FredtheDuck
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- Joined
- Mar 2, 2017
Tuesday Training Update: Week Ending 9/3
This was the plan for the week:
T - 4.5 miles @ EB + Strides
Th - .5 miles @ WU, 4 miles @ tempo, .5 mile @ CD
F - 4 miles @ EA
Sa - 4 miles @ EB + Strides
I don't have a ton to report for this week. My 4.5 miler was on the treadmill, and it was fine. If you follow @roxymama's training journal, you saw my thought process for the tempo run on Thursday. It went totally fine, and I was actually a smidge faster than I should have been. Whoops. But lately I've been trying to just find a hard-but-comfortable pace and stick with it... if I look down and see I'm way too fast, I'll pull back, but that seems to be working for now.
My Friday four-miler was adjusted because I forgot my gym bag, which meant that I would either have to reschedule a bunch of running or get something short in in the evening. I elected for the short run because I was cranky and figured running would help my mood (oh, how far I've come in my running...). And it did. I had time for two miles. I went out fast and decided that I wanted to get a harder run run in because it was going to be short. I ended up doing both miles under 10 min/mile, which is record speed for me. And it was the more hill-y neighborhood route. So that's fun. Best part is that I felt really good after. Not just proud-good, but physically good, like I had pushed my body but hadn't pushed it too hard.
Saturday it poured hard here (remnants of Harvey, apparently). We decided push our run to Sunday and used the rainy day as an excuse to go to the mall to pick up some winter clothes for our daughter, plus her Halloween costume from the Disney Store. She's going to be Anna from Frozen, and the costume is adorable. Friends gave her a stuffed talking Olaf, so she'll have that too. Sunday's "long run" was totally fine... we ran a trail near our house and then had brunch. It was lovely.
And now I'm in taper. I've decided to do my two weekday runs on the treadmill at my office. I have a tendency to push the pace as it is... and I think running on fresh(er) legs is going to exacerbate that habit. So the treadmill will force me to be smart about pace and save the real effort for race day.
Which is this Sunday.
EEP!
This was the plan for the week:
T - 4.5 miles @ EB + Strides
Th - .5 miles @ WU, 4 miles @ tempo, .5 mile @ CD
F - 4 miles @ EA
Sa - 4 miles @ EB + Strides
I don't have a ton to report for this week. My 4.5 miler was on the treadmill, and it was fine. If you follow @roxymama's training journal, you saw my thought process for the tempo run on Thursday. It went totally fine, and I was actually a smidge faster than I should have been. Whoops. But lately I've been trying to just find a hard-but-comfortable pace and stick with it... if I look down and see I'm way too fast, I'll pull back, but that seems to be working for now.
My Friday four-miler was adjusted because I forgot my gym bag, which meant that I would either have to reschedule a bunch of running or get something short in in the evening. I elected for the short run because I was cranky and figured running would help my mood (oh, how far I've come in my running...). And it did. I had time for two miles. I went out fast and decided that I wanted to get a harder run run in because it was going to be short. I ended up doing both miles under 10 min/mile, which is record speed for me. And it was the more hill-y neighborhood route. So that's fun. Best part is that I felt really good after. Not just proud-good, but physically good, like I had pushed my body but hadn't pushed it too hard.
Saturday it poured hard here (remnants of Harvey, apparently). We decided push our run to Sunday and used the rainy day as an excuse to go to the mall to pick up some winter clothes for our daughter, plus her Halloween costume from the Disney Store. She's going to be Anna from Frozen, and the costume is adorable. Friends gave her a stuffed talking Olaf, so she'll have that too. Sunday's "long run" was totally fine... we ran a trail near our house and then had brunch. It was lovely.
And now I'm in taper. I've decided to do my two weekday runs on the treadmill at my office. I have a tendency to push the pace as it is... and I think running on fresh(er) legs is going to exacerbate that habit. So the treadmill will force me to be smart about pace and save the real effort for race day.
Which is this Sunday.
EEP!