Half Marathon Training Continues
M: 3 mi @ 10:37/mi (74F / 89%) + 30 min Matty Giacomo glutes + legs strength
T: rest
W: 6.4 mi total: 2 mi warmup / 8 x 400m @ 7:41-8:12 pace (was supposed to aim for 8:08) / 1.5 mi cooldown. 69F / 81%. This was a fun workout and went by so quickly!
R: 4 mi @ 10:36/mi (62F / 89%) + 30 min Andy Speer upper body strength
F: 8 mi total: 2 mi warmup / 2 mi @ 9:01 pace / 4 min jog / 2 mi @ 8:57 pace / 4 min jog + cooldown to reach 8 mi total. This one was more challenging but felt doable. The new Taylor Swift helped. And the weather! 65F / 88%
S: 4 mi @ 10:34/mi (64F / 92%) + 20 min Becs Gentry strength for runners
S: 8 mi @ 10:14/mi (66F / 92%)
Mileage total: 33.4 mi / Strength total: 3 workouts
PS: Congrats to PoF for a fantastic marathon finish (and ridiculously rock-steady splits)! Gives me hope I will still be able to ramp it up in my 40s as well!
Last night Josh and I enjoyed a date night seeing this:
Fun fact: I played Audrey in a college production of this show. It was sooo weird to hear all of the lines + songs I had memorized ~23 years ago, which apparently remained seared into a tucked away corner of my brain.
ALSO, I love date nights. So glad they are back. Before the show we had a rushed but delicious dinner @ Bandolero’s Taqueria. Mojito + hot honey tacos . . . two enthusiastic thumbs up.
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So impressed with your training!! It gives me hope that once I’m out of the toddler years such a thing might be possible!
I definitely would have struggled to fit this in when kids were younger. Not that it would have impossible, but harder than it is currently.
Amazing week of workouts! Even pre kids I did not do stacked running + strength training. That is so impressive! It was another rough week of next to no workouts thanks to RSV. I did run yesterday. But I walked a ton Friday and Saturday since it’s a sure fire way to keep the toddler entertained. I logged 20k steps both days.
Your date night sounds great!! I wouldn’t have guessed you were in theater in college! So cool! I really want to get back to date nights in 2023. We haven’t done them in sooo long. I think we need to take page from Kelsey in Phx’s book and do day dates.
re: theater, I was (am) not a great actress but have a decent singing voice 🙂 Chorus & a cappella galore in my past life . . .
Woooo ! you are running 6 days a week? that’s awesome. I only ran 4 times a week even when training for the marathon, you’ll rock your PR!!!
Training plan calls for 5-6. I do think the increased mileage is helping. Just hoping I don’t get injured!!!
Yes, just be careful!! Back when I trained for races and stuff, every time I tried to go above about 4 runs per week, I always ended up getting knee issues after a while… but maybe that’s just me and my touchy knees! I can become very over zealous sometimes and used to get SO excited by the training plan that I always wanted to do more/the more advanced plan with more miles or more speed work… but I had to really watch it cuz it never worked that great for me injury wise. But you also have a lot longer running history than I did at that time so you can probably handle a much higher volume.