Good Week

Finished up last week with a nice easy recovery run on Saturday and then a 20 miler on Sunday. The 20 miler was probably one of the best 20 milers I've had in a long time. Things warmed up a bit by Sunday morning so the temps were at least in the 20's, maybe even 30's for this run. However, the biggest factor in this run was that there was no wind. Cold can be dealt with, but when the wind starts whipping, it can get painful.

I ran this one with my friend Dave and we were both feeling pretty good from the get go. We got to the turn-around point with the overall pace at 6:51 and slowly brought it down on the second half of the run. I think most of our splits for the last ten miles were in the 6:35-6:38 range, and when we finished, the overall pace was down to 6:44. So this is how last week went down:

Mon: 8 Miles with 12 X 400 @ 76 each with 200 Rest Interval
Tues: 8 Miles with 4 @ 5:39 pace
WedAM: 9 Miles @ 6:35 pace
WedPM: 6 Miles @ 7 Pace
Thurs: 14 miles @ 6:40 Pace
Fri: 8 Miles with 6 X 800 @ 2:30 each with 500 rest Interval
Sat: 7 Miles @ 7:10 Pace
Sun: 20 Miles @ 6:44 Pace
Weekly Mileage: 79 Miles
YTD Mileage: 557 Miles

So overall I'm very pleased with how I'm feeling right now and the amount of intensity that I've been able to handle so far. I'd still like to figure out how to add in some more mileage to the schedule, but so far it hasn't been possible. I'm hoping that as things beging to thaw out around here, those second runs won't become as difficult to fit in and some of those 8 mile runs will become 10 mile runs.

Rather oddly, this weeks calls for a lot of easy running. The only real workout that I have is a 15 miler with 2 X 3 mile @ 5:39 pace. That should be tough, but hopefully with some fresh legs it shouldn't be too much of a problem. And yes, the legs were feeling pretty dead coming out of last week. However, after a couple of easy 9 mile runs yesterday and today things are starting to feel back to normal.