W12DBP3 Weekly Training Report
Hey, look! I ran (almost) all of my scheduled miles this week! YAY! I feel great. I feel focused. I feel like I am going to be ready. I also finally booked my flight and hotel for my race in a month, so that definitely helped with the stress. I am not going to lie, the thought of deferring this race came through my mind more than once. But now, I am locked in and ready to do this thing.
Monday 8/6: Rest day & Bay's first day of school! <3
Tuesday 8/7: Whew, after the weekend we had in California, this run felt sluggish.
Plan: 5 mi @ EA (11:45)
Actual: 5 mi @ 11:36
Splits: 11:46, 11:18, 12:01, 11:38, 11:15
Wednesday 8/8: The plus side to all this humidity is that I will be ready to race in it if I have to in DC next month. The downside to all this humidity is eff all this humidity.
I had to take my shirt off for the last mile because it was just soaked and stuck to me. Yuck.
Plan: 5 mi @ EB (10:58)
Actual: 5.01 @ 10:59
Splits: 10:37, 10:01, 11:28, 12:03, 10:46
Thursday 8/9: After the slacking I have been doing, I needed this wake up call of "hey your fitness level kind of dropped because you were a slacker, stop it" and that was this tempo run. The T&D was at 150 and I probably should have adjusted because I could only hold my tempo pace for about 2 miles. Miles 3 & 4 were tough. Plus, I kind of slept in so I cut my cool down short. But this tempo is my race tempo and if I am not able to power through this I am not hitting my goal. Focus, Jenna, focussss.
Plan: 1 mi @ WU (12:29) + 4 mi @ HM Tempo (9:24) + 1 mi @ CD (12:29)
Actual: 1 mi @ 10:58 + 4 mi @ 9:47 + .59 @ 12:19
Splits: 10:58, 9:22, 9:38, 10:21, 9:58, 12:19
Friday 8/10: Rest day but
@OldSlowGoofyGuy kept talking about how he was going to the pool this week, so I went to the pool this week too! I haven't been since May and I really missed it. Going to try to make this an every Friday event.
Actual: 100 SKPS, 100 F/B, 4x100 Sprint Ladder, 200 F/B, 100 CD = 1200 yds
Saturday 8/11: We finally got some relief from the humidity and it felt SO NICE. Legs felt great, fatigue kicked in during the last few miles and I walked a bit. Ran to breakfast to meet the family, so I had my eye on the breakfast sandwich prize I was going to eat. Also, I had my husband bring me a shirt to change out of so I didn't smell too terrible while at breakfast.
Plan: 7 mi @ EB (10:58)
Actual: 7.01 @ 10:52
Splits: 10:34, 10:21, 10:25, 10:31, 10:46, 12:08, 11:21
Siiiiiiigh...
Sunday 8/12: Hello first Long Run in a LONG TIME. The humidity was back up from yesterday and I wasn't too thrilled about it. I left a little later than I wanted, but still early enough. The sun started baking me towards the end. I was suppose to focus on nutrition, so I had a banana with peanut butter before the run with some water and nuun. At mile 5, I stopped and refilled my water and took a gu gel. I made sure to stay hydrated the whole run and walked if I felt too over heated. I am pretty proud of this workout, TBH.
Plan: 9 mi @ LR (10:35)
Actual: 9.01 @ 10:58
Splits: 10:48, 10:36, 10:02, 10:22, 10:28, 10:35, 12:23, 12:29, 10:47
Hot. Humid. No cloud coverage.
Well deserved margarita after this week's workouts!
This week is already starting off rough. Monday sucked. And today my husband was supposed to be home this afternoon but he is still down in Phoenix. I have 5 miles to do today still and then a speed workout tomorrow morning. I hope that if I have to get these 5 miles in later than planned it won't mess up my speed workout tomorrow. Legs don't fail me now.
Thanks for all the feedback about my ramblings above. I am about 90% sure I am just gonna do this trail run. And Sarah has been looking at flights to NYC for this Staten Island Half in October. Yo to the Lo.