Jeff, one of Craig’s friends, changed his work schedule around so that he is able to drive down to Northfield every Friday to do a workout. How lucky am I?!? Once the ski season is over, we should be able to have a pretty good sized/fast group training here in Northfield Friday afternoons! Let me…
Yeah!!! I was not excited for this workout, not going to lie. It’s one of the hardest of the cycle, both physically and mentally. 4x2miles at sub-marathon pace. Good thing I had recruited Pat (bike) and Craig (running) to help, and Craig had recruited Anders (running) to run part of it with us. What? 3…
My training partners don’t let me wear a watch on my hard workouts anymore. Rightly so. Since I’ve been without it, I’ve slowly built more confidence and paces have been – dare I say it – getting darn close to goal :). Today’s workout: 3×1 mile at tempo, 10 miles easy, 3×1 mile at T….
Another week in the right direction! This week I had two hard tempo efforts planned. The first workout: 2×4 miles with 2 miles easy in between. Long WU and CD. Goal is 5:55-6:00. Actual: workout as above with 30 sec “catch your breath” rest halfway into each segment, to help keep the pace higher. Even…
Workout: 19 miles with 2×2 miles @5:40 at beginning, 3 miles @whatever I can muster (eventual goal is to hold 5:40s – but I’ve done enough marathon training cycles to know that type of strength doesn’t come until about 3-4 weeks to race day!). Actual: 19 miles with 2 miles in 11:29 (5:41, 5:48), 11:45…
Oh, man – that was downright fun! I wasn’t really looking forward to this workout, even though it’s my last and I know it isn’t that taxing. (I can tell I’m at the end of a very long training cycle… this is NOT like me at all) I didn’t have a training partner due to…