Week 15 (4/28 - 5/03) - 109 miles: Did 4x2mi on Wednesday, and tuneup 5K race on Sunday.
Q1 - 4x2mi with 2:30 rest. I went back to base to use the hilly road loop I was doing workouts on last fall. Goal was to do 10:40, 10:30, 10:20, 10:10 and I ended up running a little faster for the first 3 reps but died a little on the last one. I was surprised with how good I felt through the 3rd one, but then again I was using my garmin so maybe it was off by just a few seconds...
10:28, 10:21, 10:06, 10:20.
Q2: Ran a 5K up in Denver that Andrew told me about. It was sponsored by the Colorado Rockies so I ended up winning a bunch of Colorado Rockies memorabilia. Course was slightly hillier than expected but I got in a solid effort. I ran 15:59 but my garmin read 3.20 miles. I normally hate it when people cite garmin readings as proof of race courses being long, (most notably every April when tons of idiots claim Boston was long because their GPS watches say so) however my garmins have always consistently read 3.11-3.14 for every other certified and accurately set up 5K I have run the last 3-4 years so I am going to argue for about another 15 seconds here. The other argument was that I am definitely in much better shape than when I ran 15:58 and 16:00 at altitude last year during my tuneup races, but I guess we'll see next weekend.
Week 16 (5/04 - 5/10) - 80 miles
I thought about trying to squeeze in a short tuneup session, but my calf was just a little tight on Monday and Tuesday so I decided to just run easy until race day on Saturday. Not sure when the last time I had 5 easy days before a race was, but it seemed to have worked out okay.
Q1: 5th 3rd River Bank Run / USA 25KM Champs - Grand Rapids, Michigan - 14th men, 13th American - 80:55 (5:12/mi).
Very happy with the run. It was "VDOT PR" in slightly suboptimal conditions and every American in front of me has either qualified for the Olympic Trials or was a former trials qualifier
Upcoming blog posts: Race reports for CMM Half (this will be short) and the USA 25KM champs (will be longer) as well as a more detailed breakdown of a couple of my training weeks per one of the reader's request.
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