Thankfully, we have an extremely prescriptive training program to follow. For the uninitiated, here's what it looked like this past week....Monday: Six mile tempo run, which included a one mile "warm up" at an easy pace, four miles at a "pushing it a bit" pace, and then a one mile "warm down" at the initial easy pace.
Tuesday: Cross training. Basically, any exercise but running. Joy hit the elliptical trainer. Ross did some core/balance work. Both of us foam rolled our achy muscles.
Wednesday: Four miles, "easy" pace.
Thursday: Four miles of speed work—best accomplished on a "dread" mill. One mile "warm up" followed by four 800 meter speedy-ish runs with a three-minute break after each blast and then a one mile "warm down."
Friday: Our favorite day of the week. REST DAY.
Saturday: Well, our long runs have moved up an hour—from 7 a.m. to 6 a.m. This means a 4:30 wake-up so we can have something to eat and time to digest it. And then a 13 mile run.
Total for the week? 27 miles. Just a bit less than what we'll run in one day on October 7th.
And, since you're probably not keeping score at home, on Saturday we ran 10% of our total training mileage up 'til now.
That's right: 130 miles. In seven weeks.
Thankfully, this week is a recovery week. Shorter mileage. Hopefully more sleep. A lot more rest, relatively speaking. We still have a 21 mile week, so it's not as if we'll be loafing, exactly. Though this is certainly on the to-do list.
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