Week three can be summed up by the term “Getting Back on Track”
What was Week 3 supposed to look like?
- Tuesday – 4 miles Easy, then 4 sets of 20 second/2 minute intervals
- Thursday – 1 mile Easy, 2 miles fast (average pace between 11:00 – 11:20 min/mile)
- Saturday – 4 miles, Easy (average pace between 12:10 – 12:30 min/mile)
- Sunday – 7 miles, Steady (average pace between 11:20 – 11:40 min/mile)
What did week 3 ending up looking like? Well – life got in the way, but I was able to shift a couple of workouts and only skipped one, just to give my body a break between two pretty tough workouts.
- Wednesday – 4 miles Easy, then 4 sets of 20 second/2 minute intervals
- Friday – 1 mile Easy, 2 miles fast (average pace between 11:00 – 11:20 min/mile)
- Sunday – 7 miles, Steady (average pace between 11:20 – 11:40 min/mile)
I know the importance of easy runs in a training program, but this time I felt it more important to skip the 4 mile easy run to have fairly fresh legs for that 7 mile run. Now that I have gotten most of the training runs in last week, I feel better about getting myself back on track. Now I am just counting the days until I can move these training runs off the treadmill and back outside!
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