Another week of marathon training is in the books. 16 weeks to go until I run my fourth marathon in December. Here’s what I did from Coach Dawn‘s plan:
Monday – Easy 35 minute run and I also did some core work which was about 15 min of Focus T25 Ab Intervals. 
Tuesday – Fartlek run. Workout was: 10 minutes easy. Then 7 x 30 seconds fast/2 minutes easy. 10-15 minutes easy. It was still dark out when I started so I hardly looked at my watch. I only heard the beeps of the intervals since I programmed the workout on my Garmin and I surprised myself on how fast I went overall. Felt good and it was a great start to the day.
Wednesday – Nice 5 miles with some drills afterwards. Can you spot the bunny in the pic below? 🙂
Thursday – Had a good run with easy and moderate efforts. Workout was 3 miles easy then 2 x 4 minutes at moderate pace/2 minutes easy in between, and then 2 miles easy. I ended up running 6.43 miles, avg. pace 9:00. Afterwards I did the running efficiency workout like last week that included lateral bounding, split squat jumps, and single leg box jumps.
Friday – 5 mile recovery run, avg. pace 9:47. 
Saturday – Workout was 13 miles easy with the last half mile at moderate pace. Happy to get it done early and felt pretty good. Avg. pace for the last .5 mile was 7:53.
Sunday – Rest day.
Total miles = 37.47 miles. I’d say it was another good week. Always good to get in all my workouts. Waking up early is tough especially on work days but I’ve been managing and I try to make it up and take naps on off days. 🙂 I’m happy it’s a cut back week this week and get two rest days.
As for the other highlights of the week:
Celebrated hubby’s birthday at Benihana’s. It was a fun show watching the chef.
The kiddos wanted to go to the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks & Minerals. It was nice to get free passes through our local library. I’m not much of rock and mineral fan so I was surprised they wanted to go but it was an interesting place.
The kiddos had some water fun at our local park.
How’d your week go? Any races coming up?
I’m linking up with HoHo Runs and MissSippiPiddlin for the Weekly Wrap.
There’s a new Guest Host Series for the Weekly Wrap to give Holly and Tricia a break. This week’s host is Michelle @ Running With Attitude. Be sure to check her out.
Happy Running Mom 
Great training week! I swear bunnies are everywhere lately! Benihana is a great place to celebrate. So much fun!
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Thanks Marcia! Always nice to see bunnies on the run. 🙂
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You had a great week of training. Enjoy your cutback week. I used to see a bunny almost every morning in the same place. He is no longer appearing. I don’t want to think what happened to him. My middle kid always want to eat at Hibachi Grill (same concept as Benihana’s). The food is always good.
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Thanks Holly! Sorry to hear you no longer see that bunny.
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Is there every an easy 13 miles? Great job! I love going to those restaurants too. You get a show and a dinner out of it!
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Haha, 13 miles is a long ways. Thanks Lacey! Yeah, so much fun to watch. 🙂
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Good week? Great week for you!
I’ve never been to Benihana but would love to and see the chef cook the food in front of me. 🙂
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Thanks Zenaida! Benihana’s is cool since the chef put’s on a show. It’s a great place to go for special occasions.
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Another great week for you! I feel like I see at least one bunny on every run – they seem to be everywhere this summer!
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Thanks Michelle! Nice you see bunnies often. I hardly see them so it was cool.
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Benihana’s sounds so good – I’ve never been there before! We have so many bunnies in town this year… nibbling on our garden of course 🙂 Keep up your great training!
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Thanks Amy!
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Another great week for you! Love Benihana’s! Rock’s and minerals? Sounds interesting! Cool that the kids wanted to see that!
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Thanks Sharon! Yeah, it was a great learning experience. 🙂
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