Weekly Total: 40 miles (!!!)

Monday 11/16 (Rest)
My legs were *so* glad today to have a day off. Even though I take things pretty slow on Sundays after my Saturday long run, it’s still the hardest run of the week.

Tuesday 11/10 (5 miles Easy)
At my PHYE class we went on a “distance run” and I ended up running around grounds with a fellow classmate – we had a great time chatting! I took her on one of my favorite loops on grounds.
6.5 miles / 1:00:03 / 9:41

Wednesday 11/11 (8 miles …

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 …

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 …

It has begun! I am 7 runs into my 21-week training schedule, with 50 miles knocked out so far. This weekend I have a 10 miler and a 6 miler scheduled, I’ll probably do the 10 miler solo on the roads on Saturday and then join the CTRC for the Sunday run. I’m very excited because the Sunday run has been pushed back to 9am from 8am, so I get to sleep in for an extra hour!
I’ll be running a half marathon on the 14th of November at Walnut Creek …