Monday – April 30, 2007
Training: 65 minutes
Day Mileage: 9 miles
Week Total: 9 miles
Weather: cool, breezy
Details: Ran with Steeevvviiii in Wolhusen!
Tuesday– May 1, 2007
Training: 20 minutes warm up, 5x800 with 2 minutes jog-recovery, 15 min cool down
Strength: a bit speedier than normal today…ABC drills, strides
Day Mileage: 8.5 miles
Week Total: 17.5 miles
Weather: gorgeous evening, started working out at 7pm today!
Details: Ran with some pubescent boys. They make good training partners because they like to push!
Wednesday -- May 2, 2007
Off day—one off day every two weeks….
Thursday -- May 3, 2007
Training: 58 minutes
Strength: Abs, weight room
Day Mileage: 8 miles
Week Total: 25.5
Weather: rainy, warm
Details: regular run
Friday -- May 4, 2007
Training: 50+ minutes
Strength: 30 minute power-ab workout
Day Mileage: 7 miles
Week Total: 32.5
Weather: warm, drizzly
Details: Went to the six-pack ab workout at Daytona Gym (my sponsor). Felt the burn with Urs! heh
Saturday -- May 5, 2007
Training: 20 minute warm up, 10xa steep hill 30+ secs, 20-minute tempo run, 15 minute cool down
Day Mileage: 9 miles
Week Total: 41 miles
Weather: rainy, cool
Details: The hills were really tough so the tempo run felt HARD! It was a good workout with the gals though!
Sunday -- May 6, 2007
Training: 1 hour 47 minutes
Strength: hills along the way!
Day Mileage: 15 miles
Week Total: 56 miles
Weather: sunny
Details: It's always nice to have some running partners! I ran with Ueli and H.P. today…they are trying to help me with my form. I rotate my upper body too much so they are trying to constantly remind me on runs to keep my energy going forwards instead of side to side!
Mileage
I have kept my mileage between 50 and 65 miles for 10 weeks now and am feeling good. I am hoping to jack my mileage up into the 70s and 80s once I have a bit of a break from school and feel really strong again! I had mentioned it at the beginning of my build-up (that I was going to just run steady mileage and try to stay healthy) and it has worked. My body has really adapted well and I plan to push the mileage up in the summer. My goal this year is to be able to run the whole year without any two-week holes in my training! (Unless it's because I'm taking a break!) I am really careful… sometimes I think I am being TOO careful and that I have to take more of a risk in training. But my workouts are getting better and better and I've been feeling really good on my 15-mile long runs so whatever it is I'm doing, it's working…
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