Five more weeks until my first marathon! It’s been a milestone week since I ran my first 20 miler which will be the longest distance I run until the marathon. I must say it was a tough one but a pretty good first 20 mile run. I have another 20 miler planned in two weeks. I’m not sure how I’ll get it in, but here’s what I did last week:

Monday – I remember waking up a lot later than planned, since my alarm didn’t wake me up, and I did Focus T25 Total Body Circuit. I cut it close and got to work just in time. Tuesday – Ran 5 miles before heading up to Seattle.
  Wednesday – 8 miles. It was nice to run on this trail again by my parent’s place. Thursday – Running Rest Day. Ended up walking 2 miles and went geocaching.
Friday – Ran 5 miles.  Saturday – Ran 20 miles.
The 20 miles were tough especially since it was a hilly course and rained for a good portion of it. The rain wasn’t bad and felt good at times. But when I finished I had the thoughts of how I would get through 6.2 more miles at a faster pace. My main goal is to finish the marathon but another goal is to finish under 4 hours. I ran most of it at a more comfortable pace since the program says to run the long runs slow. But I also looked at what RunKeeper had planned for me and they had an 18 miler planned with 3 fast miles towards the end and the last 3 miles steady. I decided to incorporate that in my 20 miler to see how I’d do and I ran miles 16-18 faster with splits 8:53/8:42/8:55 and then miles 19, 20 back to a steady pace and got 9:45 and 9:19. I’m actually pretty happy with how I did. But to do another 6.2 miles has me nervous. For me to get a time of 3:59:00, my average pace needs to be 9:07 per mile. There’s still five weeks left and one more 20 miler scheduled. I’ll see how I feel in a couple of weeks. 🙂

Sunday – Rest Day. I am feeling a little sore, and it seems to be my glutes.

Here’s a summary of what Hal Higdon’s plan had scheduled and what I did:

	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun
What I did	Cross	5 m run	8 m run	Rest	5 m pace	20	Rest
Hal Higdon’s plan	Cross	5 m run	8 m run	5 m run	Rest	5 m pace	20

How did your week go? How’s your training going?

I’m linking up with HoHo Runs and MissSippiPiddlin for the Weekly Wrap.

Six more weeks to go until my first marathon! Training is still going good. Mileage decreased a little. I ran 31 miles compared to 39 miles the previous week, which is still a lot for me. I’m still managing to wake up early enough to get my runs in but in one case I missed my alarm on Friday so I had to run in the evening. Thankful that I’m able to get it done!

Here’s what I did last week:

Monday – Cross training day. I did Focus T25 Speed 2.0. It’s a good, fast paced workout that makes me sweat.
Tuesday – Started the day with a nice 5 miles.
Wednesday – Another early morning 5 miler.Thursday – I did P90X3 Dynamix, a great recovery workout with dynamic exercises and stretches.
Friday – Ran a fast evening 8 miler. I probably wasn’t supposed to run it that fast but it felt good, and at the end I decided to run a fast mile for the weekly challenge in G+. I ended up running a 7:32 mile for mile 8. I’m not sure if it was the spaghetti I ate or the Energy and Endurance Formula I took beforehand lol, but I sure went fast. Saturday – After my evening run the day before I still woke up early to get my total 13 scheduled miles.  I ran 10 miles before hubby went to work and the last 3 miles were on the treadmill.

The thirteen miles were ok, just another training run that felt fine. But I’m getting anxious about my 20 miler this weekend. It will be my longest run ever!

Sunday – Rest Day.

Here’s a summary of what Hal Higdon’s plan had scheduled and what I did:

How’d your week go? Any races coming up?

I’m linking up with HoHo Runs and MissSippiPiddlin for the Weekly Wrap.

Marathon training is still going well so far. I’m still following a modified Hal Higdon training plan and I’ve been getting the runs I’ve scheduled done so that’s always good. Here’s what last week’s workouts/runs looked like:

Monday – Cross training. I did Focus T25 Gamma Speed 3.0. I had a great sweat session. There’s lot of burpees in this one.Tuesday – Early morning 4 miles.
Wednesday – Ran 5 miles.  Thursday – Rest Day.
Friday – Another Rest Day.

Saturday – The schedule had a half marathon to run so I ran my own half marathon. I woke up in the wee hours to run it. I had to be home before hubby went to work so I started around 4:30 am. I was nervous since it was dark out but it wasn’t too bad.Sunday – Rest Day

My first marathon is just two months away. Things are getting exciting since my long runs will be my longest runs ever. But I’m not sure how I’m going to run my next long run which is 17 miles on Saturday. I will most likely have to split it up and run some outside and the rest on the treadmill since I have to be home before my husband goes to work.

Here’s a summary of what Hal Higdon’s plan had scheduled and what I did:

	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun
Hal Higdon’s plan	Cross	4 m run	5 m run	4 m run	Rest	Rest	13.1
What I did	Cross	4 m run	5 m run	Rest	Rest	13.1 mi	Rest

How’d your week go?

Hope you have a runderful rest of the week! 🙂