Very pretty country down there, Marshall pre-race |
70 miles
1 double
20 mile long run
1 race
1 workout
The following week, was not too bad looking back at it on paper. But the legs felt like crap. That 20 miler really took it out of us. We did manage to pull of a decent 6 mile tempo on the Frisco trail. Goal was to run sub 36 minutes, but ended up with 36:37. Really can't complain based on how awful the warm-up felt. I was seeing mile splits that I hadn't seen since early morning college runs, a good 30+ seconds slower per mile than normal. We almost turned back and just calling it a no-go, but I talked Marshall into at least giving it a try, and we would run as long as we were some-what close to a slightly slower marathon pace (6:10 pace vs. sub 6:00).
Two days later we backed the above workout up with 3 x 3 mile. Also taken place on the Frisco trail. Can you tell we love this trail? I wanted to run this workout with guns a-blazin', but Marshall assured me that we should taper it down since it was going to be 9 hard miles.
Splits ended up being:
18:13
17:53
18:13
Since Marshall has satisfactorily re-caped these two workouts, you can read a more in-depth recap here: Marshall's Blog.
Weekly Review (5/5 - 5/11)
68 miles
1 double
17 mile long run
2 workouts
1 ART session from Dr.Reed
Next up, recap from this week. . . with a debut track session since last year