no morning run. Water skied pretty hard though which works the legs as well as several other less likely muscles.
PM: 4x5x400 in the indoor gym. Was short on time because gym was gonna close. Stupid parents held me up leaving home and hit some traffic. So warmed up 1 mile, did the workout hitting adjusted 77-81 throughout mostly 79-80 and closing the last one in 74 but was falling apart trying to do that lol. But I kept the recoveries pretty quick so I probably worked the vo2max quite a bit hopefully. Im not where I could be with vo2max but hopefully this will be the turning point. I felt like I started pretty slow but didn't really speed up just kept it stable. The gym was pretty hot today so I started feeling that and it probably held me back a bit. Next week is when I should be starting the intense vo2max stage of the training. All weeks in that stage have 3 workouts (or 2 workouts and a race) and some have 2 vo2max workouts in a week like 5x1k monday, threshold wednesday, and 4x1200 friday wtf. I am gonna warm up well for those workouts and start slow like 5:30 or 5:35 pace and try to pick it up throughout the workout. On the plus side my legs feel better than they have since I started training for this race. I guess that is because of the 63 mile week and the 70 mile week but I have been going significantly faster on some runs since that decrease. Got kicked out of the gym right after i finished the workout and decided to cool down at the trails but once i got there I just couldnt run at all so i just stretched and said 8 is good enough for today.
am: woke up and went to indoor gym instead of running around here outside. The temps make so much difference for me and since my goal race is gonna be cold I figure no reason to heat train if I dont have to. 7 easy
PM: 8 indoor gym. Very variable but all below 7 pace. One mile this dude passed me and then I stuck behind him and put the hurt on him as he tried to pull away and was entirely unable to. That mile was 6:10.
AM: Breakthrough workout. Henry's 4 mile tempo got me scared. So I had to beat it lol. 22:50 (5:42.5 pace) adjusted for track length (turns out exactly 1 extra lap per 4 miles). Splits were dead even give or take 1-2 seconds but didnt obsessively check my watch, I mostly ran on feel. But it shows you that I was pretty much red line comfort zone. But definitely not racing. I could have pretty easily kept it up for another mile and it still be a workout.
PM: 16hr day guy almost died twice. got 4 miles in at 10pm
PM: 10 miles very comfortable but did it in 67 min. I feel pretty good about the faster running on easy days. But I don't feel a need to do 80-85mpw with it just yet. My legs feel great and the runs are so much shorter in duration and its pretty fun.
AM: 6 finishing with a slightly sub 6 min mile cause it was just feeling good.
PM: 4 was planning on 6 but my right calf was hurting and I opted for a core workout instead of the final 2. Hopefully this gets better soon. Doesnt hurt bad but needs to not get worse.
