Negative splits. Is there any more happy phrase in a runner’s lexicon? This week of my NYRR Virtual Trainer program was both the highest mileage week AND the least structured. I ran one run ‘as you feel’, three runs at a regular pace (i.e. slower than marathon pace but faster than long run pace) and …
Marathon Training Week 7 Update – Feeling Negative, but only in my SPLITS!! Read More »
Oh, hey! Remember two weeks ago when I wrote about how life kind of got in the way of marathon training? Well, guess what happened again this week? Yup. This was not a good week for training. The week before last, one of my clients asked me if I was pregnant (Spoiler: I AM NOT!). …
I had fun training this week. Despite the fact that HILLS became the center of my training week. First of all, my runs were a little more spaced out than they were last week, when I tried to cram a week’s worth of training into 4 days. So, even though Week 5 was a ramping …
I had a really fun, busy week. But my training suffered. Which is ironic, because week 4 of my marathon training program was supposed to be a ‘down’ week, with extra rest time built in after a steady 3 week acceleration in training. It didn’t feel like a rest week, though. So, what happened? Well, …
