luckily, i remember what i did last week, more or less, but i really should get better about updating more often. this time, i blame nationals, but i probably could have found internet somewhere other than my room since that was a bajillion dollars.
last week:
monday: 4 miles. i initially planned to go 6, but then i felt awful, so i kept it short.
tuesday: OFF given travel day to nationals
wednesday: 5 miles on a treadmill at around 8 min pace. this was by far the best treadmill run i have had in my entire life, and i didn't want to gouge my eyes out at the end thanks to headphones that plugged into the screen on my treadmill. the powers of television are amazing!
thursday: 6 miles with 3x1 mile at 6:32, with 1/4 mile recovery between. this workout was shockingly easy to do, in part because of the magic treadmills described above. i probably would have done another mile, but i was running out of time.
friday: 6 miles easy
saturday: 9 miles with 3 miles at 7:00 pace. a bit of gi distress toward the end of the 3 miles meant that i did 3 instead of 4 and 9 instead of 10 on the day. all in all, a very nice workout, though.
sunday: off. wiped after a late night return.
total: 30 miles in 5 days.
this week, so far:
monday: 6 miles easy. nothing too special to report about this run other than that my legs felt relatively good and i pushed the pace a bit on the first half and then i got a nasty side stitch at about the half way and the 2nd half was a slog (slow jog) home.
tuesday: OFF. i got started gardening and ended up taking the day off instead of running.
wednesday: 8 miles with some threshold mixed in. my original plan was to do 2x2 miles at 6:30 pace, but it became pretty obvious that my legs weren't quite up for that. then, my side stitch from monday came back with a vengeance at 1.5 miles. it stopped and stretched it out, which seemed to help but it kept coming back off and on throughout. the actual miles were something like 6:32, 6:40, 6:45. i ended up only doing 3.25 or something like that because when the side stitch came back for the last time, i decided it was time to bag it. i'd already been stopped by a train (i was out on the dundas path) on that rep, so stopping twice seemed a bit silly. not the workout i had hoped for, but i felt good that i had done it after. hopefully with a bit more consistency, these threshold workouts will just keep getting better.
my goal for this week is to hit 45 in 6 days. i can do it with mileage something like: 6-0-8-8-6-11-6
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