On Saturday I made up my hill training workout which I swapped out on Thursday due the fact I had to work late and ended up doing Satruday's 6 miles on Thursday. I stared with a 1 mile warm up and proceeded to do 4 hill repeats.
My first attempt was really good and I did it in 2:05 (min/sec). My second attempt was 2:06:03, third attempt was 2:06:02 and fourth attempt was 2:13:08. I was sufficiently tired out after that last hill and was very happy to be done!
Easter is one of my favorite holidays and I am glad that I was able to get my long run in before Easter festivities! 13 miles done in about 2:30 hour/min. I started out pretty slow and realized why Hal Higdon probably does not suggest doing hills before a long run as I had done on Saturday. I chopped up the first 1.68 miles to warming up and restarted the garmin after a bathroom break and some stetching to get into a better pace.
After my breather my pace improved and I finished the remaining 12 miles at a little over a 10:30 min/mile pace.
I spent the rest of day enjoying Easter with my family and having lunch at Red Lobster! I also enjoyed hanging out with my Son in his Easter outfit.
Week 5 Schedule looks like this -
4.6 Monday 3 miles run
4.7 Tuesday 7 miles run
4.8 Wednesday 3 miles run
4.9 Thursday 35 min tempo
4.10 Friday REST
4.11 Saturday 7 miles run
4.12 Sunday 14 miles
Total 34 Miles and 35 minute tempo run
Two things I am grateful for going into week 5 - 1) the weather is finally consistent and looking forward to gorgeous days of sun and breeze during my runs and 2) the Rock Creek Trail which I run just got better as a section that was previously under construction which blocked me from going further into DC is finally fixed and mymy run trail just got longer (so no need to loop as much to get mileage) and is also more scenic! What are you grateful for lately?!
Here's to BQing' in 2015,
Yvonne!
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