I felt I had a fair week of training - one where I advanced fitness rather than maintaining or losing it. I wanted to get a longer effort in though and so landed on a 2 hour run today. I kept the whole thing easy. The mileage might be higher than 15, but there were a couple of stretches where I was clanking through snow or mud. I headed east, through Vista Ridge, around the landfill, out by the HS, back by the new Rec Center. I need to do more of these longer runs - making them a steady part of the training diet, simply because they are a bit of a weakness for ... maybe more in my head than anything else. I never struggled outright physically, but I find it to be a bit of work to run out there by myself for two hours. As I have said, "work to do." Again, it was a decent work for me: I'll give it a B. Mon - 3 miles in the cold in Fairplay Tues - 13 miles, with mile repeats Wed - 14 miles with Lucho Thurs - easy 10 miles Fri - 10 miles, with 3 miles tempo Sat - AM 7 miles, PM 5 miles Sun - 2 hours easy, 15 miles 77 miles on the week, 2 "fair" workouts, a 2 hour run, and a mid - longish run at a better clip. I guess the mileage is decent in light of the fact I had a three on Monday. Next week I will look to do a 5K test in the Oatmeal Fest. I want to get a check to see if fitness has advanced, and if so, by how much. I will look to balance the work with a speed workout earlier in the week. The plan calls for quarters, but I may adjust that to eights depending on the weather (and if I am forced to the mill). I have to do thinking about how I want to balance the rest of the week, and still get other good stuff in. I am toying with the idea of a daily food log. I think it would be interesting to put that out there, to write down what I am eating, see how it compares to what I want to eat, how it effects training, the entire caloric input thing. It just seems to damn tedious to write that all down. | 