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 March 12
Monday – Took the day off to rest my achilles.
Tuesday – Three easy miles to get back into it.
Wednesday – Yoga over lunch. Hurt so good!
Thursday – Two mile warm up, six miles at 8:55 (actual splits: 8:50/8:54/8:50/8:58/8:51/8:52) then one mile cool down.
Friday – Easy six miles – I broke this up into four miles in the morning and two after work.
Saturday – Fourteen miles! The longest I have run since my last marathon in November. I then got a massage afterwards and HOLY HECK. It was my first experience with the Graston technique and it was incredibly painful as the therapist worked to break up the adhesions in my calves. The massage was helpful however, and I’m going to go every couple of weeks leading up to the marathon.
Sunday – Three easy miles + core work.
Weekly mileage total: 35.11 miles
Week of March 19
Monday – 4 miles easy+ core work.
Tuesday – This was a hard one. It was cold, rainy and windy and I had a workout on tap. Here was the workout: two miles warm up, two miles@ 8:40, 4 mins rest, 8×400@2:00 with 90 seconds rest between, 4 mins jog, 2 miles@8:55, one mile cool down. This was super super hard. I was a bit slow on the first two miles and for the last few 400s but pulled it together for the 8:55 miles. I was wiped (and frozen) after this one!
Wednesday – Rest day is the BEST day!
Thursday – Seven easy miles plus core work.
Friday – Two miles warm up, four miles at 8:45 pace, one easy mile, then one mile at 8:20-8:30 pace and then a cool down. This felt like work but I felt strong.
Saturday – 15 miles on a hilly route around DC. I ran from my house to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to watch the sunrise. Then ran into VA to meet my Saturday group for the rest of the miles. It was a challenging run with some climbing but I was happy to get this done with my girls!
Sunday – Three easy + core work.
Weekly mileage total: 48.2
Total mileage for this training cycle: 400.85 miles
What’s the weather in your neck of the woods? We had a snow day on Wednesday and it’s still cold. Sigh.
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