16 miles + last week - gerlinda
so...
i ran 16 miles on friday?!?!! that freaks me out! and i was FAST too! i did it in 2:30 (give or take...i was using my cell phone to time myself.) in fact, i was so fast, i don't trust it. the "mile markers" on the silver comet trail have been spray painted on by someone. (there are official pylons with markers as well, but these occur at irregular intervals - like 4.2 miles, or whatever.) someone has gone through and marked the trail off with spraypaint in what i assume are quarter miles. every so often there will be a line with a dot over it, or a line with two or three dots over it. and then every so often there will be a line with a number over it. after puzzling over these a few times, i realized one dot is followed by two dots, and that is followed by three dots, and then comes the number... so, i think it's logical to assume these markings indicate quarter miles. BUT ANYWAY - i ran out to spray painted #8, and back, in 2:30. freaky.
as for the rest of the week, i stuck to the schedule but changed up my running days - due to work stuff. so, this week went:
4-7-16-3.5
i feel good about it.
this week i'm going to try 18. i'm deviating from the schedule b/c i want to work my way up to 23-24 miles, vs. the 20 mile pinnacle with which my training schedule ends. we'll see how it goes. 16 miles felt ok. really, really tough. but my body felt ok. i need to make sure i have meals planned out afterwards, though... i followed my 16 mile run with a 5 hour car ride, several small bottles of water, a few handfuls of trail mix, a chicken sandwich from wendys on the road - i thought that should be enough food, but i swear, i wasn't right until after i ate a proper dinner at 7pm that night. i was really dragging, quiet, and perhaps a little delirious...
i ran 16 miles on friday?!?!! that freaks me out! and i was FAST too! i did it in 2:30 (give or take...i was using my cell phone to time myself.) in fact, i was so fast, i don't trust it. the "mile markers" on the silver comet trail have been spray painted on by someone. (there are official pylons with markers as well, but these occur at irregular intervals - like 4.2 miles, or whatever.) someone has gone through and marked the trail off with spraypaint in what i assume are quarter miles. every so often there will be a line with a dot over it, or a line with two or three dots over it. and then every so often there will be a line with a number over it. after puzzling over these a few times, i realized one dot is followed by two dots, and that is followed by three dots, and then comes the number... so, i think it's logical to assume these markings indicate quarter miles. BUT ANYWAY - i ran out to spray painted #8, and back, in 2:30. freaky.
as for the rest of the week, i stuck to the schedule but changed up my running days - due to work stuff. so, this week went:
4-7-16-3.5
i feel good about it.
this week i'm going to try 18. i'm deviating from the schedule b/c i want to work my way up to 23-24 miles, vs. the 20 mile pinnacle with which my training schedule ends. we'll see how it goes. 16 miles felt ok. really, really tough. but my body felt ok. i need to make sure i have meals planned out afterwards, though... i followed my 16 mile run with a 5 hour car ride, several small bottles of water, a few handfuls of trail mix, a chicken sandwich from wendys on the road - i thought that should be enough food, but i swear, i wasn't right until after i ate a proper dinner at 7pm that night. i was really dragging, quiet, and perhaps a little delirious...
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