Wow… that’s crazy! I’m starting to get really excited!! This week will be a 50-60 mile week, and then I’ll taper to 20-27 the week of the marathon. In a way, that’s scary (I’m not strong enough! I haven’t worked hard enough! That’s what I always find myself saying during a taper), but in a…
Argh. Why do I do this?? Tonight’s VO2 max was 8x800m. 1st time I’ve done 800s during this cycle, so I didn’t really know what to expect. I consulted my “advanced marathoning” book, and it told me to shoot for 2:48s. Plus, I knew in the back of my mind that, per the “Yasso 800”…
Time’s winding down: just a little over 2.5 weeks to race day! That means I get to count down the hard workouts I have left. What a fun feeling. Tonight’s Tuesday Tempo run was 2×20 minutes, with a warm up, 2.5 miles in between, and a CD, it totalled 13.5 miles. Although my legs were…
2 mile warmup4×5 minutes at tempo, with 1 min rest10 miles at marathon pace4×5 minutes at tempo, with 1 min rest2 mile CD WOW. I honestly didn’t think I could do this… usually my Tuesday tempo runs have 40 or so minutes of tempo in them. This workout had that PLUS 10 miles at marathon…
Wow. I don’t know what about the last two weeks has made time FLY by… Is it because Nate’s working now? He started as a dentist in Faribault two weeks ago. He loves it, but the commute from our house in RW is pretty long. It makes for pretty late nights if he has long…
And it went GREAT! Like, seriously great. 🙂 I decided to do these on a treadmill becuase it was pouring out all evening. Nate snuck a picture, I’ll post it later today. 🙂 Workout: 20 min warm up, 20 minute tempo, 20 minutes easy, 20 minutes tempo, 20 min CD I thought to myself, there’s…