Brick by brick I'm putting myself back together. The winter was brutal and I missed a ton of training/basing due to the shitiest.injury.ever., but I'm coming back.
I'm now sitting on five weeks of mid-60's to upper-70's training. I've inserted a couple joker races, have a few workouts under me, and have been doing lots of progression runs. In general, I'm feel decent, albeit a little tired and sore... but no significant holdbacks (huge knock on wood). Importantly, I'm actually having fun training again.
This is where things take off. Including this week, I have about seven weeks to train for Berlin (assuming an abbreviated taper). I'm letting it fly. Over the next couple weeks, I'll jam as much quality as possible into about 80-85 mile weeks, and then it's off to the cabin. Hopefully I can survive two back-to-back 90-100 mile weeks in the mountains without any injuries.
After the Adirondacks, I go back to the Chicago Half Marathon on 9/7 to try to prove myself, then a week and a half to tighten things up.
I've been down this road 19 times already. I know what I'm doing. If I don't fuck up, number 20 will be my fastest marathon ever.
That being said, last night I had my first real tempo since last October. I ran six miles at a 5:49 average. It was humid outside and eventually started to rain, but I ran extremely smooth and controlled. I picked it up nicely after the turn. I didn't have any troubles at all... And to boot, I doubled the day for 16 total miles. That's a pleasant confidence booster.
Tempo #1 recap:
1- 6:00
2- 5:56
3- 5:57
4- 5:48
5- 5:40
6- 5:35
Avg: 5:49
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