Okay, okay. I got behind on these again, but the good news is that you didn’t miss much. I still haven’t been doing a ton of exciting workouts, but I’m happy to report that I am in the process of gradually building back up. I’ve been taking an iron supplement and eating WAY more red meat and iron rich foods than before, so hopefully my iron levels are on the up swing. Fingers crossed.
Week of 10.12.20 – 10.18.20 –
Monday – Easy: 6 miles (8:47 pace)
Tuesday – Easy: 8 miles (7:28 pace)
Wednesday – Easy: 6 miles (8:45 pace)
Thursday – Rest
Friday – Easy: 6 miles (8:41 pace) + Pilates
Saturday – RACE!
Sunday – Easy: 10 miles (8:29 pace)
The highlight of this week was definitely the 5k race! You can read all about that in the recap that I wrote (linked above).
Week of 10.19.20 – 10.25.20 –
Monday – Easy: 7 miles (8:46 pace)
Tuesday – Easy: 6 miles (8:27 pace)
Wednesday – Quality: 6 miles w/ 8 X 200/400
Thursday – Easy: 6 miles (8:46 pace)
Friday – Rest (w/ Pilates)
Saturday – Easy: 7 miles (8:12 pace)
Sunday – Quality: 7 miles (Virtual 5k w/ Jessica)
Two highlights from this week were the workout on Wednesday and running a “virtual” 5k with Jessica on Sunday.
Wednesday’s workout was the first workout more than 200 meter repeats that I have done since September 12. What?! That’s bananas. I would almost say that the best thing about the entire morning was how much I was looking forward to the workout beforehand. I haven’t been feeling super jazzed about running in general, but the 5k the weekend before seems to have rejuvenated me a bit!
As far as the actual workout itself goes, the 200s were a bit slower than goal pace and the 400s were a bit faster than goal pace. Basically, I’m going to call it even! The 200s were supposed to be at repetition pace and the 400s were supposed to be at interval pace. Goal pace for the 200s was 4:57 (37 seconds per rep) and goal pace for the 400s was 5:22 (80 seconds per rep). I basically ran the same pace for the entire workout, averaging 39 for the 200s and 79 for the 400s. I thoroughly enjoyed every single one of the post-workout endorphins that came as a result of my morning track sesh.
I met Jessica at dark:thirty on Sunday morning to run the McKirdy Trained Virtual 5k with her. Per usual, it was just really darn nice to run with a buddy. I have still been doing the majority of my runs solo and this was a great reminder that running with friends is always better!
I hope you all have a great weekend!