This past Sunday I did one of the most useful training sessions I possibly could have done for my upcoming triathlon (Charlottesville Sprint, 6/27/2010). I attended Tri2Bmore’s triathlon racing clinic, where local coach Liz Flynn (www.tri2bmore.com) and her team taught 25 aspiring triathletes techniques for racing in a multisport event.
The day started at 7:00am at a local outdoor pool with introductions, a bike check, and body marking. Then the 25 of us (mostly women, interestingly) broke up into two waves (WAVE ONE RULES!) and started in on the clinic. My …

Weekly Total: 39 miles

Monday 11/30 (Rest)

Tuesday 12/1 (5 miles Easy)
Today was our “After” mile test for my running class – we timed ourselves in the beginning of the year (September) and now was our chance to see if we’d improved! I don’t really think that using the mile as a baseline makes sense because we didn’t focus on speedwork, but I improved anyway – 7:05 this time versus 7:42 in September. Quite an improvement! I warmed up and cooled down by running to class and back.
5.2 miles / 47:00 …

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 …

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 …