I realize it's already Monday and I haven't even posted from last weeks running yet! Since last week was my 41st birthday, I wanted to make it a 41 mile running week in celebration. I backed down to just 4 days of running in order to have more days off, but that meant more intense running days. Monday was an easy 4 miles of hills, Tues off with an hour of Active Edge and pushing from Meredith (love it though!), Wed was 10 miles of hills with Edie joining me for the first 6 (thanks!). Thurs I canned the track workout and took the day off. Friday was a pace 5 mile run, Sat. off, and Sunday......well Sunday was a crazy day of 22 miles!
Sunday began with a jog to the ATT from Kara's house (along with 4 others) and down 11 miles. On the return back, the skies opened, the thunder cracked, and the lightening flashed all around. Yeah, there aren't too many places to go for protection when you're surrounded by tall trees so we just kept running and hoped we wouldn't get zapped. I'm utterly grateful to Kara, a much faster runner than I, for keeping me company, pushing me physically, encouraging me, constantly coming back for me, and for getting me back to the car some 3 hrs later! Even though this run was physically tough, it was still more successful than I thought it'd be. 8:26 pace for 22 mi, that's completely pushing it for me! That was the longest run of this training cycle, the worst is now behind! The taper is about to begin!
I'm enjoying today's "off" run day....it's a cold, blistery Monday anyway. :)
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