Darkwave: That's great to hear that your runs felt better with the glutes firing properly. I hope this is the solution to your issues. On a glute-related note, I just got a Booty Sprout machine this week and I love it; it really isolates and strengthens the glutes in a way I've not been able to achieve with other strength training.

Coach: Nice week with a lot of climbing. I'm also impressed you got out there every day in the cold and wind we had this week!

Steve: Excellent week, and what a long run! That's a ton of climbing. Is your marathon a hilly course? Even if not, hilly long runs like that are great training.

Fishy: Great mileage and quality. Like with Coach I'm impressed you got out, especially for that many miles, in the cold this week! Your JD quadratics will make JMac happy.

Kind of a disappointing week again for me. Work was awful this week, the kind of week where I wish I could retire 15 years early... I felt lousy on most runs probably due to stress. And I'm a wimp compared to most of you and can't deal with the single digit temps and wind so did half my runs on the treadmill. Felt good on the long run today at least so ended the week on a positive note.

Weekly for period: From: 01/10/2022 To 01/16/2022

Total distance: 65.69 mi

A little late getting into things, but after two months of inconsistiency after Indy, I finally have a decent week to report.

I'm John, 29 years old and live in Arlington, VA with my fiancee. I started running in late 2018 when a friend and I decided to run the 2019 DC Rock n' Roll marathon. I ran two marathons in 2019 (4:46 and 4:13) one in 2020 (3:36) and the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon in November in 2:59.

I am hoping to be more consistient throughout the entire year this year. I saw a ton of progress in 2020 and 2021 and I'm hoping for some even better results with more consistient training. I have two marathons scheduled for 2022, Boston in April and CIM in December.

My week:

49.3 miles

M - 4 miles @ 8:59

T - 5.2 miles @ 8:52

W - 6 miles @ 8:47

T - 7 miles @ 8:16 w/ 1 mile LT @ 6:38

F - 8 miles @ 8:34

S - 9 miles @ 8:30

S - 10 miles @ 8:19 on TM, ended with 1 mile @ 6:49, 1 mile easy, 1 mile @ 6:44

Starting to get back into the rhythm of normal running. I'm kicking around the idea of running two LT style workouts per week plus a long run. One would be a longer continuous run (20 minutes @ LT or similar) and the second would be shorter LT reps (5x1,000 or 3xmile). I am planning to really ease into this as I'm beginning to ramp back up after some time off. This week, the plan is to do a 2 miles at LT on Tuesday and 4x1,000 at LT on Friday.

Way behind and need to do some catching up on everyone's posts so far this year.

 

Steve: Excellent week, and what a long run! That's a ton of climbing. Is your marathon a hilly course? Even if not, hilly long runs like that are great training.

No, it's pancake flat and early Autumn weather is usually nice and cool (except last year when it was 27(C) by 8am which is very unusual) so I have no excuses on race day.  It's a bit all or nothing in Christchurch when it comes to hill work - the city is completely flat with surrounding hills which include a lot of brutal climbs even along the summit.  I have a hill repeats workout next week which I'll use a bridge for though.

Very nice week for you, even if you consider it disappointing.  As someone used to much lower mileage until the last few years, I still find it amazing that someone can consider a 100km week disappointing.

Steve it sounds more like you have bigger goals than where you’re at right now. I know you’ve had this race delayed a year or two so if you’ve kept up with the weekly training you could just be a better runner than you were.

JT - Sorry to hear about the bummer of a work week and what that lead to. Hopefully this week will be an improvement all around.
Booty Sprout machine? That definitely sounds like something one shouldn't google. Particularly not without safe search enabled.

JHud - Welcome back!

New women's American records in the marathon and half marathon over the weekend, anyone??

Another good building week me, though with a couple days on the treadmill - one because I got up too late to get my miles in on the road before DW needed to take my oldest kids to school, and my LR was because right now I just refuse to run in 25* with a 25-30mph N wind. The treadmill being in the garage doesn't really save me from the temps, but certainly does from the wind. Side note: similar conditions will lead to me doing my workout tomorrow on the treadmill as well. And it's a nice tempo run with those longer "on" portions for which treadmills are so well-suited.

Weekly for period: From: 01/10/2022 To 01/16/2022

Total distance: 64.74mi

Thoughts on half vs. 10 miler as a tune up race? In my experience, there isn't a huge difference in the two, but I am curious what you all think. I have a couple options leading up to my race. One is march 26th (half), the other is April 2nd (10)... race is May 15th.

I think both of those allow ample time to recover.

I would look at the course profiles and determine which one is more favorable in preparing you for the race on May 15th.

I generally like running the half marathon just because I have a PR to chase. If I didn't, I would definitely pick the 10M. It fits the perfect sweet spot of long enough to give a good insight into your marathon potential but with a slightly faster recovery. That faster recovery doesn't matter at all if it was a goal race, but given you are doing to do this in the middle of a cycle, you want to be able to get back to your marathon training ASAP.