April 7th: On deck was a speed workout of 3x2miles at 7:51. I did the warm-up and about halfway through the 1st mile at the prescribe pace, my calf just started to let me know it wasn’t happy. I have been there before, just recently!, and so I decided that I would just dial it entirely back. I ended up doing a easy 6 mile run and the camp with more or less OK with it if not a little bit sore but I was proud of that decision.
April 8th: In discussing with my coach, the plan was to keep the week as scheduled and just move forward. Today was a rest day. Done and done. It helps too that my in-laws come in tonight
April 9th: As mentioned, my in-laws are in town and I didn’t have the energy to wake up early and do the 6 mile run after staying up way too late chatting. It would be very rude, I think, I do the run with them here for a short time so I skipped it. It’s really hard to not consider this week already a failure and to be worried about the implications going forward. But there is something to be said about some things mattering more and will a 6 mile skipped run really do me in? We shall see but sometimes you have to make the hard decisions.
April 11th: I am essentially forcing myself to get this train back on the track. Today was a long speed work out, but it worked out after discussing our schedules with my husband. On deck with 2 x (1.5mi, 1mi) with 800 rest jog all and strength pace which is 7:51. I did this outside and after work, and I was happy with all of the splits, which were above the prescribed paces:
Splits: 11:24 (7:36), 7:30, 11:23 (7:36), 7:39.
I cut the cool down a little short but overall nothing too bad and pretty happy with this one. Everything felt good and I’m hoping that the calf continues to make its little recovery again.
April 12th: We woke up to 6 inches of snow. I knew there was crummy weather this weekend but I thought it could be worked around. Not actually the case now. I was trepidatious about the treadmill because I think it does cause my calf some issues but there was no other option today so I lacked ip and got the 8 miles done with not much worse than wear. I feel like I’m slowly clawing this week back
April 13th: Luckily the bad weather cleared up so I was able to do the 14 mile long run outside with just a normal amount of layers. It was a pretty good 14 miler where I felt steady, paces were quicker than I expected it to be, and the heart rate was kept low. I don’t entirely trust or rely on the heart rate because sometimes how the watch sits on my wrist seems to affects things, but it was nice to at least see it a tad lower. Also just a nice end of a week that really got away from me at times.
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