It has been a while and the countdown is now at 39 days until Boston, everything seems to be happening so fast and I am now starting to feel the pressure, but trying to keep it under control.
Sunday was another 32k run, my last 32k run, as I will be racing a 30k race in Hamilton in a couple of weeks, well maybe racing we will see how I'm feeling that day. I ran 5k before meeting up with the guys who were planning on running 26-29k that day, it ended up being closer to 29k so I ended up going 34k. It was a great day for a run, nice and sunny and some of them even had shorts on, not me yet. We did the same loops as last week and I felt much better running this day then the last time I ran my 32k, so things are going well it seems.
Tuesday I attempted to run in Richmond because the days are getting warmer and I see a lot more sunlight at the end of the day. However, after running my first of three 4k tempos it got pretty dark and the street I was running on didn't have much lighting so I chose to run the other two on the treadmill. It was so hard to run tempo on a treadmill and I kept thinking I was going to fall off the end, so I'm going to have to find another way to get these runs done. I did run my 3x 4k at a 4:40 pace for a total of 13.8k
Wednesday, another awesome day for running, I had a 15k run on my schedule which I ran at a 5:05 pace. I just had to keep an eye out for all the potholes on the roads but other than that another warmish day.
Thursday I did my 2.8k warm up then went on to the speed portion of 5x 1600m at a 4:10 pace and the 4x 400m at a 4:05 pace for a total of 14.27k. My right calf was feeling really tight during and after that work out. I couldn't walk much the next day so I skipped my easy Friday run and did a lot of stretching and heating hoping I could still run my hills on Saturday.
Saturday I went out to a new area to run my hills, I wasn't sure how it would go because of all the pain I had the day before so my plan was to just do what I could and not push myself too hard (yeah right). I felt fine in the morning so I was optimistic it would go well. I did end up running all 7 of the hills I needed to do, this hill was a longer and steeper one than the ones I had ran previously. The first 2 times going up the hill was really hard but once I got those done it didn't seem so bad. The weather was not as nice as I was hoping, there was no sun, a lot of overcast clouds and the wind was so strong that at times I felt I was going the wrong way, but I pushed on and got it done. It feels so much more rewarding when I finish some of my harder runs. I ran a total of 13.5k which included my warm up and cool down, and I followed up with a lot of stretching. I do not want to get injured now with all the work I've put into my training.
My total for the week is 90.75k
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