One of the greatest things about having Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays off is not having to set an alarm for my strength run. Not only would I not have to wake up early to beat the heat of the day, I would have a mostly empty gym to sweat my butt off during my 3x2 mile with 800 recovery strength run. I did the majority of the two mile intervals at a 7:47 pace -- four seconds faster than the 7:51 pace that Hansons suggests for strength runs. Similar to the last strength run, I would guess that I didn't run a total of .5 miles because of taking water breaks (I am very uncoordinated when it comes to drinking water and running on a treadmill). I will also admit that to complete a total of 9.5 miles, I finished the last 1.37 miles on the stationary bike -- that took me 5:21. I really am enjoying my treadmill running because I feel really strong afterwards and am gaining more confidence with every workout that I am hitting target pace. The one downside to the treadmill and working out inside a gym is how sweaty I become. I literally turn my clothes a different shade and they are soaking wet like I went running in the rain. But, with a month of doing my speed, strength and tempo workouts on the treadmill, I am starting to see the benefits.
Now, about the title. As we know, Tuesday is my regular of day and I was very excited about this particular Tuesday as I was going to be able to attend my church's fair, something I haven't been able to do in four years as I was away at college. I was ecstatic to ride carnival rides, work the beer booth, eat too much pizza fritta and hang out with my Mom. However, I also knew the next day was going to be one of the hardest I experience this year, so the night was a little tainted. I also took off from running on Wednesday to drive to Marblehead, Ma to attend my friend's dad remembrance service. It was one of the most emotionally draining days I have ever experienced and when I arrived home at 7 p.m. (after getting up at 5 a.m.) I was numb from the day and decided to do cancel my 9 mile tempo run for the day. So I adapted the program again -- I scratched Thursday's 7 easy mile run to do Wednesday's 9 miles tempo -- this time with 1.5 mile warm up and cool down, instead of only 1 mile -- on Thursday. All in all, I will only lose six miles this week because I did one extra on my tempo run that I don't normally do. If I learned anything from this week, it is that running really isn't that important when you need to be there for a friend, but it is one heck of a way to relieve stress (at least for myself). Today was another treadmill day was it was the tempo run. It was also the first week of a 9 miles tempo run -- up a mile from last week. The target pace is 8:01 -- the same as my target marathon pace. I did all 9 miles at 8:00 min/mile. Like I stated, I did 1.5 miles of warm up and cool down to get an extra mile in on the day. It took me 1:42.23 minutes to complete the 12 miles. My 9 miles at tempo pace were done in 1:12 minutes, however my watch said 1:28 because the treadmill decided that once I reached 7.23 miles it would make me stop. I had to restart the treadmill and forgot to stop my watch.
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