Your Week in Training June 13 - 19

KBFitz wrote:Post count can stay. The difficulty arises when simply agreeing or high-fiving, as it were, results in a new post notification. It shouldn't and I think it may be easy to fix.

I agree with you.

Thread moved to the running forum. Kevin, its your thread to run with each week. If there are any other ways you'd like to add to or change the weekly thread, go for it!

I'll talk with Matt about slightly changing the forum name.

Back to our regularly scheduled program...

CHicago training

Mon - 6.8 miles easy/recovery pace (9:40 avg) plus hill sprints
Tue - 9.5 miles light progression (8:36, 8:12, 8:32, 8:22, 8:21, 8:24, 8:19, 8:00, 8:00, 9:00) (it was tough to hit consistent paces as I was in Long Island running on an unfamiliar route and dodging vehicles)
Wed - 10 miles easy pace (9:00 avg)
Thu - 7 miles easy (8:46 avg) plus hill sprints
Fri - aerobic test - 3 miles warm up (8:55 avg), then four miles hard effort (7:18, 7:24, 7:09, 7:12) (I did these four miles at a track), then 2 miles cool down (8:53 avg).
Sat - 13 mile long run, pretty ugly running it at 1:00 PM when it was in the upper 80s.

Week: 55 miles

Mon: 14 mile mtb
Tue: 5 mile run + 1000yd swim + 30 mile ride
Wed: 5 mile run + 1000yd swim
Thu: 1900yd swim + 33 mile ride
Fri: 3000yd swim
Sat: 20 mile run
Sun: 20 mile mtb

Running: 30
Cycling: 100
Swimming: 6900

T Miller wrote:Mon: 14 mile mtb

Sun: 20 mile mtb

Running: 30
Cycling: 100
Swimming: 6900

Tim, or anyone, what does mtb mean?

Dave Wolfe wrote:

T Miller wrote:Mon: 14 mile mtb

Sun: 20 mile mtb

Running: 30
Cycling: 100
Swimming: 6900

Tim, or anyone, what does mtb mean?

Mountain Bike?

I posted my training from last week in RWOL and since I"m a shameless self-promoter I thought I'd let the gang here see just how mentally disturbed I truly am.

Here was my week last week. I'll preface this by
saying this was not done on a whim and was done for no particular reason
other than I wanted to try it and see if my body could handle the
miles.

Sun 14 miles, 1 on the track @ 6:17 and 13 more late @ 7:57
Mon Run to work and run home week. 13.5 miles each way. 13.5 in the am @ 7:26 & 13.5 in pm @ 7:42
Tue 13.5 am @ 7:48, 13.5 pm @ 7:53
Wed 13.5 am @ 7:41, 13.5 pm @ 7:29
Thurs 13.5 am @ 7:35, 13.5 pm @ 7:43
Fri 13.5 am @ 7:24, 13.5 pm @ 7:56
Sat 12 @ 7:34
Total Miles = 161

Not
training for anything in particular, but had been contemplating trying
the run to work and run home thing for awhile. Decided this was a good
time to give it a go since I have no major races on the horizon. Legs
are sore and tired, but not as bad as I imagined they would be. One of
the most difficult aspects of this was eating and drinking enough
between runs. I'm only down 5lbs through the week, so I think I did a
decent job of keeping up w/ the calories.

Don S wrote:I posted my training from last week in RWOL and since I"m a shameless self-promoter I thought I'd let the gang here see just how mentally disturbed I truly am.

Here was my week last week. I'll preface this by
saying this was not done on a whim and was done for no particular reason
other than I wanted to try it and see if my body could handle the
miles.

Sun 14 miles, 1 on the track @ 6:17 and 13 more late @ 7:57
Mon Run to work and run home week. 13.5 miles each way. 13.5 in the am @ 7:26 & 13.5 in pm @ 7:42
Tue 13.5 am @ 7:48, 13.5 pm @ 7:53
Wed 13.5 am @ 7:41, 13.5 pm @ 7:29
Thurs 13.5 am @ 7:35, 13.5 pm @ 7:43
Fri 13.5 am @ 7:24, 13.5 pm @ 7:56
Sat 12 @ 7:34
Total Miles = 161

Not
training for anything in particular, but had been contemplating trying
the run to work and run home thing for awhile. Decided this was a good
time to give it a go since I have no major races on the horizon. Legs
are sore and tired, but not as bad as I imagined they would be. One of
the most difficult aspects of this was eating and drinking enough
between runs. I'm only down 5lbs through the week, so I think I did a
decent job of keeping up w/ the calories.

Holy cow! Nice job...I like the reasoning behind why you ran that many miles.

Mrs. Schuey wrote:
Holy cow! Nice job...I like the reasoning behind why you ran that many miles.

HA, I'll never be invited to any Mensa meetings that's for sure.

Don S wrote:I posted my training from last week in RWOL and since I"m a shameless self-promoter I thought I'd let the gang here see just how mentally disturbed I truly am.

Here was my week last week. I'll preface this by
saying this was not done on a whim and was done for no particular reason
other than I wanted to try it and see if my body could handle the
miles.

Sun 14 miles, 1 on the track @ 6:17 and 13 more late @ 7:57
Mon Run to work and run home week. 13.5 miles each way. 13.5 in the am @ 7:26 & 13.5 in pm @ 7:42
Tue 13.5 am @ 7:48, 13.5 pm @ 7:53
Wed 13.5 am @ 7:41, 13.5 pm @ 7:29
Thurs 13.5 am @ 7:35, 13.5 pm @ 7:43
Fri 13.5 am @ 7:24, 13.5 pm @ 7:56
Sat 12 @ 7:34
Total Miles = 161

Not
training for anything in particular, but had been contemplating trying
the run to work and run home thing for awhile. Decided this was a good
time to give it a go since I have no major races on the horizon. Legs
are sore and tired, but not as bad as I imagined they would be. One of
the most difficult aspects of this was eating and drinking enough
between runs. I'm only down 5lbs through the week, so I think I did a
decent job of keeping up w/ the calories.

I used to run to work back in the mid 1980s - but it was only 7.5 miles. You are seriously disturbed, Don - so you had better stick around.

Michele "1L" Keane wrote:

I used to run to work back in the mid 1980s - but it was only 7.5 miles. You are seriously disturbed, Don - so you had better stick around.

Yeah, he'll totally fit right in with the rest of us nut jobs!

mul21 wrote:

Michele "1L" Keane wrote:

I used to run to work back in the mid 1980s - but it was only 7.5 miles. You are seriously disturbed, Don - so you had better stick around.

Yeah, he'll totally fit right in with the rest of us nut jobs!

Ha!, thanks I'll definitely stick around. I plan on doing that again in the first week of August and throwing in a couple of days where I run a few miles at lunch. That will have a purpose as I train for the Ragnar Relay Great River race. I'm on an ultra team that won the division last year (8th overall) and we plan on improving our time and defending the title this year.

Oh, and I guess I should admit that I actually had fun running all those miles last week. Proof positive that I am truly disturbed.

M-3.18mi@ 7:34 pace
Tu-5.23mi@ 8:01 pace
W-elliptical-35min (3.09mi)
Th- rest
Fr-5.02mi@ 7:49 ave pace
Sa-11.11mi@ 7:40 pace
Su- 23 mi. bike ride easy-medium intensity
week-25mi & 2 days cross train
YTD-770 mi
2nd week Chicago Marathon training cycle.