Training Continues

First and foremost, I would like to say much thanks to the Allred Family and Jennifer Cody for starting off the donations for the Fisher House Foundation. I really appreciate the starting boost!


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It is hard to say what "week" of training I am on right now... I wish I could hammer out a "week 1", "week 2" etc. schedule... but my training has become a bit more "organic" than that. Looking ahead, I am approximately 75 days away from race day, and therefore I am going to simply start naming my weeks with the "T-minus" names.

Therefore, last week was T-12... and my schedule consisted of the following:

Monday - 32-minute recovery run in the evening (long run the day before)
Tuesday - 1:20 in the mid-day heat
Wednesday - 1:14 in the morning, 36-minutes in the evening
Thursday - 1:22 wake-up run
Friday - 1:15 in the morning, 31-minutes in the evening
Saturday - 1:21 in the morning
Sunday - 2:31 mid-morning run (in some fine Kandahar heat)

Therefore total time for the week was 9:35, which at my pace of about 8 minutes/mile would come to be about 70-75 miles for the week.

As I mentioned in the opening post, I had previously been doing a lot of 2-a-day runs to build up my daily and weekly mileage. However, as I have looked to increase my mileage, I have found that these excess miles in the evening have become more and more to fit the term "junk miles". I personally have never been a fan of that title, as I feel that any miles on your feet are solid miles, but I think that I need to be giving my body more time to rest between runs, and with these 2-a-days, the current rest is just not cutting it. Therefore, after taking an easy 45-minute run today to recover from yesterday, I am dropping the evening runs in favor of weights and rowing, and returning to my traditional routine of long runs in the morning. I will be looking to push for about 10-12 miles per day (approximately 90-100 minutes). With that as well, my training totals will be bumped up greatly, which they need to be to build up mileage and be fully prepared for the "big show" in June. Needless to say, I'm actually excited.

I'll be keeping everyone posted in the next few days with some more posts and information! Until then, thanks again for everyone's support!

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