The week of my Awesome Half Marathon!
I’m feeling really good about my training at this point. Things seem to be going right – I hope that saying so doesn’t jinx it! The Half made it really clear that I need to do some hillwork, so I’ll plan on turning some of my M-pace runs into hill sessions. I’ll let you know how that goes!
Weekly Total: 34 miles

Monday 11/9 (Rest)

Tuesday 11/10 (5 miles Easy)
5.11 miles / 48:00 / 9:27
We were supposed to do the timed mile in class, but a …

Just a short post to let everyone know about the awesome sale going on right now at Running Warehouse. They sent me an email advertising their 30-50% off sale selection on Wednesday, and when I saw that my favorite Saucony Triumph 6 was on sale… well, I had to do it. The shoes normally run me about $110 after my discount for being in the local running club is taken into account, but on RunningWarehouse.com they were on sale for 70 – that’s $40 dollars off already!
Then the deal got …

Wow. I learned so much during this race. I don’t know what it is about races that makes them so much more educational than training runs, but this trail race was way different that my weekly trail runs with the Charlottesville Trail Running Club.
I signed up for this race about two months ago, when I was first getting into trail running. Lots of my fellow CTRCers were going to be racing it and it sounded like so much fun! Combine that with a date nicely placed a few weeks after …

Another week down! This was a really great week of running for me – the amazing weather definitely contributed to that.
My schedule this week was as follows:

Monday: (Rest)
Tuesday: (5 miles at Easy Pace)
During my PHYE Running for Fitness class we did an indoor run on the treadmill/indoor track, completely wasting the beautiful weather! What a shame. But the treadmill wasn’t as bad as I thought, and I got my fill of the outdoors running to the gym for class and back.
5.12 miles – 48 minutes – 9:22 pace
Wednesday: 6 miles …