Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Training Summary - Weeks 17 and 18 of 22 - Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon Training Cycle

Week 17 (5/11 - 5/17) - 119 miles

Q1 (Wednesday) - Intended workout was 25x400s with 1-minute rest. I ended up doing 20, jogged a few minutes and jumped back in to do 2 more with Kenny Foster (he did all 25). We basically started our warmup as some American Distance project runners were starting the same workout and their coach Scott Simmons invited us to jump in with them when we were ready to start so our first 15 was their 11th-25th reps. #1-10 were all between 69.66 and 71.05, then I idiotically went with them on their "hammer" interval on the next one and dropped a 65.9, then was struggling to run 70-72 the rest of the way until I decided to call it a little early.

Average for first 20 were 70.79s - (21 and 22 were 70.29, 68.89)
Average rest was 61.23s
 
Q2 (Saturday) - Did a tempo intervals workout mixed into a long run with Kenny Foster. We met at Colorado College and ran north on the trails for about 7-8 miles, then we did 2mi-2mi-1mi-1mi with 4min/4min/3min rest after the intervals. Times were 10:26, 10:13, 5:06, 4:56. Although on average we had about 30-40 feet of elevation loss per mile so the times probably would have been about 3-5s slower per mile on a flat surface.

Week 18 (5/18 - 5/24) - 103 miles
Back off a bit this week because I wanted to run well at Bolder Boulder next Monday as it's probably my last hard tuneup race before the Garry Bjorklund Half. Only had one workout this week.

Q1: (Thursday) - 3x1mi + 4x1/2mi on treadmill at home. Might be a good thing my treadmill at home tops out at 5 min miles as I wasn't planning on running much faster next Monday anyways. Ran 5:03, 5:01, 5:00 and 4x2:30. (2:30 rest after each interval)

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