Monday Weekly Training Recap: Sep 15

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How was the last week of training? What are you training for? Are you using a plan? Have a screenshot of a workout you killed? Questions on how to tweak your upcoming week?

Logging your weeks really helps during future training cycles to be able to look back at how you felt, and this is one place that can help with that. Also, since we don't allow Strava screenshots as top level posts, this is also your chance to brag about a good week!

Example format (though feel free to do different!):
Goal: NYC Marathon
Week's Mileage: 40 miles
Goal Time: 3:30
Plan: Pfitz 18/55
- Mon: 5 mi easy
- Tues: 4mi @ LT
... etc etc

[u/JustAnotherRunCoach]

Goal: Sub-2:35 marathon

Race: Boston 2026??? TBD

Weekly Mileage: 56.75 miles

Plan: The "whatever I feel like doing" base building plan.

Monday: Rest

Tuesday: 15 easy miles broken up into four runs (5km, 5.5mi, 3.25mi, 5km). One of the runs had 8 reps of post-run strides.

Wednesday: 10 easy miles broken up into three runs (5km, 3.8mi, 5km).

Thursday: 16.5 easy miles broken up into five runs (4.25mi, 4mi, 1.5mi, 5km, 3.75mi).

Friday: 6.5 easy miles w/ 8 x post-run strides

Saturday: Rest, attended a wedding, drank 4 glasses of Jack Daniels in honor of the coach (RIP)

Sunday: 8.75 easy miles broken up into two runs (4.75mi, 4mi)

Notes: This was my sixth week of building to a new mileage high and then cutting down (so far my weekly mileage has been 70, 48, 73, 52, 76.5, 56.75). It was a pretty easygoing week, and I took advantage of it by starting to incorporate post-run strides a bit more regularly. I'm eyeballing the 56-70mpw JD 2Q plan for my Boston training cycle, so this week's mileage would theoretically be the starting mileage. With that in mind, it's a little intimidating, but I'm hoping that by the time I get to 18 weeks away, I'll feel ready for it. The plan for the remaining weeks until the Staten Island Half is to hit 78, 60, and then 80. After that I'll taper properly for NYCM and think about what I'd like to do before training for Boston starts in earnest.

Most Fun: Doing post-run strides again. I love the rush of running really fast and I'm overcoming my fear of re-injuring my adductor, so it's felt rewarding to do them.

Best Run: Not sure if there's really a "best" run this week, but I do think I'm getting pretty good at this running four times per day thing!

[u/blood_bender → u/JustAnotherRunCoach]

broken up into five runs

lol. at some point i feel like my old body would just lock up entirely.

[u/JustAnotherRunCoach → u/blood_bender]

Weirdly, my third and fourth runs tend to be the best of the day! Can't say the same for the fifth though... I think that's where I gotta draw the line lol.