No MotionBased stats available at the moment for tonight’s run as I’m having problems with my other computer that I usually hook the Garmin up to. Seems like a recent Windows update has messed with some settings and I’m unable to start it up at the moment.
Anyway, on to tonight’s run. I planned on running for an hour and with an easy warm up expected to cover about eight miles in the late afternoon sunshine. I’m not quite sure what happened but I ended up running faster than expected and covered the eight miles in exactly 52 minutes – a crazy 6:30 per mile pace, which is roughly where I want to be come Frederick Marathon day. The last couple of miles of the eight were into a headwind and to be honest I was starting to feel quite fatigued towards the end – hence the two mile cool down to finish off the workout which will hopefully help keep any soreness and stiffness at bay.
Looking at my training log since the Shamrock Marathon on March 16th, apart from an easy recovery week of 18 miles, I’ve really put myself through some tough weeks. My legs are definitely feeling the extra miles and extra effort and I’m really looking forward to the marathon taper – I’m not sure how long I can keep this quality training going.
Hopefully I can get my other computer working before the night is over. I’m currently performing a System Restore and the blue progress is slowly ticking along. Fingers crossed….
Nice work. I did that workout last night, except that I had a 2 mile warm up as well as a 2 mile cool down and I intended to run the middle 6 miles at my goal marathon pace (6:00/mile).
I’m still trying to decide what to do on Saturday. I am considering a 14 miler with the middle 10 miles at goal pace. Not so sure that will be in the cards though.
I didn’t have much to worry about with wind last night. I did the miles on a 2 kilometer “figure 8” loop in a back development where I wouldn’t have to worry about traffic. I passed the same people out for a walk multiple times, but only got passed by 2 cars during that part of the workout.