This week was the biggest distance week of my short running career. I ran 5 miles on Tuesday, 10 miles on Wednesday, 5 miles on Thursday, 10 miles on Saturday, and then 20 miles today. So it was a 50 mile week.
I have been running the longer runs but walking every 5th minute. The running would start out fast (for me) at about 6 mph. But I wouldn’t be able to keep that pace long and keep my heart rate under 145. My speed would slowly decrease to 5.8, to 5.6, to 5.4, or even lower. Sometimes it was get so slow that I would have to walk to keep my heart rate down. But today I played with running 3 minutes, and walking 2 minutes. I manage to do most of the running at 6 mph (10 minute miles), and I would walk at 4 mph (15 minute miles).
After all the running today, I am kind of tired. Not sleepy tired, but just generally fatigued. My pedometer reads almost 38,000 steps for the day.
This coming week I am only scheduled to run 34 miles. Then I am back to 50 miles the following week. But this should be getting ready to run the Buffalo Marathon on May 27th. I still need to register for that thing. Then I am registered for the Damn Wakely Dam Ultra (32.6 miles) in July.

Posted by Rob in Running on April 8th, 2007 |