Week-beginning Thoughts:
Well, here we are, Week 4. Since I have a trip later in the week, our schedule shifted a bit.
Monday
Scheduled: 2mi WU, 5x1K @ 10K pace/2min, 2mi CD
Did: 2mi WU, 5x1K @ (7-7:30/mi)/2min, 1.5mi CD = 7.45mi @ 9:06/mi av
As I was in my garage at 4:04am, getting ready to head over to the track, my phone rang. My training partner had accidentally locked herself out of her house... without her car keys. So, I drove up to her place, we opted to drive to a different, open-to-the-public asphalt track in lieu of running from her house (since our normal track was too far with this change-of-schedule).
The asphalt track wasn't as bad as I'd feared it wouldbe, but, man, I've run on the track too much lately, because I was OVER IT before we even hit 1.0 on the warm-up. I'm starting to tire of running in "circles" and having mechanical workouts.
My legs were tired from not having a rest day, and just life, so I decided I wasn't going to go for any specific pace on the 1K repeats. Instead, I'd try to "make it fun" by relying on my watch's GPS to track distance and run the first one in Lane 1, the second in Lane 2, etc.
My first repeat, I felt a small soreness in my inner right hip. Ugh. There's that whole "not stretching" thing starting to take its toll. I really need to do more of that, especially since I'm not strength training at all these days while asking a LOT of my running muscles.
On repeat #3, I missed my watch beep and kept going... until I realized I hadn't missed the watch beep. I'd just neglected to specify the correct number of repeats. Oh, Mondays...
Stopped/saved workout, then started a new one, and finished up the repeats, slogged through more laps around the track, hating every single one because I was bored to death. I think this is a sign I need a rest day, more stretching, and more strength training...
Tuesday
Scheduled: easy 10KT
Did: as scheduled = 6.36mi @ 9:46/mi avg, 30min yoga
Weee, easy miles! My legs are TIRED. My body is TIRED. I'm actually on the fence on whether or not I'll run tomorrow... But, today was good. We welcomed back a 10KTuesday runner who'd moved away a few years ago, and just started a new job back in the ATL area.
Also started feeling right glute tightness and did 30min of stretchy yoga. I think the fact that my legs were shaking in a basic forward fold is a good indication that I need to stretch more if I'm going to ask so much of my body...
Wednesday
Scheduled: 2 miles WU 2 x 2 miles at HMP with 3 minutes jog in between + 1 mile faster between HMP and 10K pace 1-2 miles CD
Did: as scheduled (with shorter cooldown) = 8.23mi @ 8:56/mi avg, Big 5 Stretching, 30min yoga
It was a struggle of a morning. At 3:30am, I got up, and had to check in with both kiddos before getting out the door. I wasn't really feeling great about this run, and it was definitely more of a "just get through this, and then you can have rest day" sentiment than a "yeah, I'm gonna crush this".
The way my training partner is doing things, her paces are based on a time trial she did pre-season, rather than her personal goal. This means they're all faster than what we'd need for a more reasonable sub-4:00 goal. This also means that I'm much better at shorter distances than longer ones, and probably have the physical ability to do longer races much faster than I am/want/think.
I'm sitting at 58mi for the past seven days, and OMG do I feel it, so I've been opting to hit around an 8:00 for whatever the "speed" portion of our workouts is all week (1Ks for Monday and today's 2mi repeats.
WU: 10:10/mi
2mi: 8:13/7:54
2mi: 8:06/7:53
1mi: 7:45
CD: 9:51
Shortened the CD a bit to get back home for kiddo wake-ups faster, but I'm proud to say I stuck by my car for an extra 5min to go through those Big 5 stretches I haven't done in... erm... maybe a year?
Thursday
Scheduled: rest
Did: absolutely nothing
OMG, sweet, sweet rest day, I love you so... especially since I got all ready for work this morning, and then was hit by a super hard wave of fatigue that kept me in bed and sleeping for pretty much the entire day. Uggghhh.
Friday
Scheduled: 5-6 miles WU 6-7 miles at MP 2 miles CD
Did: 0.78mi @ 13:23/mi, ~3mi walk
I really, really wanted to run with my training partner this morning. But it wasn't looking good when I woke up and still felt kind of blergh. I figured I'd try it out and see how I felt after a quarter mile, just to help her get going, if nothing else.
Nope. This is the first run I've aborted in... maybe ever? But I knew better than to push myself through anything when I wasn't feeling like even running an easy 3-4. I came home, and slept another couple hours from 4:30-6, and then more between 7 and 9.
I finally felt better by the afternoon, though... just in time for our family mountain getaway!
Weeee, Blue Ridge
Saturday
Scheduled: 4-6mi easy
Did: 1.5mi hike (780ft elev gain), 20min yoga, 40min HIIT/Core
I had low hopes for actually being able to run this weekend. Mountain cabins don't exactly have sidewalks along their access roads and I am NOT a trail runner (much less with a kid or two in tow). Instead, I leaned into the vacation part, and got my exercise through some light hikes and my downloaded Beachbody on Demand core workouts.
Sunday
Scheduled: 4-6mi easy
Did: HIIT/Core, 0.78mi hike (430ft elev gain), 6.0mi stroller run @ 9:16/mi avg, Big 5
Did a workout at the cabin before leaving, and a short hike at a great waterfall en route home.
Then got home and decided to head out for an easy riverside run. SO MOIST. Ugggghhh.
Total Weekly Mileage: 28.8
Week-ending Thoughts:
Such a weak ending to a week with such a strong start... Part of me is already flipping out about a "loss of fitness" for taking three days off with sickness/travel. Part of me is eye-rolling, remembering we always tell training participants that it's absurd to think you can lose so much fitness in such a short time. That's kind of like going on a "diet" for a day, not drinking much water, and "losing" five pounds. It doesn't work that way.
It felt good to do some strength work this weekend, and I hope I'll be able to find a way of fitting that into my life, even if it's only 30min a week.
My legs felt a little weird on the Sunday run, but I'm hopeful that the sports massage I got on Friday helped work out the weirdness in my hip/glute, and that re-committing to stretching post-run and doing some yoga throughout the week will keep those issues at bay.
Here's to a fresh week of marathon training.
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