So, this week was finally a good week in the books. Boston Marathon training has officially begun! I know it is only 6 weeks from tomorrow, but like they say - better late then never! I finished this week with just over 80 miles. The last time I ran over 80 miles in a week was the middle of January and that was nearly 2 months ago! The more impressive thing for me was I had a couple hard runs during the week and I haven't had many of those either besides a weekly track workout that I haven't done since before Miami on February 2nd.
I know I could run boston just to finish, or run semi-hard and requalify, but I want to see what type of shape I can get myself into in the next 6 weeks and hopefully race this one. I would really like to stay with Scott, but maybe I will just do my own thing based on how I feel. That's probably a good idea actually. I would rather take it easy the first half and then try and pick it up the second half. I rarely negative split a marathon but would love to do it at an actual race, especially Boston!
I know I am capable of a lot more than I have shown lately and I think it's because I haven't been running hard much. When I ran my best, I was doing a little bit of everything, so I want to add a weekly progressive run to the training somewhere midweek. I also want to run a couple runs faster just to get my legs used to a faster pace more often. I hope this motivation keeps up. It is suppose to be in the 50s the next 2 days so that should really help with things :) I decided that I will do a weekly recap of my running so i can easily check my progression.
Boston Training week 1 of 7:
M - OFF
T - 7.25 mi @ 9:02/mi
W - 6.25 mi @ 6:27/mi,
4.36 mi @ 6:35/mi
2.3mi @ 7:50/mi
T - 13.12 mi @ 8:07/mi
F - 7.0 mi @ 6:33/mi - progression run - 7:13, 6:58, 6:37, 6:19, 6:13, 6:05, 6:28
2.25mi @ 8:16/mi
8.12/mi @ 8:21/mi
S - 10.86 mi @ 7:54/mi
S - 19.3 mi @ 7:59/mi
Total = 80.8 mi @ 7:49/mi
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