• Tuesday: cross training cardio day at the gym.
• Wednesday: 5 mile run at night. Just an out-and-back route, nothing
special. Felt pretty good during the
whole run. Still figuring out my new Garmin. Don’t have the setting where I want them yet.
• Thursday: hit the treadmill for 3.5 miles, felt
really good during this run and did a fast finish. I think I had the pace down to 9 min/mi at
the very end. Overall pace was 10:51.
• Friday: another cross training day at the gym.
• Saturday: ran a night time trail half
marathon. Wow. If you’ve never run a trail run, I highly
recommend it. They will make you
reevaluate everything you ever thought about running, plus they’re fun and, for
me at least, less stressful because I don’t give a hoot about pace…even more so
because this was a night run. But, trail
runs a definitely a great way to mix things up and use different muscles than
you usually do and also to use your regular muscles in different ways.
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i included my FitBit stats b/c the Garmin had issues with the zigzagging of the course |
• Sunday: a seriously and much needed rest day after
a very challenging and technical trail half marathon.
• Monday: 4 mile, easy paced recovery run as I was
still fairly sore this day.
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And that’s week #4! So, as was kindly pointed out to me by
my awesome runner friend, Carina, on last week’s marathon training notes post
that a tempo run should be faster than your goal race pace by one or two races’
goal pace. Not sure that makes sense, so let me say it a different
way. I said that I was doing a tempo run by running at my marathon goal
pace. However, a tempo run for marathon training should be more like at a
half marathon pace or even a 10k pace. Right now, I think if I was
running outside in the heat and sun at my marathon goal pace, I think that I
could kinda sorta maybe possibly get away with called that a tempo run, but
that run was on the treadmill, so yea. Doesn’t count. My bad.
Overall, a pretty solid week of training, in my
opinion. I’m working a lot of overtime
over the next 4 weeks (at least), so I have to make sure the runs that I do get
to do count. So, there will be speed
work once a week for sure. I did
completely slack off with my strength training and that’s a no-no. Strength training is very important for
staying injury free. Plus, I do enjoy
it.
After the 4th try, I FINALLY got my Garmin 920
data display screens set up the way I like them. 4th time’s the charm? Hahaha!
I still love the 920 way more than the 310. Hopefully I’ll get a review up by the end of
next week, so stay tuned for that.
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