It's getting closer to my goal race for the year and the workouts are becoming more and more focused because - well, I want to achieve my goal. The goal is a sub 1:30 1/2 mary on Sept 7. Said it, now it's for real right? I am finishing my last week of "higher" mileage and then will turn my focus completely to speed and tempo. Last year I found it very helpful doing 3 weeks of higher mileage starting 6 weeks out from race day and so this year I have copied the same sort of format. During that time last year I had one focused workout a week and have done the same with that this year. Today was one of those good runs where I had 5 * 1 mile repeats on tap with a 1/2 mile recovery in between at my 10k pace and I nailed it. The first 3 were on 6:39 min/miles, 4th was 6:35 and the 5th was 6:31 min/mile. They felt great. This week will cap out at 50 miles and then the next 2 weeks will be 40 milers and then race week will be a total of 37 miles. Happy happy after the tready run:)
The eating has been pretty clean the last week as well and I have sort-of put myself on kitchen "lock-down" with respect to eating as clean as possible. Volume is still there as I don't think that ever disappears for me, but most of the food going in this week and until race day will be pretty clean. The girls and myself at work have a Menchies date on the Monday after my race:) Weekends lately have been spending time with the family and exploring locally. Cheers!
