In what seems to be the case every time I go for my Sunday run - the wind, rain, and slick (very) muddy trails were all present. Today's "long" run was increased to 11-miles (up from 10 last week) Started off conservatively - if my legs were a little tired before yesterday's workout, they'd certainly be tired today, and this was indeed the case.
Of course tomorrow's my off day so I didn't want to just mail this one in. I can rest up tomorrow. First half averaged about 7:08, second half averaged about 6:48.
This closed the week out at 42-miles, which is my first 40+ week since November. Average pace for the week came in at 6:42 (of course the workouts certainly help w/ that) Not counting the workouts, the average was 6:55 and that seems to be a good steady pace for me these days.
Plans for next week aren't finalized yet as the weather is going to play a big factor, but I'm hoping to log 40-44 miles again w/ two workouts and a 12-mile long run.
Training:
Sun, 3/1: 11-miles @ 6:58 pace
4 comments:
Good week and long run Mike. I could run 11 miles at that pace once - I think it was 1991 ;)
I didn't know you'd only been running for a year and a half - you're doing well for so little background.
What do you think you'd race 10 miles in? I'm just wondering how much slower your long-run pace is.
Coming up w/ a 10-mile time would just be speculation, I honestly have no idea. It's so much longer than anything I've put in a hard effort on that it's just too far to accurately extrapolate the curve.
Clearly I have no over-distance training for such an event, so having it be anything more than a long tempo run would likely be a huge challenge. I imagine that unless I were to set aside a few months to train for that distance, my time wouldn't be very good.
With that said, these long runs aren't really "tempo runs" for me. They're slow enough such that I can run at that pace every day. However, as the workout intensities ramp up, the pace of these other runs should slow down some so that I can put more effort into the workouts.
Sorry I don't have a better answer.
Nice long run on the heels of Saturday’s w/o. It has taken me months to adjust to the double Sat/Sun routine. Keep it up and I hope the weather improves.
Thanks Mike. That pretty much explains it. I was just curios about how hard they were, as the pace is similar to what I ran for 10-13 mile training runs many years ago. A 10 miler in 64 minutes was 'hard' and 72 'easy'. Being a metric country we only had one or two ten mile races per year.
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