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.
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.
