What I thought was going to be a good week turned out to be not so good. Had two little workouts and a half marathon, none of which went that well. So here is the week.
9/1 - 13.2 miles 1:27
Started out just running nice and easy and gradually picked it up after about 7 miles. Faster miles went something like 6:30, 6:15, 6:05, 5:50, 5:40, and then a mile cooldown. It absolutely shit poured rain the entire run so the shoes were soaked. But by that last mile I was glad to be done with that run.
9/2 - 10 miles
Another workout day. 4 mile warm up to the park and then ran a workout with Dustin. All he had was 1.5 miles hard and a cool down. We did the 1.5 miles in about 8:00 but I let up after the mile cause he was dropping back. I proceeded to do another mile at 1/2 marathon pace in 5:35 which felt super easy and comfortable. I knew I had the race this weekend so I didn't want to do that much more but I felt like I could have done another two or three no problem...boy was I wrong. Did a three mile cool down back home and have never been so physically exhausted after a run in my entire life that I can remember. I thought I was going to throw up or pass out or something. I just had nothing left in me. Weird day.
9/3 - Felt like absolute crap all day - off
9/4 - 9 miles 1:04:20
Real easy day just to see how I felt. Felt okay.
9/5 5.5 miles 40:00
Another real easy day before the race.
9/6 17 miles 1:45:00
Half Marathon - 1:16:00
Shitty race. I started out nice and easy running around 5:40 +/- 5 seconds for the first 4 miles and then dropped to around 5:35 until 9.5 miels and just hit a wall. Mile 9 was 5:35 mile 10 5:51, mile 11 6:14, 6:17, 6:05 and that is how the race ended up. I thought I was in a little better shape but I guess the week and a half off of running and a little to much partying really killed me. O well time to get ready for twin cities.
9/7 - off felt like shit and a little depressed about yesterday.
Overall a really shitty race one little workout that I felt great in and a soaking wet attempt to get something out of a long run. Not real happy with the week hopefully next week will be better.
Week total 55 miles
Not to bad for 5 days
2 comments:
I'm surprised you started the week with two hard efforts...? sounds like your recovery is taking longer than you'd like between runs...I'm paddling that boat with you man. Keep putting one foot in front of the other!
Yeah, I agree with you Paul, but after the time off I was more concerned with getting ready for twin cities than I was with actually thinking about what I was doing and concentrating on the race ahead. The feet are moving nicely and the miles are coming but the legs are still recovering from the race. Couple of big weeks and then a nice taper to hopefully be ready for the 10 mile.
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