Image by castle79 via FlickrWeek 23 Review:
- Monday: Schedule rest - completed
- Tuesday: 5mi run - completed
- Wednesday: 8mi run - completed
- Thursday: 5mi run - missed
- Friday: Scheduled rest - completed
- Saturday: 18mi long run - completed
- Sunday: Cross-training - 1hr cycling
What a week last week. I was fighting a cold all week that had my energy level much lower than usual. I also continued to have some lingering pain in my right ankle. The ankle pain was the main reason for skipping Thursday's run. Missing Saturday's 18mi run would have been a much bigger deal than missing Thursday's 5 miler, so I decided to give my ankle an extra day of rest on Thursday so that I could (hopefully) be ready for Saturday's long run.
By Saturday morning my ankle was still a bit sore, but not too bad. The 18mi run was yet another distance PR. And it was also yet another really challenging run. I seem to really be struggling once I hit about 15.5 or 16 miles. It's about that point where my mid section starts to hurt. I'm not sure what to think about that. It's happened two weeks in a row now. My best guess is that it might have something to do with my gatorade/gel consumption, so I'm just going to continue to try to adjust it a bit and see if it helps. I may need to mix more straight water in with the gatorade. Not sure at this point.
This week I also experienced some familiar tightness in my patellar tendons. I had the same issues with my patellar tendons last year while training for my first half - it would usually happen during long runs of 8 miles or more, which were new distances for me. I learned I could just stop and stretch them and the pain would immediately go away. So I had to do that at least a few times from mile 15 to the end of the run. If things go like last year, then the patellar tendon issues will go away as I get more experience at these longer distances.
So, overall I think it was a pretty good week despite some health issues that threw me a curve ball or two. It sure feels good to have completed my first 18 mile run.
Okay, enough about last week.
Week 24
(week 12 of Hal Higdon's Novice 2 program)
I finally get to do a race this week! This Saturday I'm running 13.1 Dallas as my 13 mile training run. I haven't raced since June, so I can't wait for Saturday. Even though I'm treating this as a training run rather than a race, it will still be great to be out and running in a race event.
So this week is a step-back week, as I get a break from the 15+ mile long runs this week. I never thought I'd look at a 13 mile run as a break, but that's what it is at this point. I also have my last 8mi pace run of the training schedule this week. After this week, wednesdays start to taper.
In summary, here's what's on this week's schedule:
- Monday: Schedule rest
- Tuesday: 5mi run
- Wednesday: 8mi pace run
- Thursday: 5mi run
- Friday: Scheduled rest
- Saturday: 13.1 Dallas half marathon
- Sunday: Cross-training
Have a great week!
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