Training recap – June 30 – July 8

If this blog is about keeping myself accountable to the marathon goal, then reporting out on my training for the week seems to be a useful exercise…

Saturday, June 30^th – 4.52 miles, 54:16

Talked the Math Teacher into trying a different route – heading off our nice flat lake basin loop up to a bit of a hill.  This was longer than we’d been doing, but we finished it!  Big accomplishment was the lack of walking – until we hit the last sharp uphill, we stayed at a jog.

Sunday, July 1st – 2.76 miles, 29:44

Needed to try the out-the-door route on a day my husband was home (busy road, no sidewalks, a couple fast curves with short sight distances).  The “big hill by the fire station” is much less intimidating than it looked from the car.  Also learned not to eat a sandwich five minutes before running.

Wednesday, July 4th – 5 miles, 50:45

Repeated Saturday’s loop with a few extra blocks. Wow, I keep surprising myself. 5 miles sub 10:10 pace? Unimaginable three months ago! And the last mile at 8:59 is icing on the cake.

Thursday, July 5th – 2.86 miles, 39:20

Fun trail run – a first for me!  We were down in a hollow, with lots of crazy ups and downs. Nice easy pace so we wouldn't trip over our feet (yeah, right!). So fun to run with my friend again!

Saturday, July 7th – 3.11 miles, 36:19

Quick, early-early run to get it in before scattering for the weekend.  What I love about this run is that we fought to make it happen, even though there was every excuse in the schedule to skip.

Planned for this week:

Monday – 2 miles (done)
Wednesday – 4 miles
Saturday – 5 miles (long run)

This week's challenges include a bunch of midday meetings, and the boys doing their Seattle-to-Portland bike ride this week.  The Saturday run will be the girl on her bike and I on foot - we'll see if five miles is a doable length.