The first couple days of this week were lower mileage, a sort of recovery half-week. The good news is that my legs have responded well (good sign that I haven’t been over-training). I’m a little concerned that they’re feeling too good. Today’s 15 miler felt effortless, and I was clicking off the miles at a…
Wow — wouldn’t have guessed I could run sub 29:30, at all! I made a bet with Nate the night before: 15 minutes massage if I ran sub 30:00. His personal best is a 30:04, and my personal best before today was a 30:34. So, 29:59 seemed like a reasonable goal. My legs didn’t feel…
Wow, what a difference a week makes! I went to the track yesterday to do another set of mile repeats. Per the suggestion of my coach, I was to up my reps to 4 (vs. 3 last week). I was dreading the workout because of how last week went. But it actually went really well!…
I’d forgotten how much time and mental energy is involved with training for something! My weekends feel so much shorter now that I’m putting in a medium long run in on Friday night (13 or so) and a long run (19-20) on Sunday. That eats up so much time! It’s also really time consuming to…
Today’s workout: the track. Ug. Of all the workouts I do, I dread these workouts the most. Good thing it was gorgeous out & my husband & dog were set to join me — gives me no excuse to back out. Off we go to the track. 5 mile WU (trying to hit 11 on…
After Sunday’s long/hard marathon pace run, my quads were pretty beat up. I had run for 10 days in a row & my legs were telling me that. Haven’t been that sore in a while! Usually when I’m beat up like that, I recover pretty quickly — usually just a day or so of rest…