Hi Everyone!
Hope you are all doing well!
How's winter training going? Any races? How's your weather?! It's starting to look a lot like spring time here in Pa!
Sorry if this week's post looks more of a log than anything. Busy mid week and slacked!
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Week 12 of Marathon Training for Jim Thorpe Marathon.
My Week in Training:
Monday: 10 miles, strength training arms/shoulders/chest/core
Monday, a "random" day off from work. Avoiding the DST change an extra day. Lol.. slept in a little. Got a good workout in. Was still taking my time a little since I don't have any other plans and temps are jumping to the perfect temp around 10. A couple days removed from a 20 miler. Legs still a little tired. Just going through the motions and enjoying the weather and scenery. It was wonderful.
Foam roll/stretch: complete
Tuesday: 7 miles, strength training arms/shoulders/core
End of weekend blues last night, but want to get some rest due to the time change. No issue falling asleep this week, but staying asleep was. Up way before my alarm all week. Groggy to start. Back to 6am running and it being dark again since DST. 😞🤣 at least there's the occasional sunrise to enjoy. 🤗
Foam roll/stretch: complete
Wednesday: 5 miles, strength training chest/core
Miscellaneous: 1 hour of yard work after work. Nice weather. Long spring to do list, here's to starting it! lol..
Foam roll/stretch: complete
Thursday: 7 miles, strength training arms/shoulders/core
foam roll/stretch: complete
Friday: 5 miles, strength training chest/core
Thursday was St Paddy's day. Had some good food and a couple drinks. But also got distracted by an appliance issue. Our dryer broke! YouTube had some great videos, identified the issue. We'll see if I can install a belt when it arrives in the mail. Lol.. woke up today a bit grumpy. Not in the mood for work. Between wonderful spring weather and wanting to work on my to do list, or enjoy March madness, was not in the mood. Workout and run went well tho. Temps going up, humid, and dense fog! Two poorly lit streets on my route, could barely see anything till towards the end.
Foam roll/stretch: complete
Saturday: 10 miles.
Scheduled for 10 miles today and sticking to the schedule. Not being tempted to do extra miles. And am thinking about how to get some actual rest in tomorrow and later next week. Try to get my marathon sched in, but also be somewhat fresh for a half marathon race. We'll see how I do adhering to that late next week. lol..
Fri, carb load, relax, etc. Decent rest. Up before the alarm but tried to get a few more min in and waited it out. Up. coffee, "routine", etc. Weather going to be pretty spring like. 50's to start. Initially had my gloves, but after walking a few min, tossed them to my car. (more on this later) Rain in the forecast, but not till later. Over to my trail a few min later than usual, but no real hurry. My trail Pennypack Creek. Monday, I did the parking lot to 5 mi out towards South Hampton. Today, doing a little different. My orig 10 mi route before the new extensions. Parking lot to ByBerry, back. Parking lot to Rockledge, back. That would be about 10.5-11 ish. My initial plan was to just go comfy. 8-8:15. Started out feeling pretty decent and rolled along. After avg 7:45-50 for a bit, pretty much decided to try to maintain sub 8. And with doing my trail out and back, out and back, had a count down going of 20 min per out. Both outs have a slight incline, tried to relax knowing I could split on the way back. Focus on breathing, strike, etc. Felt good without pushing. May have caught myself daydreaming a couple times and regrouping to focus a couple times. but felt pretty good. Not sure about my half, but pretty confident about Broad Street.
My second out and back, knew I would be a bit over. Cut the out just a little short and ended my run right after 10. Left at least a .25 cool down. Walked, got impatient, jogged, walked, etc. lol..
Stubbed my toe! Hurt like a mf! Caught myself from yelling tho. lol.. And the tip of my good big toe is now black. Grrr.. lol..
Post run: relaxed for a few min before taking off. Off I go. A couple minutes in. Oh crap, my gloves! They were on my windshield still. Quickly pulled over and able to get them before they blew away! These are my Philly Marathon gloves, would be sad to lose these!
Miscellaneous: 3+ hours yard work post run. Nice out, getting ready for spring! Small side note, I was raking down my fence line in my back yard. Small snake took off, scared the crap out of me! Too fast to get a pic!
Foam roll/stretch: fail! Relaxed for a little after yard work and then had plans. Totally forgot! 'Doh! I don't remember the last time I failed to get a stretch and roll in. :(
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Sunday: 4mi, strength training: arms/shoulders/chest/core
Busy day Saturday, tried sleeping in today. Tried. Up by 6, tried to get more, but wide awake. Up, coffee, get into my groove for working out. Eventually out the door. Initially planned on doing just one for the streak to start resting. But weather was nice and felt good. Off I go for 30ish min (round up to 4 mi. Felt good most of the way. I'll rest three days (W,Fri,Sa) this coming week for my race. I swear! ;)
Foam roll/stretch: pending, but I assure you it will be done!
What did I do besides run, workout, work, and chores? One outing to dinner/drinks. Fixed my dryer, thanks to YouTube!
Movies/TV: The Walking Dead, March Madness, baseball, not much else and of course the usual reruns of The Office, Family Guy, South Park, etc.
Not so exciting outside of work and running sometimes. Any questions to get to know me better? Ask me anything!
Q: How about you? Anything exciting outside of running? Any adventures? Binge watching anything?
Weekly Summary:
Miles: 48.4 weekly miles running
Year to Date: 588 miles running
Hill Goal (for the yr): 120 k: currently at:
Strength Training: Goal 4 hours minimum, 6:23:06
What type of strength training do I do? Core: crunches, planks, leg raises, mountain climbers. Weights: biceps, triceps, shoulders, chest.
Foam Roll/Stretch: 6 days
Weight (putting this out there. I know I don't have to earn my food/drink, but putting this out there, maybe I'll be more mindful): on 01/01/22: 156. Current 31 day avg: 153.3
Training Plan: Week 12 of 20 using the below plan:
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Race Schedule:
3.27.22 - Philly Love Run Half Marathon (deferral from '20!) But this has always been my fav spring half! (official PR's there each time!, hope I'm not jinxing myself by saying that!)
05.01.22 - Broad Street Run! - my registration from 2020 granted me a guaranteed entry to this year's race! (skipped '21)
05.15.22 - Jim Thorpe marathon, but that's not until May! Have various travels going on this yr, was looking for an easy drive, affordable race and hotel. A flat scenic course that includes a train ride to the start!
Fall:
10.02.2022 - Chicago Marathon (deferral from '20!, can't wait!)
11.18-20.2022 - Philly Marathon Weekend
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