I’ve signed up for the Glass City Marathon in Toledo, Ohio, and I’ve moved around the runs in the Pfitz 18/55 plan. This is the first week of 18 on the plan.
Monday (New Year’s Eve): 8 miles + 10x100m strides. It was raining the entire time, somewhere between steady and pouring. It was a quality run in the park, though. Overall, 9.19 miles in 1:17:17 (8:24 min/mile pace).
Tuesday (New Year’s Day): Recovery 3 miles. This is on the plan as a rest day, but I think I’d feel better about the later stages of the plan if I ran a little, so I ran 3 miles in a drizzle. Kept it in the neighborhood. Overall, 3.32 miles in 29:43 (8:57 min/mile pace).
Wednesday: Medium Distance 10 Miles. So clearly this is a harder plan than the last one, because it waited several weeks to make me think my legs were going to fall off. Ran this one in East Fork to get some topography and found a new part of the bike path. I was hoping to make it to Batavia, but the path seemed to end on a country road. I decided the waist water pack was too much bouncing, and had to make a pitstop. Overall, 10.01 miles in 1:31:04 (9:06 min/mile pace).
Thursday: Recovery 5 Miles. Ran 5 miles in the park. It wasn’t the fastest five miles… which might have something to do with Wednesday’s 10 mile run and the thought of Friday’s run, but I got it done. 5.19 miles in 46:08 (8:58 min/mile pace).
Friday: 13 miles with 8 miles at M pace. This was harsh. It wasn’t warm out (30F), but it may have been too warm for the pullover on top of the long sleeve shirt. My paces have been down this week, mostly because I’ve been burning the candle from both ends (I’ve been building an office on the weekends… fortunately, I extinguished the flame in the middle of the candle, which was repairing my wife’s car). Kept it in the park and the subdivision next to it (it looked too muddy in the dark to go over to the other subdivision). And I ran an extra 0.1 miles because I could. The first 3 miles were 26:49 (8:56 min/mi pace), the 8 miles at M pace were in 1:06:01 (8:15 min/mile pace, right on the high edge of the target), and the last two were in 18:12 (9:06 min/mi pace). Overall, 13.1 in 1:51:52 (8:32 min/mile pace). That was my half marathon time a few years ago. Progress!
Overall, 40.81 miles. This was a high week, and much higher than the initial runup to the marathon last year.