This morning I headed out for my 2nd 14-miler. I had been having some pain in my inner thigh for a day or two, but it seemed to have subsided. I planned out a 4 mile loop to give things a try – after 4 miles things seemed fine. No pain. So I headed down to Riverview Park to get in 8 miles by the river and then finish things up with 2 miles coming back home, but then…
Mile 6. Stopped to take a GU. Mmm, chocolatey. I start running …

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: 30 miles

Monday 11/23 (Rest)
Did some yoga and some stretching – more on my new strength goal soon!

Tuesday 11/24 (5 miles Easy)
We did a 5k in our running class today, which was tons of fun. I ran it in about 26 minutes at a pretty comfortable pace, which is great – it beats my May 16th time of 26:22 and I wasn’t even really pushing it! I can’t wait to race another 5k to see how I’ve improved this year.  I threw in a warm up/cool down to hit …

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 …