Week ending February 26, 2011

My goal was to run 100 miles this week and I got off to a bad start. I did not run on Sunday so I was way behind my goal after only one day. On Monday I ran a ladder workout and I hardly ever run ladders. I went: 800, 1000, 1000, 1200, 1200, 1200, 1000, 800, which was a pretty tough workout for me. Tuesday was a long day as I put in 16+ in the morning and 5+ more in the afternoon. I put in two more doubles on Wednesday and Thursday. Unfortunately I wasn't able to run on Friday because I had to take a student to the emergency room and was in the hospital with him for several hours. He later had an appendectomy. I had been on pace to run over 90 miles for the week, even without running on Sunday, but that total vanished with the ER trip. On Saturday I did a workout which has me worried. I stole the idea of two 3-mile tempos runs from a friend and ran: a 3-mile warm up, 3-mile tempo, 40 minutes in between, another 3-mile tempo, and a cool down. I was hoping to sub 16 on the tempos and ran over 18 min instead. I just didn't have legs under me and couldn't run fast. I don't know what's wrong; I ran a 13-mile tempo a few weeks ago and the same thing happened. Bummer. 83 miles for the week.