Half-marathon training – Week 2 – Check out Chasing Kimbia

02/10	–	Rest day
03/10	4 miles	Slow & easy
04/10	5 miles	Speedwork, 2x1600m @ 8:02, 8:07 – likely went anaerobic on the 2nd interval, oops
05/10	XT	45 min on the elliptical machine + stretching
06/10	XT	quasi-Rest day, spent about 1.5 hours hiking up and down Mount Work
07/10	7 miles	Long run @ 10:21 min/mile (ran in Victoria – it was ridiculously beautiful)
08/10	XT	Climbed the Grouse Grind in 61:32
Total	16 miles	YTD: 567 miles

[10/10] This past week was a pretty good training week. I spent the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend in Victoria and Vancouver which meant working my training in around various other events. It wasn’t really a problem though especially since some of those events counted as cross training. More on the weekend is coming up in another post.

The other excitment of last week was the discovery of the website Chasing Kimbia. The description on the website says it best …

Follow the lifestyle and training of a small group of elite marathoners as they prepare for the Chicago and New York City marathons. Managed by KIMbia Athletics and sponsored by New Balance, these athletes have left their families in Kenya and Tanzania to train together and live together in Boulder, Colorado. This is your backstage pass to a behind the scenes view on their training & lifestyle during the build-up.

I’d encourage you to check it out. I am totally addicted.