Due to a ridiculous amount of rest with all of my skipped training last week, I was en fuego at this Tuesday's warm-up run. I kept up with the faster group for the warm-up (2 miles) and....yeah that was it lol.
The rest of Tuesday's training run was an easy work-out (for those who raced the 10K Smokey Bear run Saturday). We jogged 20 minutes (timed) down the Eaton Trail at a pace between that our Yasso and marathon pace and then just had to jog back a little faster at goal 19 minutes covering the same distance.
On the way back I felt that I was running faster but upon checking my timewatch, found that I had to speed it up the last 1/2 mile to meet our goal 19 minute return.
Overall, good workout:D
***sigh*** Thursdays, thursdays, thursdays - missed this Thursday's Fun Run (again) but this week trying out the Greyhound bus for the 1st time at 2:55am (omg) to hammer out some Standards of Practice at our state's capitol :) Whoo hoo!
And yes, I could have run after I returned at 11pm (um, no thank you) OR Friday - but I, alas, did not. This made me very nervous for the upcoming Saturday long run - the dreaded....20 -miler.
Long story short - OMG - the 20-miler put me back in my place AND I did survive...barely it felt - I think I may have even cried a little at mile 17 as the sun beat down on my back and the cows along the way did little in the way of offering any sort of concilatory mooooos or head acknowledgments.
How did I do it? How did I get it done?
- Forced myself to sleep early at 10pm Friday night - forgoing just one more! episode of "How I Met Your Mother" on a current Netflix watching catch-up marathon.
- Laid out my running outfit and gel packs and post-run clothes before snoozing.
- Made the commitment to my training program and got my butt out of bed to carpool to Exeter, CA at 5:30am on a lovely weekend Saturday morning
- Drove my carpool of awesome SRC marathon training co-athletes (Tish, Derrick and Diane) the hour drive to Exeter. We are the biggest WINNERS!
- Joined yet more of my fellow marathon trainees at the course and strategized to use the 10min run/1min walk pace to conquer this week's long run. Thanks Rosa & Connie!
- Just did it!!!
- Never gave up!! Well, lol, had to get back to the start/my car no matter if I walked or ran. The course was pretty much 10 miles down a country road and then the same 10 miles back.
- Scenery was beautiful - Thanks Coach John for setting up the field trip. I shudder to even think of having to had to try to run 20 miles on my own in Fresno hehe...glad I made it this Saturday!
Mile 17 - Found myself Talking to the cows... Whatever it takes!! - SUPER shout out to Bernard, Connie's husband who volunteered to be our aid/water stations:D I re-filled twice!
At least the nerves are a little more settled...but after that 20 miler - my body felt it...and 6.2 more???
We shall see...:D
| Run stats: | ||||||
| WEEK 12 | Mileage | Duration (hr:min:sec) | Pace (min/mile) | |||
| Sun | 29-Sep | rest | n/a | n/a | ||
| Mon | 30-Sep | rest | n/a | n/a | ||
| Tues | 1-Oct | 6.59 | n/a | 9:52 to 15:42 | interval training | |
| Wed | 2-Oct | rest | n/a | n/a | ||
| Thurs | 3-Oct | rest | n/a | |||
| Fri | 4-Oct | rest | n/a | n/a | ||
| Sat | 5-Oct | 20 | 3:55:11 | 11:45 | Exeter, CA | |
| Total weekly mileage | 26.59 miles | |||||
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