If you've been following this blog, you'd know I'm supposed to race a half marathon later this week. After knee problems that seem to be worse when going long and feeling that my fitness was much better towards 5k than half (plus lack of training), I decided to would better to do this thing when I'm actually ready for it, rather than cram it in now without proper excitement or fitness just because I need a PR. Instead, I'll probably run the Bobby Doyle summer Classic on August 13, hoping to take a good chunk of time off my 26:41 PR. Based on my recent 5K effort sub-15:50, 26:20 or faster should be doable. To make it interesting, the course has changed (from about 15 turns to maybe 6) and its not USATF-NE grand prix this year. Really wanted to do Kerri, but don't want to overrace either.
Monday: 7 Miles.
Chariho fun run. Completely exhausted and supposed to be easy recovery but sucked into the fast running others were doing and did a 6:10 pace for their 3-miler.
Tuesday: 11 Miles
7 Miles. Early morning workout in Weekapaug at Hell Field. 4x1000
@10K pace (about 3:15 target, 5:15 pace). While these are much slower than what I do on the track and I've done similar workouts on roads (but longer and faster), this was a big struggle. Not sure whether it was early morning + humid, lack of speed on the slippery hell field or something else entirely. Split: 3:16/3:15/3:20/3:19. Got really heavy and tired in the middle and wasn't able to continue on pace. Dropped out of a possible 5th one. A couple fast 200s/strides at the end. Difficulty: 4/5. Better than nothing, but would prefer faster surfaces from now on.
4 Miles in the evening. Felt really awful and 7:20 pace on flat roads felt like mile race pace. Both weak, out of it and dead inside. Couldn't even make five. Kinda weird, but I guess glad it was a recovery run.
Wednesday: 10 Miles
Was feeling really smooth and decided to go for long warm-ups and cool-downs at the fun run and decided to snag 10 instead of the usual 8. Felt good the whole time, taking the fun run at a comfortable but not slow pace of 6:10 and surprisingly fast warm-ups and cool-downs around 6:40 pace. Happy with these runs with both distance and pace, but don't expect to see this mileage continue.
Thursday: 13 Miles
7 morning at woody hill. A bit tired but overall a nice trail recovery run with both a preview of the Wahaneeta course and an update on pumpkins/XC. Trails are looking great.
6 in the evening at track. These workouts have mostly been somewhat fun but today's was surprisingly very difficult. My speed isn't where it was in the spring but this was much worse than expected. I felt like the splits and/or recovery were much faster than they should have been. I probably would be aiming for 5:10, maybe a little faster on the track but surprised to have 2x4:50 w/2:30 recovery before an 800. The miles were brutal. I definitely felt that if I fueled for a race, I would feel better but these were downright brutal. I was on pace for the most part but it felt like the first mile of a 3K then an all-out mile. 4:51/4:55. Luckily the 800 was pretty slow, target 2:40 and was able to feel okay on that one (but still much worse than 2:40 should feel). 2:34. This was much tougher than expected and hopefully will ease up/into soon. Difficulty: 5/5.
Friday: 7 Miles
Slow watch hill recovery. Felt extremely weak/sluggish despite an easy 7:30 pace. Managed to get through it but wasn't feeling it.
Saturday: 8 Miles
8 Miles early afternoon in Narragansett. Took a moment to run the entire new bobby doyle course which is looking much faster than the old one with significantly less turns before adding a loop from the old one to make 8. Felt strangely pretty tired the whole time but managed a decent pace anyway and felt better than Friday.
Sunday: 7 Miles
Earlier in Charlestown. Felt really good and overall enjoyed it. Some soreness in knee/legs but overall felt much stronger than the previous two days and had no trouble. Watched a little bit of the run 4 kerri action post-run.
Weekly Total: 63 Miles
YTD Total: 1,404 Miles
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