30 mile. Finished with a mile cool down.
Wednesday – Eight miles easy and then core.
Thursday – Six easy miles plus core work.
Friday – Easy four miles in Miami!!! It was so dang gorgeous there. I had the best time!
Saturday – Another easy four to start another wonderful vacation day.
Sunday – Two easy miles + core work. My last run in Miami and I was so sad to leave!
Weekly mileage total: 40.21 miles
Week of March 5
Monday – 4 miles easy+ core work.
Tuesday – Two mile warm up, with 5×1 mile repeats (8:22/8:17/8:18/8:17/8:05) with a mile cool down. I noticed some tightness in my right achilles around the heel area. I have experienced this pain before so started trying to stretch and foam roll more.
Wednesday – Core work.
Thursday – Six easy miles plus core work.
Friday – Super hard workout because the wind was insane! 3×2 at 8:34/8:40/8:46. A very tough workout.
Saturday – 10 miles before watching so many friends and teammates kick butt at the Rock n Roll half marathon. I got to see my coach Becki kill it and take second place in 1:17. She is incredible! Such a fun day – after cheering, I hosted around 40 teammates and friends for brunch. And drank ALL the mimosas! 
Unfortunately my ankle continued to get worse so I chatted with Becki and we agreed I’d take a couple of days to rest, foam roll and do eccentric heel drops. Boo.
Sunday – No running – focusing on rehabbing my angry ankle.
Weekly mileage total: 35.92
Total mileage for this training cycle: 317.54 miles
Anyone else deal with ankle / heel pain? This has happened before so I know I need to do better and not just wake up and run without stretching. I’ve also booked a massage at my PT’s office for Saturday after my long run.
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