Hello! Happy weekend! Happy Memorial Day! Happy happy blog reading time. How are you doing? I’m over here recapping my marathon training for the week. It’s still at the beginning of the plan so I have a long way to go. So far, so good okay.
Sunday – Strength training at home.
Monday – 8 miles and 4 (20 second) strides at the end
Tuesday – 6 miles easy pace
Wednesday – Tempo 6 miles total – 1 warm up, 5 at tempo pace. Skipped 1 mile cool down and walked.
Notes: Not as strong or fast as last week. I need to pay attention to rest and fueling.
Thursday – Rest from running. Crossing training (strength).
Friday – 8 miles plus 3 strides at end.
Saturday – 11 miles LSR (long slow run)
What I learned this week: I need to put down my workouts and notes right after I’m done. I couldn’t remember what I did or how I felt for certain days. I know I didn’t feel as good with this week’s tempo run, but I can’t note why because I didn’t really stop and assess that day. Also, I need to check my running watch and see how to change the options to see my mile pace breakdowns at the end. Right now I can’t check what I did for each mile which is another reason why I can’t break down my tempo run.
My green smoothie is as big as Vegas!
See you later!!
One thing I learned really quickly in following a training plan was to write it all day or highlight it as I went. It felt even more amazing when I was done to look back at all I accomplished!
You’re so right. It really helps to write down how your workouts go, especially with any sort of speed work. You forget the details so easily, but it’s so important to be able to compare week over week. Congrats on getting another week of training done 🙂
Congrats on another week of training down!! Hope you have a great Memorial Day!
Do tempo runs ever feel good? 🙂
Last week it felt really good actually! I think I might have been better rested and maybe fueled better. But I got a great runner’s high from it too.