First day off since flying home for spring break. This was on purpose. I have been at 70mpw for 6-7 weeks now and I am taking a cut back week. I am also changing my training strategy a bit. I am going to start doing a 3 week high mileage 1 week cut back schedule. My high weeks will be 70-80 and my low weeks will be 40-50. I think that it will be better both physically and mentally. I have 15 weeks including this one until my fall marathon (cape cod) and here is what I plan mileage wise. 40 70 70 70 40-50 80 70 70 40-50 80 70 80 40-50 70 30 And then the marathon is on the sunday after that week. It is a bit more than a 1 week taper because I will have taken a cut back week 3 weeks before the marathon. But I hate tapering. I am going to be trail racing or racing long on the road most weeks so that will count as 1 workout. I want to continue going to the thursday night 5 mile races to do as tempos. So my VO2max work should be tuesday. My long run is a tough one for weeks that I will be racing. I am torn between saying that a half marathon race is worth an 18-20 mile easy run and doing the long run anyway. I could try to take long cool downs for my races but that would be difficult but probably good for me. With a 2 mile warmup and 3 mile cooldown a 13 mile race turns into an 18 mile long run with a fair amount of sub marathon pace effort. On weekends that I don't race I will definitely do a long trail run of 18-22 miles. Another question is should I do workouts on my cutback weeks? I will definitely at least do some striders during my easy runs those weeks.
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