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Monday: 3 easy treadmill miles, weights at lunch
Tuesday: 4 treadmill miles, breakthrough day! On Tuesday I do a long-ish interval workout and I've been extending the time by a minute each week on the intervals. Last week I was at 3 x 8 minutes at 6.0, which I estimate to be my treadmill equivalent of a tempo run. This week as I closed in on 9 minutes, I knew that I was going to go for it and run 10 minute (1 miles) intervals. Final analysis: 1 mile warm up, 2 x 10 minutes/3 minute recover and then a final 5 minutes fast to get to an even 4 miles.
Wednesday: off
Thursday: 4 treadmill miles, 1 mile warmup, 3 minutes fast (6.5), 2-3 minutes recover.
Friday: 3 treadmill hill miles, and like last week, the end of my no-break streak on the treadmill. At 2.1 miles, I just needed a moment to get my head right. My hills aren't very intense (alternate one minute at 3% & 6% every quarter mile a.k.a first quarter mile 1 minute at 3% and 2nd quarter mile 1 minute at 6%, etc) but psychologically they are really tough for me.
Saturday: 6 treadmill miles. Ideally I would run outside on weekends, but it was just a tad too cold to get my head around going outside. Or I just really wanted to see the final episode of season 2 of Line of Duty, the show I raved about last week.
By the end of the first mile, I went from being the biggest fan of treadmill running to being sick to death of it. I didn't even try to do the run without breaks, I took my first after 2 miles and liked it so much that I took 2 more. All I can say about this run is it got done.
Sunday: is normally a rest day, but I have a race on Tuesday so I'll be taking Monday off. I went outside for 3 miles and it was absolutely the worst run I've had in months.
Between you and me: I'm secretly delighted that yesterday and today's runs were so tough, that's a good omen for Tuesday's race.
Anyone else feel like if they run badly on race week that it's a good sign and if they run well on race week it's a bad sign?
I've had that happen...a few bad (aka-challenging) runs, then BOOM! A great race (or excellent training run). Fingers crossed, that is what Fate has planned for you on Tuesday :-) Good luck! And, have a great Christmas!!
ReplyDeleteGreat job on your treadmill runs! Sorry for the sucky runs but I do hope you have a great race on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree! Get those bad runs out of the way and enjoy a phenomenal race!
ReplyDeleteI hate the treadmill, so I don't know how you do it, but great job getting it done <3
That’s pretty good news that 4 of the 6 runs were good :). Good luck with the race this week!
ReplyDeleteSeems like lately I've had some bad long runs for marathon training... and I feel they were indicators of how my race was going to go! haha! I hope yours was not and you had a great race. Merry Christmas!!
ReplyDeleteI often have not so stellar runs leading up to a race day. Sometimes I think it's nerves sometimes over training. Hope you had a great race! Looking forward to hearing about it
ReplyDeleteI try to convince my self that a bad run gets that out of the way for race day, but it still stresses me out. I hope it went well for you!
ReplyDeleteI cannot run on the treadmill. It has to be really bad out for several days in a row to get me on it. I have never had a good run on it!.
ReplyDeleteSo kudos to you for running and staying sane.