7 miles today - easy with KZ next to me on the bike. I thought about a second run but I confess I was sore from yesterday and I realized I was just chasing miles at this point. Not for this day ... I was glad to see though that I was not the only one sore from yesterday's effort (based on some blogs I read)
Week was only four runs, Tues 6, Thurs 8, Sat 22, Sun 7 - so 43 on the week. My shortest week in quite a while. Not a surprise given the vacation in the mix.
The good news, of course, is I feel I made something of those runs with three of them being some form of quality or long.
That said, I am very glad to be getting back into my reality, my routine, and mix for the week.
October was weeks of 14 (not including Nov 1 2 on the end of the week), 56, 70, 76, 35 (not including Sept front of the week). 251 miles on the month.
I am actually surprised that it was 250 on the month. I have often felt that 250 was kind of a minimum month standard for me to pull off. This goes back to HS where there was a 750 mile summer running club. In short, you became a member if you could pull off 750 miles between June 1 and August 31. I never did it (I never really tried) but in part that is because I could not imagine doing nearly 8 miles a day at that point. Yeah, weak I know.
In any case, November is off to fair start (29 miles). I want to continue to drive the rhythm of 80-90 mile weeks, with structure built around three workouts of a long run, a harder tempo run, and a track workout. Still going to be focusing on the faster (for me) 5k right now. I'd like that to be by Thanksgiving but I will pursue it at this point for as long as it takes.
Good to see you're back (at it).
ReplyDeleteThat 4 peak 4 hour jaunt looks great, especially for a "super long run." Recover Monday and track work-out Tuesday. Got it?!
Correct. Not really highly varied when you think about it. Rather boring. But effective.
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