Happy Easter everyone! Hope everybody is having a great day. Posting my tentative running schedule for the coming week. I'll be cutting back slightly on the length of the tempo runs this week but not the intensity as we get closer to Strider's 1/2 on 4/5. As always I reserve the right to change things up during the week based on how I feel on a particular day, i.e. if injury pains or sickness, etc. pop up. Shooting for 60-70 miles.
Mon: 6-8 miles AM, 4-6 miles at noon. Base pace (7:15 or slower). Circuit/weights.
Tue: 2 miles warmup, 6 miles at half marathon pace (6:15-6:40), 2 miles cooldown. Wed: 5-6 miles AM, 5-6 miles noon. Recovery pace (8:00 or slower)
Thu: 6-8 miles AM, 4-6 miles noon. Base pace. Circuit/weights.
Fri: 2 miles warmup, 8 miles at marathon pace (6:40-7:00), 2 miles cooldown. Sat: 8-12 miles @ recovery pace. I have a theory on the lower abdominal pain/strain I've been dealing with but that now seems to be on the mend. I noticed the last couple of weeks I did my circuit/weight training (which includes some lower ab work) immediately after doing my hard tempo runs. I think doing this when my body was already in a weakened/drained state was not so smart and may have caused the lower ab muscle strain. This week I'm dropping the ab exercises entirely from the routine and we'll see how it goes.
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