Tuesday: rest day.
Wednesday: ran about 6 miles on the
tready. I say “about” because there was
discrepancy. I seriously believe the
treadmill that I was on was in serious need of calibration because it was about
a mile off from what my Garmin said I ran.
Thursday: another rest day.
However, I did do 2000 meters on the row machine on my overnight
overtime shift.
Friday: time for some speed work! I was going to do some back and forth sprints
in the parking lot of my apartment complex, but at the last minute, decided I
didn’t want to do that simply because of an out-and-back warm up AND cool
down. Meh to that! So, instead I ran the 2 miles to a big church
with a big parking lot at an easy pace to warm up. I went to the far side of the parking lot so
I’d be out of the way and started sprinting 50 meters with 50 meter
recoveries. I threw in the occasional
150 meter recovery when I was noticing my sprints were starting to slow down. My fastest pace, probably only held for about
3 seconds, was a 4:47!!! WHOA! I did sprints for a mile, then ran the 2
miles back home nice and easy. A GREAT
workout! This one will definitely get
done again.
Saturday: this was supposed to be a cross training day but I took
it as a rest day because I was just so tired.
I did do 2000 meters on the row machine again on my overtime shift.
Sunday: long run day!!!
Did 14 total miles. I did the
last 3 miles as a “fast” finish. I actually
hit my long, slow run pace of 12+ min/mi and then around 10:45 min/mi for the
final 3. I felt great and strong for the
whole run.
Monday: had an early morning appointment for some lab work
before I have my annual physical next month, and since I was halfway from my
apartment to Ladybird Lake trail, I drove there and did the 7 mile loop.
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And week #6 is D-O-N-E!
I’m about or just over 1/3 of the way through my marathon training for
the South Padre Island Marathon in November.
As each week goes by, I get more and more excited about seeing my hard
work pay off. I’m really hoping I can
hit my goal. And I’m going to go ahead
and lay that out there right now…4 hours 20 minutes OR FASTER. That would PR me by over 15 minutes. I know I can do it. The course is like 98.5% FLAT. If I can run a 4:35 on a fairly hill marathon
course, I can for sure do 4:20 on a flat course with a more educated training
cycle. This isn’t close to a perfect
training cycle, but it’s definitely better than what I’ve done in the past
where I basically just logged the miles and did a smidge of hill training in
prep for the Austin marathon earlier this year.
I’ve been doing speed work and some MGP runs. But I do need to up my game and do ACTUAL
tempo runs where I’m running between half and 10K paces for 80% of the distance
I’m running. And I should probably be
doing these tempo runs the day after my long run so I can get my legs used to
running faster when they’re a little tired.
Hi Sara,
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you are at all like me but I find 10k/half-pace soooooo hard to hit in training. For those faster tempo runs this marathon training cycle I've taken to entering a shorter race every few weeks and using that as a tempo run. It's taken the fear out of it for me anyway. I tried doing those faster tempos on tired legs last year and while I had great results in my marathon (21 minute PR!) I also absolutely dreaded them! This year I'm looking for a smaller improvement but trying to not be fully miserable during the cycle. Best of luck with your training!