The beginning of last week was eaten up (LITERALLY) by the continuation of my bachelorette weekend. Sunday night my best friend and I got a hotel room overlooking Central Park, and recovered from the weekend by eating sandwiches and sweet potato fries in bed and watching (/falling asleep to) the Oscars. GO LEO. We planned to get up at 8am and run around the park, something I've never done, but of course the weekend caught up with us and by the time we managed to get out there around 10:30am, it was raining. Oh well. I hadn't planned any mileage for the beginning of the week, so anything we did would've been a bonus and I didn't feel bad skipping out.
The rest of Monday was spent exploring Brooklyn with my future sister-in-law, and Tuesday was a 6 hour drive back to Pittsburgh from NYC. Which leads me to...
Wednesday 3/2 - progression run, 7 miles
I can't remember why I decided to run this on the treadmill. It was either raining OR I just was worried that after a weekend of eating everything in the world, I would die halfway through and be stuck far from home. (Probably the latter.)
Incline: random lv3, 0-2.9%
3 miles easy 10:00+ (5.6, 5.7, 5.8)
3 miles aerobic 9:30-10:00 (6.1, 6.2, 6.3)
1 mile goal HMP of 9:10 (6.6-6.7 for first half mile, 6.8-7.2 for second half mile)
In the end, this didn't feel too bad. I did have to stop at mile 5, 6, and 6.5 to stretch out my calves and hamstrings because my left leg was getting floppy. I will discuss this in a future post, but this happens to me on longer treadmill runs (and occasionally on runs outside) -- my left foot and lower leg starts to feel out of my control, it's very difficult to explain. It's been happening for a few years now, and when it first started I got VERY worried about neurological causes and wound up getting an MRI to rule out bad things (ie. MS). Everything looked good, so it doesn't freak me out anymore, but still is really obnoxious to deal with. I am 99% sure it comes from my leg length discrepancy and just a mechanical imbalance in the way my left leg has to work as I run. But that's another story for another time.
Friday 3/4 - long run, 11 miles
Based on the weather forecast I flip-flopped my 4-mile easy run (supposed to be Thursday) and long run (supposed to be Saturday) so that I could get my long run done on a non-rainy/snowy day.
I wound up very happy with this run. I didn't feel great during -- mostly mentally, I was just over it and wanted coffee and warmth and my couch -- but I wound up with a good average pace on a relatively hilly course.
During my 10th mile I stopped to tie my shoe/wait at a red light and forgot to pause my Garmin (my self-imposed rule is that I let my Garmin run if I need a break from fatigue, muscle cramps, etc -- i.e. a stop my body asks for -- and pause it if it's a stop due to factors outside my control, like a red light.) It was early on in the mile and when I looked down and realized my watch was still running, my pace was 14:00ish and I was pissed off. I wound up just pushing the pace until I got back down to my normal mile split, and then kept the effort more towards medium for the rest of the 10th and the 11th miles.
Splits: 10:58/10:35/10:36/10:20/10:38/10:36/10:25/10:25/10:22/10:04/9:17
Saturday 3/5 - recovery run, 4 miles
Not much to say about this run. I normally take a full rest day after my long runs, so running 24 hours later was a new experience for me, and I tried to take it super easy. The last mile was downhill though and I wound up speeding up a little more than I expected.
Splits: 11:13/11:10/10:33/9:17
OVERALL
I got 22 miles in during a 3-day week, and didn't feel too bad doing it, so I'll call this week a success!
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