My body is finally ready to get in quality miles.
| Monday: | Outdoors: 12.25 miles (7:59 pace) | Nike training club Arms and core |
| Tuesday: | Treadmill: 11.2 recovery, easy | |
| Wednesday: | Treadmill: 11.2 (8:28 pace) | Nike training club shoulders and abs |
| Thursday: | AM: 11.2 miles tempo (7:51 pace) | P90x Abs |
| PM: 6 miles easy recovery | ||
| Friday: | Rest and travel | |
| Saturday: | 10 miles easy (8:45 pace) | Nike training club core |
| Sunday: | Virginia is For Lovers 14k | |
| Total: | 80 or so miles |
Thoughts:
This week brought another great week for me. It’s hard to believe I’ve gone three weeks in a row with solid training. As I continue to build my base (this is the highest mileage I’ll go), I’ve decided to add a tempo run. When I was training for my first marathon I let go of speed workouts and opted for high mileage versus pace. Now I’m running fewer miles and hoping to keep 1 tempo run (roughly 10k or so.
I posted on Thursday that my goal this training cycle was to keep my paces where they needed to be. I was going to stop running 9 minute miles. I successfully did that this week. I have been recovering well and feeling strong about it.
Monday I had a surprisingly great run. I felt good and was able to have a progressive run starting around 8:40 miles and ending around 7 min miles. After my long (and faster) run on Saturday I was surprised with how good I felt two days later. I am normally sore two days after a hard run.
Tuesday and Wednesday I opted to stay smart and safe on the treadmill. (It was icy) I made sure to stay in my 8-8:45 range but not push the envelope. Some people can run on the ice or in the snow but I am not one of those people. I will probably slip and fall and injure myself.
Thursday I did my first tempo run. I had contemplated what time to actually run faster. I knew I was going to do a 90 minute run and also a 45-55 minute tempo. Would I warm up in the morning and do a tempo or run solid miles in the morning and do a tempo in the PM? I ended up deciding to do a tempo in AM because that is really when races are. I ran for 34 minutes at 6.7 pace and then did a 55 minute progressive run (averaging 7:24). I felt pretty good during the entire run. I came back and did a shakeout run in the PM.
Friday, I took off and Saturday was an easy run with Tim. (Nothing of excitement).
Today is my first of many races in 2014 that I consider to be important. I am hoping to get a good feel for how I am racing and where my endurance is at. It’s hard to tell when you are training and I have been second guessing myself for a while with pace. For this 14k I am hoping to get a solid baseline so I can make a concrete goal for a Spring Half Marathon.
Next week plans:
Next week brings the Lake Effect Half Marathon. I’m very excited for this race! First I am excited for all of these stories I’ll be sharing daily next week. I’m also excited for the giveaway for tomorrow from companies that have wanted to get involved.
As far as actual training goes, I hope to maintain my training with a tempo run and see how Lake Effect goes. I honestly have no idea what sort of half marathon shape I’m in (I have not raced a half marathon since September in the Texas heat). I would like to hope I could break 1:30 but I’m not sure I have that much turnover in my legs right now.
Questions for you:
What races are you looking forward too?
What was your favorite workout this week?
Great week! I’m looking forward to a half I’m doing at the end of May and I’m currently searching for one for August-ish so I’m getting excited for whatever that one will be. I was out for a lot of the week so I guess my favorite was yesterday’s 6 but I think today will surpass it…love running in sunshine and (relative) warmth!
August is so hot for a half marathon. That’s is awesome though and I hope you are able to find one! 🙂 I know VA Beach has RnR half!
Awesome job running! It’s really cool how people who are already good at running can still change so much up with training. When you’re not running at all, you just kind of feel like everybody must just get out there and run but there really is a lot that goes into getting better at it! It’s SO NICE down here today! Maybe the nice weather will head up your way and you’ll have no more snow! Good luck on your race today!
Sounds like you had a great week and best of luck to you today at Virginia is For Lovers!!!
Thank you Kristin!
I’m looking forward to Lake Effect! 😉
Sounds like your training is going really well! I have the same fear of slipping on ice so I stick to the treadmill when it’s icy out, too. Not being able to run because I slipped and fell is not my idea of fun. I’m looking forward to my first race of this year (a half in May) and possibly a marathon in the fall, if I can talk myself into doing it. 🙂
Great job in the race today and good luck next week! I don’t have any races planned as I’m still coming back from injury, though I did “run” for the first time in over a month today. Yay.
Great week of running Hollie!
Great week!!!
I am looking forward to the princess half this weekend. My training has been “meh” so I don’t have any expectations. I just want to go and have fun.
My favorite workout this week was my 1.5 mile run in the snow/ice.
SO excited for Lake Effect. Glad you’re getting some strong training weeks in! It always feels nice to be back at it. Can’t wait to see you crush some races this spring!
great job getting your miles in and back to the speed you want!!! imagine how awesome you will be in just a few more weeks!
Add me to the Lake Effect Race crew! Looks like it could be a fast race with the 40F temps.
Sweet mileage Hollie!! The race I’m looking forward to most is this upcoming Saturday’s gasparilla distance classic. But my target race really are still aways out. This is race to get myself back into racing and compete with myself after a year away. No exciting runs this past week unfortunately I had to cut yesterday’s long run short due to a knee to my quad while playing soccer Saturday.
Dang girl, look at you go! 80 miles? That’s amazing! I’m happy to hear that your mileage is going great. You’re kickin’ booty!
I love seeing you have another awesome week of training. I also am incredibly proud of you for trying new things with training, I think you are going to be even more awesome this year. I absolutely cannot wait until this weekend, like seriously!
I CANNOT WAIT to see how much butt you kick this weekend. You’ve done the training and logged the miles–you will do great!