Hey friends!
I’ve had several solid weeks with more of a focus on quantity than quality. This wasn’t necessarily an intentional shift. I got a tick bite on my leg right before the Satsuma 2 Miler. I didn’t think too much about it when it happened, but started to notice some weird physical symptoms in the subsequent weeks. The most concerning one was that all of the lymph nodes on the right side of my body were incredibly swollen. The bite got infected and I needed a very high dose antibiotic shot (ouch!), oral antibiotics and a topical antibiotic ointment. Give me all the medicine! Thankfully, everything is healed and all is well. I didn’t do any major workouts during the course of the antibiotics as my body was already working harder than it should’ve been to fight the infection.
Here is what the last couple weeks have looked like training wise:
Week 33 (08/12 – 08/18)
- Mileage: 71 miles
- Strength: 135 minutes
- Cross Training: 30 minutes
- Quality Runs: 1
- 2 mile warm up, 15 min. tempo (6:08), 4 X 2 min. (5:35), 15 min. tempo (6:22), 2 mile cool down
- Note: This workout was done prior to me realizing that the bite was infected.
Week 34 (08/19 – 08/25)
- Mileage: 64 miles
- Strength: 105 minutes
- Cross Training: 100 minutes
- Quality Runs: 0
Week 35 (08/26 – 09/01)
- Mileage: 73 miles
- Strength: 150 minutes
- Cross Training: None
- Quality Runs: 1
- 3 mile warm up, 6 X 800 (2:49, 2:48, 2:48, 2:47, 2:48, 2:46), 3 mile cool down
Week 36 (09/02 – 09/08)
- Mileage: 68 miles
- Strength: 90 minutes
- Cross Train: 60 minutes
- Quality Runs: 2
- 2 mile warm up, 7 X 1 mile at threshold (6:08 average), 2 mile cool down
- 3 mile warm up, 2 X 800 (2:49, 2:46), 2 X 1600 (5:55, 5:53), 2 X 800 (2:45, 2:46), 3 mile cool down
I believe that catches us up. I will be running a 5k three weeks from now. The state record for 39 year old females is 18:42, which is close to 6:00 per mile. I feel like my fitness points to this being doable, but nothing is ever a given!