Week 9 Recap

So! Week 9 of my GMM Half Marathon Training is finished!  Not quite sure how that's possible, but in 5 weeks, I'll  be in Vermont, running through the middle of nowhere with 400 other people.  AND I get to meet some super awesome people that I've been talking to for the past year + on FB.  Yay for  meeting internet peoples! =)


What the week was supposed to look like:

• Monday - Rest
• Tuesday - 5 miles (speedwork)
• Wednesday - Rest/Cross train
• Thursday - 3 miles easy
• Friday - Rest/Cross train
• Saturday - 11 miles
• Sunday - 2 miles easy 

What the week actually looked like:

• Monday - Rest (I'm really, really good at Mondays!)
• Tuesday - 5 miles of awesome
• Wednesday - Rest
• Thursday - 2.07 miles (Shin and foot pain, totally caved and cut this one short)
• Friday - Rest
• Saturday - 11 crazy miles, the last 4 of which were the fastest.  Who knew it takes me 7 miles to warm up? 
• Sunday - 3.1 miles easy

Total Miles for the Week:  21.17  Whoot!

More things happened this week, and I know I'm being a slacker blogger, but I am exhausted and there is no way a coherent, interesting entry is happening tonight.  So, I leave you with this thought. 

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?  

No, really. I'm curious.  

Toodles !

Bad blogger, no soup for you!

I can't believe it's been a week since I wrote a blog post - and I can't believe that it's been nearly that long since I've read any of my favorite blogs.  I don't know where the time has gone - I certainly haven't been doing anything terribly exciting.

Then again, maybe that's why I haven't posted.  Life's been crazy, as always, but it's been the boring kind of crazy and I find myself not really having much to say about it.  Also, I haven't been very focused the past few days - I feel like things are just passing me by.  Gotta knock that crap off!

For now, though, you get this boring and uninspired post.  Tomorrow I will be back, hopefully with something to say.

Until then, here's a little random for your day:

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Week 8 Recap & A Look Ahead

It's Sunday, which means another week of training is over - and today is September 1st, which means there's a whole new month of training ahead!  First, let's look back.  

GMM Half Marathon Week 8 Training Schedule:

• Monday - Rest
• Tuesday - 4 miles speedwork
• Wednesday - Cross Train/Rest
• Thursday -3 miles easy
• Friday - Cross Train/Rest
• Saturday - 10 miles
• Sunday - 3 miles recovery

How it actually went: 

• Monday - Rest
• Tuesday - 4 miles speedwork (on the treadmill at the gym, super hard, foot pain, was miserable, blah, blah - but I did it!) 
• Wednesday - Rest
• Thursday - 3.08 miles super easy
• Friday - Rest 
• Saturday - 10 miles (pretty slow overall, and HOT, but I was happy with it!)
• Sunday - 3 miles easy (1st mile super hard, 2nd and 3rd easier - nice way to end the week!)

Total weekly mileage: 20.20

What's funny (well, not really) is that so many people I know run 20 miles in a day.  But to me, 20 miles in a week is a big deal, especially because I've never done it before!  So I'm very pleased with it.  

Looking ahead to September, even bigger numbers are headed my way.  My current schedule has me running 90 miles in September - and my coach is actually changing it tonight to add more mileage (changing a cutback week since I just had a slacker week at Disney).  I have never run more than 70 miles in a month, so the idea of 90 kinda makes me feel...... I don't know, actually.  Not scared.  Excited? Proud?  Well, maybe I should save the pride till I actually do it, but still. 

Considering that a little over a year ago, I could hardly run a mile, I'm feeling pretty darn good right now!