It’s been quite a while since I’ve logged 20-miles after the first three days of a running week, and my legs are REALLY feeling it! This is especially true considering that today’s 6.4-miler had almost 1,000′ of elevation gain in the first 3.2 miles. I met Dawn, Mary, Marc, and Nathan at the main gates of Percy Warner Park at 5:15am, and then ran an out-and-back to the top of “3-mile-hill.” I did this same run last week in order to get in some practice with uphill and downhill running, which will clearly be needed in St. George
While climbing “3-mile-hill” (see peak below), my legs were SCREAMING, and had Nathan not been right beside me, I very likely would have stopped and walked.
However, I made it all the way to the top without stopping, and after a 30-second breather, headed back down with Marc and Nathan (Dawn and Mary completed the 5.8-loop). I didn’t worry about goal pace range this morning because of the severe elevation change, but was fairly pleased with my 9:09 overall average. Even though my legs are shot, it feels good to be tired and sore due to hard work and not injury!
Tomorrow night is a planned speed workout with the JSRC before my off-day on Friday. Looking forward to not getting up super early the next two mornings.
In addition to the run, I also got in the following cross-training exercises (glad this was upper-body):
- Standard Pushups (22 reps)
- Military Pushups (10 reps)
- Wide Pushups (30 reps)
- Decline Pushups (22 reps)
- Diamond Pushups (6 reps)
Total Reps = 90
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Tonight’s Workout Vinyl: Attack & Release by The Black Keys |
“I dare you to train for a marathon, and not have it change your life.”
-Susan Sidoriak