No, not the temperature (although it is supposed to be 51 degrees tomorrow!)...I'm talking about my mileage. Last week was my first week this training cycle that I broke the 50 mile per week mark. Here's how it all played out:
Monday - 6 miles over lunch at a Goldilocks pace (not too fast, not too slow!)
Tuesday - 11 miles of triple play that I wrote about last week....great run!
Wednesday - supposed to be 10 miles but my Garmin was dead so I ran a route I thought was about 10 miles. Turned out it was only 8.75 miles so a little short. I also underestimated the temperature that night and was a frozen block of Sarah when I got home! I walked in the door and Bryan exclaimed "Your ears are a color red I have never seen skin before!!"Thursday - No run, but 60 minute swim class. We did about 30-40 minutes of actually swimming and then learned how to dive off the blocks. Let me tell you they are a lot higher than they look, but at least I didn't belly flop like some of the people in my class...ouch!
Friday - Easy 6 miles at lunch on a nice sunny day
Saturday - 18 mile long run with Janette out of Fitcorp that included the Comm Ave hills. My legs were feeling heavy but overall the run went well. Averaged 8:46 min/mile which is a little faster than most of my long runs but I'm pleased with it.
Sunday - I usually don't run on Sunday's but it was 45 degrees and sunny so Bryan and I went out for 4.2 miles along the river. It was still pretty icy so it was a slow run but my legs felt good after Saturday's 18 miler. I think I might start adding in a post-long run recovery run to see how my legs handle it.
So there you go.....54 miles for the week! I plan to increase a little more over the next few weeks.....so far, so good and my body is handling the mileage well. Another 10 weeks until race time!!
