Well here we are again at the end of another training week or the start of another. Depends on which direction you're looking. Another high mileage week completed. 53k this week. I was looking back out my training schedule for the 2011 Bluenose and at this point last year, my weekly mileage was 28k. I'm either way ahead of the game or I was sadly undertraining last year. Looking back, I think I know which one it was but hindsight is 20/20.
On Tuesday, Stacey and I ran 10k together, she set a PB of just over 58 minutes due to my expert coaching and guidance. lol I ran an extra kilometer to cover my mileage. Should i have been running that fast on what's supposed to be an easy run, nope. It was cold that night and I wanted to get home quick, lets just stick with that story.
Thursday looked to be a wet/rainy run during the afternoon but I was fortunate enough to get a break in the bad conditions long enough to get my 12k run in the books. It was a weird run for me, my heart rate monitor didn't boot up right because it was giving odd readings for my whole run. I also made the mistake of loading a program and trying to have it guide me to a specific pace. I think i spent more time watching my monitor than just working on my running and breathing. I lost focus.
Friday, I took advantage of another day off from work to get my 5k and 6 strides in. Again, I did this in my minimalist shoes. Its a good thing because we had more bad weather on the Saturday. That's 3 weeks in a row that Saturday has either rained or snowed or ice pelleted or sleeted out. Is sleeted a word?
Sunday was another long run, like they all are now. This time the distance was to be 25k. To prepare for the Bluenose Marathon, I decided to go into Halifax/Dartmouth and do my run on this years' route. It was partly sunny but very windy, which at times helped and, at others, hurt my pace. It was so windy that the MacDonald Bridge was actually rocking a bit. When I was running on the center span, I didn't quite feel right. It was like my feet weren't coming down where they were supposed to. I got slightly "lost" in Shubie Park and wound up cutting about 1km off my run. During this unexpected shortcut, I had unknowingly run into the "dogs off leash" area of the park. Fortunately, the myriad of dogs there were more interested in sniffing each others' butts than to chase me! The last thing I wanted was an unplanned spike in pace at that point of the run. Stacey met me on my way back across the MacDonald bridge and finished the final 6k of my run with me. I threw a little extra in the run at the end to try to make up for the "shortcut" but still finished my 25k at 24.3k. Close enough for me. I burned close to 1500 calories in the 2:36 run. My music of choice was The Fray and Tears for Fears Greatest Hits.
This week is yet another mileage high, 57k with my longest run of 27k next Sunday. This time I'll run the 2nd half of the marathon route and add an extra 6k, which Stacey will probably join me for.
onward and upward
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