Road to Lambeau Field

This is an attempt to start blogging again. Hopefully I can manage more than 5-6 posts in a one month period this time around.

The road to the Green Bay Marathon is almost complete. Only a few more quality efforts until the peaking phase begins. This time around, I have decided to drastically reduce the peak phase, well...all the phases, of training. I am a believer in experimenting with your training and your body to find out what works.

The build-up for Green Bay has been different. I logged a PR mileage week (115), and recorded two of my longest runs ever (2:32 in time - 22 or 23 in length). I started my training later in the season, opting for a 12-14 week build-up, instead of the 18 week build-up.

To recap this week: 105-110 miles. A good volume week, especially following the Get in Gear 10k last Saturday.

Racap the recent quality efforts: (Wed. 4/22) 3k time trial at SD State's first home track meet in 12 years. Ran 8:59.11 after a 4:39 opening mile. I was pretty excited about the first 2k, since zero of my training has been geared at running that fast. (Sat. 4/25) Get in Gear 10k - 32:03 for 15th place. Roughly 10 seconds shy of a PR, and after running like crap at Human Race, I was pleased with the effort. (Thurs. 4/30) 2x5 miles at MP. 27:58 - 5 min rest - 27:50. That was good, because it felt relaxed.

Now for this morning's run with Finch in Stillwater. We met at my parent's house at 6:45, so that we could get in 2 hours before I had to be at work. I ran the same route with Tony about a month ago, and I think Finch felt the need to run the route faster than Tony. And he/we were successful. I think when I run with Finch, we both are trying to prove to one another that we can hammer hills. This route has a good number of hills, up and down, and we both tried to push the hills. In the end we covered 19 miles in 2 hours. A good run, but I was hurting on some of the non-hilly sections around 1:30, but for some reason felt better on the final climb at 1:50. I doubt this is the last time we will run this route.

Green Bay in 14 days!

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