Week 6 of 16
“I’m on the right track baby, I was born to be brave.”
It’s hard to believe how fast
marathon training is flying by. I completed my highest mileage week since Miami Marathon training, got in a great week of sleep with 5 nights of at least 8 hours, my hunger is raging and I crushed my first 16 miler.
The weather wasn’t great at the beginning
of the week so I hopped on the treadmill on both Monday and Tuesday. My legs were pretty tired after a ton of hamstring exercises so I only made it 3 miles but I added in some 4x800s for speedwork on Tuesday and killed it.
I skipped my run on Wednesday and
took Thursday off then headed out Friday morning with Georgie. Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods album was released that day so I was feeling extra inspired to run trails. Plus it snowed overnight and I knew it would
be a fun (and beautiful) adventure.
Georgie did awesome. She was so
excited, flying most of the way. I
dropped her off at home after 3 miles—even through she acted like she could go
forever out there—and finished the run day off with 3 more on my own.
Strength training this week was
also good. On Monday and Wednesday both
Erin and Craig showed up and got it done with me. I went earlier than normal on Friday—they
both went at my normal time—but I knew if I waited until after dinner, I would
never make it back out. #LAZY
Saturday was long run day. I kept checking the hour-by-hour forecast all
morning as if it was going to drastically change. I finally sucked it up and headed to Falmouth
around 11am when it was *feels like* 10 degrees.
I started out on my own and got in
about 5 miles before my dad showed up on his bike and accompanied me for the
remaining 11 miles. He road next to me
during just about all of my long runs leading up to Houston and for the
majority of my long runs for Miami but this was our first together during
Boston training. It was fun. It was also cold. So cold my gummies were frozen. Physically I was doing ok until about mile 13
when normal long run fatigue started to hit.
We turned the corner onto the main road back to the house with 2 miles
to go and we were blasted with a strong headwind. It was also very hilly and by the time I
got home I had nothing left in the tank.
I went home to the couch and was in bed at 8:30pm.
Other highlights:
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The Eagles defeated the Patriots in the Super
Bowl! Finally! I made a special playlist for my Sunday spin
class with some Philly themed songs from the Rocky soundtrack, Will Smith
along with Philadephia Freedom, Motownphilly and I Just Wanna Fly.
Upcoming events:
Monday 1.29.18
3 treadmill miles (23:07)
Greg’s Workout #7
Burdenko H2O
12,498 steps
Tuesday 1.30.18
5 treadmill miles (37:48) with 4x800s
Taught spin class
16,763 steps
Wednesday 1.31.18
Greg’s Workout #8
8,549 steps
Thursday 2.1.18
Taught spin class. The playlist: Party Like It’s 1999 Spin Playlist
Power Water
15,589 steps
Friday 2.2.18
3.15 miles with G (32:40)
3 miles (23:39)
Greg’s Workout #9
16,148 steps
Saturday 2.3.18
16 miles (2:00:45)
28,313 steps
Sunday 2.4.18
Taught spin class
Burdenko H2O
12,774 steps
ICYMI
This week’s mileage: 30
miles
This week’s G
mileage: 3 miles
January Totals: 112
miles
February Totals:
22 miles
2018 Totals: 134
miles
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