Mon- 75 min easy
Tue- 20 min wu/5 min cd 10x1200m, (400m jog rec ) ave. 4:27
Wed- 90 min easy
Thu- rest day
Fri- 20 min wu&cd 15x400m ( 100m jog rec ) ave. 80 sec
Sat- 75 min easy
Sun- 90 min, fast finish last 10 min.

About 63 miles total, my best week of training in quite a while.

As I mentioned in another thread, I focused on the JFK50 and then spent a couple weeks injured - just "coming back" now - and MAYBE I'll be running

==> PHOENIX ROCK 'N' ROLL 14 JAN WITH A GOAL OF 3:20:59! <==

I'm already registered for it, but it depends on how training goes the next few weeks...

I'm doing what may be one of the dumbest things possible - coming off a torn calf muscle with 2 1/2 weeks healing - and jumping into Pfitz 12/55 at week #5.

Go ahead and tell me not to do that, but I'm one of those hard-headed guys that has to learn this stuff the hard way!

Actually, I've got quite a good base down from the last few months and performed VERY well at the JFK50, so 26.2 looks like a "short race" now! I just have to cross my fingers that my injury is recovered enough to take the training and the race.

So, this week looked like:
Wed - 6 miles ramping up/down to MP (7:30)
Thurs - 12 miles easy (8:30)
Fri - Off
Sat - 5 miles recovery (9:30)
Sun - 20 miles long (5 * 9:00, 10 * 8:40, 5 * 8:15)

Actually, today's 20-miler was the REAL test and it went very well - the best I've every felt at the end of a 20 mile training run - although I did feel a slight tightness in my right calf starting about mile 16 - stopped three times to stretch it out in the last four miles.

During my prior marathon training I had a pattern of "every other LSD went well and the ones in between SUCKED" - so I'm very happy that I've got such a base down now that this one was pretty easy.

That's the news gang - glad I checked this thread because I didn't know where a mid-January Marathon would fit in our thread system - considering that Winter technically starts less than a month before this race!

kestrou

Mon- 5@7:39
Tue- 5@8:03
Wed- 5@7:49
Thu- 5@7:42
Fri- Off
Sat- 25@8:53 (trails) 50 mile race DNF 2 years in a row, turns and downhills tore me up. May not be cut out for trail running but can appreciate those that do.
Sun- Off

I appreciate you guys maintaining this thread and being part of it. Thanks!

DP
BIG SUR 29 APRIL 2007

Nice race joplus!! It can really suck to run alone. I'm glad the workout went better this week!

runninlaw-I used to get side-stitches all the time. I haven't had one in a few months now. However, after not having one for over a month I started to notice it felt like I had one all of the time. It hurt when I slept on my right side especially. It got progressively worse over a week or so and I ultimately ended up in the ER it hurt so bad. Turned out I had pleurisy!! The moral of the story is that you should see a doctor if it doesn't go away. As for the stitches, I only feel like I'm on the verge of one every once in a while if I'm stressed out. Otherwise I think it was just a matter of being in better shape now so I don't really get them anymore. I hope yours was just an isolated incident!

Anyway here's my week:

Su - 16 easy miles around the hood. Nice rolling hills. I took it very easy since it was my first long run of this cycle and I ran a race the day before.

Mo - 6 easy miles on the tm (8:45)

Tu - 8 outside in the dark with a friend at ~8:30 pace

We - 6 easy outside on city sidewalks

Th - 8 on the tm (8:30)

F - 6 outside on trails

Sa - 6 around the hood (~8:20)

Total = 56

Somewhere in there I manged to give myself a minor muscle strain in my left calf--probably running tentatively on ice on Tuesday night. I walk a little funny but running's just fine

Good weeks everyone!!

quote:<HR>Originally posted by 960mechanic:
HELP! It suddenly dropped to 18 degrees last Friday. I can't get my long runs in on a treadmill but find it very difficult to run when the wind chill is in the single digits. Any advice? I'm training for a May marathon, and I was following the Pfitz. 24 week schedule without a problem until now. It's clearly mental...any winter runners out there?

M: rest
T: 8 miles at steady pace, plus strides. Felt great
W: 10 miles
T: 5 easy
F: 4 miles. Tried to do 10 but it was unbelievably cold and I couldn't deal with it.
S: rest
S; 6 w/ 3 @ tempo

<HR>

There's something wrong with me. I like running in the cold and snow. Maybe its some form of fallout from the awful DC summer. Anyway, it's the dark that bugs me.

Another mediocre/lousy week tainted by illness and burnout last weekend

S: off
M: off
Tu: 8.5 tempo (5 miles @ 88-90% max HR)
W: 6.3 @ recovery
Th: 3.2 @ recovery (ran out of time and had to get home)
F: 16 (blustery blustery blustery)
Sa: rest

Tot: 34 miles and 5.5 hours. Time to crank it up to mid 40s this week (Pfitz 55 mpw plan).

Su- 6 E (trails)
M- rest
T- 8 E
W- 5 E
Th- 8 E
F- rest
Sa- 13 E

40 miles.

first decent week post jfk injury. going for 6 runs next week.