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| How I felt all week..... |
Good Tuesday everyone!
Another gloomy and chilly day here in Boston today, which certainly isn't helping with my dwindling motivation to train. As I mentioned in my last post, last' week was the beginning of the marathon taper, and while I was pretty excited overall, I had a pretty miserable week of running. The one bright spot last week was the return of OUTDOOR Track Tuesdays! The turnout was incredibly sparse because everyone probably though the track was still frozen over but for the first time in 10 weeks, the track was clear and ready to go.
Track Tuesday also proved to be my only decent workout of the week as I skipped Monday's run and Thursday's run I just felt like crap the whole time. Chris, Jill and I did Yasso 800s again (10 x 800m with a 400m recovery in between) and overall it went pretty well except for the gastric emergency during the 400m between interval 6 or 7. In the end, the average 800m time was 2:54, which would predict a 2 hour and 54 minute, something that I couldn't even dream about 2 years ago, let alone 1 year ago. It seems as though training through this winter has really paid off. I am certainly not aiming for that time though come Marathon Monday and really with a good weather day, all I want is a 2;59:59.
This weekend also brought a new challenge for the second to last week of training with the arrival of Passover. It also meant that Shirley and I got to go home to visit family and friends this weekend. While Friday had some gorgeous weather both here in Boston and in Montreal, Saturday, Montreal gave me a lovely welcome with a beautiful snow storm to add the impossibly bad weather I have had for every single training run. I managed only 12.2 of my planned 16 miles but I can't blame that entirely on the weather but mostly on the fact I didn't and couldn't take any Gu because of Passover. The snow did change my planned course, as I had initially hoped of doing a run up Mont-Royal, which I quickly changed to a much easier, flatter run through my local stomping ground. Overall though, I just didn't feel fresh most of the week and maybe it was some taper gnomes, as I felt possible injuries around every turn. Hopefully this week will go better, although I already took Monday off because I was lazy.
13 days to go....Can it get here already? At least today is Track Tuesday again and the Shawgo mile!
Hopefully I'll have time to update on that, March Madness, and my birthday tomorrow.
Thanks for reading!
Another gloomy and chilly day here in Boston today, which certainly isn't helping with my dwindling motivation to train. As I mentioned in my last post, last' week was the beginning of the marathon taper, and while I was pretty excited overall, I had a pretty miserable week of running. The one bright spot last week was the return of OUTDOOR Track Tuesdays! The turnout was incredibly sparse because everyone probably though the track was still frozen over but for the first time in 10 weeks, the track was clear and ready to go.
Track Tuesday also proved to be my only decent workout of the week as I skipped Monday's run and Thursday's run I just felt like crap the whole time. Chris, Jill and I did Yasso 800s again (10 x 800m with a 400m recovery in between) and overall it went pretty well except for the gastric emergency during the 400m between interval 6 or 7. In the end, the average 800m time was 2:54, which would predict a 2 hour and 54 minute, something that I couldn't even dream about 2 years ago, let alone 1 year ago. It seems as though training through this winter has really paid off. I am certainly not aiming for that time though come Marathon Monday and really with a good weather day, all I want is a 2;59:59.
This weekend also brought a new challenge for the second to last week of training with the arrival of Passover. It also meant that Shirley and I got to go home to visit family and friends this weekend. While Friday had some gorgeous weather both here in Boston and in Montreal, Saturday, Montreal gave me a lovely welcome with a beautiful snow storm to add the impossibly bad weather I have had for every single training run. I managed only 12.2 of my planned 16 miles but I can't blame that entirely on the weather but mostly on the fact I didn't and couldn't take any Gu because of Passover. The snow did change my planned course, as I had initially hoped of doing a run up Mont-Royal, which I quickly changed to a much easier, flatter run through my local stomping ground. Overall though, I just didn't feel fresh most of the week and maybe it was some taper gnomes, as I felt possible injuries around every turn. Hopefully this week will go better, although I already took Monday off because I was lazy.
13 days to go....Can it get here already? At least today is Track Tuesday again and the Shawgo mile!
Hopefully I'll have time to update on that, March Madness, and my birthday tomorrow.
Thanks for reading!
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