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I'm still on track with the Pfitzinger plan with the past week ending with a total of 51 miles in 5 runs. Despite falling back to an easier (Plan B) plan of 55 miles per week or less, I've found this plan more challenging than expected. It has more rest days than I'm used to but the other days more than make up for it, with fairly strong contrast between days.
The Pushup Challenge has fallen off the radar screen lately with nada a faceplant in about 2 weeks now. I'm not sure if I got bored with the plateau and lack of progress or it was just other pressures on my time and energy lately.
Weekly run down:
Sunday - 17 miles around Boyden with Andrew at a relaxed 8:24 pace
Monday - rest and shovel out
Tues - recovery 5 miles with heavy legs (8:38 pace)
Weds - 12 miles medium long run which went like a dream. Despite feeling a bit off and not wanting to get out the door, once I got started things just fell in place and the nice gentle pace felt effortless. Average 8:28 pace and heartrate 137.
Thurs - rest day
Friday - 11 miles with 6 at 1/2 marthon pace (which I read it as a hard/tempo effort). One of those tough workouts that you look forward to with a sense of fear and dread. You get very little sympathy from non-runners on this one. Their opinion is simply 'why would you want to put yourself through such misery anyway?' Put myself though it I did, with a 4 mile warmup and then 6 miles at my new harder pace which translated only to 730-750 mile pace. For some reason the legs just wouldn't co-operate and my heartrate stayed stubbornly low at 140-150 (80-90% of max). Final result was a sucked out runner laid out on the couch for the evening. Such is the price of maintenance/improvement with the goal now only 7 weeks away.
Sat - 5 miles very very easy at 8:48 pace. The legs were grumpy at 1st but gradually accepted the slow gentle pace. More strange weather with a drop in temperature and approaching series of storms predicted for most of next week.
That's it for the week. Still busy but at least still on track and hoping to cling on for a few more weeks to get the requisite fitness to put on a decent show for Boston. Have a nice week all!
5 comments:
Well, February is about to be history, and things are bound to improve soon.
Don't forget that you only started training "properly" recently; it is going to take a while until you see some real improvement. Don't lose the faith just yet.
I did the same with the pushup challenge; eventually I got bored and gave up. However, your max total was really impressive.
Thanks mike that is a great idea it would make life easier especially when I can't plan ahead
I getting tired of this winter too I've been brave and gone out regardles, I just plain old tired of it and Sunday we are having another storm.
Well hang in there it will pass.;0)
That's some snow! You might have to buy a snow plough for the front of your car!
Good to see your training's still on track. Nice times in those conditions.
You want blues? Try a flooded basement. I hate February.
Yikes, that's just brutal. Great job getting your running done in spite of those conditions.
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