February 10th: Despite having no mileage really this weekend, I still kept today as a rest day. I’m starting to feel better in terms of the cold and so I’m hoping that I’m starting to finally get back on track and will be able to get into the training plan as scheduled soon.
February 11th: Today’s plan was 3 x 2 minutes two minutes one minute with one minute rest between at a 5K 10K pace. As I am still trying to be smart about my come back )don’t call to come back!) I kept with the pick ups, but did it only at 8:34 per minute pace. It didn’t feel that hard which was nice and it really shouldn’t feel that hard but you never know. I’m hoping to move things around with my coach this week, but still hit all of the goals for this week which is a little bit less than the original plan, but coming off of the last two weeks I’ve had I’m going to roll with it.
February 12th: Rest day! I do hope to get to a cross training day one day a week on the rest day, but I’m still being cautious about this return to the training block.
February 13th: I had today off for some house stuff so I knew I wanted to get my run in probably around lunchtime and thankfully that worked out with the plumber is leaving just before noon. On the schedule was 8 miles which included 1.5 mile warm up and cool down and 5 miles at marathon pace. I already planned to cut the warm up and cool down to 1 mile because 1.5 miles just sounded like too much. And I was aiming for the 5 miles at 8:00. Guess what? I did it! It wasn’t the most comfortable, but it actually wasn’t as bad as I thought and so far I’m still feeling okay. It was a nice ego boost to not feel like I have lost all time with the past three weeks. I’m proud of this and not as pessimistic as I was before. It’s a long road still, but here’s hoping that I am somewhat back on the track.
February 14th: I was supposed to run four but didn’t want to wake up early and we had dinner plans so this was an unplanned rest day.
February 15th: To make up some lost miles I went a little rogue doing a Peloton class (650th run with a shoutout) and actually followed the cues so this was faster and harder then scheduled but it was fun.
February 16th: We have some weather so I knew going into this weekend I was going to long run n the tread. On deck was 12 miles which I hit tread wise and 13.1 in my watch so the truth is likely closer to the 12. I actually didn’t feel terrible and managed two UCANs in stomach prep which is always an adventure. I’ll be happy to get outside one day but I’m not going to press in bad weather.
All in all I’m happy with how this week turned out with me finally feeling like I’m in a place to focus on my training plan. We’ll see how long this last as everyone is still sick and February and March’s weather tries anyone patience, but here we go.
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