Monday kicked off a brutal week at work. This week was the hardest yet to stay with the program and not miss a day. I got in a 3.2 miles late Monday evening, but in addition to being really tired I felt some aches and pains still from the race, especially my left Achilles tendon.
Tuesday I crammed in 3.2 miles on the treadmill at the fitness room at work between a late meeting and getting out to my daughters soccer practice, where I've been recruited as an assistant coach. There was just not going to be any other time to run before 10pm. I ran the 3.2 hard in 24 minutes with no warm-up or stretching or cool down, threw a clean shirt on, and was only 15 minutes late to the practice. I really hate being late as a coach, even as an assistant, but I had to choose to either stick with this program or not. Wednesday I worked from 6:45am to 7:30pm with no breaks, ate lunch at my desk during a conference call, got home, and ran another quick 3.2 just before dark and then dug in to help kids with math homework.
Yesterday I finally was able to clear enough time to run for a full hour for the first time since Sunday. I ran my 2x20minute interval pattern, covering 7.8 miles. It was also 80 degrees. My first interval was fast, but my second interval was barely faster than the easy jog in between. Since the idea is to balance the two and run the same pace, this was not exactly a great workout. The heat really began to hit me. My next task in training will be to begin to adapt to the challenge of running in Sacramento in the summer. Supposed to be 90 this weekend. And while most of the aches and pains from the race have passed, I'm still having a fair bit of pain in my left Achilles tendon. I'll need to pay attention to that, and may need to take it easy for a few days.
Anyway, 10 weeks down and I have not missed a day yet!
Miles this week: 32.8
Total miles so far: 383.5
Average miles/day this week: 4.7
Average miles/day so far: 5.5
Longest run: still 13.7 miles (no change)
Time spent running this week: 4 hours and 29 minutes
Total time running: 55 hours and 25 minutes
Average time running/day: 47 minutes
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