Wheeler Farm Loops

AM - Skinned to Twin Lakes Pass after breakfast. Dust on crust skiing. Better than we thought it would be after how warm and sloppy it was yesterday.

PM - 8 miles + 8 x 100m strides. Andrea biked along. We waited until the sun came out for good.

AM - 8 miles.

PM - 8 miles. 30 minute warmup w/ Andrea + 8 x 100m strides on the track. Workout was 8 x 400m (90s, 1500m pace). Averaged 66.3 seconds. Cooled down 15 minutes on the grass at SHP. 

Not an awful workout, but not what I was looking for. Ran the first one in 64.2 which I found out I'm not ready for yet. This workout exposes a very obvious weakness... but then again, weaknesses like this are also very obvious opportunities. I need to be spending more time on the track running shorter intervals in May and June. I have time to make some serious improvements before Duluth. And when I look at the whole plan for the year, I have a little over 3 months until I'll start my Chicago buildup. There's no doubt that by that time I can get fast enough to properly train for the marathon.

AM - 9 miles. Decided to really shake things up and run something other than eight miles. Gotta keep the body guessing. #CRoSsFiT4Life#

PM - 6 miles.

AM - 18 miles. LT Shuffle: 8 x 5/1 minute efforts. Average pace was 5:02/mile for the 5 minute efforts and 4:52/mile for the 1 minute efforts. 6:08/mile average for the entire run.

FLAT this morning. I could tell from the first one-minute effort. I did this same workout a few weeks ago (March 25) faster (although I blew up at the end of that one). I just didn't have any pop in my legs (obvious on the 1 minute portions), which is almost definitely because I did this too close to the Monday evening 400s. I have a (stupid) work trip in the middle of next week to New Jersey, so I shuffled a few things in my workout schedule to avoid having to do a harder workout while I'm there. The downside is that I did today's session on tired legs. The upside is that I kept it at true threshold and completed the full workout at a consistent effort level without trying to match the last time I did this and destroying myself in the process.

Splits:

PM - 4 miles.

AM - 9 miles.

PM - 8 miles.

Somebody tell this guy to make a website with some actual details.

AM - 5 miles. 

PM - 5 miles. 

Took the day off from work and we went up to Snowbasin to ski. It was slushy. The low elevation combined with warm temperatures turned the entire mountain into mashed potatoes. Hardly anyone there... had the place to ourselves. Fun day.

AM - 12 miles. 4 mile warmup to HHS + 8 x 100m strides. Workout was 5 x 800m (3K, 2:00) in 2:17.5 average. Exact same average as last time, but splits were tighter today. Since I didn't go any faster, I needed to add something to the session, so I did 10 x 200m (1500, 200m jog) in ~33 seconds average. Should have been a man and just added on an additional 800m rep. Cooled down 3 miles back home.

PM - 3 miles. Laps around the Alta parking lot for 25 minutes. We might have spent close to 3 hours in the hot tub before/after dinner. My muscles should be sufficiently loose now.

Workouts were sort of "blah" this week... in some ways I felt like I was just going through the motions. It's difficult to keep the sharp mental focus all the time. The important thing is that I start to dial it back in over the next two weeks as I get closer to Indianapolis.