Week of Alpharetta Half

Week-beginning Thoughts:

Goals for this week: eat well, sleep lots, stretch every day

Monday

Planned: yoga
Did:  30min Yoga for Runners

I can really tell I need this stretching because things that shouldn't have been such good/deep stretches totally were. 

Tuesday

Planned: ~4mi easy loop, 4xYMCA hill repeats, ~1mi CD
Did: as scheduled = 6.28mi @ 9:27/mi avg, 20min Runner Yoga

Wanted to have a shot at the worst hill on Sunday's course ahead of Sunday, so we took 10KTuesday there. I got five times up the YMCA hill (including one warm-up climb), and it definitely felt just as awful as I thought it would. 

Paces were good though: 8:32, 8:04, 8:35, 7:57

Wednesday

Planned: easy 5mi, 20min yoga
Did: 5.03mi @ 9:32/mi avg

Easy run in the morning, and yoga in the evening. 

Thursday

Planned: yoga
Did: yoga

Did yoga in the morning. Crashed HARD at night.

Friday

Planned: easy 2-3mi on first part of course, yoga
Did: 2.54mi @ 9:25/mi avg

I woke up this morning feeling like I hadn't run in a week. It's only been a day. lol. Today's intention was to get a feel for the first climb of the course, and build some confidence. I felt super strong going up the hill... until I looked at our near 10min pace. Ugh. Oh well. 

Saturday

Planned: 30min yoga, maybe a walk
Did: a couple miles of walking, but nothing else

Today was rough. Between 7am and 9:30am, I was hit with a wave of complete fatigue so strong that I didn't even feel like I could get off the couch, where I was laying kind of asleep with eyes closed, to change the laundry in the basement. It was at that point that I decided I wouldn't be pushing the stroller for tomorrow's half and would be running solo not because I had a time goal, but because I literally didn't have the strength to push a stroller for 13.1mi. 

Did my traditional pre-race "eat like crap", napped for a few hours in the middle of the day, and took the older kid to a Halloween thing at night... totally set myself up for success there. But, hey, sometimes that works for me? 

Sunday

Planned: 1mi WU, 13.11mi race, 1mi CD

Did: 1mi WU @ 10:16/mi avg, Alpharetta Women's Half, no CD, 30min yoga

Total Weekly Mileage: 27.9

Week-ending Thoughts:

Meh?