February 24th: Typical rest day and this one comes with somer unfortunate right hamstring pain/tightness. Unsure if that's due to the foot pain or just a pretty heavy week last week.
February 25th: Hamstring is still not happy so instead of the speed session planned, I did an easy four. Disappointing, but I'm trying to remain positive. There's still time and best to be safe.
February 26th: Because of some scheduling later this week, I ran easy today. It should have been sometime like 6-7 miles to keep up on the week, but Hamstring (who now gets their name in caps) is still bothering me so I did an easy 5. This one came with some extra drama but I'm just going to keep that one close to the chest.
February 27th: Rested up again. Hamstring still annoyed, but making shifts for later in the week to try and get the most out of this week while keeping an eye on Hammy (now they have a nickname).
February 28th: Our pup had a rough night. We've been changing his food and he's had a few other issues, but tonight it was a 2am wake up to diarrhea and then a 4:40am wake-up to the same. After cleaning up at 4:40am I decided it was best to just get my run done. I did a little over 5 on the treadmill and am keeping an eye on Hammy who is not getting worse, but holding a bit steady in the tightness arena. In consulting with my coach, I'm going to try and have my long run with the missed tempo (6 miles).
March 1st: Well, first spicy long run of this block and it was a success. Hammy is still there and still letting me know they aren't 100% happy with marathon training. But again, it's not getting worse so I'm going to keep trying it out. This long run was 8 miles normal, 6 miles at MP (8:00), 2 normal. I hit the tempo pretty solidly, with an 8:02 average. Miles fluxed a bit more than I would like, but I'm trying the spicy long run for the first time. The last two were a bit slower than the first 8 but I didn't fall too much apart. I took 3.5 gels and the Maurten was the one that seemed to settle the least well so I may try a full UCAN contingent next time. I am still terrible with fluid so I really need to try and step that up because the post-run nausea is telling me that I'm missing that aspect pretty solidly.
March 2nd: I'm a little low on the hopeful miles this week, but followed the advice of 4-6 miles so I, of course, did 5. Hammy was maybe a little more upset, but I did put some all natural muscle relaxant on it for all that may do. I'm going to try and be a bit more focused on my use of the compression pants and theragun to try and make everything go relaxed.
Next week is a bit of a dial back, although that will actually have my miles be about what they were this week and, after that, it's Eastern States with the first 20 miler of this build. Or, for now, that's the plan. I'm more than happy to consider shifting to a half if Hammy or something else decides to pop up.
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