Your Week in Training May 7 - 13

Day	miles	type
Mon	--
Tue	08	speed	63°F In downpour before dawn with 2 x 1km repeats @ 4:05 [6:35/Mile]
Wed	--
Thu	12	easy	65°F Including the International Peace Marathon 6.55 Mile circuit.
Fri	11	easy	62°F In steady rain.
Sat	07	pace	65°F Glorious morning ... no rain! ... yet ...
Sun	22	long	70°F Well, with a marathon in 2 weeks, I simply had to go long!*
Week	60
YTD	1,116

* No canned music could ever top the motivational impact from live call & response [Rwenge] of a military fitness group in the road. I circled back and joined them for a few steps. Exhilarating. I'll have to carry a digital recorder in future so that I can share the audio with you.

I hope everything is going well for you during your travels, Kevin.

M 7
T 6.5
W 7
R XT (30 day shred)
F 6
Sat XT (shred)
Sun 9.5

week 36
year 399.5 (yeah it's been a bad year)

Week 2 of base building, one more week and then I will start an 18 week program as well as I can for Half Moon Bay Marathon, (CA) Sept 23.

Mon-7 easy
Tues-off
Wed-aborted speed workout, ended up with 4 easy miles
Thur-10 hilly miles @ 7:57
Fri-off
Sat-5 recovery (then walked who knows how far thru the zoo)
Sun-14 miserable miles @ 8:10 or so; legs were shot from Thursday and the zoo apparently

Week-40

Got a little more ambitious this week.

Mon: 2.2 mile lunchtime walk
Tue: 2.1 mile lunchtime walk
Wed: 9.1 mile run on hilly trails
Thu: 4.3 mile barefoot run on dry asphalt
Fri: 4.9 mile low HR run
Sat: Rest
Sun: 8.25 mile low HR run

Week: 26.4 miles running (4.3 of them barefoot); 4.3 miles walking

Sun: .75 warmup + 13.2 pacing the OC half marathon. 1:58 and change, about 1 minute too fast. Fun though.
Tues: 5.4
Wed: 5.9
Thurs: 6.0
Sat: 10.1 on dirt trails

Week: 41.35 - 1st time over 40 in a while. Felt great.

Mon - 5 recovery
Tue - off
Wed - 8 w/ 8 strides
Thu - 9 w/ 3x1 mile @ 5k (ouch - found it hard)
Fri - 5 recovery
Sat - 6 recovery w/ 8 strides
Sun - 13

45 mpw

Still debating whether to run Midland next Sunday. Will wait til Wed to decide based on the weather forecast. I have never run marathons so close together - only 5 wks since Bos. My aim is to PR, but I never ran a run more than 13 miles since BOS, but have been averaging more than 40/wk. We shall see.

M-4mi recovery pace w/ strength training
Tu-8mi @8:15 pace
W-5mi recovery pace w/dog
Th-off
Fr-off lazy
Sa-6mi @7:45 pace
Su-12mi hill challenge @8:18 pace(850 ft elevation gain/loss)
35 mi wk 766 YTD

Mon- 6 total speedwork done as 6 x 400
Tues-off due to a surgical procedure
Wed-5 easy miles
Thur-12 miles - 1st 6 @ 8:55 pace; next 4 @ 8:40 pace and last 2 @ 8:30
Fri-4 recovery miles in Boston
Sat-6.3 miles around the Esplanade in Boston. Glorious morning
Sun- Day off, after all it was Mother's Day

Week-33.3 YTD - 795

The next three weeks will be interesting with graduation and then the subsequent move to Cleveland. We will see what I get in!

Week 1 of Recovery block

Mon: off
Tues: 4 easy
Wed: 6 easy
Thurs: 4 easy
Fri: 6 easy with some strides
Sat: Lake Geneva Half Marathon, 1:19, 1st place
Sun: 4 easy

Week: 40