Highlight of the Week: Rachel joining me for all of my 22-miler! It was such a treat to catch up, and the run just flew by!
Monday | November 10, 2014: 3 m run (w/Kelly) + 5 m run + teaching strength class x2
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 42°/42°, Time: 29:57, Pace: 9:59 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: hood, Temp: 49°/53°, Time: 46:29, Pace: 9:17 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: angry
Strength: Two dumbbell, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay
Strength: Two dumbbell, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay
Tuesday | November 11, 2014: Strength in Numbers Virtual Half Marathon + 1 m run (w/Kelly)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 52°/44°, Time: 2:10:21, Pace: 9:57 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Wednesday | November 12, 2014: rest
Thursday | November 13, 2014: 7 m run
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 25°/25°, Time: 1:11:01, Pace: 10:08 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Friday | November 14, 2014: teaching strength class + 5 m run (w/Dawn)
Strength: Body bars, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good – got me out of a cranky start to the morning
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 24°/23°, Time: 50:42, Pace: 10:08, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | November 15, 2014: 22 m run (w/Rachel)
Loc: DPRT, Temp: 20°/31°, Time: 3:51:28, Pace: 10:31 avg, Difficulty: mostly easy, Felt: really good!
Sunday | November 16, 2014: 4.6 m run (w/Jen)
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 25°/27°, Time: 59:08, Pace: 12:52 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: fine
Notes:
- I remembered not to go all out teaching back-to-back strength classes on Monday (and it helped – no mid-week DOMS)!
- Saturday was the first long run in awhile where I didn’t feel delirious for the last 3-4 miles. WIN! I think the fueling strategy did it (AND, having awesome company the whole time!). I still ate something every 30 minutes (and took an electrolyte tab with it), but ate more honey stinger waffles than normal. So (just for my records), I would have a gu or clif gel at 00:30 and 1:00, then a waffle at 1:30, then repeat. I also opened my Vitamin Water earlier than half way through, to take sips. It’s crazy what a difference the “right” fueling strategy for me makes. Have you figured out your long run fueling strategy?
- Hmm, I wonder if this has been my highest weekly mileage of the year (just over 60)? I have a cut-back week next week, another peak week, then two weeks until the marathon. Hard to believe it’s four weeks from today! Training went FAST!
- Sunday was my first run on the season on snow. YAY! (although, as much as I love snow, I’d be okay with not doing my last two longer distance runs on it, hee hee)
I still don’t think I have it figured out yet, gulp!! I think I’m just gonna try to take in as much as I can, I normal don’t take enough. How do you find the electrolyte tablets, do they help much? I’m a very salty sweater and have contemplated getting some.
They seem to help me, but, it could all be in my head! LOL!
Dude, that’s a lot of miles. And here I am excited about most likely breaking 100 miles for the month for the first time since December of 2012. lol
I definitely haven’t figured out my fueling strategy. At what mileage do you incorporate fuel into your run? I typically don’t for anything under 10, and today I ran 11 without any… not even anything to drink. haha It was freezing cold and raining, so I don’t think I sweat a drop the whole time.
Breaking 100 is AWESOME-o!!!! I normally don’t run this many a week – just when I am marathon training with a pace goal 🙂
Hmm… generally if I am going to be running more than an hour and a half, I will bring fuel. And sometimes, I will bring a gel just in case for an 8 miler! I am impressed you could go 11 without! Even though it’s colder now, I am still getting thirsty about 7-8 miles in!
Glad you figured out your fuel – yes, it does make a huge difference if you get it right! Can’t believe you guys have snow already!
Hardly any snow compared to some of the other states though! 🙂
My fueling depends on the distance, still trying to figure it out fit those longer runs. Yeah I don’t know if I’d like my last two long runs to be on snow, but I guess we do what we have to right lol
I love the training photo collage. Great idea! I do not like all that snow though!!!