I have one more week left for a lot of different things...paper deadline, spring semester and most importantly (but don't tell my advisor) one more week until taper time. I have mentioned it before, but my current training cycle is much more intense than I have ever done before. I am amazed at how invincible I feel, but at the same time I am tired. For my final week I have 70 miles planned and combined with everything else I have to accomplish it is going to be a long and exhausting week. I never thought I would say this but I am actually looking forward to a break in two weeks of ONLY running 55 miles

This week was very successful. After last weekends run I was feeling pretty unstoppable, and it continued into my Tuesday interval session. Well maybe not intervals in the strict sense...more like tempo intervals. I ran 2x 5k and my goal was 6:25 pace. I managed to run them at 6:22 and 6:17, which felt great but I paid the price the rest of the week. I didn't really recover until Saturday, but all I really missed was one quality workout on Thursday (I ran 15, but at an easy pace instead). This weekend I did back to back 15 milers and it was tough! During the second one I ran 8 miles at MGP, but I don't really know what my goal is. A BQ is what I am shooting for at SD, but I really think that I can go much faster than 3:10. Right now I am thinking A goal is 3:05 and B goal is 3:10. Anyway I ran my MGP at 7:00/mile today, which is 3:03. I think that might be too quick right now. I have another MGP run next week and I think I might try half at 7:12 and half at 7:04 to see how each feel.

Well I guess I will leave it at that for this week...time to get started on that paper due next week!!

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