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Half Marathon: 1:05:45 (Long Beach)
10K: 30:03 (Portland)

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17.100.000.00

AM - 13.1 miles. Started at SHP w/ AdamRW, Allie, and James. Nice snowy/slushy run... luckily its Sunday morning, so not many cars out, and we could just run in the middle of the roads. James stopped at 5 and the rest of us ran up to the fieldhouse at the U (where Allie dropped out to meet James, who had driven up there - very complicated logistics!). Then Adam and I did a loop up on campus and back down to Sugar House.

PM - 4 miles shakeout... the usual. Lazy Sunday... just lounged all day (after sleeping 10+ hours last night).

Big week in the books. This upcoming week will be a planned volume cut-down. I'll try to get in a few quality workouts including the 15K on Saturday. Since the 5K, I've put in weeks of 137, 141, and 150 miles - all while slowly increasing the quantity and quality of faster miles. I like the 3 weeks up, 1 week down - that seems to work well for me. I did the same thing in January (3 weeks at ~140 and then a cut-down at ~110 w/ a race). Although since I have 2 more important races in March, there is no way I'll hit this kind of mileage again this spring. I'm typing this out to keep myself accountable. The base is solid - now I have 8 weeks to fine tune.

Comments
From allie on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 18:32:29 from 97.126.211.101

thanks for the run this morning -- it was nice to have the company all the way to the fieldhouse. the very complicated logistics became very, very complicated when we realized the fieldhouse wasn't even open...

your base is definitely solid, but what is most amazing to me is that you will hit 1,000 miles for the year within the next day or two. it's still february!

From Rachelle on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 18:57:08 from 66.7.127.115

Sounds like a good plan and you definitely have a very solid base!

From Jake K on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 19:39:33 from 67.177.21.60

I just wish I could have hit 1000 miles by Michael Jordan's birthday... gonna miss it by a few days! :-)

From scottkeate on Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:47:36 from 216.49.181.254

I like your plan. Time to trust your base, turn up the tempo, and get ready to smash Boston. It seems to me that you are doing a good job keeping perspective with each run. Asking the question as you run, "Is this helping me or hurting me for Boston?" The test will be to pull it back when you feel it's breaking you down--to not get so attached to hitting every workout, but to be flexible and focus on the aggregate.

Looks like I'm out for Wed's track workout--my two youngest sons have a scout banquet. I'm still working out a plan to run the 15K on Sat.

From Jake K on Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:43:08 from 155.100.226.54

Exactly Scott. I have a calendar with "planned" workouts - but I feel like it changes every 2-3 days! The first draft that I made back in January looked A LOT different than it does right now. I try to keep evaluating what I've done, how the body is feeling, and make adjustments accordingly all the time. The whole thing, like you said, is greater than the sum of the parts. I'm not re-inventing the wheel from what I did in the fall, but I'm making some minor tweaks that I feel will be beneficial.

Hope you can make it to the 15K. No worries about the workout on Wednesday.

From prlman on Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 13:47:00 from 96.25.110.207

Jake you are really looking solid and your focus is so spot on. Keep up the great work ( I am adapting some of your workouts for my own use..well maybe not the same pace and but the generalities) hope you dont mind. It has helped me re vamp my training and have shown great improvements. Thanks for the insight even if it was inadvertent for you..P

From Jake K on Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 13:49:32 from 155.100.226.54

Hey prlman that's the whole point of the blog, right? We can share ideas and inspiration and motivation. Glad whatever nuggets I can pass along are working well for you!

From JulieC on Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 18:02:27 from 71.35.248.211

I love that your cutback week is 110 miles!! IMPRESSIVO!!

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