I’ve signed up for the Glass City Marathon in Toledo, Ohio, and I’m on week 12 of 18 in my slightly modified Pfitz 18/55 plan. The marathon is on April 28, 2019. I’m through the Lactate Threshold + Endurance Phase and into the race prep phase. This phase has a lot more speed workouts.
Monday: 8 miles. I didn’t push this. My quads were sore from spending parts of the prior weekend painting (up and down off a step stool). Park and subdivision next door, occasionally cussing at the asshats that block sidewalks. It was cold for the week of spring starting. 8.15 miles in 1:12:37 (8:55 min/mile pace).
Tuesday: 9 miles with 5 x 1k @ 5k pace. This was tough. It felt colder than yesterday, and I didn’t feel like I could get my pace where I wanted it (6:55 – 7:15), lack of sleep from working late yesterday didn’t help. I kept it in the park. The 1k sets were 7:23, 7:36, 7:40, 7:38, and 7:40, so I was missing my target pace range of 6:55 – 7:15. Overall, 9 miles in 1:17:35 (8:37 min/mile pace).
Wednesday: 12 miles. Woke up late, but still went to East Fork. I pulled into the lot and went to turn on my watch and… I realize I forgot my watch. So I pulled up the Strava app and tracked it with that, which probably sped me up until my AfterShokz died just past mile 9. It was a cold 31 degrees out on this first day of spring. 12.05 miles in 1:46:01 (8:48 min/mile).
Thursday: 5 miles. It was drizzling out, so I didn’t feel like getting a wet car. So I ran in my neighborhood. Circling around the 0.9 mile loop. Past the ignorant asshat that blocked half the sidewalk with an obnoxiously-large trailer hitch while still having 10+ feet of clear space in front of their obnoxiously-large SUV. 5.18 miles in 45:21 (8:45 min/mile pace).
Friday: 18 miles with 14 at M pace. Decided to run in downtown where I had space and it is mostly flat. Parked at the airport trailhead, ran into downtown and across the Suspension Bridge and back across the Purple People Bridge, getting passed by a pair of runners on the floodwall. I did have to make a pitstop with about 2 miles remaining in the M pace portion, and the M pace portion clicked off at the parking lot where my car was, I ended up crossing over to the Lunken trail to run a mile out and back. 18 miles in 2:30:52 (8:23 min/mile pace). The M pace portion was 14 in 1:55:01 (8:13 min/mile pace).
That’s the end of another tough week. 52.4 miles. Only two double-digit runs this week, but I’ll be back to three next week.