This concludes my first week of cross country training. It honestly didn’t change a lot from my typical training but it was just more monitored. This week was somewhat an awkward week for me. I had my internship everyday from 8:30-4:30. Meaning if I wanted to run-I was up and out the door by 6am.
I spent most of the week also recovering from my half marathon last weekend. All my runs except Wednesday’s tempo run were easy miles. Running on hills is not easy around here but I tried to really cut the pace and just relax to make it easier.
| Monday: | AM: Recovery (from my half) 11.5 miles easy. |
| PM: p90x Arms and Shoulders+Abs | |
| Tuesday: | AM: 8.6 mile easy recovery |
| PM: 5 miles easy recovery | |
| Wednesday: | AM: 8.6 Miles Easy with a few striders |
| PM: 5 Mile tempo at 6:57 pace This tempo (though a lot slower then my flat ground tempos) was a very proud run for me and gave me some confidence which I desperately needed |
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| Thursday | AM: 8.6 Miles Easy with a few striders |
| PM: 5 mile Recovery | |
| Friday: | AM 9 mile easy with Striders |
| Saturday: | FIRST CROSS COUNTRY RACE! (20:01) |
| Warmup/cooldown/shakeout 10m | |
| Sunday | Long Run |
Total: 90 miles
First, this was a productive training week for me. I did extremely well in my cross country race and ended up being 2nd overall. (more to come later this week).
Did I make my goal from last week of doing more lifting and core? Well, technically I did more lifting as I lifted once.
Question for you:
How were your workouts this week?
What is something you are working on for next week (fitness or not)?
You are amazing! I wish I could run that much, lady! Ugh, reading it makes me wish I didn’t get three surgeries on my knee. Oof. Oh well. Haha! You must be eating some serious pancakes to fuel for these runs! I’d probably eat my arm off!
I love how you kicked so much ass in your first race. It’s amazing how a solid tempo run can make you feel so ready to compete. And the fact that you did that on 90 miles in a week – that is so sick. I can’t wait to see how this season turns out for you because I know it’s gonna be amazing!
Great work this week!
I love how fast I know you were going in those pics yet you still look so relaxed and strong. I keep forgetting how incredible your half PR is and that you probably WERE relaxed where as I would be a sweaty mess at that point!
You’re already so well advanced in your training that your ‘week 1’ looks like the peak weeks in most of my training cycles. It’s great seeing you go from strength to strength as a runner 🙂
I’m just trying to tick over for a fortnight and not embarrass myself at my next half (injury-pending) I probably won’t make up my mind about it for sure until the night before (!)
xxx
Wow, second overall?! That’s amazing Hollz! Great mileage too. 🙂 I had intense rugby workouts all week. So, it was a good week for me!
OMG first I want to say I WANT THOSE SHORTS! WOOOW… jealous I really do want some… where oh where did you get them? Now moving on from envious-ness of the awesome shorts hehe… BIG CONGRATS… that is fantastical… and gosh to back it up after a half, I remember it took me 3 weeks to recover after mine, although that was my first one… Hope you have an awesome week! 🙂
I can’t believe you ran a 20:01 cross country 5k on a 90 mile week! Congrats!!