• Tuesday: worked overtime Monday night, so no
running or cross training.
• Wednesday: logged 8 miles easy paced. My pace did slow toward the end, but it was
pretty warm for the last day of summer before the official start of fall, and
as we all know, pace slows when temperatures rise. It was a good run overall, though.
• Thursday: worked overtime Wednesday night, so no
running or cross training.
• Friday: I was “tentatively” going to run 8
miles. By that I mean I wasn’t sure I
wanted to run 8 and was thinking I’d just run 6. However, when I woke up, I checked my phone
and had some very disappointing news from a guy I’d been talking to and then
was rather upset and decided that 6 miles definitely wasn’t going to be enough
and neither was the original 8. So I ran
10. Frankly, it still wasn’t enough, but
it did help, even if only a little bit.
The run was nice and smooth and because my mind was so preoccupied, it
just flew by.
• Saturday: again with the working of overtime the
night before. This is going to be a
constant for a while, just so you know.
• Sunday: I yet again had a long run AND a 5k race
scheduled, so I did what I did last week and got up SUPER early and headed to
the race site and knocked out 11 miles before the race started. It was going to be 13.1 but I checked
Facebook while I was running and another friend that was also running the 5k
had posted they were on site and waiting for the 8am start. I tried bringing up the website to double
check but I couldn’t get the right page to load, so I cut it short at 11. Yea, it didn’t start until 8:30. Oh well.
I ran the 11 within my new long run average pace window (10:15-10:45),
but on the slower end of it. Then I ran
the 5k at a 9:04 average pace with the final .14 of a mile being at a 6:45
pace!!! WHOA! I really don’t think I could hold that pace
for more than a quarter mile, TOPS, but it’s still amazing that I was able to go
that fast after running 14 miles! Very
happy with all of my running this morning.
I was going to run another 4 miles when I got home like I did last week,
but decided to just make this a cutback week, you know, since I decided that I
was doing cutback weeks this training cycle, so, you know, maybe I should
actually do them.
• Monday: unlike last week, I wasn’t sore after my
long run/5k combo the day before, but still logged a shakeout run at an easy
pace. Was originally thinking I’d do my
5 miles with 1 mile of 50m sprints in the middle but was having some inflammation
in my joints from splurge eating on Sunday, so I just opted for the easy
shakeout run instead.
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I ran fairly easy all week, no actual speed work, though I
do count that 10kGP 5k on Sunday as a fast finish for my long run, so that
sorta counts as speed work, right? I
think so. But no sprints or tempo runs. But, this was a cutback week, so on top of
dialing back the distance of my long run by a few miles, I also dialed back on
the overall average speeds of my runs and ran easy. I’m not going to lie, it wasn’t really on
purpose, but it worked out that way and that’s what I’m calling it. HA!
I’m sure someone will let me know if my thinking on this is actually
correct or not. I’m curious to know if
it is, but apparently not curious enough to google it myself. I do need to get back on the speed work
wagon, though. I have said before that I
do enjoy it quite a lot, so I’m not sure why I slack on it sometimes. Things like tempo runs are a challenge for me,
especially if I’m doing my best to keep those faster tempo miles within a 5
second spread. Love doing that!
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