Goofy Training – Week 1 of 22

I promise this is a post about running not tennis but I since spent last weekend in Toronto with my parents attending the Rogers Cup and I couldn’t resist posting one tennis picture. This is Roger Federer playing Novak Djokovic in the Saturday evening semi-final match. Federer went on to lose to Andy Murray in Sunday’s final.

Now back to running. The first week of Marathon/Goofy training is in the bank. I originally had two mid-week easy runs scheduled but I combined them into one longer run after work on Tuesday with my friend Alice. We’re doing the Horror Hill 15K run at the end of October so we got together to train on the course. It was ridiculously hot and humid but we took it easy, drank loads of water and gatorade and got it done. Actually hot and humid is a good way to describe all my runs this week. I’m finding it very difficult to gauge my pace these days. I’m running slower than I’d like to be but I don’t know how much of that to attribute to the heat and how much to attribute to my fitness level. I’ve been ignoring my Garmin a lot lately and just running by feel. Hopefully by the time the temperatures start to drop I’ll have regained some fitness and I’ll be able to compare my paces to previous training cycles.

Overall I’d give myself a grade of B for this week. I hit my goal mileage of 40km for the week but I didn’t get any cross training in. I just learnt that the city of Waterloo has an outdoor 50m pool that’s open during the summer. How did I not know about this? My goal is to get there in the next week to check it out and get some cross training in.

09/08	-	Rest day
10/08	14.8 km	Easy run: avg 9:18 min/km, Horror Hill run
11/08	-	Rest day
12/08	9.2 km	Temop run: 5km @ 5:20/5:33/5:19/5:29/5:22 min/km
13/08	-	Rest day
14/08	16.0 km	Long run: avg 6:31 min/km
15/08	-	Rest day
Total	40.0 km	YTD: 1122.2 km