My life is a little more interesting than just working out....but right now it is the main focus. I promise to spice up the blog with other posts!
Thursday, Oct 6th - Marathon training in the dark! Had to be at work early and after work we were meeting friends downtown to see our scarecrow. We made a scarecrow for our local botanical garden Scarecrows in the Garden. Boo Marley was featured on the front page of the living section of our local paper and is the first and last one you see at the garden!
Running in the dark was interesting.
I was a little bit slower because I had to pay attention more to the uneven pavement. Not really recommended, but skipping workouts now isn't really an option!
15min warm-up - 1mile @9:13, 0.67miles @8:46
3 x {10min @8min, 3min easy}
1st - 1mile @8:02, 0.23miles @7:55
2nd - 1mile @8:06, 0.24miles @7:52
3rd - 1mile @8:04, 0.24miles @8:13 (that seems weird, but I can't do anything about the data?!)
10min warm-down - 1mile @8:38, 0.16miles @8:50
Total distance was 7.05
Friday, Oct 7th - Back to my old ways - Friday afternoon nap! Love it. This was an off/rest day.
Saturday, Oct 8th - 20mile group run! It was a good group and I had a great time until ~mile 16.5 when we hit the vertical 0.5mile hill followed by 3miles of roller coaster hills. I did some walk running the last few miles. I am not in shape for these kinds of hills, especially at the end of the run.
Splits -
Mile 1 - 9:02.0
2 - 9:04.8
3 - 8:42.6
4 - 8:43.0
5 - 8:16.0
6 - 8:40.4
7 - 8:20.1
8 - 8:41.1
9 - 8:31.0
10 - 9:02.7
11 - 8:38.3
12 - 8:47.1
13 - 8:31.3
14 - 8:47.1
15 - 8:35.1
16 - 8:51.1
17 - 8:41.1 - walked up the vertical hill here and stopped my watch.
18 - 10:25.2 - beginning walking!
19 - 9:17.2 - took one walk break from 0.4 to 0.5
20 - 9:31.2 - same walk break as above.
Total time - 2:57.17.
Finishing under 4 hours at Marine Corps should be attainable!
Sunday, Oct 9th - Rest/recovery day. My quad are a little sore, but not too bad. The Epsom salt bath, icey-hot, and Advil definitely helped!
The Marine Corps Marathon keeps sending me count down updates.....it makes me nervous.
T-minus 20days on Monday!
Enjoy!
ELH
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