Marathon week

Well I guess I'm not going to be a regular-posting-schedule type blogger, oh man it's gonna be hard to monetize. Too bad because I bet real tedious weekly training recaps bring in the $$$

So all right, I haven't posted here in a couple weeks, what is the haps. Let's do "training highlights and lowlights".

Highlights:

• 22.5 mile long run 3 weeks ago. 7:26 average pace, although I guess that long run duration is more important than pace, in which case 2:45. Downhill point-to-point, felt super, last 2 miles at sub 3-hr pace. This despite Shark Week commencing at mile 16 if you know what I mean ladies AND I THINK YOU DO LOLOLOL human bodies are disgusting.
• Various good interval workouts
• Tapery 10-mile "long run" this weekend, last 3-4 miles at MP or faster, where 6:50 pace felt like I was really holding back

Lowlights:

• A week of stomach issues resulting in dropping out of a few runs early
• A 16-mile long run where the last 6 miles were supposed to be MP, and I could only do 3 before I had to slow back down, v discouraging

So now the Phoenix Marathon is this Saturday, let's see, in about the time it took Aron Ralston to cut off his arm with a dull pocket knife I'll be done. I guess I feel pretty good? I think tapering is starting to work its magic. I'm already dreaming about all I'm going to eat and drink when I'm done, and dreading when I'm going to have to get a life when it's over.

Training 01/26/2015-02/01/2015

Easy week easy week, here we go

Monday -- 6 miles at 7:35 average pace.

Tuesday -- 12.2 miles total. This workout was Yasso 800's, a super popular marathon-prediction workout. The idea is to do 800m repeats at a pace equal in minutes + seconds. to your marathon goal time in hours + minutes. So if I want to run a 3-hour marathon, I should do these in 3 minutes with 3 minutes rest. I did 10 of them at probably 3:00 average, they ranged from 2:55 to 3:05. Felt surprisingly pretty good, it was very possible. That's wacky, training is wacky, the human body is wacky.

Wednesday -- 6.1 miles at 7:59 average pace.

Thursday --  12 miles at 7:26 average pace. Most of the run was at 7:30-ish, 10x20 second sprints at the end. For some reason these sprints were the hardest thing I've done in a while.

Friday -- 5 miles at 7:43 average pace. Stuck in my dumb neighborhood due to rain.

Saturday -- 5 miles at 7:22 average pace. The roads were flooded both directions from my house so I ran back and forth between the two floods. Saw a loooot of idiot drivers.

Sunday -- 15 miles total. 10 of this was a "marathon pace" time trial which I ran at 6:43 average. This is about 10 seconds per mile faster than 3:00 pace, and it's a good thing because I did NOT feel like I could have kept it up for 16 more miles.

Total -- 61.2 miles at 7:34 average pace.