Training Summary: 1/15-21/2018

Hi friends – happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Ours was wonderful and busy and now I’m starting off the week absolutely tired! haha, but it was worth it! We took Liv to the San Diego Zoo on Saturday and are really excited that she loved it because we got an annual pass for Christmas so we’ll be back many more times this year. 🙂

I’m a day late on sharing my training summary from the past week but it was a a great week of training. I’m loving getting back into workouts again and the “shorter” long runs are great (compared to 20/22 miles 14 felt like a breeze). I’m also doing a lot better so far this training cycle with doing core, mini-band exercises and getting into the gym for some strength sessions. These ancillary workouts are going to be imperative for racing the shorter distances that I have on the schedule this spring. 🙂 

Training Summary

Monday – 8 miles @ 7:28 pace + mini-band exercises

Tuesday – AM: 10 mile workout [2 mile warm-up, 6 mile tempo @ 6:03 pace, 2 mile cool-down]
PM: CORE

Wednesday –  AM: 7 miles @ 7:29 pace
PM: 30 minutes balance + stability strength session

Thursday – AM: 7.65 miles @ 7:28 pace
PM: 45 minutes cross-training on the Elliptigo

Friday – 10.65 mile workout [3 mile warm-up, 15x 1 minute on/1 minute jog, 3 mile cool-down] 
pace splits for 1 minute ons -> 5:21, 5:23, 5:21, 5:17, 5:12, 5:19, 5:09, 5:19, 5:20, 5:14, 5:16, 5:10, 5:21, 5:19, 5:13  
PM: 50 minutes cross-training on the Elliptigo

Saturday – 6 miles easy @ 8:04 pace

Sunday – 14 mile long run @ 7:31 pace

TOTAL MILES: 63.3 miles

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