CIM Training: Week 4 of 16

Bahhhhh!

CIM Training: Week 4 (week of Sept. 3)

Monday: 
Goal: 5 mi. recovery
Actual: 10 mi. trails

Monday was Labor Day, and Jojo, Courtney & I headed for the hills on our day off. Coming off of a 21-miler the day before, this hilly Headland run (including 2,057' of climbing in just 10 miles!) felt strangely good.

The bridge came out of the fog for a second while we were spanning it.

 How cool is this? (Photo courtesy of Courtney.)

Happy Labor Day!

Tuesday: 
Goal: 10 mi. w/ 5 mi. @ LT
Actual: 5 mi. recovery

Nothing to this, just switching around my Monday & Tuesday workouts.

Wednesday: 
Goal: 11 mi.
Actual: 8.04 mi.

I was feeling a bit tired on this morning so I chopped off a few miles knowing that I'd make them up over the weekend.

Thursday: 
Goal: Rest
Actual: 3.5 mi.

My new company puts on unofficial 5ks once a month, and this month we ran along the Embarcadero where the America's Cup boats are practicing. I traded out my day of rest for a day of celebrating fitness in the workplace. (Or something like that.)

Friday: 
Goal: 5 mi. recovery
Actual: Rest

Saturday: 
Goal: 10 mi.
Actual: 17 mi. trails

On Friday night I headed out to Aron's house to have another dinner party/sleepover with her, Page (whom I haven't seen in FOREVERRRRR!) and Cate. Early Saturday morning, I followed Aron on her first of 2 long runs this weekend, where she showed me around her stomping grounds. I've been drooling over some of the pictures on her blog and this weekend I got to see them for myself! 

I covered 17 miles in the East Bay, including 2,474' of elevation gain. She lives in a breathtakingly beautiful part of California, and I can't help but be a little envious of these glorious golden hills. 

Not a bad way to start a weekend.

 

Sunrise over California.

Aron and her mountain!

 Me doing the Monkey Dance. Or running. I can't really tell the difference.
  

Moo.

 

Aron charging up the final climb.

Sunday: 
Goal: 5 mi. recovery
Actual: 6.5 mi. recovery 

All in all, I finished week 4 with 50.04 miles of running. Finally, a 50-mile week, and more than half of those miles were on trails! Here is where my 12-week training plan that I am re-using from Ogden starts, so these first 4 weeks were more or less a build-up that I'm repeating for the next 4 weeks going into more serious training. I have done all morning runs, I've gotten in plenty of runs with friends, I completed more trail miles than ever before, and I have a solid foundation under my belt. I'm in a good place to start these last 12 weeks, and from here until Humboldt (6 weeks away), I'm going to be thinking more seriously about my goal for CIM.