50!

First week at 50 since 2004!!
Saturday: 15 miles at around 7:20 pace in the rain - quads were wiped starting at about 10 miles and not surprisingly, I'm really sore today (Sunday). Not sure if my body was tired from this big week of training or if it was partially a poor fueling situation.
Sunday: 6 miles with Heather on River Road

Next week I am supposed to start Phase II of the Daniels plan, which means bumping up the mileage again and inserting a workout during the week. I'm really hopeful that I will be able to do both of those things despite being at nationals starting on Tuesday. In order to get in my 58 miles, I'm going to try to run twice a day two times this week, rather than adding miles each day.

oops

my legs felt awful today, which seemed a bit out of proportion to the "workout" i did yesterday until i remembered that my run on wednesday was also a workout. granted, yesterday was a late evening run and wednesday was an early early morning run, but still... that's a lot more workouts than i am used to doing!
thursday: 7 fast miles - ~7:20 pace
friday: 4 slow, tired miles

staying on top of things

monday: easy 6 - legs felt kind of tired from the sunday run, but not too bad. generally, they felt good, but my quads were fatigued on the hills. need to do more strength work!
tuesday: easy 6 - slightly better than monday; felt a little rushed and also a bit like i was holding back because i wanted to feel good wed
wednesday: 6 miles total - 2x10 minutes of thresholdy pace. i was running with alison smyth at 6:15 AM, which was early, but i felt surprisingly good. it's the first workout she has done post-10k/5k double at conference, so i think her legs were a little tired. i have no idea what pace we were actually running, but she usually does these anywhere from 6:20 on a great day to 6:35 on a bad day. i'm guessing this was on the slower end at first and a bit faster on the second one. i need to get a gps watch...

long overdue

well, the past couple of weeks haven't been so great, but i'm back on track and raring to go, so hopefully this next week will be better.

week of may 2-8 - at this point, i don't remember too much but the mileage
Monday and Tuesday - OFF - i had taken sat, sun off as well...think i just needed a mental break, but it was also a little bit of a mental slip. i have to be better about nipping those in the bud before i've suddently taken half a week off
wednesday - 6 miles with 8x cemetary hill. reps were all around 90-92, except for #4 when i lost concentration in the face of a big wind gust and ran a 95, and the last two where i picked it up and ran 85s - very good workout. glutes were fatigued from the beginning, which is a good sign that i need to be doing more hills.
thursday - 7
friday - 7
saturday - 6
sunday - off...no long run... bad move
overall - 26 miles in 4 days

week of may 9-15
monday - easy 6. legs felt a little heavy after the day off
tuesday - 4 awful, awful miles. i can only attribute it to the heat, as this was our first hot, humid day in a long time. i hoped to go 7, cut it short to 5 and then cut it short to 4.
wednesday - 6. moderately better than the day before, but still felt crappy. not quite as hot or humid that day.
thursday - off. missed my chance getting ready for team dinner and didn't get out the door
friday - 6 easy
saturday - off.
sunday - 14 awesome miles. did 7 easy with karen campbell and then came home, went to the bathroom, took a gel and some water and then headed back out for the second 7. the first 7, my legs felt heavy and tired from standing at the conference meet for 2 days. the second 7 they felt better and i felt like i was going a little harder, but the pace ended up being exactly the same (same location) for both runs. pretty quick pace - 7:17. taking the gel was no problem, though it was a little hard to sort out the effects of the pizza for dinner the night before and the gel taken between runs. :)
overall - 36 miles in 5 days

this upcoming week will either be the last week of my mileage buildup without workouts or it will be the first week of phase 2 of the jack daniels marathon plan (phase 1 was the buildup). the only difference is one workout, so i'll probably try to get that in this week if i can... otherwise i'll try to get in a hill workout again. the mileage goal this week is 50, which i really need to hit because next week is supposed to be 58 and i don't want to make that big of a jump, even if i am running 7 days a week instead of 4 or 5 like the last couple of weeks.

almost 7...

just shy of 7 mi. @ pretty quick (but not tooooo fast)...

hip flexor felt better, but i did my best to avoid too many hills.

easy peasy...

6 mi. easy - legs were tired, hip flexor acting up...

icing, stretching, abs are the solutions... if only i did those things more...

old week / lull / new week...

ok, so last week ended kind of feebly, and yesterday was the same...

last week was 40 mi. in 5 days.

this week:
m - off...
t - long run!  11.5 mi. pretty quickly - hip flexor was very sore afterwards though... 

more running + more icing = faster + healtier (i hope)

not so big week

i wimped out. i didn't feel so hot yesterday and just didn't feel motivated to do my long run, so i put it off until today. no run yesterday or saturday = 32.5 miles in 5 days.
i told myself that i'd do the long run today, which i'm still hoping to do.