Monday
PM Road 6, first 4 with Melissa and Uta, strides total 6.5 miles
XT Ankle drills, whartons, scapular isometrics
Tuesday
PM at Haverhill High School, I'm coaching my middle school track team this spring and practice is at the high school at 4:30 so I try to sneak a run in between when I get out of school and when practice starts, 21minute warm up, skipping warm up, light drills, strides, Light Monaghetti fartlek about 1/2 effort, averaged 5:32 pace for the 20mins. No cool down to speak of it was time for practice. total around 8 miles
XT skipping warm up, light drills, whartons, scapular isometrics
Wednesday
PM 2 mile warm up with Uta, 14:19, dropped her off, 10 miles at fundamental pace in 58:20 slowest mile 5:58, fastest 5:37, very hilly. strides after, this was aerobically very easy these runs are key to returning my muscular endurance and to improving my ability to hold the coordination, total 12.5 miles
XT ankle drills, whartons, scapular isometrics
Thursday
AM dale road 5 with Melissa and Uta, 38:30, strides after total 5.5 miles
XT ankle drills, whartons, scapular isometrics
Friday
PM 30 minute warm up, ended up at North Andover Middle school as the high school had a lacrosse game. skipping warm up, light drills, strides. Moderate session of Aussie quarters(8x(200jog) 400m rep) (43.04), 68.20, (52.92), 68.82, (49.22), 69.21, (54.37), 69.43, (50.81), 68.81 (51.63), 69.13, (49.05), 69.00, (50.91), 68.73 total time for 3 miles 15:53.28- about a minute slower than before the marathon but the effort was less. Funny thing is I could see how someone would tell themselves that this was a hard effort. It makes me wonder if I could just notch up my toughness one level could I actually be doing a session like this in 13:50? If I could I would truly world class. Is there another notch there? 6 minute cool down total 9 miles or so
XT whartons, scapular isometrics, skipping warm up, light drills
Saturday
AM 4 miles with Uta, first 2 miles with Melissa warming up for her race, then strides in Dover, NH total 4. 5 miles
XT whartons, scapular isometrics
Sunday
AM 2 mile warm up, skipping warm up, 20k fundamental pace run, 1:11:41, did two 10k loops, first in 36:13, 2nd in 35:27, again very easy aerobically but this work is for the muscular endurance and working on the coordination. did strides after, total 15 miles
XT ankle drills, whartons, scapular isometrics.
Summary
So this week was a semi return to training. In the past I have built up miles slowly in returns and worked out less but tried to workout at full effort. This time around I'm trying to follow a normal schedule outline but with reduced miles AND doing the workouts at a lighter effort. We'll see how it goes. I like the idea of it but I haven't done it before. This week I'll be doing much the same thing with just a small step up. I expect the week after that to be closer to full volume and effort.
Sorry for not having more updates this week but it isn't likely that I'll be posting too much from now to the end of the school year. I'll get in the weekly training blog but beyond that I think it will be a bit light. I've got the track team added to the regular schedule for the next few weeks and Melissa and I are probably moving and are doing some work on our current place to get it ready to sell so we are VERY busy.
Hope your training is going well!
