Week ending March 5, 2011

Well, I finally did it. This was my fourth week of trying to hit 100 miles and I finally did it. For one reason or another (sickness, injury, ER visit), I was not able to put in the miles I wanted to for the previous three weeks. This was a good week. I started the week with some easy runs and doubles. I averaged about 14.5 miles on Sunday and Monday. Tuesday was a workout. I ran 7x1200 and felt good. I ran ran an easy mile for extra recovery and cranked out two more 1200s. I felt good and it was nice to run fast through a high volume workout. Wednesday was a long run of 16+ miles. Thursday and Friday were doubles a lot like Sunday and Monday. On Saturday I tried two times 3-mile tempos again. I tweaked it a little and this time I only ran 2 miles easy in between and the second tempo was 3.5 miles. Again, I wanted to run sub 5:20 pace and ended up running over 5:40 pace. I don't know what's happening and it's very odd that I can't hold a fast pace for 3 miles any more. I leave for Spring Break next week and am going kayaking in the Florida Everglades. When I return I think I need to start running shorter, faster intervals to regain some speed. Otherwise I'm worried I've lost the speed and won't be able to run fast again. 100 miles for the week.