With my parents in town, I haven't found a moment to sit, reflect, and type. It's been fabulous having them here to visit AND help with the kids, I'm not sure I'll be ready for them to go on Suday. Two weeks just goes by way to quickly.
So..... last week was a triumphant 42 mile week that finished with a long, 20 mile run! Though the 7 x 800's at the track weren't as fast as I had hoped, at least the pace was fairly consistent. A 6 mile tempo run on Friday proved to be better, averaging between 7:44 - 8:05. The Wednesday morning run in the dark was awesome as usual, love wearing my dorky headlamp and jumping out of the way of "animals" otherwise known as piles of leaves or simply dark shadows on the trail. Sunday's 20 mile run proved to be the most difficult, most challenging, most exhausting run of the week. At least there were 5 of us suffering together, that certainly helped. I'm not sure there's any easy way of getting through a 2 hr 49 min run, it's just plain tough. The Garmin logged the 20 mile run as 2:49:18, 8:27 pace, and 1945 calories burned. :)
We're in the final countdown, just 5 weeks till race day, and based on how I felt after the 20 miler, I'm not so sure I'm ready to race 26.2. I'm definitely feeling under trained this time around, I just haven't been able to put in the number of miles necesarry to feel strong and secure.
I will continue to train, there just won't be enough time to really put in the proper training, and I'm okay with that. This week, 45 miles on tab.
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