- Training for: Glass City half marathon, April 22nd
- Miles this past week: 30.2
With only 4 weeks remaining now until the Glass City half marathon, training has taken a positive turn once again this past week. It had some great highlights, and it was my top mileage week this year: 30.2 miles!! Woot!
Monday – 5o mins easy, 4.8 miles 10:25 pace. This was an easy run on the treadmill. Always a great way to start the week!
Tuesday – 50 min tempo run, 5.3 miles. Treadmill run. I did a small warm up, and cool down, and then did a few miles at 8:49 and some at 8:23 pace. Although it was very tiring, I felt very accomplished by this workout. 🙂 In the evening I did some weights… (yeah muscles!)
and core work… (phew!!!)
so we could go enjoy Taco Tuesday!! yum!
Wednesday – Rest day! Surprise, the snow is back!… just for the morning.
Thursday – 5 miles, 9:03 pace. The beautiful sunny weather really boosted my energy. This run was pretty darn awesome. I wasn’t feeling all the speed in the world, but I did have a mostly *pain free* run, so that’s a huge win in my book! However, I guess Garmin thought I really overdid it! 60 hours??
I even did a “happy post run” jump! It’s been far too long since I’ve felt this good about a run.
Friday – Rest day!
Saturday – Long run, 10 miles @ 10:27 pace. I filled in as a coach for the Dave’s MIT group run. I was looking forward to this run because:
- We got to run on part of the Glass City marathon course (beautiful, huge mansions along this part of the route!)
- They were having Soupapaloza!
There was a soup cook off and some super delicious entries. The perfect post run food.
I did a slightly poor job of keeping pace near the end of this run because I got to chatting with my friend Sara as we were running – but I did not pass her, so technically I was not pacing her at that point, but I was doing a bad job of slowing her down! The targeted long run pace was 10:30 – 10:40, so it crept up just a little. My bad.
Sunday – 5 miles, 9:21 pace. I was only going to run maybe 2 miles, because I had a new pair of Athleta tights I wanted to try out, but once I got out there I figured I might as well run farther so I could have a rest day on Monday! (spoiler alert, I didn’t take one) My new tights were advertised as being “warm”, but for some reason I was *freezing* in them! It was 23 degrees – just a few degrees colder than Saturday. It took me several hours and a hot shower to finally warm back up. I was having an episode of painful hands (Raynauds?) so bad it pained me to pour a cup of iced coffee! Yuck!
**** How was your week? *****
Q: Do you have issues with circulation in your hands after being in the cold?
It doesn’t bother me all of the time, but when it does… ouch!
Q: Do you ever base your rest time on a Garmin “recovery time”?
Q: Do you have favorite soup recipe?
Someone brought potato soup. I’m huge fan of that!!
You arms look great! I really need to start doing some sort of upper body strength program.
I ran on Saturday and Sunday and even though the temps were about the same, the wind on Sunday made it feel SO much colder.
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Thanks! Maybe that’s what it was – it was a little winder out, but not bad. Or maybe because I wore my jacket the previous day. I need to get better at figuring out my outdoor outfits. I’m get spoiled with my treadmill 🙂
What a great week! Lots of miles. Look at your guns. 🙂
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I’m happy to be able to lift weights again!! Maybe this year for Christmas I’ll keep the 20 lb’ers 😉
I’d never listen to my Garmin on race predictions or recovery time! I think it depends on how much you wear the watch and you treadmill a lot so none of that is even taken into account. I think 60 hours is a little much to recover from anything except maybe a 10K or longer race. Even with a 5K race, I am good to run the next day and usually did long runs the next day *shrugs*. 10K or half I might take a full rest day.
Great job getting the runs in despite the snow! I bet the soup tasted REALLY good on a cold day after that 10 mile run. Congrats on your highest weekly mileage in a long time. Do you find the treadmill doesn’t cause as much pain as pavement running, because that’s kind of how I am feeling lately?
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I think the treadmill running feels a bit more pain free just because I can run slower on it. Or my treadmill needs to be calibrated, but the paces are always so much slower on it.