Peak is in, now what?

I'm definitely feeling the effects of my training. I'm drained. I'm tired. I'm hungry. I'm sore.

I hit a 7 day PR peak of 110 miles about a week and a half ago. That was insane.

My quality has taken a hit as a result of the quantity. My peak is in though. I had 4 out of 5 weeks north of 90 miles, 6 of 8 weeks north of 80 miles.

Here are my most last 2 weeks of workouts:

9/25 - 20x 200 w/ 200 recovery:

- 20x 200's served a purpose and gave me some turn over... and I actually ran them pretty well.

1-5- 36.32 avg

6-10- 35.37 avg

11-15- 34.39 avg

16-20- 33.84 avg

34.98 avg

9/28 - Park Ridge 5K:

- The Park Ridge 5K turned out to be a bust. I gunned for a PR (needed sub 16:16), but I bombed in the final 1/2 mile.... It was spectacular up until that point, and then I just ran out of gas. Clearly that early pace pushed me and I paid for it... or I just didn't have the balls to finish the job (I hope that's the case). The weather was somewhat ideal too. That's my second honest attempt at PR'ing a 5K this year and failing by a matter of seconds.

1- 5:10.2

4- 5:12.8

3- 5:24.3

.1- 34.0

16:21, 5:17 pace

10/1 - 10mi Tempo:

- I then took 2 days off and went for a 10 mile tempo. It wound up being slower than I would've liked. Maybe I turned stale with the 2 day break? I donno, I simply lacked the hunger and ability to push the pace faster in the last couple miles though. I wouldn't have wanted to go any longer. My cool down home was a train wreck.

1- 5:55.8

2- 5:52.7

3- 5:58.1

4- 5:57.8

5- 5:58.0

6- 5:56.1

7- 5:58.0

8- 6:03.9

9- 5:54.1

10- 5:53.5

5:56.8 avg

10/3 - 10x 800 w/ 90 sec recovery:

- Mostly steady and averaged 2:37.4. To my defense, this was on the path and as a rain storm was clearing. It was 100% humidity and felt absolutely disgusting. A far cry from the 8x 800's at 2:32.8 that I had back on 9/5, and certainly not a confidence booster.

After a couple really solid workouts in early/mid September, I feel like this training ended with a thud. I got the volume though and made it though. Maybe too much quantity and not enough quality?? Shit, have I over trained??? And am I fit enough to roll a PR in Chicago? UGH....