Hey-o! Here is what last week’s training looked like:
Monday – Easy: 12 miles (8:30 pace)
I got in a Labor Day long run on Monday morning! The humidity was lower than normal, which was quite a treat. I left the house at dark o’clock and headed over to meet up with one of my friends. She had a workout, so we didn’t get to run together much at all, but it was nice to be out there together either way. Richard followed me out in the golf cart so that I wouldn’t fall on the driveway in the dark. So chivalrous!
Tuesday – Easy: 7 miles (8:39 pace)
I got in some easy driveway miles on Tuesday morning.
Wednesday – Easy: 6 miles (8:54 pace)
Wednesday morning was more of the same. I really need to shake things up a bit, but I am enjoying running from home.
Thursday – Quality: 2 mi. WU, 2 X 2 mi. @ MP w/ 1 mi. recovery, 2 mi. CD
I had a workout on tap for Thursday morning. Well … actually it was on tap for Wednesday morning, but I needed another day and moved it. The workout called for a two mile warm up, two miles at marathon pace, one mile easy, two miles at marathon pace and a two mile cool down. My goal pace for the marathon pace miles was 6:10 ish. After a workout that was 3 X 2 miles at threshold pace the weekend prior, 2 X 2 miles at marathon pace seemed very doable. I ran on a route that I wouldn’t describe as hilly, but that was definitely not flat (if that makes any sense). My splits were 6:17, 6:04 and 6:15, 6:07. The splits make sense given the terrain. I was pleased with this one. Nothing flashy, but some solid effort for sure.
Friday – Easy: 7 miles (8:39 pace)
I got in some more easy miles from home Friday morning.
Saturday – Quality: 3 mi. WU, 4 X [2, 1.5, 1 min.], 3 mi. CD
Saturday morning’s workout called for a three mile warm up, four sets of two minutes, one and a half minutes and one minute hard with one minute recovery between each rep and a three mile cool down. This was supposed to be more of an effort-based, fartlek session rather than a specific track session. I wouldn’t say this workout was anything stellar, but I got it done and my paces progressed down as the workout went on. The first few reps were in the mid five minute pace range (5:30-5:35) and the last few were in the low five minute range (5:10-5:15).
Sunday – Easy: 13 miles (8:58 pace)
Sunday morning’s run was my favorite run in quite some time! Several of us got together to support one of our friends as she ran the Virtual Boston Marathon! This would’ve been her first time running Boston. She was originally on the fence about participating virtually, but ultimately I think she was glad that she did. She had a ton of support, which was amazing to see! Those of us that ran with her were so glad that she asked us to join her and really were just thankful to be able to along for the ride. After that run, I was so pumped! The running community is AWESOME!
Total – 64.8 miles
That’s it for now. Have a great week!