Monday, February 15, 2010

Week 7 - Building mileage one week at a time

Another week over 110km feeling the mileage again this week. I'm waiting for the feeling of running easy. I'm sure it will come - won't it?

Monday 8th February: Easy recovery run. Legs feeling good. 7.3km


Tuesday 9th February: Morningside Hill circuit x 2. Took it easy on the hills (it's supposed to be an easy day). Legs feeling pretty good. 15.1km


Wednesday 10th February: Longboat club run. Ran at Exhibition place this week because of an afternoon snow fall. Ran 7km at 3:50/km just under anaerobic threshold. About 4km warm up and cool down. 15.4km


Thursday 11th February: Very easy run to High Park and back along the Martin Goodman trail. 16.4km


Friday 12th February: Morning Hill circuit x 3. Uphill bounding. Very hard workout. Felt ok during the workout but very tired afterward. 16.1km
Evening Easy running with club runners. Legs very heavy. 5km


Saturday 13th February: Easy recovery run. Legs still heavy from yesterdays workout. 11.1km


Sunday 14th February: morning cross training cross country skiing 1.5 hours.
Afternoon: Long run. Slow run on snow packed trail down Don Valley trail out to Leslie Spit and back along Lakeshore. Definitely feeling accumulated mileage. 30.7km


Week Total: 117.5km
Year to Date Total: 663km


The week started off well, but I ended it in an exhausted state. Two heavy mileage weeks may be taking their toll. One more to go and then a very welcome recovery week that will hopefully allow me to assimilate the training to date.

2 comments:

  1. I find that the feeling of easy running happens right after monkeys fly out of my butt.

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  2. I have to be honest, if you are this far along in your training with 15 weeks away from the race, I must tell you that 7:30 wont be a challenge. I am a step behind you but hoping to catch up very soon... What I am doing these days is almost comical compared to your workload. There are only so many hours in a day and at this point this is my biggest problem. hmmm.... No excuses though, time to go to work.. running that is.

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