Next Sunday’s the big day! 19 weeks of training have gone by and I can’t believe it’s just seven days until I run my fourth marathon, CIM (California International Marathon). Here’s what last week’s workouts looked like from Coach Dawn‘s plan:
Monday – Plan: Easy 4-5.
Actual: Ran 4 early miles, avg. pace 9:24.
Tuesday- Plan: 15 minutes easy
Ladder- rest ratio equal to interval
In minutes-
1-2-3-2-1-2-3
Paces- 7:15-45
10-15 minutes easy
Actual: Ran it as planned and felt fine. Ended up with 6.28 miles, avg. pace 8:44.
Wednesday – Plan: 1.5 miles easy
2 x 3 miles at marathon pace with 5 minutes easy in between Pace-8:20-8:25
1.5 miles easy
Actual: It was great to run part of my workout with my sister, who came up for Thanksgiving. My 2 x 3 mile splits were pretty good (8:22, 8:24, 8:17 and 8:20, 8:20, 8:21). Ended up with 10.09 miles, avg. pace 8:46.
Thursday – Plan: Rest day or optional 30-35 min easy.
Actual: Decided to run with my sis and ran 3.5 miles, avg. pace 9:51. Probably better since I ate a ton on Thanksgiving haha.
Friday – Plan: Easy 4-5 w / 4 strides
+ drills/core
Actual: Ran 5 miles with 4 strides and did some drills and core work afterwards.
Saturday – Plan: Easy 12-13.
Actual: I felt fine and ran 13.01 miles, avg. pace 9:06. Felt the need to get that extra mile in for all the eating during the week lol.
Sunday – Plan: Rest day.
Actual: Rest day.
Total miles = 41.88 miles. It was yet another good week of training. I feel pretty good about the upcoming race. A big thanks to Coach Dawn who’s helped me get to where I am! I’m still nervous but also excited. Training has gone so well but you never know what may happen on race day. I’m hoping to beat my PR of 3:42:39 and aiming for 3:40 or better. We’ll see how things unravel next week.
As for the highlights of the week:
Thanksgiving was at our place. It was great that everyone came. It was a full house. 🙂
We had plenty of yummy food.
It was great to go for a walk at Noble Woods Park afterwards to help walk off what we ate. 
Pic of all the cousins together.
They also had fun at the park the next day.
It’s nice when the boys are all together. 🙂
So thankful for a fantastic Thanksgiving.
How’d your week go? Any races coming up?
I’m linking up with HoHo Runs and MissSippiPiddlin for the Weekly Wrap.
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Happy Running Mom 
Your pictures are beautiful! I love the one of the shoes–I noticed that at the top of your post as soon as the page opened!
I think you are going to do fantastic next weekend. Your training has been meticulous and it bodes well for a good race!
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Thanks Wendy! Hoping all goes well this weekend. 🙂
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How fun to get to run with your sister. There’s nothing like having a running buddy after so many solo miles. Good luck next week. I can’t wait to read all about it!
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Thanks Catherine! Yeah, so nice to have a running buddy.
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It sounds like you have a lovely Thanksgiving with the family. I know you and Sharon must enjoy every opportunity you can get to be together and especially run together. You’ve had a stellar training cycle. I have no doubt you will have a fantastic race. Good luck and enjoy! Thanks for linking.
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Thanks Holly! I’m looking forward to seeing Sharon again this weekend. Thanks for having this awesome link up! 🙂
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I can’t believe that race day is SO close! Are you excited I’m super excited for you!
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Thanks Kim! I’m super excited too. 🙂
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Thanks for having us all over for thanksgiving!! It was great running with you and looking forward to you coming over this weekend! You are going to do awesome at CIM!
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You’re welcome! It was fun having everyone together. Always love running with you! You’re going to do awesome too! See you soon!
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Great week of training! It sounds like you are ready for your race. Glad you had a nice Thanksgiving and got to enjoy some miles with your sister!
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Thanks Lisa! I feel ready. Hope all goes well.
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You are so ready! I have to giggle at running 13 miles as an “easy” run the week before your marathon. Because, you know, that’s the furthest I’ve ever run (essentially).
But man! That’s a whole lot of family. So glad i only have 7 extra mouths to feed on Thanksgiving!
I think you’re going to have a great marathon. Good luck!
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Thanks Judy! After building up the miles, 13 miles is a bit easier. 🙂
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I remain unconvinced. 🙂
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Your Thanksgiving looks so fun! Good luck on the race! Can’t wait to read about it- CIM is on my bucket list for marathons.
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Thanks Montana!
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Looks like a great week with a lot of fun family time! Good luck with the race 🙂
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Thanks Chaitali!
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Looks like a great holiday. What a fun family! Also super fun that you ran with your sister, and she has a blog AND she’s running CIM! I’m going to check out her blog too. Do you have similar race goals? Are you running together at CIM?
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Haha, she is the one who actually got me into running and running CIM. We have different race goals so won’t be running this one together.
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I smell a PR for you in CA! You’ve done so well with your training and I know Coach Dawn has got to be very proud of you!
Wow your Saturday’s picture is just beautiful! I just got to know how you got all the kids to pose for pictures! We can never get everyone ready for the snap at the same time lol!
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Thanks Tricia! Hoping for a PR. They are pretty good about pictures most of the time lol.
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Easy to be proud of this girl! She’s ready to do her thing! ☺
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Such amazing pics! All the fall colors are beautiful 😉 Best of luck at your race!
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