You know you've been running too many marathons when you have a pile of these by your running shoes.
Tuesday: 7 miles, including 3x 1600m pick-ups @ 8:21, 8:23, 8:19 pace; I was a little nervous about this run because I haven't done an interval workout since November 2009. I felt pretty good during the pick-ups and there wasn't as much death and doom going on as I had anticipated. I looked at my 2009 running log and the last time I did this work-out (October 2009) my paces for the 1 mile pick-ups were 8:37, 8:39, 8:42 That is an average 18 second per mile decrease! Not bad at all.
Wednesday: 7 miles @ 10:19 pace; Felt pretty good at the end of the run this morning. I usually take about 4 miles to get into the groove.
Friday: 20 miles @ 10:29 pace; Finally, a long run that left me feeling satisfied. I felt much stronger at the end of this run than the 18 or 16 miler the last two weeks. It takes (me) a long time to run 20 miles but the run didn't drag on as much as I thought it might. Success! I feel like I'm in marathon training again :)
6 comments:
Certainly looks like marathon training to me. Strong paces all around.
Great runs. You are so hardcore!
Awesome! I love it when the training starts to pick up momentum and I feel like I'm running strong and feeling strong.
I have serious nervousness whenever I do a speed and/or tempo workout. I don't know why. At first I figured it was just cause I'd never done it before and wasn't sure how I'd do. But now, I should be used to it...but every time I look at the assigned workout on my schedule I get the same butterfly feeling in my stomach.
Thats so awesome that you improved your mile times! That should help you feel better about going for a PR!
Welcome back, marathoner-in-training! You are kicking some serious butt!
Did my last comment just post? If not, I meant it to say "Welcome back, marathoner-in-training! You are kicking some serious butt!"
nice work girl! you had some great runs this past week!
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