Tobacco Road Marathon Training - Week 5/11

Week 5

Monday

Did: 1.9 mi walk

Definitely happy for a recovery day today. Whew. Hard but successful week last week, legs were pleased with a walk at lunch time!

Tuesday

Planned: track workout

Did: 6.77 mi Track Tuesday

Got 8x400 at the track this morning, felt good to push hard for short distances. Pretty consistently on the target of 1:37 per 400, with the slowest (the first one) at 1:41 and the fastest (the last one) at 1:32. 

Wednesday

Planned: EZ 6

Did: 3.13 mi @ 9:40/mi avg

Yep, I'm sick. Woke up feeling kind of "bleh" with a not-really-sore-but-dry throat and just an overall blahhhhh energy level, and by the time I went out to attempt an easy 6 mile run, I didn't even want to do that much. I got 5k done and walked back to the car.

Thursday

Planned: Altamont

Did: 15 mins stretching/yoga

That's all I could muster. Congested and sneezy and BLEGH.

Friday

Did: 1 mi walk

At least got out of the house and walked in the neighborhood at lunch, but not much energy for anything more.

Saturday

Planned: 12 mi EZ

Did: 12.02 mi @ 9:14/mi 

Ok, feeling 85% better and decided to go for an easy 12 miler in the morning. I didn't put any fast miles in the plan today, just hold steady and hope for close to a goal of 9:15/mi pace (which, turns out, I nailed). Happy with this recovery effort, and thankful that's all I had to do.

Sunday

Planned: 6 mi MP

Did: 4.09 mi hike + 6.02 mi @ 7:22/mi avg pace

Did a lovely hike in the morning with Super D and John - waterfall, freezing but sunny weather (perfect) - great time on the trails.

Got home and headed out to the Swamp Rabbit for a quick-as-I-could 6 mile run. Turns out that was pretty quick... I knew the 6 miles felt fast, but I didn't glance at the watch the entire time (only checked for distance). Wowza! Looks like this was more of a tempo run than a race pace run.

Week-ending thoughts:

Well, despite feeling like I skipped an entire week of training due to sickness, I really only missed 1.5 runs (Altamont + cutting short the Wednesday run). I have to remind myself of that! 

Hoping for a more normal week coming up... another hard "peak week" ahead. Here we gooooooooo.