AM: 75F, 89%. 6 miles. Workout fail at the track today - went out for a 6 x 1 and I got through 1 rep. I ran a strained 6:21 and pretty much walked off the track right then, almost unconsciously, it was pretty abrupt. I've had plenty of workout fails but that one was pretty spectacular.
AM2: When I got to work it was still 6:30, so instead of doing actual work, I hopped on the TM for 5 more, and added 10 x (1 minute on/off). Now THERE'S a workout I can get used to.
I'm not ready to give up on the mileage experiment yet, but I'm close. Over the past 18 weeks, I've averaged 77+ miles/week and it seems like it's not doing anything. I just get a little slower every week. I've been assuming that your body will eventually just adapt to anything but maybe not. I could call this a long base phase, hit a couple months of speed work @ 60-65/week, then back to high mileage before my 50-miler and probably be fine. But first I want to try cutting the long runs back to 1 every 3rd week. I'll also move most of my PM runs to the TM, keeping 1 or 2 outside for heat conditioning. Hopefully that combo will give me enough life to get me through the summer, but if not, I'm ok scaling back until October.
PM: meh, that's enough for today
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