Training recap week of 7/27 and 8/3 (Route 66 Weeks 2 & 3)

Little behind, so trying to get catch up!  Week 2 went really well - was on vacation and had plenty of time to get my runs in.  It was nice to run in a different locations!

I always knew week 3 was going to be a down week. I had a girls weekend planned in New Orleans and since it's New Orleans in August, I knew a long run wasn't going to happen (and that I might be a little hungover).

Week 2

Monday
Scheduled: Rest
Actual: Rest

Tuesday
Scheduled: 3 miles easy pace
Actual: 3.0 mi, 29:35, 9:51 pace

Wednesday
Scheduled: 3 miles with 1 minute hard, 2 minutes easy plus warm up + cooldown
Actual: 5.0 miles, 52:40, 10:33 average pace

This one was H-O-T.  I took the 2 minutes very easy since it was ungodly hot out.

Thursday
Scheduled: 3 miles easy pace
Actual: 3.01 mi, 29:20, 9:45 pace

Friday
Scheduled: Rest
Actual: Rest

Saturday
Scheduled: 2 miles easy pace
Actual: 2.0 mi, 19:07, 9:33 pace

Sunday
Scheduled: 14 miles long run
Actual: 14.0 miles, 2:17:57, 9:51 average pace

Another hot one!  Is it fall yet?

Week 3

Monday
Scheduled: Rest
Actual: Rest

Tuesday
Scheduled: 4 miles easy pace
Actual: 4.0 mi, 38:59, 9:44 pace

Wednesday
Scheduled: 3 miles tempo pace (8:25-8:30) plus warm up + cooldown
Actual: 5.65 miles, 52:16, 9:15 average pace
Paces: 8:29, 8:20, 8:26

These paces weren't as bad as I thought!  They weren't easy, but they weren't impossible - which is good since that is goal race pace!

Thursday
Scheduled: 5 miles easy pace
Actual: Rest

I had a work thing so had to move this to Friday AM.

Friday
Scheduled: Rest
Actual: 3.18 mi, 30:49, 9:42 pace

Saturday
Scheduled: 13 miles long run
Actual: Rest

This was scheduled, but I always knew it wasn't going to happen.  At least it was at the beginning of the training cycle!

Sunday
Scheduled: 4 miles easy pace
Actual: 4.1 miles, 40:17, 9:50 pace

It was too hot to even do 4 miles outside, so we went did our run on the treadmill (my friend Vanessa runs too and we spent time catching up on the treadmill during our runs).

Total miles: 43.94

Total July miles: 76.56
Total August miles: 32.93

Miles until goal (1,250): 598.90
Cross Training: 0/4