Highlight of the Week: Running 50 miles for the week!
Monday | May 11, 2020: rest
Tuesday | May 12, 2020: 10 m run (incl. 4×800) + strength
Run location: to VP Woods and back, Temp: 36°/42°, Time: 1:52:45, Pace: 11:16 avg, Difficulty: mostly easy, Felt: fine, sore glutes
Wednesday | May 13, 2020: 10 m run
Run location: Pine Dunes Lolli, Temp: 43°/45°, Time: 1:56:48, Pace: 11:41 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: stiff, then better after mile 3 when I warmed up
Thursday | May 14, 2020: 13 min walk + strength + 2 m walk
Friday | May 15, 2020: 19 m run
Run location: Kilbourne/DPRT Loop w/Pine Dunes, Temp: 59°/66°, Time: 3:59:03, Pace: 12:35, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: fine
Saturday | May 16 2020: 7.2 m run
Run location: VP Woods Loop, Temp: 54°/55°, Time: 1:21:39, Pace: 11:20 avg, Difficulty:easy, Felt: great! strong!
Sunday | May 17, 2020: 4 m run
Run location: hood, Temp: 51°/51°, Time: 45:23, Pace: 11:20 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: bored, running in the rain on my street
Notes:
- I try to be cautious of the amount of time spent doing speedwork and only increase it a minute or two each week. So if I ran 12×1:00 last week (12 minutes), I should run 13-14 minutes of speedwork this week. Well, I ran 17+ minutes of speedwork on Tuesday and it was a bit too much! It probably didn’t help that it was in the middle of a ten mile run. Ha. I wanted to see if a longer warm-up would help with doing speedwork first thing in the morning. (It kind of did?)
- I decided to do my longest run on Friday since I had a Zoom date close to the time I’d normally do it Sunday. It started raining in the beginning of my run and the rain felt good. Then the rain stopped, and I was soaked, and the air was still full of water, and no breeze could dry me. I had wrinkly bathtub hands (and probably feet!) and my nail polish was starting to peel off. Ha! There was a lot of stopping and going, but I finished it!
- I wanted to see if I could run 50 miles this week, and I did it! I felt good, but gosh, fitting in 50 miles over five days of running instead of six requires a lot of double digit runs. I enjoy them, I am just slower than I used to be, so they take a lot of time (which I have!). I’d like to try going back to six days a week of running after losing a bit of weight, so maybe in a few months. (Ha, in a few months, I will be cutting back on running because it will be so nasty hot and humid.)
