If you've been following Kimi and me in recent weeks, you've noticed that we've been finally hitting consistent quality mileage. We finished up April strong and jumped right into May even stronger. Our mileage goal for last week was to hit 70 miles with only one double. That would mean that we would have 50 miles prior to our weekend long run which just happened to fall on Sunday this week because we headed down to Bradleyville for a 5k on Saturday.
In past years, Kimi usually goes to Bradleyville on her own while I go to the Republic May Day 5k. This year we decided to both go to Bradleyville together. It turned out to be a great decision this year because I was able to get 2nd place. Our scheduled long run for this week was a 20 miler. We decided to head up to Frisco like we usually do but instead of running out 10 and back 10, we decided to make it a double out and back because this would allow us to stay on the part of the trail with trees to help block the winds. I just get so tired of fighting wind everyday so once in a while, it's nice to avoid it as much as possible. Our run went great. We managed to clip off mile after mile under 7 min pace and even added a finishing mile around 6:30. It was a good solid long run making that 3 straight weekends with great long runs.
April 28-May 4
Goal - 70 miles
Actual - 70 miles
The goal last week was to cut our miles back slightly to 68 miles. I began the week by getting ready for a 7 mile run on Monday following the 20 miler the day before only to cut the run short due to pain in my right lower leg. Rather than push through and turn it into a full blown injury, I decided to stop at a mile, walk back home, grab a bike, and ride the rest with Kimi. The next day I could still feel some discomfort in the right leg but it was only slight. I decided to give the run a shot and fortunately the leg didn't flare up much and I was able to complete the 9 miles on the schedule. That evening, I made sure to get some treatment from Kimi so I could try and get my legs to fully heal up which would allow me to get right back on track for the remainder of the week. We did an easy double on Wednesday which totaled 12 miles. Our runs up to this point hadn't been anything special. In fact, they were less than mediocre really. The 20 on Sunday had really taken it out of both of us. Heading into our scheduled 6 mile tempo run on Thursday, we were both thinking there was no chance we'd have a good one. Our warm-up started out about as slow as we've ever run for a warm up. We now stood there at the starting point for a 6 mile tempo and I was seriously debating whether to even give it a shot when Kimi turned to me and said, "let's at least try and see what happens." So that's what we did. We clicked off our first mile and much to my surprise, we were on a decent pace, near 6min mile. So we just kept rolling down the trail clicking off mile after mile (not stellar, but under marathon goal pace for Kimi), until mile 5. Kimi and I were both starting to tire out a bit but I told her that we were going to keep going for as long as we could maintain under her goal marathon pace or until 6 miles; which ever came first. We were both pretty excited when we finished because the workout went much better than we thought it was going to though it wasn't as good as we would have liked when planning out the training cycle.
We now had one day to recover prior to our next long workout during a 17 mile long run. The goal was to run 3x3mile with the first around 6:10 pace, second near 6:00, and the third sub 6:00 pace. This workout started out awesome. We nailed the first press 15 seconds under pace. The second was just under pace as well. The third one didn't go exactly as planned but it wasn't too bad either. All in all, this workout was a great test of our strength and ability to turn around in only 48 hours to push hard again.
Week Goal - 68 miles
Actual Miles - 62 (good enough for me)
Bring on next week!
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