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)?