8K training – Week 8 – I could totally bust apart my 5K PB right now
| 10/07 | 0 miles | Rest day, evening IMA softball game |
| 11/07 | 3 miles | approx 11:00 min/mile (slow & easy), evening ultimate game (16-15 victory!) |
| 12/07 | 7 miles | tempo run, 2x 2.8 miles: 8:24 min/mile, rest, 8:50 min/mile. Hard but good |
| 13/07 | 0 miles | Rest day, evening IMA ultimate game |
| 14/07 | 2 miles | 11:19 min/mile, weights |
| 15/07 | 0 miles | Rest day, softball practice |
| 16/07 | 10 miles | 11 min/mile |
| Total | 22 miles | YTD: 427.5 miles |
I’m trying out a new format for my training posts. The idea came from “running commentary” one of the running blogs I occasionally like to visit. My plan is to update my mileage in the above table during the week and then write the final summary at the end of the week. I’m going to try to keep this entry at the top of the log so non-running entries I make during the week should appear below it.
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Well I hope everyone enjoyed my first week of daily mileage updates. I don’t actually keep a training log (I know, the horror) so it’s nice for me to record what I do every day. This week was sort of odd in that I had two longish runs and two shortish runs and nothing in between. Things even out a little bit next week.
Wednesday’s run was quite the experience. It was supposed to be 7 miles with 5 miles of tempo in the middle but instead I split the tempo up into two 2.8 mile repeats (that’s the distance around the inner loop of Green Lake). I have to admit I was tired when I started the run. On Tuesday I’d run 3 miles in the morning and then played a monster ultimate game in the evening. I actually amazed myself and ran the first 2.8 mile loop at 8:24 pace! Then I took 5 minutes to recover and did the second loop at 8:50 min/mile which was much slower but, like I said, I was tired. If I were able to hold 8:24 for a 5K that would give me a finish time of 26:05 which would take a full 1:30 off my 5K PB set in February. I’m still focusing my training on the 8K in 2 weeks (which will be a PB since I’ve never done an 8K before) but I think I might try to do a 5K later in August because I’d LOVE to bust apart my 5K PB.