January 13th: Rest day Monday!
January 14th: Our trip this weekend was canceled, which is a bummer but we have a big one the end of the month so there’s something. Plus, the reason for not going make perfect sense and is the right call. So this means there’s likely not a break in the training this week. Today was 8x1 min at 5k-10k pace. I set the tread at 7:14-7:09 for the minutes. It went okay. Sometimes when I’m on the treadmill with faster paces there’s a mental block where I almost have a bit of an anxiety attack as if I think I’m going to trip or fall. The stride gets off and I’m held back. It’s annoying but the heart rate goes up! I’m hoping that’s something I can try to fix this go around.
January 15th: The problem with going away is how much work goes into getting to that point. I’ve been out of the home for 11 hours each day for couple past weeks. What that means is that optimistic idea that my second rest day would actually be a bike day goes out the window.
January 16th: We’re slowly easing back into the two speed workouts a week. That’ll be the case up until the marathon although at times it will be a workout during a long run, which sometimes I prefer and sometimes they are the worst. Today was three miles at marathon pace, 8:00 a mile, with .25 rest between. I actually felt really good during the marathon pace efforts, which is always a nice thing. I had to cut the warm up and cool down short because of time which is just going to be the running theme of this build.
January 17th: Today was *A Day* at work. There was 6 miles on my schedule, but I already only plan to do 4 because of dinner plans. After the day I just had there was literally no energy to even pull out a 1 mile run at this stage that would’ve had any benefit. Since technically I’m supposed to be in California right now and had the weekend off on a training block, I’m going to have some grace with myself and take the rest for what it was and what I needed. There will be plenty of time to push through and keep going even when I don’t want to that I can afford to rest right now especially with our larger trip coming up.
January 18th: I managed to get myself outside today. I knew I couldn’t make up the missed miles so I settled for something in between. I had a pretty solid headache so that took most of my focus, but I got 5.5 done I told myself to just go to the end of the rail trail and back and don’t look at your watch. Miles are miles. I held true to that promise and thought a lot about how Des Linden, when speaking about DNF-ing for a non-injury/emergent reason, said that the first time you step off is hard, but it makes the next time a little easier. I'm trying to focus on my mental game this block and didn’t step off this time.
January 19th: Long run of 12 miles. The legs felt okay at the start, but I didn't really enjoy the hills. It was sort of just a meh run. Nothing bad, nothing good. I was going to call it at 11.5, but went to the 12 just because. I feel like this is the time in the block, aside from the fact I'll be off running for about two weeks, where it's harder than it feels for what I'm doing. I look forward to a hard 20 and the 12 feeling easy.
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